12 Jan 2023

BNPL, Business of Fintech, Member Exclusive

With BNPL mainstream, Klarna shifts its focus to better economics

• Flexible payments have become table stakes at checkout. For BNPL providers, the next challenge is finding growth beyond the product itself.
• Klarna's latest moves suggest the company wants to give customers a reason to return even when they aren't making a purchase.

Banking, Member Exclusive

The four questions steering modern banking strategy

• Modern banks are making deliberate choices about which part of the financial ecosystem they want to own.
• As AI democratizes expertise and technology commoditizes products, the source of competitive advantage is shifting from what banks build to the role they own in the financial ecosystem.

AI Innovation, Banking, Payments

How J.P. Morgan Payments eliminated 13 billion keystrokes a year by automating the paper behind payments

• Rather than waging war on checks, J.P. Morgan Payments is tackling the manual workflows behind them.
• JPM Payments' systems now process more than 4,000 envelope and document variations, while its AI platform delivers over 99.999% accuracy in data extraction and business-rule validation.

10-Q

The Week in Market Moves | July 2-9, 2026

• This analysis tracks recent specific company developments and how markets responded, anchored to Thursday's close.
• Last week’s prominent moves came from Coinbase, U.S. Bank, J.P. Morgan Chase, Block, and Robinhood

10-Q, Member Exclusive

What Robinhood’s June product blitz was really about

• Robinhood's story has largely been one of investing – every new product strengthened that core business. June's product launches marked a noticeable departure.
• The firm has spent years broadening its product lineup. June marked the shift from product expansion to platform integration.