For decades, payroll tech barely changed. Now, upstarts and incumbents alike are trying to overhaul how businesses pay their people by putting finance in the apps they use every day. Being a first mover hinges on timing. Introducing a new product or service before everyone else, leveraging that head start to entrench yourself in the […]
The company has teamed up with Visa on card issuance driven by stablecoin tech and operates in 100 countries Count Rain as a company whose founders saw the future before most. And they plan to be ready when everyone catches up. Rain, which announced its latest $24.5M funding round this week led by Norwest Ventures, […]
Last week, Las Vegas played host to a different kind of gamble, with bets placed not on the blackjack tables but on AI’s future. At the inaugural HumanX conference, thousands of tech luminaries flew in from Silicon Valley and beyond to ponder whether AI is more sinner or saint, while sipping coffee and leaning in […]
What the long-awaited IPO means for late-stage fintech Though its Form F-1 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) came at an unusual time, Klarna’s IPO intentions have been far from secret. The Sweden-based Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) giant, founded in 2005, has crawled in fits and starts toward a place in […]
With an “A/B testing” president in office, financial models may offer clarity It’s a new era for business as this week marked the beginning of an all-out trade war between the US and Canada. Emotions were high, and crisis-tested leaders were in fashion as a resurgent Liberal Party in Canada appointed central banking legend Mark […]
Murmurings from Fintech Meetup and HumanX It is amazing to me, how many meetings — even in a meeting I had today … where someone says, ‘What do you see in valuations today?’ As if there’s a generic answer for what variables every company in the world should be valued on.” — Jade Mandel, Managing […]
How dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau turns back the clock — exposing consumers to financial harm and encouraging unfair industry practices People have been flooding the internet with stories of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) helped protect them from financial scams and exploitation ever since Elon Musk and CFPB Acting Director Russ […]
Three questions for Canaan Partners’ Dana Warren and Brendan Dickinson Given the stop-start nature of tariff imposition and other major macroeconomic policies, are businesses adopting a more Nostradamus-esque response to these disruptions? And, since this is Fintech Nexus after all, what happens to financial-technology providers? To parse the implications of by-the-minute major jolts to the economy, gauge […]
At 12:01 AM ET on Tuesday, a U.S. tranche of 25% tariffs went into effect against Mexican and Canadian imports, and tariffs doubled against Chinese goods. Public market reactions were nearly instantaneous and universally grim: The S&P 500 lost all post-election gains, though stock markets rebounded somewhat on Wednesday following President Trump’s decreed temporary exceptions […]
Today marks an exciting new beginning for Fintech Nexus, the leading fintech media company, as it relaunches under new ownership by COMMAND, a strategic communications firm that works with high-growth tech companies and venture capital firms. Founded in 2013 by Peter Renton and Bo Brustkern as LendIt, the publication has been at the heart of […]