The chief product officer of a cross-border payments company sits in a quarterly board meeting. The board wants to know why two...
An investor reviewing fintech deal flow in early 2026 searches LinkedIn for “embedded lending infrastructure.” Two companies appear in the results. The...
Two payments companies launch in the same year, targeting the same market: cross-border B2B transactions for mid-sized importers. Company A ships a...
A compliance officer at a European bank receives a vendor shortlist for a new transaction monitoring system. Five providers made the cut....
A payments startup founder spends her Saturday morning writing a breakdown of cross-border settlement costs. She includes figures from a public central...
When Plaid published its annual “Fintech Effect” report, it did not include a single mention of Plaid’s product. The report surveyed thousands...
The first article a fintech startup publishes generates almost nothing measurable. A few hundred page views. Perhaps a dozen LinkedIn shares. No...
Jamie Dimon publishes a 60-page annual letter to JPMorgan shareholders that takes weeks to prepare. The letter is not required by regulation...
Monzo published its first annual transparency report in 2018, when it had fewer than one million customers. The report disclosed fraud rates,...
Patrick Collison, Stripe’s co-founder, wrote a blog post in 2012 about the economic history of the printing press. It had nothing to...
Wise changed its name from TransferWise in February 2021 and went public four months later at a $11 billion valuation. The name...
Checkout.com was processing $2 billion in annual payment volume when it started publishing detailed analyses of payment acceptance rates across different European...
Every January, a16z publishes its annual fintech “State of the Market” report. The 2024 edition ran to 80 pages, covered 14 market...
Robinhood published its first “Markets in Motion” report in Q2 2023, breaking down how its 23 million funded accounts were allocating across...
Modern Treasury, a payment operations platform founded in 2018, made a bet in its first year that most fintech startups would consider...
In 2019, Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, published a blog post arguing that the future of commerce was not about choosing...
In 2019, Transferwise (now Wise) bought a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times. Instead of a brand message, the ad contained a...
In 2007, a small publication called American Banker ran a feature story about a San Francisco startup called Lending Club that was...
In March 2019, Adyen’s co-founder Pieter van der Does made an unusual decision for a company that had just posted record revenue...