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The 50 Hottest Fintech Startups In 2026
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Why Mr Beast Bought A Fintech: A Masterclass In Distribution
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The 50 Hottest Fintech Startups In 2026
ByJeff Kauflin,
Forbes Staff
Even as AI took center stage in 2025, many fintechs–especially those with a business-to-business focus–thrived.
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Kobalt Labs Raises $12.7 Million As AI Agents Hit Fintech Compliance
AI compliance startup Kobalt Labs raises $12.7 million as fintech goes agentic, signaling a shift toward AI-driven risk, third-party oversight and trust infrastructure.
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Block Lays Off 40% Of Staff And Blames It On AI. Don’t Buy The Excuse.
Block’s 40% layoffs spark questions about AI’s role and overhiring. Here’s what the data shows about headcount, compliance risk and what the cuts could signal.
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Recent reactions to US policymaking and tariffs have contributed to a decline in the dollar’s value, leading some to reexamine its role as the safe-haven currency.
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General Magic Raises $7.2 Million To Close Insurance’s Digital Gap
AI is transforming insurance underwriting, from pricing and risk models to workflow automation, and why carriers are investing there before anywhere else.
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The Unified Future Of Finance: Three Trends To Watch In 2026
Forget clicking through menus, this year natural language UX and agentic AI will replace buttons and do the deep thinking for you.
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3 Cautionary Takeaways From Brex’s $5 Billion Sale To Capital One
Brex’s $5B sale to Capital One signals liquidity in fintech but exposes the limits of paper valuations, preference stacks and late-stage VC markups.
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How Renminbi Internationalization Is Changing
China is accelerating renminbi internationalization via trade settlement, CIPS, and the digital yuan, but capital controls still limit the RMB’s global reserve role.
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This Fintech Is Winning With Hispanic Immigrants. Now It Has To Survive Trump.
Común allows immigrants to open a free checking account online with a foreign ID and to send money to relatives back home at a reasonable cost.
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The Fed’s ‘Skinny' Master Account: What It Means For Fintech Strategy
The Fed wants to give fintechs limited access to its payment rails by end of 2026. What the accounts actually do, and four moves to make right now.
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Supreme Court Tariff Ruling Reshapes Fintech Risk
The Supreme Court’s tariff ruling forces fintech firms to recalibrate credit models, pricing engines and payment flows as trade costs, margins and regulatory signals shift.
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Block’s Credit Score Play: Can Cash App Score Replace FICO?
Block announced it’s selling its Cash App Score to third-party lenders. It could be one of the more interesting data-as-a-service businesses in fintech right now.
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Six Entrepreneurs Making Their Fintech 50 Debut In 2026
Their startups do everything from giving consumers budgeting tips to testing traders’ software for errors that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The 50 Hottest Fintech Startups In 2026
Even as AI took center stage in 2025, many fintechs–especially those with a business-to-business focus–thrived.
ByJeff Kauflin,
Forbes Staff
Newcomers To The Fintech 50 2026
The 20 companies making their debut on our eleventh annual Fintech 50 show that despite a deflated funding market, founders are continuing to innovate at a rapid pace.
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The Future Of Payments: Fintech 50 2026
From fintech giant Stripe to six-year-old startup Justt, which helps companies recover revenue lost to illegitimate chargebacks, seven payment companies made our Fintech 50 list.
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The Future Of Wall Street And Enterprise: Fintech 50 2026
Financial institutions are making the most of emerging AI products to make everything about their back-office operations more efficient.
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The Future Of Insurance: Fintech 50 2026
From one startup that tries to simplify the confusion of selecting health insurance to another that uses aerial imagery instead of in-person inspectors, five insurtech businesses made our Fintech 50.
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