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Top 100 Fintech Tools and Platforms for Businesses

Fintech Review

Whether you are a B2B founder building a global marketplace, a CFO steering a SaaS scale-up, or a finance team tasked with managing complex payments, finding the best fintech tools is critical. This guide covers the top 100 fintech tools across key categories including banking APIs, billing, KYC/AML, FX, crypto tools, and open banking.

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The Modernization Imperative: Why Financial Services Cannot Afford Legacy System Inertia

Finextra

Open banking mandates, real-time payment requirements, and evolving data privacy regulations require architectures built for adaptability, not just stability. Evolving Customer Expectations Digital-first customers expect instant account opening, real-time payment processing, and personalized financial insights.

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Unlocking Paper Checks’ Potential With APIs

PYMNTS

The paper check has a nasty reputation in B2B payments as a cumbersome, manual and risky payment rail. Yet data from the 2016 Association of Financial Professionals’ Electronic Payments Survey released last September actually found a 1 percent increase in corporates’ use of paper checks compared to two years ago. API Steps In.

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The Role of Digital Payouts In Mitigating The Insurance Industry’s Business Continuity Risks

PYMNTS

The insurance industry is all about risk mitigation, and not only when it comes to underwriting policies. Averse to the risk of change, the property and casualty (P&C) insurance arena has been resistant to embrace electronic payments when disbursing funds to claimants. Easing The Migration.

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Ripple and Axelar Foundation Set a New Standard for Blockchain Interoperability on XRPL

The Fintech Times

As more firms look to enter the blockchain and decentralised space, easy integrations and the ability to develop applications are an absolute must. Axelar network’s integration with the XRPL aims to help bolster the XRPL DeFi ecosystem by providing essential liquidity for stablecoins and large-cap assets.

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How Opening Bank Data Can Transform SMB Lending

PYMNTS

But lenders themselves, even industry incumbents, are also quickly recognizing the potential that unlocking data has not only on improving the SMB borrowing experience, but on significantly improving their own internal operations, particularly when it comes to risk mitigation. ” The U.S.’s ’s Open Banking Path.

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Bank-FinTech Collaboration Tackles SMB Finance Friction

PYMNTS

Highlighting the need to accelerate access to capital for SMBs, HSBC said it is integrating Biz2X within its existing HSBC Fusion offering to speed up credit application approval. Biz2Credit's technology can also enhance underwriting to mitigate risk even further for the financial institution (FI), it said.

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