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Partnership Buzz Lifts FinTech IPO Index 2%
Fintech Investments // July 25, 2025

Earnings season has yet to be fully felt in the FinTech IPO Index’s realm, and in fact several of the news items through the week, alongside press releases, were focused on actual earnings release dates stretching out toward the end of the month and into...

FinTech IPO Index Slips as Platforms Decline and Overtake Circle’s 70% Surge  
Fintech Investments // June 20, 2025

Headed into the Juneteenth holiday, and nearing the end of a shortened trading week, the FinTech IPO Index slipped 1.3%. There are some notable gains, and some excitement around stablecoins, as the GENIUS bill passed the Senate and now moves to the House for consideration...

2025 Debuts With a Platform Plunge as FinTech IPO Index Slides 3.6%
Fintech Investments // January 03, 2025

The last few trading days bridged two separate years for the FinTech IPO Index, as the last calendar page turned on 2024. And as Thursday’s trading wrapped up, ushering in the first volatile day in the markets for 2025, the overall markets got off to...

Blend and Astra Partner on Card Funding of Deposit Accounts
Partnerships // August 05, 2024

Blend and Astra have partnered to enable financial institutions to add card funding to their deposit accounts. With this collaboration, financial institutions that use Blend’s platform for digital banking solutions will also be able to use Astra’s instant-payments-as-a-service offering to enhance the digital onboarding experience for consumers...

Interviews & Exclusives
PYMNTS FinTech IPO Index Surges 4.4% as Worldpay Expands Partnership With Affirm

October 24, 2025
Earnings season has yet to be a prime mover of the FinTech space. Partnerships announced through the past week helped drive most names higher as the overall index surged 4.4%. And one key theme was embedding: of workflows and automation, and payments. To be sure, the relatively strong showing by traditional finance players — namely […]

Partnership Buzz Lifts FinTech IPO Index 2%

July 25, 2025
Earnings season has yet to be fully felt in the FinTech IPO Index’s realm, and in fact several of the news items through the week, alongside press releases, were focused...

FinTech IPO Index Slips as Platforms Decline and Overtake Circle’s 70% Surge  

June 20, 2025
Headed into the Juneteenth holiday, and nearing the end of a shortened trading week, the FinTech IPO Index slipped 1.3%. There are some notable gains, and some excitement around stablecoins,...

2025 Debuts With a Platform Plunge as FinTech IPO Index Slides 3.6%

January 03, 2025
The last few trading days bridged two separate years for the FinTech IPO Index, as the last calendar page turned on 2024. And as Thursday’s trading wrapped up, ushering in...

Quick Reads
Blend and Astra Partner on Card Funding of Deposit Accounts

August 05, 2024
Blend and Astra have partnered to enable financial institutions to add card funding to their deposit accounts. With this collaboration, financial institutions that use Blend’s platform for digital banking solutions will also be able to use Astra’s instant-payments-as-a-service offering to enhance the digital onboarding experience for consumers looking to fund their new deposit account, the companies said […]

PNC Bank and Blend Team on Digital Mortgage User Experience

September 27, 2022
PNC Bank will partner with cloud banking software company Blend, in order to digitize the mortgage application process, a press release said. Customers will now be able to apply digitally...

Ocrolus, Blend Announce Partnership to Automate Lending 

November 08, 2021
Document automation platform Ocrolus and cloud banking platform Blend announced Monday (Nov. 8) a strategic partnership that will embed Ocrolus’ Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) document analysis solution within the Blend platform to...

Digital Lending Platform Blend Labs To Raise $360M In IPO

July 06, 2021
The digital lending platform Blend Labs Inc. is going public. The company announced Tuesday it had launched the roadshow for the initial public offering (IPO) of 20 million shares of...