February 27, 2026
Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant We asked eight industry leaders what Western payment companies should steal from the world's two most successful real-time payment systems. Their answers point to a fundamental rethink of how money moves. India's UPI now processes over 21 billion transactions every month. Brazil's Pix hit 178 million users
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 If you're a plumber, sparkie, or builder, you probably see insurance as a grudge purchase. You pay thousands a year, deal with paperwork you don't understand, and hope you never need to use it. When you do need it, the claims process feels like it was designed to
February 25, 2026
By Jesse Fowler, Founder of J&J Renovations and J&J Plumbing Services The finance industry doesn't just use AI anymore. It runs on it. From fraud detection to trading floors, artificial intelligence has become the backbone of modern financial services. The numbers tell a story that's impossible to ignore. The spending spree is massive Financial services firms spent roughly $45
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 22, 2026
Author: Hasan Can Soygök, Founder, Remotify.co Something shifted in cross-border payments between August 2025 and February 2026. Not a gradual shift either. Three forces collided at once: stablecoins got regulated, real-time payment networks started linking across borders, and legacy infrastructure finally retired. If you move money internationally for a living, here is what happened and why
February 22, 2026
By Jesse Fowler, Founder of J&J Renovations and J&J Plumbing Services Construction doesn't have a quality problem. It has a cash flow problem. And it's killing good builders. Australia recorded 3,217 construction insolvencies in 2024. That's roughly 27% of all company failures nationally, in just one industry. Names like Probuild, Porter Davis, and Project Coordination
February 22, 2026
Author: Alena Sarri, Owner Operator, Aquatots Swim schools don't show up in fintech trend reports. They probably should. Australia has over 600 registered swim schools teaching roughly 1.5 million kids a year. Swimming is the number-one participation activity for children under four in this country. And almost every one of those schools has quietly gone
February 11, 2026
Vertical SaaS used to win on workflows. The pitch was simple: replace spreadsheets, remove admin pain, standardise operations. That model still works, but founders we spoke to say it is no longer where the biggest upside sits. The centre of gravity is shifting from subscription revenue to transaction-led revenue, where payments, lending, and insurance are
October 29, 2025
The Fintech Stars of 2025 London remains one of the world’s most influential fintech hubs, and LinkedIn’s “Top Startups 2025” list is proof that the city’s innovation engine is still running at full speed. This year’s ranking of ten companies includes four that sit at the heart of fintech’s transformation: Allica Bank, Volt.io, Primer, and
