Market Insights

After 2022, when Klarna fell from $45.6 billion to $6.7 billion, finance leaders explain how they now build companies for the long haul.

Industry Trends

Active ETFs are growing fast enough that major asset managers are reshaping product strategy around them. Charitarth Sindhu on the shift.

Industry Trends

More than 470 million people use services built on open banking, but how freely you can share your bank data depends heavily on where you live.

Industry leaders describe the compliance challenges of using AI for lending, fraud and investment decisions while the rules are still being written.

Industry leaders explain why B2B BNPL is growing faster than consumer BNPL: businesses buy inputs, not impulse purchases, and work cannot wait.

Valentine's Day tests trust as romance scams and chargebacks rise. Charitarth Sindhu on the fraud problem fintechs cannot ignore.

Last-minute Valentine's shoppers need checkout to be fast. Charitarth Sindhu on how BNPL and wallets win under deadline pressure.

Valentine's spending keeps setting records, and the short, deadline-driven surge makes checkout friction especially costly.

B2B BNPL is outpacing consumer BNPL because businesses need flexible terms to keep projects moving, not to splurge.

Market Insights

Two fintech builders explain what they wish they had known: regulators, banks and enterprise buyers care more about proof than product.

Founders say vertical SaaS value is shifting from subscriptions to embedded payments, lending and insurance at the moment work gets done.

Matthew Schneider of Building, Inc. argues stablecoins matter less as faster payment rails than as tools of economic independence.