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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…

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 - The J Thesis - Figure: A Fintech Disruptor With Venture-Scale Upside (NASDAQ:FIGR)
Figure: A Fintech Disruptor With Venture-Scale Upside (NASDAQ:FIGR)
Seeking Alpha

Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. is rated Buy with a $53 price target, implying 33% upside over 12 months. FIGR leads the tokenized private credit market, posting 81% revenue growth and 75% adjusted EBITDA growth year-over-year. Despite trading at…

pymnts.com - PYMNTS - Fifth Third to Offer Commercial Card and Financial Technology Powered by Brex
Fifth Third to Offer Commercial Card and Financial Technology Powered by Brex
PYMNTS.com | Breaking News, Trends and Analysis

With access to the platform and the Fifth Third Commercial Card powered by Brex, these clients will be able to issue corporate cards, automate expense management, make real-time payments, and use artificial intelligence (AI) agents that reduce…

globenewswire.com - BizClik Media Limited - December Sustainability Portfolio: Latest Issue Features Global Leaders and Breakthrough Climate Insights
December Sustainability Portfolio: Latest Issue Features Global Leaders and Breakthrough Climate Insights
GlobeNewswire

The December editions of BizClik's Sustainability portfolio are now live, highlighting the companies, technologies and ideas driving sustainable transformation worldwide London - 9 December 2025 - BizClik has released the latest editions in its…

forbes.com - Hammed Afenifere - Emerging Markets As A Frontier For Global Payments Technology
Emerging Markets As A Frontier For Global Payments Technology
Forbes

Afenifere Hammed Adewumi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Spark Tech Hub Ltd, the parent company of Oneremit. Global payments innovation has largely focused on markets where financial infrastructure is already well developed. In North America and Western…

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…

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 - Sasirekha Subramanian - Wealthfront IPO May See An Initial Pop, But History Suggests A Pullback
Wealthfront IPO May See An Initial Pop, But History Suggests A Pullback
Forbes

Automated digital wealth-management platform Wealthfront is set to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “WLTH.” The company seems positioned for a strong debut, but history shows that early enthusiasm could be followed by a stock…

axios.com - Madison Mills - Why a longtime Wall Street bull is souring on Big Tech
Why a longtime Wall Street bull is souring on Big Tech
Axios

One of Wall Street's longtime tech bulls, Ed Yardeni, says investors should underweight the Magnificent 7, arguing that the Big Tech companies have too much competition and that their stocks have less room to run. Why it matters: His call bucks a…

crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo - Exclusive: Founded By Husband And Wife Team, Zed Raises $16.5M To Give Young Professionals In Asia Access to Credit
Exclusive: Founded By Husband And Wife Team, Zed Raises $16.5M To Give Young Professionals In Asia Access to Credit
Crunchbase

Zed, a Philippines-based startup building credit products for young professionals across the Asia-Pacific region, has raised $16.5 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Palo Alto, California-based Accel led the…

standard.co.uk - Tom Place - Deutsche Bank signs huge Docklands deal as Canary Wharf shows recovery signs
Deutsche Bank signs huge Docklands deal as Canary Wharf shows recovery signs
Evening Standard

Sign up for our email featuring expert insight and funding opportunities for entrepreneurs and SMEs I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Deutsche Bank will take around 250,000…

seekingalpha.com - Eliana Scialabba - Nu Holdings: Growing Too Fast For Its Valuation To Keep Up (NYSE:NU)
Nu Holdings: Growing Too Fast For Its Valuation To Keep Up (NYSE:NU)
Seeking Alpha

NU's Q3 showed scale turning into a structural advantage, with 127M customers, rising ARPAC and industry-leading efficiency that allows the company to grow without adding operational friction. Revenue and net income grew sharply, supported by…

forbes.com - Trefis Team - Block Stock: Can It Weather an S&P Downturn?
Block Stock: Can It Weather an S&P Downturn?
Forbes

Block Stock shows resilience as investors weigh S&P downturn risks. Block (XYZ) stock has declined by 13.9% over 21 trading days. This recent downturn indicates growing concerns about sluggish payment volume growth and increasing competition in the…

techcrunch.com - Rebecca Bellan - OpenAI, Anthropic and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era
OpenAI, Anthropic and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era
TechCrunch

As AI moves beyond chatbots and towards systems that can take actions, the Linux Foundation is launching a new group dedicated to keeping AI agents from splintering into a mess of incompatible, locked-down products. The group, dubbed the Agentic AI…

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