Editorial policy

Payments and the rails underneath them, digital banking and the licences that permit it, lending and credit underwriting, business payments and spend management, crypto and stablecoins where they touch regulated institutions, fraud and identity, wealth technology, and the software and data vendors that sell to financial firms. We also cover regulation and mergers and acquisitions wherever they affect these areas.

We do not cover general markets, consumer personal finance, or technology outside financial services. When a story reaches into those areas, we cover only what it changes inside financial services.

Our coverage is based on primary sources: company announcements and newsroom releases, wire distributions, regulatory filings, supervisory publications and enforcement notices, earnings materials and the documents attached to them.

Each article links to those documents and names the ones it drew on, so readers can check a claim against the source rather than against us.

Other outlets' coverage is not a source. If another publication reported something first and that matters to the story, we say so and credit it. We never base a claim of fact on a second-hand account. Sourcing and methodology explains in more detail what counts as a primary source.

We take figures, dates, company names and regulatory references from the source document, not from other coverage. If a number has been disclosed, we report it. If it has not, we say so and do not estimate it.

If a story rests on a claim we cannot check against a document, the article attributes the claim to whoever made it and says what has not been established. We label unconfirmed reports as unconfirmed.

Articles carry a named byline that links to the author's profile, which gives their background. Marvin Evans founded and runs Fintechbits and is responsible for everything published on it.

Nothing is published automatically. Every article is reviewed by a person before it goes live.

We do not sell coverage. Advertising and other commercial arrangements have no effect on whether we cover a company or on what an article says. Any sponsored or paid placement is labelled as such where it appears.

Fintechbits has the same owner as Finjobsly, a fintech job board. When an article involves Finjobsly or its data, that relationship is disclosed in the article.

Every claim of fact is attributed to the document or the person it comes from. A company's description of itself is attributed to the company. When Fintechbits uses another publication's reporting for context, the article names and links it, and lists it under Supporting sources, apart from the primary documents.

A writer with a financial interest in a company, or a recent working relationship with it, discloses that in the article or does not write about it. Stories involving Finjobsly, which has the same owner as Fintechbits, say so.

Sponsored articles are labelled as sponsored at the top of the page and name the sponsor. Sponsors do not see, review or approve Fintechbits' news coverage or analysis, and paying for a sponsored article does not buy coverage elsewhere on the site.

Display advertising is served by Google AdSense in spaces marked Advertisement and is kept visibly separate from articles. Advertisers do not choose which articles their ads appear next to, and no advertiser can change what an article says. Fintechbits does not turn words in its articles into advertising links.

We correct errors of fact promptly and in the open. The corrections policy explains how to report one and what happens next.

Nothing on Fintechbits is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. See the disclaimer.