In March 2023, a single Ethereum transaction executed a flash loan of $200 million, used it to arbitrage a price difference across...
Stripe added stablecoin payment processing in 2024, allowing merchants to accept USDC and settle in dollars without handling crypto directly. The company...
Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade in March 2024 reduced Layer 2 transaction costs by over 90% overnight. A transaction on Arbitrum that cost $0.50...
A fintech startup in 2015 needed a banking licence (or a bank partner willing to sponsor one), a payment processor integration, a...
In 2019, Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, published a blog post arguing that the future of commerce was not about choosing...
Klarna processes roughly 2 million transactions per day across 45 markets. In 2024, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later company announced that its AI-powered customer...
In 2012, a team at the University of Toronto entered an image recognition competition and won by a margin that stunned the...
Ant Group’s Alipay processed 118.8 billion transactions in the twelve months ending March 2024. Behind each transaction, multiple AI models ran simultaneously:...
Ramp, the corporate expense management company, announced in early 2024 that its AI system had identified $150 million in duplicate software subscriptions...
When Nubank reached 100 million customers in 2024, the Brazilian digital bank disclosed a metric that traditional banks rarely publicise: its customer...
Square Loans does not ask small business owners to submit financial statements. It does not request tax returns. It does not run...
Lemonade, the insurance company, paid a claim in three seconds. A customer filed a claim through the app, Lemonade’s AI reviewed the...
Ant Group’s credit scoring system, Zhima Credit, evaluates over 3,000 variables per user to determine creditworthiness. The system scores more than a...
HSBC processes over 1.3 million anti-money laundering alerts annually. Before deploying AI, each alert required a human compliance analyst to review the...
Stripe processes payments for millions of businesses across 195 countries. When a customer in Tokyo buys a product from a merchant in...
In 2019, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia published a study comparing machine learning credit models against traditional logistic regression models used...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users in January 2023, two months after its launch. Within weeks, every major financial institution...
Plaid connects over 12,000 financial institutions to more than 8,000 fintech applications. When a customer links their bank account to Venmo, Robinhood,...
In 2017, Lemonade launched with a proposition that sounded impossible: homeowners insurance that could be purchased in 90 seconds and claims that...