Challenger banks entered the UK market promising to disrupt retail banking. A decade later, the disruption is not just in the customer...
Traditional banks still hold the majority of customer deposits globally, but they are losing the customer acquisition battle. Digital banks are signing...
Revolut reached 52.5 million users by the end of 2024, according to Fortune. That number, reported alongside £790 million in net profit,...
When Fortunly reports that mobile-first banking accounts for over 61% of fintech user interfaces, the implication extends beyond a product design preference....
The narrative around digital banks has shifted from growth to profitability. For most of their existence, neobanks were evaluated on user acquisition...
Neobanking in the UK is entering its growth phase. The market is forecast to grow at a 19.18% compound annual growth rate,...
Capital efficiency has replaced growth rate as the primary metric by which fintech investors evaluate startups. The shift started in 2022 when...
Deal volume in fintech is accelerating even as average deal size contracts. Global fintech reached 5,918 deals in 2025, according to Innovate...
In 2021, global fintech investment hit $131 billion. By 2023 it had fallen to $43 billion. In 2025 it recovered to $53...
The relationship between geopolitical events and fintech investment used to be indirect. Macroeconomic shocks would affect public markets, which would dampen venture...
The embedded finance market hit $148.38 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $197.06 billion in 2026, according to Precedence Research....
Female-led fintech companies raised $1.19 billion in 2023, just 3.4% of the approximately $35 billion invested in the fintech sector that year,...
More than 313 fintech companies worldwide have crossed the $1 billion valuation mark, according to Fortunly. That figure represents roughly 16% of...
A large number of traders don’t think much about transparency at the beginning. The focus is usually on markets, potential returns, or...
Every bank, insurer, and asset manager now runs on software that didn’t exist fifteen years ago. The global fintech market reached $460.76...
For most of the past decade, the defining competitive move in fintech has been expansion. Companies that started as payments apps quietly...
Behind the $53 billion in global fintech investment in 2025 sits a number that tells you more about the sector’s structure than...
The fintech industry has never moved faster – or been harder to enter. Regulatory frameworks are tightening, licensing timelines stretch into years,...
Digital finance expanded rapidly during the past decade. Online payments, mobile wallets, and global digital marketplaces created new opportunities for businesses and...