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Four critical mistakes fintech startups make, and how to avoid them

Sanjeev Kriplani is a Scale executive-in-residence and fintech product and marketing leader. Previously, he led teams at Intuit, PayPal, and Bill (formerly Bill.com). In making the jump from nascent company to market leader, fintech startups face unique hurdles. Money is…

Out of the hype cycle: Fintech’s reversion to the mean

February 22, 2024
John Gianakopoulos, Abbas Haider and Alex Niehenke
Fintech
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At first glance, things in fintech don’t look great. Since the highs of 2021, we’ve seen few successful public market entrants, a pullback in valuations, fintech giants sitting under water, and a precipitous decline in venture funding. So, are things…

Forecasting Fintech: Trends in Automation from Money20/20

Automation is always a key theme at Money20/20, and this year was no different. The impact of AI as it relates to money movement remained a focus for B2B startups. At the first Vegas iteration of the conference since LLMs…

What Comes After Adyen and Stripe? The Future of Payments Orchestration and Optimization

September 14, 2022
Alex Niehenke
Fintech, Trends

Turns out, phones are quite good payment platforms. This poses a challenge for traditional consumer payments. Debit cards, credit cards, and other legacy payment methods are making way for Apple Pay, BNPL, QR code payments, Venmo, and Zelle — and that’s just in the U.S. Outside the U.S., super apps are beating Visa and Mastercard to the punch. China is a prime example, where WeChat and AliPay process more USD equivalent volume collectively than Visa.