When a venture firm in San Francisco decides which fintech to back, a number from a research report is often sitting in...
Fintech apps can have all the flashy features, be competitively priced, and offer secure transactions and still lose users because one part...
Every time a headline announces that fintech will be worth trillions by some future year, a research firm put that number there....
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...
In March 2024, OpenAI announced a partnership with Stripe to handle payment processing for ChatGPT’s subscription services, a deal that placed Stripe...
A bank in Nigeria launches a USSD-based savings product that allows customers to open accounts using basic feature phones. A bank in...
When Monzo launched its hot coral debit card in 2016, Barclays, HSBC, and Lloyds did not change a single product feature in...
Ten years ago, getting a small business loan in Indonesia meant visiting a bank branch, submitting paper documents, waiting two to six...
The first ATM was installed outside a Barclays branch in Enfield, north London, on 27 June 1967. The customer inserted a paper...
The European Central Bank began a two-year preparation phase for a digital euro in November 2023. The Bank of England launched a...
In 2014, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, wrote in his annual shareholder letter that Silicon Valley was coming to eat banking’s...
For 400 years, banking worked on a simple model: take deposits, lend money, charge the borrower more than you pay the depositor,...
JPMorgan Chase spent $17.1 billion on technology in 2024. That figure, larger than the annual revenue of most fintech companies, represents a...
In March 2024, Sequoia Capital disclosed that its investments in Stripe had generated more than $3.5 billion in paper gains from an...
Estonia, a country of 1.3 million people on the Baltic Sea, has produced two fintech companies valued at over $1 billion: Wise...
In March 2016, a small office above a coffee shop in Lagos became the birthplace of Flutterwave, a payments company that would...
Global fintech revenue is projected to exceed $1.5 trillion by 2030, according to Boston Consulting Group. That represents a tripling from 2024...
ByAs fintech enters 2026, the industry confronts inflection points across technology, regulation, and customer expectations. Priority CEO Thomas Priore has guided his...
The financial technology (fintech) industry has been a hotbed of innovation over the past decade, revolutionizing how we manage, invest, and transfer...