AI agents are forcing a rethink of payment rails
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Ximena Aleman of Prometeo argues that the infrastructure behind agentic payments will determine whether AI expands financial access or reinforces existing barriers.
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Fintech News Stories
What fintech can teach retailers about loss
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Pedro Ramos of Appriss Retail explains how retailers can mitigate returns fraud by treating loss as a financial risk problem.
Read MoreHow a $4 billion community bank balances AI and the human touch
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Amanda Hanson of Gate City Bank dives into how the bank is approaching digitization, AI adoption and customer experience as fintech competition intensifies.
Read MoreWhy crypto investigations demand public-private partnerships
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Joanna Summers of Valid8 Financial outlines why crypto cases are forcing a rethink in law enforcement.
Read MoreStablecoins are redefining identity requirements for global money movement
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Fernando Castellanos of Prove argues stablecoins are forcing identity to move from one-time checks to continuous verification.
Read MoreHow banks are becoming a new front door to e-commerce
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Tristan Barnum of Wildfire Systems explains how banks are moving into the shopping journey.
Read MoreWhy the rewards economy needs better rails
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Alex Preece of Tillo explains why demand for digital rewards is outpacing the infrastructure behind them.
Read MoreWhy AI is testing financial institutions’ fraud defenses
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The FR sat down with ACAMS CEO Neil Sternthal to discuss the rise of AI-enabled fraud and how the industry is responding.
Read MoreAI 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.
Read MoreThree 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 MoreSaaS isn’t dying. It’s being valued differently.
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Tiffine Wang of Onsen Global argues that the so-called SaaSpocalypse is a repricing, as software shifts from per-seat subscriptions to output that competes with labor.
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 MoreThe 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.
Read MoreLegacy 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.
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