Fintech Newsletter

Innovation

Which Strategies Are Making the Most Impact in Fintech?

Explore the key fintech strategies for 2025, from AI and automation to embedded finance and global expansion, and how they are shaping the industry

Meet the Fintech CEO Steering Atlanta’s Next Billion-Dollar Business

Founded in 2005 as Priority Payment Systems, the company has evolved from a bootstrapped startup into a publicly-traded fintech (NASDAQ: PRTH) that serves merchants of all sizes (think restaurants, retailers, service providers, and large enterprises) looking for ways to optimize their working capital and monetize all payment flows.

AI

FinTech platform Baselane secures $34m for AI expansion

The latest financing includes a $20m Series B led by Thomvest Ventures and a previously unannounced $14.4m Series A led by Matrix Partners. Other participants in the Series B were Diagram Ventures, Starwood Capital, Parameter Ventures, Activant Capital, RXR ARDEN Digital Ventures and Watershed Ventures.

TEB to deploy Provenir’s AI Decisioning platform

With a loan book of $9.5 billion, TEB will leverage Provenir's flagship solution across its suite of retail and small business lending products.

IGT debuts AI-driven gaming, digital content, fintech integration

IGT has launched a range of gaming, digital and financial technology products that highlight the company's focus on integrated, data-driven casino solutions, according to a press release.

Payments

Payment Technology: The Digital Revolution in Your Wallet

The evolution of payment technology is fundamentally reshaping global commerce, creating a seamless, digital-first financial ecosystem for consumers

Venture Capital

Better Tomorrow Ventures closes $140M, remains bullish on fintech

Sheel Mohnot, co-founder and general partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV), has one simple answer for anyone claiming that investing in fintech has lost some of its attractiveness.

“The world of finance is huge. About 20% of global GDP is financial services, and it’s still not digital enough,” he told TechCrunch.

Research

How NYC Became the Fintech World's Hotspot

Boasting 25,000 tech startups1 and 178 unicorns2—privately held companies with a valuation greater than $1 billion—New York City has emerged as the second-largest tech hub in the world, after California’s Silicon Valley. Record numbers of tech workers are relocating to New York,3 while local tech venture capital (VC) investments are booming. Due to its proximity to Wall Street, fintech has been a particular area of success. In 2024, fintech deal values increased to $6.71 billion, up 50% compared to 2023.4

So, what’s behind the boom? Why is New York proving such a pull for the tech industry?

Digital Banking

Checkout.com valued at $12 billion in employee share buyback

Fintech unicorn Checkout.com is giving staff a way of cashing in their shares: buying them out.

The London-headquartered payments platform said Friday that it plans to launch a share buyback initiative for employees to “provide them with a path to liquidity.”

Technology

Africa Is Taking Charge of Its Fintech Future — and Inviting Atlanta to Partner

No longer intent to inherit solutions from Western powers, Africa is developing financial technology solutions to drive economic empowerment, and it’s inviting investors to join in on the opportunity — or miss the boat.

Best Practices In Software Engineering For Fintech Resilience

The financial technology sector is experiencing unprecedented growth, with the fintech market expanding from $320.81 billion in 2025 to an expected $652.80 billion by 2030. As the industry matures, the software engineering principles that underpin these solutions become increasingly critical, not just for functionality, but for trust, compliance and competitive advantage.

Europe

Fintech unicorn Zeller kicks off international expansion with UK launch

Zeller has appointed former ByteDance executive Lars Weber to lead its UK operations, based in London.

The company said recruitment is underway to scale the team to over 40 people across technology, operations and go-to-market roles over the next three years.