Author

Charitarth Sindhu

Chief Operating Officer, Fintechbits

Charitarth Sindhu holds an MBA from Amity University and a professional certificate in applied corporate finance from the University of Cambridge, which shape how he reads company financials, funding and unit economics. He is Chief Operating Officer at FintechBits, where he oversees editorial operations and writes on fintech, payments and financial technology, with more than 600 articles published this year. Earlier, he spent four years in enterprise partnerships at Gramener, working on government and public sector accounts with Microsoft. He is based in Tokyo.

Crypto and Blockchain

Fintech is about to relearn what DeFi already learned about approvals

Nick Sawinyh of Veodyn argues DeFi has already shown where agentic payments go wrong: nearly all of the safety sits in how narrowly an approval is scoped.

September 7, 2026

Fintech

Cari Raises $32.5 Million, and Every Dollar Comes From Banks

All of Cari's $32.5 million came from banks, including its six design partners and Glacier Bank. The startup builds tokenized deposit infrastructure for community lenders.

September 7, 2026

Fintech

TabaPay Raises $155 Million, Moves to Buy Its Own Bank

FTV Capital led TabaPay's $155 million round, and the processor plans to buy Denver's Transact Bank, which will become TabaBank under a new holding company.

September 7, 2026

Fintech

The Bunq Cost-of-Living Index Is Marketing Dressed Up as Research, and That Is Fine

bunq's Working Abroad Index covers 75 cities and adds Canada for the first time. The counterintuitive rent comparisons are what make it travel.

September 7, 2026

AI in Finance

A Compliance Vendor and an AI Notetaker Team Up to Cover a Five-Year Retention Rule

Archive Intel now reviews and archives transcripts from the Zocks AI notetaker for advisory firms, at $12 per user a month, to meet the five-year retention rule.

September 5, 2026

Fintech

Hightower Picks a Data Plumbing Vendor as It Tries to Really Merge Its Advisors

Hightower has picked Dispatch to sync client data across custodians and advisory systems for Signature Wealth, its employee advisor practice launched in October 2025.

September 5, 2026

Lending

Scienaptic Notches Another Credit Union Customer, Same Script as the Last One

Financial Center First Credit Union in Indianapolis reports 20% lower losses on indirect auto loans and cards after moving to Scienaptic's AI decisioning.

September 5, 2026

Lending

Great Hill Partners Takes a Stake in an AI-Underwriting Insurance MGA

Great Hill Partners has invested in Aurenity, an excess and surplus MGA founded in 2022, with founders and Agman keeping significant equity. Terms were not disclosed.

September 5, 2026

Fintech

OakNorth Backs a Scottish Developer Betting on Drive-Thru EV Charging

OakNorth's facility funds two Scottish commercial acquisitions for West Coast Estates, including a St Andrews site with consent for more than 60,000 square feet of retail and office space.

September 5, 2026

Wealthtech

Orion Adds BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard to Its Custom-Indexing Menu

BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard join five other strategists on Orion's Tailored Allocation Portfolios, giving advisors custom indexing built on model portfolios.

September 4, 2026

Wealthtech

Alpaca Signs Indonesia Stock Exchange as It Chases Global Retail Investors

Alpaca and the Indonesia Stock Exchange will explore cross-border access through PALN, the mechanism that lets Indonesian brokers route orders to overseas exchanges.

September 4, 2026

Fintech

FNZ Raises $450 Million From the Same Investors Who Already Own It

La Caisse, CPP Investments, Generation and Motive Partners put $450 million into FNZ, its third equity raise in under two years. No new investors joined.

September 4, 2026