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forbes.com - Matthew C. Meade - Fintech Innovations To Watch In 2026
Fintech Innovations To Watch In 2026
Forbes

3D rendered financial graphs, symbolizing success and positive market conditions. Highlighting a stock exchange, financial technology, or business and the economy in general. The fintech landscape is entering a historic inflection point, one…

forbes.com - Zennon Kapron - Investors Are Getting Picky About Asia Fintech
Investors Are Getting Picky About Asia Fintech
Forbes

Investors have been cooling on Southeast Asia, what is holding them up? Asia used to be the hottest region in the world for fintech funding, but that is no longer the case. In fact, funding fell 36% in Southeast Asia through the first nine months…

forbes.com - Anusha Nerella - Reducing The Carbon Footprint Of AI And Chaos Engineering In Fintech
Reducing The Carbon Footprint Of AI And Chaos Engineering In Fintech
Forbes

Anusha Nerella is a Senior Fintech Engineer focused on secure, resilient and sustainable financial systems for global markets. In fintech, resilience has become non-negotiable. Real-time payments, institutional trading, liquidity modeling, fraud…

fastcompany.com - Olugbenga GB Agboola - How African fintech became an engine for global business
How African fintech became an engine for global business
Fast Company

For global companies, Africa's promise has long been tempered by a persistent operational myth: that the continent is not ready for complex business. The reality is different, however. The barrier isn't a lack of demand, but the inability of…

seekingalpha.com - Stock Info - SoFi Stock: A Fintech Evolution That's Paying Off (NASDAQ:SOFI)
SoFi Stock: A Fintech Evolution That's Paying Off (NASDAQ:SOFI)
Seeking Alpha

SoFi Technologies has rapidly evolved into a leading full-service digital bank, boasting $30 billion in deposits and robust profitability. SoFi's integrated platform, strong execution, and disciplined cost control drive impressive growth, with Q3…

marketbeat.com - Top Fintech Stocks To Follow Now - December 8th
Top Fintech Stocks To Follow Now - December 8th
MarketBeat

3 Stocks Well Below 52-Week Highs Poised for a Q4 Rebound Rocket Companies, UP Fintech, Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz, LexinFintech, and PPDAI Group are the five Fintech stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Fintech…

cityam.com - Samuel Norman - UK fintech Plum secures e-money licence from City watchdog
UK fintech Plum secures e-money licence from City watchdog
City AM

Smart money app Plum has managed to secure an e-money licence from the City watchdog, City AM can reveal, even as the volume of application approvals slump. Plum – which was founded by the ex-head of banking for Wise Victor Trokoudes in 2016…

newswire.ca - Tuhk Inc. - Canadian Fintech Tuhk Inc., Founded by Ethoca and NuData Security Veterans, Raises US$6 Million Seed Round Led by FINTOP, with Lloyds Banking Group and Capital One Ventures
Canadian Fintech Tuhk Inc., Founded by Ethoca and NuData Security Veterans, Raises US$6 Million Seed Round Led by FINTOP, with Lloyds Banking Group and Capital One Ventures
CNW

TORONTO, CANADA, Dec. 8, 2025 /CNW/ - Tuhk Inc., a fintech startup founded by Ethoca and NuData Security veterans, secured US$6 million in seed funding led by FINTOP, with participation from Lloyds Banking Group and Capital One Ventures. The…

gizmodo.com - Kyle Torpey - 'StableChain' Launch Shows How Far Crypto Has Strayed From Bitcoin's Original Promise
'StableChain' Launch Shows How Far Crypto Has Strayed From Bitcoin's Original Promise
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

StableChain, which is a new layer-one blockchain network built around Tether's USDT stablecoin by a company known as Stable, went live with its mainnet today, alongside the launch of its native STABLE token. This network runs transactions entirely…

forbes.com - Rachel Wells - 20 Companies Hiring For $100,000+ Remote Jobs In 2026 & How To Get One
20 Companies Hiring For $100,000+ Remote Jobs In 2026 & How To Get One
Forbes

Some companies across fintech, SaaS, and other industries are still hiring for lucrative fully remote positions About 53% of workers say that they or someone they know was required was forced back into the office RTO within the past year, up from…

forbes.com - Ilona Limonta-Volkova - Branch And Union Square Hospitality Are Redefining How Workers Get Paid
Branch And Union Square Hospitality Are Redefining How Workers Get Paid
Forbes

Fintech Branch is teaming up with Union Square Hospitality Group to provide earned wage access As the earned wage access (EWA) sector enters a new phase of competition, innovations in hospitality may offer clues about where the broader payments…

forbes.com - Trefis Team - What's Next After Sofi Stock's 117% Surge?
What's Next After Sofi Stock's 117% Surge?
Forbes

The SoFi Technologies Inc logo is displayed on a mobile phone with a visual digital background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on November 30, 2025. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) In the past six…

biometricupdate.com - Masha Borak - Innovatrics expands investment into fintech by backing an AI financial advice platform | Biometric Update
Innovatrics expands investment into fintech by backing an AI financial advice platform | Biometric Update
Biometric Update | Biometrics News, Companies and Explainers

Innovatrics ' venture arm has announced a new investment in AI-based financial advice service Dalinora, expanding the biometrics company's reach further into the financial industry. Innovatrics spun off Biometric Ventures as a private investment…

itweb.co.za - Sibahle Malinga - ASAPP targets inclusion, access in 2026 roadmap
ASAPP targets inclusion, access in 2026 roadmap
www.itweb.co.za

Lincoln Mali, ASAPP president and CEO of Lesaka Technologies. The Association of South Africa Payment Providers (ASAPP) is gearing up for a pivotal year. It has outlined its priorities for 2026: accelerate financial inclusion, lower payment costs…

forbes.com - Pankaj Kulshreshtha - ChokePoint 3.0 : When Open Banking Becomes A Tollbooth
ChokePoint 3.0 : When Open Banking Becomes A Tollbooth
Forbes

Pankaj Kulshreshtha, Founder & CEO at Scienaptic AI. Patricia had seen that look before. Maria Santos, a freelance designer, sat down across from her desk, shoulders slumped. Three banks had turned her loan application down. Too irregular an…

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