FinTech
January–February 2025
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Rise of Autonomous AI Shoppers Drives Next Wave of Fintech Dealmaking
Why agentic commerce is set to become one of the primary drivers of global fintech investment in the second half of 2026. According to an industry report…
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Why Incumbent Banks Should Acquire Digital-Native Rivals to Fix Legacy Cores
Large incumbent banks facing high core-modernization failure rates should acquire profitable digital-native rivals and run them independently over a multi-decade…
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Banks Pivot to Credit and Embedded Finance as Real-Time Transfers Squeeze Payment Margins
Global instant payments transaction values reached $22tn in 2024 across 15 major adopting economies and are projected to grow at…
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Euro Stablecoins and Tokenized Equities Hit Records as Digital Asset Sector Rebounds
A resurgence in global crypto markets pushed the aggregate stablecoin market capitalization up by 1.19% to $311bn in August 2026,…
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Agility Beats Scale: FinTechs Dominate Front-Office AI Gains
According to the 2026 Global AI in Financial Services Report published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, 86% of…
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Stablecoin Card Spending Set to Hit $50bn a Year by 2028
According to a report published by Reuters on Monday, stablecoin payments firm RedotPay forecasts that stablecoin-funded card payments will reach…