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forbes.com - Zennon Kapron - The Return Of Bank Balance Sheets In Fintech Strategy
The Return Of Bank Balance Sheets In Fintech Strategy
Forbes

Capital One absorbing Brex is a great example of how banks are bringing the balance sheet back in-house. For most of the last decade, fintech liked to pretend the balance sheet was optional. You could build beautiful software, acquire customers…

forbes.com - Nicole Casperson - Phia's $35 Million Series A Signals How AI Agents Reshape Fintech
Phia's $35 Million Series A Signals How AI Agents Reshape Fintech
Forbes

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, Co-founders, Phia On Tuesday, fashion-tech startup Phia announced a $35 million Series A at a $185 million valuation — a raise that signals how fintech's next frontier may be shaped not only at checkout, but…

techcrunch.com - Zack Whittaker - Fintech firm Marquis blames hack at firewall provider SonicWall for its data breach
Fintech firm Marquis blames hack at firewall provider SonicWall for its data breach
TechCrunch

Fintech firm Marquis told customers that it plans to seek compensation from its firewall provider after blaming the company for a breach that allowed hackers to steal its customers' personal and financial data. In a memo shared with customers this…

seekingalpha.com - Ezequiel Szyrko - UP Fintech: Don't Let A Soft Trading Volume Quarter Hide The Bigger Picture (NASDAQ:TIGR)
UP Fintech: Don't Let A Soft Trading Volume Quarter Hide The Bigger Picture (NASDAQ:TIGR)
Seeking Alpha

Revenues are accelerating sharply, growing at 73% or even 80%. Net income margin jumped from 11% to 31% in just 12 months. The company benefits from competitive advantages and a differentiated value proposition, driving customer preference over…

globalatlanta.com - Trevor Williams - British Fintech Lands in Atlanta on Quest to Turn Transactions Into Action
British Fintech Lands in Atlanta on Quest to Turn Transactions Into Action
Global Atlanta

The Manely Firm is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta's United Kingdom Channel. Sign up here for monthly United Kingdom newsletters. In many ways, Atlanta was a no-brainer for British fintech ekko, which officially launched its U.S. office…

channelnewsasia.com - Indian fintech firm Paytm posts quarterly profit
Indian fintech firm Paytm posts quarterly profit
CNA

BENGALURU, Jan 29: Indian fintech firm Paytm reported a profit for the third quarter on Thursday, driven by growth in its financial and payments services business while it kept costs under control. The digital payments firm posted a net profit of…

channelnewsasia.com - Indian fintech firm Paytm posts quarterly profit on core business growth
Indian fintech firm Paytm posts quarterly profit on core business growth
CNA

29 Jan 2026 09:43PM (Updated: 29 Jan 2026 10:13PM) Jan 29: Indian fintech firm Paytm reported a profit for the third quarter on Thursday, driven by growth in its financial and payments services business while it kept costs under control. The…

channelnewsasia.com - Indian fintech firm Paytm beats quarterly profit view on core business growth
Indian fintech firm Paytm beats quarterly profit view on core business growth
CNA

Jan 29: Indian fintech firm Paytm beat profit expectations in the third quarter on Thursday, helped by robust growth in its financial and payments services segments. Paytm has focused on its core payments services business and reduced expenses…

marketbeat.com - Fintech Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - January 29th
Fintech Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - January 29th
MarketBeat

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

cityam.com - Anna Moloney - Fintech founder Adam French: I wish the City would be braver
Fintech founder Adam French: I wish the City would be braver
City AM

Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City's great and good. Today, Adam French, partner at early-stage VC firm Antler and co-founder of Scalable Capital, takes us through his career in investment in Square Mile and Me Name: Adam French Job…

fool.com - Justin Pope - Prediction: 2026 Will Be the Year of PayPal
Prediction: 2026 Will Be the Year of PayPal
The Motley Fool

It's been a tough road for PayPal Holdings (PYPL 2.58%) over the past several years. The fintech giant surged during the stock market bubble that followed the COVID-19 pandemic, but the stock has seemingly only gone lower since then. PayPal has…

barchart.com - Anushka Dutta - Needham Analysts Think This Fintech Stock Can Soar 46% from Here. Should You Buy It Now?
Needham Analysts Think This Fintech Stock Can Soar 46% from Here. Should You Buy It Now?
Barchart.com

Fintech firm Affirm Holdings (AFRM) announced that it has submitted an application to the Nevada Financial Institutions Division and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish the Affirm Bank. The proposed Nevada-chartered…

thestar.com.my - PicPay IPO breaks four-year drought for Brazilian companies
PicPay IPO breaks four-year drought for Brazilian companies
The Star Online

SAO PAULO/NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Brazilian digital bank ‌PicPay, controlled by the billionaire Batista family, debuts on Nasdaq on Thursday after raising $434 million in an initial public ‌offering, the first new stock listing…

forbes.com - Pam Kaur - Why Data Privacy Is The New Constraint On Banking Innovation
Why Data Privacy Is The New Constraint On Banking Innovation
Forbes

Abstract data flows across digital banking platforms and partners. For years, data privacy in banking was treated as a compliance checkbox: important, but procedural. Data Privacy Week offers a timely moment to reassess how outdated that framing…

bloomberg.com - Matheus Piovesana - Nubank Gets First Green Light for US Bank, to Launch in 2027
Nubank Gets First Green Light for US Bank, to Launch in 2027
Bloomberg

Nu Holdings Ltd. won preliminary approval to perform some banking activities in the US, a first step by the Latin American fintech to move into the world's largest economy. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency offered conditional approval…

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