OakNorth AI

4dFI, AI Innovation

How Taktile is building the operating system for AI-driven decisions in financial services

• Taktile builds decision infrastructure for banks and lenders that need AI to work inside compliance constraints, not around them.
• The Berlin-born company argues that the real risk in financial AI is building on infrastructure that wasn’t designed for the job.

10-Q

The Week in Market Moves | May 21-28, 2026

• This analysis tracks recent specific company developments and how markets responded, anchored to Thursday's close.
• Last week’s prominent moves came from Mastercard, Circle, and Robinhood.

10-Q, Member Exclusive

May’s public fintech theme: Operating systems over products

• May’s shifts show many firms moving beyond product expansion to control the infrastructure and workflows powering financial decisions.
• Firms like Coinbase, LendingClub, Green Dot, Citi, and Intuit appeared to be converging around the same direction.

SMB Finance

How Intuit is turning QuickBooks into an operational coordination layer for SMBs

• Digitization made SMBs more efficient, but also more fragmented, leaving owners to stitch together as many as 25 disconnected apps themselves.
• Intuit's launch of Quickbooks Workforce is shifting the playbook to a unified data model, merging payroll and HR directly with financial context.

Opinion

Letter from the Editor: Digital banks have different answers to what banking should become next

• Digital banks are evolving in different directions despite emerging from the same response to traditional banking’s slowness, fragmentation, and inaccessibility.
• We look at the evolving definitions of money management in a world where financial activity is becoming more embedded, automated, and fluid.