What Is FinTech?
According to Forbes, Fintech is a portmanteau for “financial technology.” It’s a catch-all term for technology used to augment, streamline, digitize, or disrupt traditional financial services. Fintech refers to software, algorithms and applications for both desktop and mobile. In some cases, it includes hardware, too—like internet-connected piggy banks. Fintech platforms enable run-of-the-mill tasks like depositing checks, moving money between accounts, paying bills, or applying for financial aid. They also facilitate technically intricate concepts, including peer-to-peer lending and crypto exchanges.
Now that you’re aware of the industry, let’s dive into who’s covering it in the media:
FinTech Ones To Read: Trade Publications
American Banker is an essential resource for senior executives in banking and financial services, keeping its users updated on vital developments and focusing sharply on their most important concerns — innovation, transformation, and disruption; technology, regulation, and reform.
FinTech Magazine covers banks, challenger banks, payment solutions, technology platforms, digital currencies, and financial services - connecting the world's largest community of banking and fintech executives.
FinTech Weekly features insider articles on recent issues and strategies in the finance industry. The articles are authored by professionals from the financial and tech industry, providing profound insights into topics that matter today and tomorrow.
Financial IT provides a digital platform for product listings, multimedia and other editorial content, companies' clients, and overviews of major trade events.
Bank Automation News: Bank Automation News is a resource for insights and news surrounding automation in financial services.
The Financial Brand is a digital publication that focuses on marketing and strategy issues affecting retail banks and credit unions. It provides financial and banking technology news with strategic analysis and real-world examples.
FinTech Futures is the definitive source of intelligence on the global fintech sector and is a respected resource for technology buyers, sellers, developers, integrators, and other specialists across the sector.
The Fintech Times Magazine explores the explosive world of financial technology, blending first-hand insight, opinion, and expertise with observational journalism to provide a balanced and comprehensive perspective of this rapidly evolving industry.
Fintech Finance & News Magazine provides key decision-makers globally within leading financial services organizations with reliable and accurate intelligence on emerging trends and breakthrough technologies, helping them to make informed decisions.
FinTech Ones to Reach Out To Top reporters
Aisha Gani (@aishagani) is a Fintech Reporter at Bloomberg News.
Joel Khalili (@JKFruit) writes about Crypto and Fintech reporter at WIRED.
Lucinda Shen (@ShenLucinda) covering fintech for Axios.
Alex Pugh (@PughShow) Reporter, FinTech Futures
Steve Cocheo @stevecocheo is a financial services journalist and the executive editor at The Financial Brand.
Miriam Cross (@MiriamSCross) is a technology reporter @American Banker, covering bank tech.
Shruti Khairnar (@shrutikhairnar) is a reporter at FinTech Futures
Aaron Marsh (@soIwrote) covers the banking technology industry at Bank Automation News.
FinTech Ones to Sign Up For: Newsletters
The Fintech Blueprint tracks developments across payments, banking, lending, investing and insurance, and makes sense of the noise.
Fintech FT Newsletter keeps up with the latest news, views and comments on digital disruption in financial services.
This Week in Fintech is a digest of all things financial technology, brought to your inbox every week.
Fintech Ones to Tune In To: Podcasts
Breaking Banks, Hosted by Brett King, Jason Henrichs, JP Nicols & Amber Buker
Every week, the hosts explore the personalities, startups, innovators, and industry players driving disruption in financial services; from Incumbents to unicorns, and from the latest cutting-edge technology to the people who are using it to help to create a more innovative, inclusive and healthy financial future.
Fintech Insider, Hosted by David Brear, Jason Bates, and Ross Gallagher
Fintech Insider is dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts and joined weekly by a range of fantastic guests, they discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry.
Tearsheet Podcast, Hosted by Zack Miller
Tearsheet Podcast identifies, tracks, and analyzes top trends impacting the business of finance, with an eye on the digital disruption wrought by fintech and new financial technology.
Banking Transformed, Hosted by Jim Marous
Banking Transformed podcast examines major leadership and cultural challenges in the banking industry and the impact of digital disruption on banking’s future.
Fintech Beat, Hosted by Chris Brummer
Fintech Beat comes to you from CQ Roll Call's studio in Washington, DC, where they explore the rapidly transforming banking and financial services sector. Standing at the intersection of policy, finance, and tech, Fintech Beat provides deep insights across a variety of topics that give the context you need to make decisions in a quickly evolving sector.
If you’re a business that falls within the FinTech category and looking to maximize your reach and break through the noise, Kite Hill PR is ready to help! Check out our FinTech practice area to learn more about the work we’ve done for our clients.
- Maggie Stasko, Account Manager