Investors want bigger bets, but the exits remain scarce
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Matt Ober of Social Leverage examines why VCs are concentrating on potential moonshots, leaving fewer options for startups with more modest ambitions.
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Fintech News Stories
From niche to infrastructure: What’s next for stablecoins
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Stablecon founder and CEO Nik Milanović explains how stablecoins are becoming mainstream financial infrastructure and what to expect from the event.
Read MoreThe commercial card's new role in agentic commerce
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Pliant’s Malte Rau explains why commercial cards could provide the controls businesses need to delegate spending to AI agents.
Read MoreAI shifts from advisor to decision-maker
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Fintech Sandbox’s Lucas Timberlake discusses the shift from AI recommendations to action and the questions it raises for financial services.
Read MoreMortgage lenders move from AI pilots to proving ROI
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National Mortgage News Editor-in-Chief Heidi Patalano discusses where mortgage automation is delivering, where the hype still exceeds reality and what lenders should expect at Digital Mortgage 2026.
How one fintech scaled AI from pilot to operating model
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Dash Solutions’ Tan Truong explains how building AI governance early helped the fintech move faster without sacrificing trust.
Embedded payments are a stronger moat in the AI age
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Louis Hoch of Usio explains why embedded payments could give SaaS companies a more durable business model as AI makes software features easier to copy.
Capital One’s Brex buy means end of business finance's manual era
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Andrew Jamison of Extend argues Capital One's acquisition of Brex signals the end of manual business finance, and explains why AI-powered spend management is finally catching up to the rest of enterprise software.
Read MoreFor freelancers, payment design matters as much as speed
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PayQuicker’s Nate Snow-Cornelius explains why seamless payment design, not just faster payouts, is key to retaining independent workers.
Read MoreBuilding a risk framework for the AI payments era
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LegitScript's Dan Frechtling makes the case for combining AI-powered screening with human oversight in payment risk management.
Read MoreWhy the Payfac era is ending for software platforms
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As embedded payments mature, the Payfac model is becoming more of a constraint than an advantage, writes Ben Weiner of Nuvei.
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