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 drives premium valuations among top US banks
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Andrew Liesch of Travillian explores why some banks trade at massive premiums to peers.
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 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 MoreAI personalization is only as good as the data behind it
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Alkami's Stephen Bohanon explains why fragmented data is holding back AI at community banks and credit unions, and what it will take to enable meaningful adoption.
Read More2026 outlook: How Americans are moving their savings
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Alastair Wood of Raisin explains how consumers are moving savings beyond their primary bank in search of higher yields and better digital experiences.
Read MoreWhy AI agents are becoming a control problem for banks
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Andrew George of 3forge argues that as agentic AI moves closer to production, banks need to ensure a new interface layer does not weaken entitlements, auditability or governance.
Read MoreAI won’t matter until banks start measuring output
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Carey Ransom of BankTech Ventures argues AI won’t transform banks unless they change how they measure and reward work.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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