Industry Trends

February 28, 2026

Author: Darren Tredgold, General Manager, Independent Steel Company Supply chain payments are the single biggest pressure point for regional distributors. Getting supply chain payments right means the difference between a business that grows and one that stalls, stuck chasing receivables while suppliers demand faster settlement. Steel distributors feel this squeeze more than most. Suppliers want payment

February 28, 2026

Author: Alena Sarri, Managing Director, Aquatots Swim School Family services payments have long been one of the messiest parts of running a kids' activity business. Whether you operate a swim school, a dance studio, or a children's tutoring centre, collecting family services payments on time and in full remains the single biggest drain on admin hours

February 27, 2026

Author: Hasan Can Soygök, Founder, Remotify.co Fintech looks different in 2026. The buzzwords have changed. The power dynamics have shifted. And three forces are rewriting the rules of financial services faster than most businesses can keep up. Here is what you need to know right now. AI Agents Are Learning to Spend Your Money Forget chatbots.

February 27, 2026

By Jesse Fowler, Founder of J&J Renovations and J&J Plumbing Services Construction has always run on a simple, brutal cycle: you buy materials, you pay your crew, and then you wait. Sometimes you wait 60 days. Sometimes 120. Meanwhile, the bills keep coming. That cycle is breaking. Financial technology built specifically for construction businesses is closing the gap between

February 27, 2026

Author: Darren Tredgold, General Manager, Independent Steel Company Global B2B payments hit $89 trillion in 2024. Yet most of that money moves through systems designed decades ago. More than half of all B2B invoices worldwide arrive late. Around 40% of American business payments still travel by paper check. And the trade finance gap sits at $2.5

February 26, 2026

Author: Alena Sarri, Managing Director, Aquatots Swim School Small businesses make up 90% of the global economy. Yet nearly half of them still don't have a digital strategy. That gap between the businesses going digital and the ones stuck on paper represents one of the biggest opportunities in fintech right now. The global digital transformation market

February 26, 2026

By Jesse Fowler, Founder of J&J Renovations and J&J Plumbing Services There is an old rule in the trades. The first contractor to get a quote back wins the job about 78% of the time. Speed beats price. Speed beats reputation. Speed wins. Now imagine one plumber can generate a detailed, accurate quote in three minutes while another takes

February 25, 2026

Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant AI can process thousands of documents in seconds. It can flag suspicious transactions across billions of data points. It can settle an insurance claim before a human finishes reading the first paragraph. Yet the fintech industry keeps circling back to the same conclusion: speed without judgment is

February 25, 2026

Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant The most transformative financial technology of the next two years will not come from Silicon Valley. It is already live across Kenya, Brazil, India, and the Gulf states. We asked seven industry leaders a simple question: What is one emerging market fintech trend that will impact Western

February 25, 2026

Author: Hasan Can Soygök, Founder, Remotify.co Blockchain spent years trying to prove itself. Now, the biggest names in finance are doing it for them. The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) has quietly become blockchain's most compelling use case. We're not talking about meme coins or speculative hype. This is BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs putting bonds, treasuries,

February 24, 2026

Author: Hasan Can Soygök, Founder, Remotify.co Neobanks have spent the last decade chasing user numbers. Millions of signups. Tens of millions of downloads. However, there is a growing gap between those headline figures and the revenue they generate. While digital banks now capture nearly 40% of new banking relationships worldwide, they account for just 5% of retail

February 21, 2026

Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant The neobank hype cycle is over. After years of burning through venture capital to chase user growth, the digital banking sector is hitting a wall. Roughly 76% of neobanks worldwide are still losing money. Only 23 out of 453 global digital challenger banks are operationally profitable. The