6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
David L. Stearns's 2007 academic history of the creation of the BankAmericard and its evolution into Visa — covering the technology, governance, and organizational innovations that built the world's largest payment network.
American fintech company providing the data infrastructure layer connecting consumer bank accounts to financial applications via API — the invisible plumbing of the fintech ecosystem.
Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later and payments company that became Europe's most valuable private fintech before losing 85% of its valuation in 2022 and staging a subsequent recovery.
Hungarian-American entrepreneur who founded Interactive Brokers — one of the world's largest electronic brokerages — by bringing computer-driven options pricing to the trading floor when everyone else was using mental math, then building the electronic trading infrastructure that democratized global market access.
American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Plaid, the financial data infrastructure company that connects fintech apps to bank accounts — which Visa agreed to acquire for $5.3B in 2020 before the Department of Justice blocked the deal.
AI-powered financial intelligence platform used by institutional investors to search and analyze earnings calls, filings, and research — applying NLP to financial information at scale.