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Fintech
Everything we've published tagged fintech.
Grab Is Three Cents From Its Floor — and the Safety Net Isn't Working
Southeast Asia's super-app is sinking despite a $400 million buyback, and the dominoes that follow could reshape the region's tech landscape.
Latin America's biggest digital bank just lost its CFO. The stock cratered. Here's what the market is really worried about.
Nubank's 8% single-day drop isn't just about one executive leaving — it's a stress test for the entire fintech-in-emerging-markets thesis.
Nubank's 135 Million Customers Look Great — Until You Check Who's Paying Back Their Loans
Latin America's biggest digital bank posted blockbuster revenue and then dropped nearly 6% in a day. The credit losses buried in the earnings tell a different story.
Nubank Just Posted a Blowout Quarter. Then the Stock Cratered.
Latin America's biggest digital bank is growing at 42% — and the market is punishing it. Here's why the credit quality story matters more than the headline numbers.
Sea Limited Just Had Its Best Day in Years — and the Ripple Effects Go Beyond Southeast Asia
A 13% single-day surge on monster volume tells you something about the stock. The 47% revenue growth tells you something about an entire region.
MercadoLibre Is Growing 49% and Getting Crushed. Here's Why.
Latin America's biggest tech company just posted blockbuster revenue — and lost 41% from its peak anyway. The dominoes are falling in a specific order.
MercadoLibre Just Had Its Worst Day in Years — and the Real Story Isn't the Earnings Miss
Latin America's 'Amazon' dropped 12.7% in a day. The margin compression, the $479 million institutional exit, and the $3.8 billion bad-loan cushion tell a bigger story about what happens when growth-at-all-costs meets Wall Street's patience.
MercadoLibre Grew Revenue 49% and the Stock Got Crushed. Here's Why.
Latin America's biggest tech company just told Wall Street it's choosing market share over profits — and Wall Street didn't take it well.
MercadoLibre Grew Revenue 49% and Got Punished for It
Latin America's biggest tech company just told Wall Street it's choosing market share over profits — and the market hated it.
The Phantom Billions: How Wirecard Fooled Germany and Vanished into Moscow
A blue-chip darling, a missing €1.9 billion, and the fugitive COO who became a Russian spy
Visa Just Had Its Best Day in Years. Here's What It Tells You About Everything Else.
An 8.3% single-day pop in the world's biggest payment network is a real-time health check on the entire consumer economy — and the ripple effects go way beyond credit cards.
Google Just Bet on Southeast Asia's Amazon. Most Western Investors Have Never Heard of It.
Sea Limited's new Google partnership is a signal flare for a $300 billion digital economy that's still flying under the radar.
The Company That Built the Mall, the Delivery Trucks, and the Bank — in a Region That Had None
MercadoLibre isn't just Latin America's Amazon. Its fintech arm might be the bigger story — and most U.S. investors are missing it.
The Brazilian Bank That Signed Up 62% of a Country — and Now Wants Yours
Nubank has 131 million customers, a 33% return on equity, and a freshly approved U.S. bank charter. Here's the domino chain most investors haven't mapped yet.
Grab Burned Billions to Win Southeast Asia. Now It Has to Prove It Was Worth It.
The super-app that crashed 70% after going public is trying to turn a profit — and the outcome will ripple far beyond ride-hailing.
The Tollbooth Problem: Stablecoins Are Coming for Visa's Business Model
Digital dollars that move on blockchain rails could crack the moat around the world's most profitable payment networks — and the dominoes are already falling.