Is AI the new cloud?
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From Matt Ober: AI is feeling very similar to the cloud rush many years ago. At first, AI is a differentiator for companies, but eventually it becomes table stakes.
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Fintech News Stories
Clearing House CPO says RTP growth in early stages
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Margaret Weichert, Chief Product Officer of The Clearing House, suggests that RTP volume growth will only accelerate, centered around five B2B and B2C use cases that may help RTP outperform FedNow over the long run.
Read MoreOne year since SVB's crisis
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From Alex Lazarow: I can’t believe it’s been a year since the SVB collapse and the banking crisis. What has changed? What have we learned?
Read MoreThe “Give to Get” data strategy
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From Matt Ober: In the financial industry, some of the best datasets were contributory datasets and many of them started as give to get.
Read MoreWould I work for this founder?
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FR Contributor Alex Lazarow offers a different lens on startup investing
Read MoreFintech is operating at scale, with huge growth potential
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From Abdul Abdirahman: In our recent State of Fintech report, my colleagues and I took stock of the sector’s progress over the last decade, identifying the companies that have reached (or are about to reach) enterprise scale.
Read MoreCan cross-border payments have junk fees?
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Exchange rate markups affect everyday people, not just wealthy tourists—deleteriously affecting small businesses, consumers who send remittances abroad, as well as servicemembers—amounting to a whopping $5.8B in lost value last year.
Read MoreInsights from the 2023 Fintech Index
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FR Contributor Alex Lazarow shares his takeaways from F-Prime’s 2023 Fintech Index report.
Read MoreOverhauling operations for T+1
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Julian Trostinsky, Head of Global Support Solutions at Gresham, outlines a major compliance deadline looming for buy- and sell-side firms in North America.
Read MoreWhat's next for Robinhood?
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It’s hard to tell how much Robinhood’s uptick stems from its savviness—poaching competitors’ brokerage customers through deposit matching, releasing popular product features, and more—rather than improved economic conditions.
Read MoreShould dating apps mingle with credit scores?
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It’s hard to think of dating apps as a space where finance isn’t traditionally discussed; if anything, it’s one of the most overtly wealth-driven spaces that millions of users encounter every day.
Read MoreNBFI risks and regulations
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Across the executive branch, regulators are growing more vocal in discussing the systemic risks that non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) pose. Why now?
Read MoreThe myths of impact in investing
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In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks back at his time at Omidyar Network and sets the record straight on the effects and ethics of impact investing.
Read MoreApple, consumer payments, and investor uncertainty in 2024
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Taking a look at publicly listed tech companies’ payments-focused strategies suggest that payments will remain a cash cow and focus of investment this year across fundraising fora—not just VCs and private markets.
Read MoreRetail at a crossroads
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Introverts or not, consumers continue to approach in-person commerce as a productive, social, and non-fungible practice.
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