FinTech Insights

It finally happened! After a two-year hiatus, the biggest FinTech show was live again. Here are the three biggest themes we came away with from the show.

U.S. equity markets are experiencing record volumes – up more than 10% year over year, with rapidly rising retail trading – an estimated 30-35% of total volume, and a whole new generation of investors entering the market for the first time. But how is today’s trade settlement and collateral infrastructure holding up with the changing times?

New Players, Changing Economics, Shifting Competitive Landscape

A Sector Gearing Up For Greater Institutional Adoption

Our 13th Annual FinTech Summit was held on May 19-20th with the theme “Building Tomorrow’s Marketplaces”.

Ensuring Security, Trust, and Compliance in Tomorrow’s Markets

Spotlight on Market Infrastructure for Digital Assets

Driving Equality, Enhancing Value, Democratizing Investing

The Rosenblatt Securities FinTech Banking team warmly invites you to a special webinar replay to share the top FinTech trends we are watching in 2021 and beyond.

A Viewpoint sharing major trends sweeping financial services and ten key FinTech issues to watch in 2021

‍Digging Deep into the Drivers of Six Major Sectors

Crucial Trends, Insights, and Perspectives Across 6 FinTech Sectors

Moving up the value chain from distribution to manufacturing

Major trends and notable deals in six FinTech sub-sectors

How SPACs, Direct Listing, etc reveal a longer arc of change

Key lessons and highlights from four panel discussions with 16 CEOs.

This year, Rosenblatt's 12th Annual FinTech Summit was a virtual event in wake of the COVID-19 crisis. We had a special focus on the impact of COVID-19 on the FinTech industry and our panelists discussed how they are navigating this storm.

Slides from the Webinar About COVID-19’s Impact on the Private FinTech Market.

Playback of special session sharing our banking team’s perspective on FinTech sub-sectors.

Ten Years of Helping FinTechs Get Airborne

How Funding, M&A and Valuations May Get Impacted

Why FinTech Investors Will Remain Busy For The Next 10 Years Investing in EF Infrastructure.

Non-financial companies natively embedding financial services will transform our industry.

Playback of webinar presented by the Rosenblatt Investment Banking team, recapping significant events from 2019 and sharing our prognostications for FinTech 2020.

Playback of webinar presented by the Rosenblatt Investment Banking team, sharing results of our investor survey about FinTech market conditions in 2020.

What top FinTech investors believe will happen to funding, valuation and exits in a potential slowdown.

Playback of session presented by the Rosenblatt Investment Banking team’s “D” Shahrawat, sharing our analysis on InsurTech VC funding, M&A activity, valuations and emerging trends across Insurance verticals.

While many FinTech sub-sectors, like Payments and Lending, are showing signs of maturity, including a gradual slowdown in new startup incubation, flat (and in some cases declining) funding and tepid M&A activity, InsurTech is bucking the trend.

AQR offers a reality check on using AI/ML in asset management

How Technology is helping cut the Gordian knot that has restricted fair access to financial services until now

In Act 1 of their growth (circa 2012-2013), FinTechs selected one product or service from an incumbent’s integrated offering, and began offering it digitally either at significantly lower cost, or with a better UI/UX. In Act II, prominent FinTechs are expanding beyond their original beach head, adding products, and going multiline. What’s driving this?

Last Friday, we had the honor of hosting a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) delegation led by its Chief FinTech Officer Sopnendu Mohanty. Over a cup of black coffee sitting in our conference room on the 59th floor of 40 Wall Street, he described how MAS has helped put Singapore on the world map for FinTech innovation, and lessons to learn from their efforts.

The Range of Assets That Can Be Tokenized: Investment Structures, Real Estate, Collectible Art, IP, Consumer Data, Health Records

The Tremendous Promise of Digitizing Assets, Enabling Shared Equity and Fractional Ownership of Illiquid Assets

Webinar presented by the Rosenblatt Investment Banking team’s “D” Shahrawat, who presents trends in FinTech and highlights key issues we are watching for 2019.

Mike Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, and formerly Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Macro Fund, discusses with Rosenblatt President and COO Joe Gawronski how he became a leading advocate of digital assets, current trends in the market and the path to institutionalization.