AI is having a significant impact on Europe’s digital landscape. But tight regulatory constraints in some markets and a broader fragmentation across the region is resulting in uneven development. Brands, retailers, agencies, and ad platforms need to adapt to best ride the AI wave.​

More than half (53%) of patient groups view US drugmakers favorably, an 8-point drop since last year, tied to funding and engagement cuts.

The $625 million raise signals Wall Street’s conviction in durable GLP-1 weight loss drug demand even as more players crowd the field.

It's funding is secure for now, but the CFPB's future is far from settled.

Quarterly equity funding for insurtechs has settled at $1.0 billion in Q3, a 17% drop from Q3 2024 according to CB Insights. Investors have grown more selective, focusing on B2B insurtechs that offer a faster path to profitability than their consumer-facing counterparts. The quiet winners in insurtech are now B2B, focusing on supporting other players with underwriting, claims management, and operations infrastructure. These firms are reshaping the industry from the back end rather than trying to disrupt it head-on.

Funding hit a two-year high, but the concentration among megarounds points to deeper problems in the startup funding space

AI darlings split the spotlight: Anthropic’s $30 billion valuation underscores its safety focus and enterprise ties, while Perplexity, worth $9 billion, battles legal woes and bets on ads to stay competitive.

This tie-up defies previous concerns about the viability of funding the BNPL industry

It’s opening a community center on the US-Mexico border and creating financial handbooks for migrants.

Visa may buy paytech Pismo, and Fiserv is exploring acquisitions. Other incumbents can take advantage of the weak funding climate.

Sluggish progress at debt ceiling talks is forcing banks to cut exposure to Treasury securities and grow liquidity cushions.

Microsoft makes bold, highly speculative agreement with Helion Energy: The tech giant is likely taking a leap of faith that AI will yield a nuclear fusion breakthrough in five years.

Fintechs are better off cutting costs and scaling back expansion plans until the finance climate improves.

Billions of dollars are flowing to generative AI startups: High barriers to entry and a hard road to profitability mean a select few companies will eventually dominate a powerful market.

SVB’s fall could set off more uncertainty in the tech sector: The collapse of a longtime cog in the country’s innovation engine will put additional strain on a tech sector already reeling from layoffs and losses.

Payment startups might be better off cutting costs and scaling back expansion plans until the funding climate improves.

Microsoft hitches its AI wagon to OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Investing $10 billion will give Microsoft 75% of OpenAI’s profits and priority access to innovation it can fold into web search and software solutions.

One year on, we review what we got right, what we sort of called, and what we got horribly wrong.

Railsr has become the latest embedded finance firm to raise money, netting $46M.

On today's episode, we discuss what recent funding and valuation drops mean for fintechs, which categories are getting hit the hardest, and what fintechs should do now. "In Other News," we talk about the significance of the recent Coinbase-BlackRock partnership and how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to level the playing field between banks and nonbanks. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Eleni Digalaki and Tiffani Montez.