2025 was Revolut's fifth consecutive year of net profitability. This year, the neobank has its sights set on expanding in the U.S., a key pillar of its global footprint.

More than a thousand years ago, merchants in imperial China revolutionized the concept of money by replacing metal coins with paper. A similarly transformative change — programmable money — is on the cusp of adoption today.

As funding mechanisms for sovereign debt and large assets increasingly migrate toward real-time financial infrastructure, banks are at risk of being displaced as key intermediaries in global finance.

Kim Farrell, former global head of creators for TikTok, joins the Brazil-based neobank to develop its international brand strategy as it expands into the U.S.

The credit union closed three of its overseas locations in response to the conflict. Military-focused financial institutions are instead offering digital banking to deployed service members.

With an application for a U.S. bank charter, the global super app provider aims to expand its offerings and compete with established domestic challengers.

The Brazilian neobank attributed a Q4 boost in its credit portfolio to its AI-powered underwriting tool, but expenses caused it to miss Wall Street estimates.

After completing a migration to its proprietary tech stack, Chime is setting its sights on GAAP profitability in 2026 following a strong fourth quarter.

At an investor day in London, Banco Santander executives laid out the Spanish company's new financial goals, including a goal to improve a key profitability metric in the U.S. The pending acquisition of Webster Financial in Connecticut is part of the strategy to achieve higher returns, they said.

The payments firm wants to issue a stablecoin called PAYO-USD, joining a wave of digital asset companies seeking federal bank charters.

The Southeast Asian financial services company acquired micro-investing fintech Stash and earned a yearly profit for the first time in its 2025 earnings report.

The digital bank slashed its share volume and pricing the day before its public debut and following a mixed U.S. public debut for fellow Brazil fintech PicPay.

Beast Industries, owned by the YouTube star known as MrBeast, has acquired the Gen Z-oriented financial wellness app Step.

Kohler Credit Union, Think Bank and Communication Federal Credit Union gave their onboarding and direct deposit tech an upgrade through fintech partnerships.

The crypto and payment fintechs both debuted on the stock market in late January with strong openings, then traded down ahead of a four-day partial government shutdown.

The digital bank added two new board members and raised $123.9 million as it continues to manage regulatory costs amid its push for profitability.

As tokenization increasingly brings instant settlement to transactions, the liquidity buffer that batch settlement has provided for decades is going to shrink and then disappear. Banks will need to rethink liquidity management.

The Brazil-based fintech got conditional approval from the OCC to bring its digital banking services to U.S. customers.

A one-time accounting change will boost the bank's ability to spend on marketing. Traders flinched at the change; analysts called it a buying opportunity.

Once seen as a sleepy corner of the financial services industry, asset servicing has become increasingly important for banks as artificial intelligence, blockchains and a generational transfer of wealth alter the landscape.