Alex Lazarow of Fluent Ventures explains why innovation has spread around the world while venture capital remains concentrated in a handful of U.S. companies and markets.
Read MoreLouis Hoch of Usio explains why embedded payments could give SaaS companies a more durable business model as AI makes software features easier to copy.
Investor and founder of Illumea Advisory Tiffany Haynes explains why fintech acquisition readiness depends on building operational trust long before a buyer arrives.
Read MoreFintech NerdCon’s Simon Taylor weighs in on the forces transforming financial services and what to expect at this year’s conference in San Diego.
Read MoreAmber Buker of Travillian explains how better digital account opening could help community banks turn lending relationships into lasting deposits.
Read MoreCasey Kindiger of Grokstream explains how financial institutions can use AI to respond faster to technology disruptions without sacrificing human oversight.
Read MoreAndy Jiang of Slash explains how the fintech gives employees broad freedom to use AI while keeping spending, security and consequential decisions under human oversight.
Read MoreAlex Lazarow of Fluent Ventures explains why the rise of autonomous AI will create a new class of companies that verify its work and bear the risk when it fails.
Read MoreMatt Ober of Social Leverage argues that AI agents and prediction markets are creating new fintech infrastructure opportunities, but building the winners will take time.
Read MoreAlex Lazarow of Fluent Ventures explains why the private market has become fintech’s real leading indicator.
Read MoreMichal Tresner of ThreatMark argues that scam prevention and fraud liability need to extend beyond banks and into the broader social media ecosystem.
Read MoreXimena Aleman of Prometeo argues that the infrastructure behind agentic payments will determine whether AI expands financial access or reinforces existing barriers.
Read MoreDewald Nolte of Entersekt argues that programmable money is becoming the foundation of modern finance, reshaping digital wallets, tokenized deposits and AI agents in fintech’s next phase.
Read MoreThe FR spoke with Butter Payments CEO Charles Rosenblatt about the company’s next phase of growth and shifting approaches to payment recovery.
Read MoreThe Financial Revolutionist is weekly newsletter and blog focused on the torrid pace of financial innovation. Today, thanks to the exponential rate of technological change, explosion in global trade and new regulations ushered in by the Great Financial Crisis, a new financial revolution is under way. In this battle, virtually every aspect of the greater financial services sector is subject to rigorous challenge. With the Financial Revolutionist, we are aspiring to create a boots-on-the-ground and highly opinionated assessment of important financial innovation developments in the past week.
