The AI gold rush is missing the point
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Matt Ober of Social Leverage argues that in the rush to fund “AI everything,” distribution, capital structure and revenue still matter more than being AI-native.
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Fintech News Stories
Legacy systems are putting banks at risk
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Patricia Montesi, co-founder and CEO of Qolo, argues that outdated core systems pose a far greater risk to banks than stablecoins.
Read MoreRethinking payment recovery
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The FR spoke with Butter Payments CEO Charles Rosenblatt about the company’s next phase of growth and shifting approaches to payment recovery.
Read MoreHow responsible AI gets built
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Lendflow CEO Jon Fry outlines the foundational requirements for responsible AI as lending and credit decisioning move into production.
Read MoreWhy crypto needs to drop the tribalism
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Adeniyi Abiodun of Mysten Labs argues why crypto's real enemy is itself, and why infighting threatens the industry's survival.
Read MoreCapital 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 MoreInside the 2026 T3 Conference and AI University
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FR editors spoke with T3 founder Joel P. Bruckenstein on why T3 2026 is putting applied AI at the center of advisor technology.
Read MoreInside Alloy’s 2026 State of Fraud report
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Fraud is moving from spikes to a steady climb driven by AI-enabled attacks. Alloy’s Marc Weisman breaks down what that means for financial institutions.
Read MoreTrust is fintech’s currency in generative search
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Aaron Enneking of Caliber Corporate Advisers shares nine actions fintech brands can take to earn trust and stand out as generative search transforms discovery.
Read MoreThe case for a unified, real-time credit data network
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Tomás Campos of Spinwheel argues that growing debt and lagging credit data require a real-time, unified way to assess consumer risk.
Read MoreInside the shift toward data-native markets
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Matt Ober of Social Leverage writes that markets are becoming data-native as finance, consumer culture and AI converge around richer, more valuable data.
Read MoreAI, stablecoins and programmable trust are redefining fintech
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Alex Lazarow of Fluent Ventures paints a picture of an industry undergoing a fundamental shift beyond the usual cycle of new products or distribution models.
Read MoreStablecoins are becoming table stakes. Banks can’t sit this out.
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Avinash Chidambaram of Cybrid says stablecoins are quickly becoming a core payments tool that will give early adopters an efficiency edge.
Read MoreAI could make community banks more capable, faster and more human
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Carey Ransom president of Operate and managing director of BankTech Ventures, dives into the impact AI could have on community banks.
Read MoreThe birth of the agentic banking ecosystem
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Ximena Aleman of Prometeo writes that LATAM is ready to shape the rise of agentic banking.
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