AI pilots are easy. Production is the hard part.
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Robert Cooke of 3forge explains why banks are rethinking their technology foundations as AI pilots come up against the complexity of existing systems.
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Fintech News Stories
Three lessons from the spend management race
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Alex Lazarow of Fluent Ventures examines the playbook behind the corporate spend management race and argues that the winners will be those who move beyond cards to control more of a company’s financial workflows.
Read MoreFintech’s next phase will be orchestrated, not adopted
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Dewald 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 MoreF-Prime's 2026 State of Fintech: IPOs, stablecoins, AI and more
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Fintech has found a new baseline at $45–50 billion annually, new giants have emerged, and crypto earned a seat at the table. F-Prime’s Abdul Abdirahman examines the broader trends.
Read MoreFintech maturity drives capital markets M&A
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Nilesh Nanavati and John Clark of OPCO Advisory explain why fintech maturity, AI pressure and scarce infrastructure assets drove a high-stakes reset in capital markets M&A in 2025.
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.
Read MoreFintech’s blind spot: Veterans building fintech startups deserve more funding
/Elizabeth McCluskey of TruStage Ventures argues fintech is missing veterans whose service mindset could help them connect with customers.
Read MoreWhy durable growth will define the next phase of fintech investing
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Michael Dirla, VP at Edison Partners, argues discipline, not hype, will drive fintech’s future.
Read MoreWhy open source matters in fintech AI
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Extend CTO Jonathan Bailey makes the case for why fintech companies can’t afford to sit out the open-source AI movement — and what’s at stake if they do.
Read MoreThe data mess crippling SMB lending
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Sarvesh Baveja, VP and chief risk officer at Fundbox, explains why fragmented data is blocking SMB lending and how cash flow underwriting and alternate data can unlock capital access.
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