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1 week ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
The tech world loves a good shake-up story, especially when it comes to payments. But when the goal is only to upend an industry, things can get lost in translation. While speed and innovation are great, and one of the essential aspects of payments, for many, even small barriers to sending money can feel like an insurmountable challenge. That’s the market Remitly has focused on.
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2 weeks ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
The shift toward AI in banking is more than a technology upgrade: it’s now an organizational transformation. Banks are realizing that deploying powerful models isn’t enough. Success equally depends on the teams behind the tech. This has led to an industry-wide focus on hiring data experts, re-skilling existing employees, and forming dedicated units that align AI use cases with specific business strategies.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Sara Khairi
4 hours agoIt will be vastly more difficult for the new partnership to create a killer AI device than it will be for Apple to create an AI offering good enough to maintain the iPhone’s supremacy. You wouldn’t exactly call it understated. In a video, Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenAI, …
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2 weeks ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
The earnings cycle has commenced, and companies are beginning to report their first set of financial results for this year. A week ago, Affirm disclosed its financial results. We assess the firm’s performance, tracing its evolution and exploring what likely lies ahead for the BNPL provider. Affirm’s roots run deep in the desire to rethink how we interact with money, specifically when it comes to buying stuff we want, but perhaps can’t always afford upfront.
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3 weeks ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
A prominent move is underway in the halls of legacy financial firms and the boardrooms of fintechs as AI nudges a new phase of innovation in financial services. One forged in trial-and-error, feedback loops, backend rewrites, and the messiness of real-world customer problems. Companies are trying to make sense of the new tech and how to use it, but some have a stronger grasp of their AI roadmap than others.
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3 weeks ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
Green Dot and Crypto.com are teaming up to expand banking and money management features for Crypto.com’s US users — a move that brings traditional financial tools closer to the crypto world. The partnership gives Crypto.com customers new ways to fund and manage their Cash Accounts, including earning interest and depositing US dollars digitally or with cash at Green Dot’s nationwide retail network.
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1 month ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
Intuit has been quietly building a fintech empire in plain sight, mostly by buying its way in. When Intuit acquired Credit Karma for $7.1 billion in 2020, it didn’t just enter the consumer finance space — it tapped into a massive user network and secured ongoing user engagement through tools like credit monitoring, loan offers, and tax prep via TurboTax.
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1 month ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
If you’ve been keeping tabs on Silicon Valley’s power players lately, you might have noticed something interesting: Intuit has been unusually quiet. No flashy keynotes. No viral product demos. No crypto moonshots or AI-fueled promises to change the world (at least not too loudly IMO). But silence doesn’t mean stasis. The company has been playing its cards close to the chest lately. If you zoom out and squint a little, there’s a quiet — but deliberate — transformation underway.
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1 month ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly making its way into banks’ internal workflows, with chatbots emerging as one of the most common use cases to enhance customer service. Fifth Third is among the traditional banks leveraging AI via its chatbot, Jeanie, to manage customer inquiries and enhance service quality and satisfaction. From the AI that fuels Jeanie to the team behind the scenes, we explore how the chatbot came to life — and where it’s headed next.
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1 month ago | 
tearsheet.co | Sara Khairi
The tariff war is throwing punches at the stock market, leaving it dazed and confused, while IPOs — Klarna included — are nervously tiptoeing back into the shadows. It’s a moody scene out there. But instead of wallowing in unstable economic times, let’s take a breather and pivot to something more exciting: AI. Within this broader narrative, we’ll zero in on a California tech firm moving deeper into financial services with its new AI systems.
