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Marvin Evans

Founder and editor, Fintechbits

Marvin Evans is a finance and fintech professional with 20 years of industry experience, including more than a decade working across the fintech sector. He is the founder of Fintech Bits and Finjobsly, and writes about fintech markets, financial technology, industry trends, innovation and the evolving fintech workforce. His analysis combines hands-on industry experience with data-led research to provide practical insight into the companies, technologies and trends shaping financial services.

Lending

Earnix Puts 25 AI Agents Inside Insurance Pricing and Underwriting Workflows

Earnix Agent Hub lands 25 insurance AI agents inside pricing and underwriting. The agent count does more marketing work than the launch admits.

September 21, 2026

Lending

What the Klarna shareholder investigation covers, and what Q2 2026 actually showed

A Los Angeles law firm is soliciting Klarna shareholders over the August guidance cut. The filings point at currency and accounting, not lost business.

September 20, 2026

Fintech

Zinnia Builds a Whole Life Chassis for the Small Policies Carriers Cannot Process Fast Enough

Zinnia Zahara now carries a whole life chassis aimed at final expense volume, promising product launches in as little as three months.

September 20, 2026

Fintech

Luzern Risk Raises $45M to Sell Captive Insurance to Companies That Are Not the Fortune 500

The Luzern Risk Series B raises $45m led by Insight Partners to bring captive insurance to the mid-market. A bet on a hard market lasting.

September 20, 2026

Fintech

Wayflyer Adds a $50M Corporate Facility on Top of a Very Busy Year of Borrowing

The new Wayflyer debt facility adds $50m from Trinity Capital, the sixth funding move in eight months. Still no disclosure on loss rates.

September 20, 2026

Fintech

Elliptic’s Decode Agent Bets That Auditable Answers Beat Fast Ones

Elliptic Decode answers on-chain risk questions in seconds and returns the evidence. Elliptic also wrote the standard its own agent passes.

September 20, 2026

Payments

ACI Worldwide Adds Financial Messaging to Connetic, Which Is the Boring Part That Matters

ACI Connetic gains cloud-native financial messaging for Swift and ISO 20022. Less a new front than a gap closed to defend payments hub deals.

September 20, 2026

Fintech

Intuit Holds Guidance Flat at Investor Day and Lets the Mix Do the Talking

Intuit FY27 guidance holds at $23.3bn to $23.5bn. QuickBooks and Credit Karma carry the company while Mailchimp is guided flat to negative.

September 19, 2026

Crypto and Blockchain

Better Pays Coinbase One Members Up to $10,000 to Take Out a HELOC

The Better Coinbase HELOC rebate pays 1% up to $10,000 as Better home equity volume hits 18% of originations. A costly bet on a good channel.

September 19, 2026

Fintech

WisdomTree Sends a Tokenized Money Market Fund Through MoonPay’s Retail Pipes

The WisdomTree MoonPay deal opens WTGXX to 35 million accounts, but the stablecoin reserve arrangement is what will actually move assets.

September 19, 2026

Lending

Affirm Puts a Transformer Model Behind Its Checkout Underwriting

Affirm underwriting has moved to a transformer model, lifting completed purchases 3.4%. The explainability claim is the part worth watching.

September 19, 2026

Payments

Microsoft, Marvell and Utimaco Put Payment HSMs Behind a Managed Azure Service

Azure Payment HSM v2 is live in public preview from Microsoft, Marvell and Utimaco. Strong product, but banks will want a named reference first.

September 19, 2026