Embedded Finance,
Member Exclusive
- The KeyBank-Qolo alliance reflects an evolution in how banks and fintechs can co-create value through deeper integration.
- We break down their partnership mechanics and what makes it effective.
Sara Khairi | July 03, 2025
Artificial Intelligence,
Lending
- Small business lending represents the last major frontier for AI transformation in financial services.
- Visa's Jonathan Kolozsvary and Uplinq's Patrick Riley explore how AI lending officers are using transaction data to unlock capital for underserved businesses.
Zachary Miller | July 01, 2025
Artificial Intelligence,
Business of Fintech
- While traditional banks and credit unions have adopted a "slow and careful" approach to generative AI, limiting deployment to back-office operations, fintech companies like Shopify are taking radically different paths by integrating AI throughout their entire organizations and customer-facing products.
- CEO Tobias Lütke's leaked manifesto reveals a mandatory AI-usage policy that affects everything from employee performance reviews to resource allocation, but this aggressive approach highlights unresolved challenges around error management, equitable implementation across organizational hierarchies, and the need for proper safeguards in this new paradigm of AI-augmented work.
Rabab Ahsan | July 01, 2025
10-Q,
Member Exclusive
- In early June 2025, Wells Fargo finally saw the infamous asset cap lifted.
- What did it take for Wells to reach this turning point? And how does it plan to make the most of its second chance?
Sara Khairi | June 30, 2025
Embedded Finance
- The growing embedded finance trend represents a migration from banks as destinations to banks as infrastructure.
- Walmart added J.P. Morgan Payments’ embedded finance solution to its marketplace. We explore how this collaboration brings to light two often-overlooked aspects of embedded finance.
Sara Khairi | June 26, 2025