Market Insights—Charitarth Sindhu—February 10, 2026

Stablecoins are often discussed as a technical upgrade to global payments. Faster settlement. Lower fees. Cleaner cross-border rails. But when we interviewed Matthew Schneider, President and CEO of Building, Inc., it became clear that this framing misses the deeper story. Schneider’s work sits at the intersection of blockchain infrastructure, geopolitics, and financial access. His perspective

AI in Finance—Charitarth Sindhu—February 10, 2026

Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant For most of fintech’s short history, AI has had a clear job: assist humans. It might flag a suspicious card payment, rank a borrower’s risk, or surface an alert for a compliance analyst. But the final call, in theory, stayed with a person. That line is

Market Insights—Charitarth Sindhu—February 9, 2026

by Raul Tudor, Fractional Chief Technology Officer Much of fintech commentary still frames risk as a purely technical concern: encryption standards, model accuracy, infrastructure resilience. Those things matter, but after building and scaling regulated financial systems, I’ve learned that the hardest risks to manage are organisational, not technical. As CTO and co-founder of Raindrop, I

Breaking News—Charitarth Sindhu—February 5, 2026

The inaugural Black Swan Summit India opened today in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, drawing 1,700+ delegates from 24 countries and nearly 100 speakers. Co-organised by the Singapore-based Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) and the Government of Odisha, the two-day event (5–6 February) centres on AI-enabled fintech, insurtech, and workforce development. President Droupadi Murmu is scheduled for