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The Payments You Don’t See: How Invisible Fintech Is Powering Your Favorite Apps

Alpesh Patel, strategic partnership director at Cartex and a veteran of the global payments industry, unpacks how invisible fintech is reshaping conversion, reliability and revenue across modern apps. With embedded payments now extending far beyond fintech into marketplaces, media and mobility, Patel explains why every company is becoming a payments company, and what it takes to get the infrastructure right.
By Alpesh Patel
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Klarna’s First Public Earnings Report: Strong US Growth, ‘Neobanking’ and A.I.

Klarna leans on A.I. and new financial products as it expands beyond BNPL.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Decentralizing the Dollar: A Financial System Beyond Washington

Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Avail and one of the original architects behind Polygon, examines how decentralization could redefine the dollar’s future. As modular blockchain infrastructure advances, Arjun explores the provocative question: what happens when the dollar no longer depends on Washington? He argues that the next phase of the global financial system may not be led by governments, but by code, consensus and community.
By Anurag Arjun
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Klarna’s CEO Lets A.I. Avatar Present Quarterly Earnings in His Place

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Asia’s Fintech Revolution: Mobile Banks Are Reshaping Finance

By Maksym Sakharov
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Trust Is the New Innovation: Why Reputation Is Now Fintech’s Most Valuable Currency

By Valentina Drofa
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Regulators Start the Clock, Engineers Build the Rails: Can the Creator Economy Scale?

By Murad Salikhov
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Former Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash Aims to Simplify Philanthropy With A.I.

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Blockchain Comes to USAID. Will It Survive Washington?

By Arthur Azizov
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Fintech’s Gender Gap: Why Progress Isn’t Moving Fast Enough

By Valentina Drofa
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CEO Alex Chriss Wants PayPal to Be More Than Just a Payments Company

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Klarna

Energy-Intensive A.I. Companies Are Looking for Innovative Ways to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

By Olivia Peluso

Fintech Startup Made Famous by Crying CEO is Going Public

By Sissi Cao
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How Apple Makes a Splash in the Banking Business Amid a Banking Crisis

By Sissi Cao
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Short Seller Hindenburg Targets Block, Jack Dorsey’s Fintech Company

By Sissi Cao
In this photo illustration, the Federal Republic of Brazil flag is seen displayed on a smartphone with an economic stock exchange index graph in the background.

Brazil Is Not for Beginners

By Monica Brand Engel, Jonathan Whittle and Michel Zaidler

Bank Tech Is Only as Good as the Customers Who Use It

By James Ledbetter
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Stripe, a $95 Billion Fintech Unicorn, Is Exploring an IPO

By Sissi Cao
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JPMorgan Claims It Was Tricked by Startup Founder Who Falsified Millions of Users

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Was Celsius a Massive Scam from the Start?

By James Ledbetter

A Holiday Miracle: This Fintech Company Actually Had a Great 2022

By James Ledbetter

Can Zelle Fraud Be Halted by a Tech Fix? Some Say Yes.

By James Ledbetter
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FTX’s Naming-Rights Deal for Miami’s Arena May Have Presaged its Downfall

By Sissi Cao

The Humbling of PayPal

By James Ledbetter
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