The AP, AR, and spend & expense solution that lets you create and pay bills, manage expenses, control budgets, and get the credit your business/firm needs to grow.

As businesses become more global, payment complexity increases. Financial operations is an emerging software category that presents a massive opportunity.

Creator economy is a buzzy, often catchall term used to describe independent contractors. But in reality, most of the innovation has revolved around passion-project content (Substack for writing,...

We all know how transformative B2C marketplaces have been in bringing markets online and creating new ones — Instacart, Airbnb, Rover, and GOAT just to name some of the largest. What’s talked about...

Banking 2025: The struggle to avoid becoming the ‘dumb utility’. In trying to adapt and survive in an increasingly tech-dominated world, banks may unintentionally give up their most valuable commod...

Even the most educated and high-achieving women do not participate equally with their husbands in long-term financial decision making, according to a study.

The financial world has been quietly upended over the past decade. Banks are being disintermediated from their customers by fintech companies, new infrastructure technologies are lowering the barrier...

How tech-enabled financial tools can cut through bureaucracy, downsize student debt, and optimize consumers’ financial futures from an early age.

Now that the launch of the highly anticipated real-time payments network FedNow is finally happening, what will it mean for real-time payments in the U.S.? 

Freight is quite literally one of the backbones of the U.S. economy. Every year, shippers spend $800 billion dollars moving goods across the country, and as everyone learned firsthand over the past...

Excel, the ubiquitous spreadsheet application, remains a standard program in today’s finance departments. Some CFOs want to change that.

Imagine you never had to think about buying insurance—that it was automatically attached to everything you own. Your apartment is broken into? Renters insurance came with your lease. Your dog breaks...

Nihar Bobba hosts Seema Amble, a partner focused on fintech investments at a16z. She primarily focuses on B2B fintech, such as payments, CFO tools, and vertical software, globally. She serves on the b

If you polled a cross-section of companies about their most important software, accounts payable and accounts receivable software would likely not rank high on their lists. It’s the kind of unglamo...

Payments -- taking and paying out money -- remains a fragmented and complex area for merchants, marketplaces and others that do business with multiple

India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers.

In a new episode of My First 16, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a “minimum delightful produ...

This post was updated on 4/27/20 to reflect additional fintech efforts.  Last week, fintech startup Propel and nonprofit GiveDirectly announced their role in carrying out Project 100, an initiative...

The financial services industry is undergoing one of the largest transformations in its history. Like many seismic changes, initially change is slow and incremental and then a shift happens dramati...

Recent news and analysis from the a16z fintech team.

Unlike with previous generations, young adults find it freeing to talk about their personal finances.

"We can control our destiny," says Colin Walsh, CEO of the challenger bank, which spent more than three years seeking to become a full-fledged bank.

Reduce billing errors, slipped revenue and recognition errors from custom deal terms, complex pricing, manual quoting and poor integration across sales to finance.

What counts as "cash," developing a plan for that cash, building an adaptable operating model, and dealing with a liquidity crisis.

Since 2008, a South Asian American child has been named a champion at every Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The financial institutions behind the Zelle money-transfer service are working on a wallet for consumers to use at online checkout.

Much opportunity exists to build a modern software stack that supports the next generation of default global companies, from local employment law and talent sourcing to multi-country incorporation...

Design partners, or the first few users of a company's software, are often a key part of the early software development process.

PayPal will continue to pursue potential takeover targets in 2020 amid robust deal activity in the payments sector. “There’s a lot of opportunities to acquire companies inorganically,” Chief Financ...