Fintech

ByJeff Kauflin,

Forbes Staff

ByJeff Kauflin,

Forbes Staff

ByJeff Kauflin,

Forbes Staff

ByNizan Geslevich Packin,

Contributor

BySophia Acevedo,

Associate Editor

ByPam Kaur,

Contributor

The Plaid Co-Founder Who Goes To Kinshasa To Find His Best Ideas

The best ideas come from anywhere and scale verywhere. Lessons from William Hockey

Why Stablecoins Are A Signal—Not A Disruption

Stablecoins expose a set of underlying inefficiencies that have existed in the financial system for decades. Stablecoins are not the disruption.They are the signal.

AI’s Real Labor Force Implications As Technology Drives Productivity

John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological progress would reduce the working week to fifteen hours. He was wrong.

Chime Offers Up To 5% Cash Back And Other Perks On Secured Credit Card

The San Francisco fintech announced a new set of rewards–including cash back on one category of spending–in a bid to boost new-user growth.

Rewriting The Financial Stack—What Comes Next

What began with early fintech disruption has expanded into a broader reconfiguration of financial services across three layers: money movement, access, and balance sheet.

Why The 2026 Fintech Funding Boom Is About More Than AI

Explore why the 2026 fintech funding surge is driven by more than just AI—covering top deals, global trends, and what’s shaping the industry’s future.

TomoCredit Revamps Marketing Claims, Emphasizes Coaching Instead Of Boosting Credit

The San Francisco fintech has significantly revised its product descriptions, addressing some of the issues Forbes previously reported as misleading to consumers.

Stablecoin Cross-Border Payments In 2026: From Theory To Practice

2026 has continued to see considerable discussion around stablecoins, albeit with an increasing focus on action compared to 2025.

The Women Behind Fintech’s Most Important Infrastructure Decisions

From real-time payments to data governance and compliance, the women shaping fintech infrastructure are defining how the industry scales—and whether it works.

The 3rd Coast Venture Summit Proves The Gulf South Is No Longer A Long Shot

New Orleans is no longer a bet on potential. The 3rd Coast Venture Summit shows the Gulf South has the founders, capital, and momentum to prove it.

How Lithuania Became One Of Europe’s Most Surprising Fintech Hubs

Here is how the Baltic nation of Lithuania built one of Europe's most credentialed financial technology ecosystems.

Foyer And Nayya Want To Make Homeownership Your Next Workplace Benefit

As boomers sit on trillions in home equity and millennials wait on the sidelines, a new partnership wants to close the gap from inside the workplace.

AI Wants To Shop For You. Here's Who That Really Benefits.

Who benefits from agentic commerce? Visa, Yandex, and others, are betting on infrastructure plays.

Revolut: The Fintech’s Blueprint For Success In The United States

Digital bank Revolut reported record annual profits and growth in 2025, and recently filed for a US national bank charter. What does it need to do to succeed here?

Who Is The American Small Business Now? Banks May Not Know

Fintech made it easier than ever to start a business. Now data reveals why verifying who actually did is the sector's next unsolved problem.

Zalos Raises $3.6M To Bring Computer Agents To The CFO's Office

As agentic AI moves from buzzword to boardroom, a new class of startups is betting that the biggest untapped opportunity in enterprise software sits inside the finance function

Failed Payments Hurt Merchants In Agentic Commerce

AI agents favor merchants with reliable payments. Learn how authorization certainty and card-linked installments drive recommendations and conversion.