Launch
Citi AI expands to 80 global markets, promising automation, insights, and a “responsible AI-first culture.” We explain why it’s more hype than revolution.
Deals
Chime filed to go public with an S-1 that’s equal parts alphabet soup and fintech fever dream.
AI
Investing.com just launched WarrenAI—an AI-powered financial research tool claiming to “revolutionize investor analysis.” Here’s everything to know about the ChatGPT-for-Wall-Street experiment.
Funding
Plaid, the fintech darling once pegged at a dazzling $13.4 billion, has seen its valuation shrink to a modest $6.1 billion. But hey, who's counting?
Funding
Fintech startup Mercury just raised a cool $300 million, instantly tripling the number of VC group chats that will now start with “We should do something in fintech.”
Launch
British digital bank Monzo thinks you're too British to ask for your money back, so it built an app to do it for you.
Launch
Robinhood’s new Prediction Markets Hub turns interest rates and sports outcomes into bets. Is this financial innovation—or just gamified gambling?
Fintech
Klarna, the global beacon of financial "empowerment" (also known as Buy Now, Panic Later), just had to file to go public.
Deals
Rocket Companies is acquiring Redfin in a $1.75 billion all-stock deal, promising AI-powered homebuying convenience, cost savings, and 14 petabytes of consumer data — but raising big questions for real estate, mortgages, and housing competition.
Funding
Ramp, the “leading financial operations platform” (as they humbly describe themselves), announced with great fanfare that their valuation has ballooned to $13 billion.