Order a ride, and by the time the car arrives, a dozen financial events have already settled: an identity check, a card...
A practical guide to how fintech stakeholder analysis works: inventory, scoring, the grid, and what FedNow did to the map.
In the United States the most useful financial apps are often the product of cooperation between firms that used to compete. Open...
For most of the last century a bank improved by building behind closed doors and guarding what it made. That habit is...
Innovation workshops and hackathons help US banks and fintechs test new ideas in days, not years. Here is what the sprints mean...
A college senior in Austin opened a new checking account last fall using an app that pulled two years of her debit...
On a Tuesday morning in Charlotte, a Truist underwriter approves a $40,000 working-capital line for a roofing company in under four hours,...
Open a budgeting app for the first time and within seconds it shows every account you own: the checking account at one...
A Brooklyn freelancer logs in to a budgeting app at midnight, taps “connect bank,” picks Chase from a list, signs in once,...
The Chase mobile app processed more than 50 million active digital users last quarter, and every screen they tap was written, reviewed,...
A 28-year-old in Atlanta opens a new investing app at 10:47 p.m., snaps a photo of her driver’s license, and three minutes...
Picture a $14,000 invoice paid by a Dallas manufacturer to a Vietnamese parts supplier on a Wednesday afternoon. In 2015 that wire...
A US chief operating officer recently described her firm’s fintech vendor selection process as “principles before products.” Her team evaluates each new...
If a US consumer could see only one piece of information about a fintech app before deciding to use it, the most...
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...
If a person were trying to find a single living artifact of US financial innovation, they could do worse than walking into...
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...
Open a brand-new fintech budgeting app in May 2026, paste your bank, click connect, and you almost never get the username-and-password screen...