A US fintech founder spent a recent industry panel describing her product strategy as “five principles, applied in order, every quarter.” The...
If a US consumer could see only one piece of information about a fintech app before deciding to use it, the most...
A small-business owner in Tampa recently switched her card acceptance from a major incumbent processor to a vertically integrated fintech and saved...
Every time a banking app waives a monthly fee or a buy-now-pay-later button appears at checkout, someone has already done the math...
A New York-based small-business owner recently observed that her great-grandmother’s 1953 deposit slip is barely distinguishable from the deposit confirmation she received...
A construction supply distributor in Indiana spent most of 2024 trying to figure out why its accounts receivable cycle had stretched from...
Open a banking app to split a dinner bill, tap a card that draws on a credit line approved in seconds, or...
The fintech ecosystem is the hidden network behind every digital payment. See how its layers connect and what it means for US...
Industry-trend lists in FinTech tend to age badly. The 2022 lists were dominated by buy-now-pay-later and crypto. The 2023 lists were dominated...
Most ecosystem maps of U.S. FinTech are wall art. They put hundreds of logos on a slide, group them into pretty boxes,...
A US retail user in 2026 typically holds eleven separate financial relationships at once: a checking account, a brokerage, a credit card,...
If you had asked someone working in U.S. financial services five years ago to describe the country’s fintech ecosystem, the answer would...
The embedded finance market hit $148.38 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $197.06 billion in 2026, according to Precedence Research....
Ten years ago, getting a small business loan in Indonesia meant visiting a bank branch, submitting paper documents, waiting two to six...
In 2019, a company called Unit launched with a single product: an API that let any software company offer bank accounts to...
On Singles’ Day 2024, Alibaba’s payment platform Alipay processed 988,000 transactions per second at peak load. The entire day’s sales across Alibaba’s...
India’s Unified Payments Interface processed 16.6 billion transactions in January 2025, worth approximately $250 billion. Five years earlier, in January 2020, UPI...
When a Shopify merchant receives a notification saying “You’re eligible for a $50,000 business loan, click to accept,” that loan offer did...
Toast, the restaurant management software company, generates approximately 80% of its revenue from financial services. Not from its point-of-sale software. Not from...