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The best Fintech newsletters

Fintech newsletters, ranked. Our editorial team curates and orders this list by hand: the top picks below are the ones we'd subscribe to first, followed by the full directory of everything we track in this category.

Ranked by the Hark News editorial team: every newsletter here is verified against its live signup page (publisher, cadence, pricing), and the order reflects our hand-curated ranking, not raw subscriber counts.

Hark's top 10 Fintech newsletters

Hand-ranked by the Hark News editorial team. Every one is free to read (or has a real free tier).

  1. This Week in Fintech

    FreeWeeklyThis Week in Fintech (Nik Milanović)

    Weekly curated digests of fintech financings, exits, launches, and policy news, split into regional editions covering the US, UK and Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and India, China, and MENA, plus topical letters on stablecoins, fraud, and policy. Founder Nik Milanović previously worked at Google Pay, Petal, and Funding Circle and runs the affiliated Fintech Fund. Entirely free; the site claims 225,000+ subscribers.

    Audience
    225k readers

  2. FinTech Futures Newsletter

    FreeDailyFinTech Futures (Informa)

    Daily handpicked fintech and banking-tech news plus a weekly digest option, drawn from FinTech Futures' global newsroom coverage of core banking, payments, and fintech vendors. Registration is free with customizable frequency. The signup form cites a community of 35,000+ fintech professionals; site marketing elsewhere claims 90,000+ newsletter subscribers.

    Audience
    35k readers

  3. Finextra Daily Newsletter

    FreeWeekdaysFinextra Research

    Finextra's daily newsletter goes out five times a week with the wire's coverage of retail and wholesale banking technology, payments, cloud, AI, and blockchain. Subscribers register as free Finextra community members and can customize topic preferences. Finextra is one of the longest-running fintech news outlets.

  4. Fintech Business Weekly

    FreeWeeklyJason Mikula

    One long-form issue a week digging into fintech and banking stories — BaaS failures, regulatory enforcement, neobank economics — with a reputation for original investigative reporting, 'without fear or favor.' Mikula is an independent fintech and banking advisor, author of the book Banking as a Service, with prior stints at Goldman Sachs, Enova, and LendUp. The Substack shows 93,000+ subscribers.

    Audience
    93k readers

  5. Tearsheet Daily Newsletter

    FreeDailyTearsheet

    Tearsheet's daily newsletter gives short summaries of the day's top stories in fintech and financial services — product launches, partnerships, and industry moves — alongside a flagship weekly edition. Tearsheet is a New York fintech media company; the daily and weekly emails are free, while a paid Pro membership adds industry briefs and the 10-Q earnings newsletter.

  6. Fintech Brainfood

    FreeWeeklySimon Taylor

    A weekly long-form analysis of what happened in fintech — bank-fintech partnerships, payments, stablecoins, and AI in finance — with 9–16 minute essays. Taylor co-founded consultancy 11:FS and has held strategy roles at Barclays and fraud-prevention firm Sardine. Free at fintechbrainfood.com.

  7. Fintech Takes

    Free2x weeklyAlex Johnson

    Alex Johnson's Fintech Takes is the industry's staff meeting: sharp, opinionated essays on banking, payments, credit, and the companies rebuilding them, written by someone who clearly reads every filing and term sheet in the sector.

    Best forFintech and banking professionals who want sharp, opinionated essays on payments, credit, and the companies rebuilding financial infrastructure.

    Audience
    19k readers
    Topics
    FintechBankingPaymentsIndustry Analysis

  8. Banking Dive: Daily Dive

    FreeWeekdaysIndustry Dive

    The Daily Dive lands Monday through Friday with Banking Dive's reporting on commercial banking, payments, fintech, risk, and regulatory policy. It is written by Banking Dive's staff journalists at Industry Dive, the B2B trade-news publisher. Free to subscribe.

  9. Payments Dive: Daily Dive

    FreeWeekdaysIndustry Dive

    Payments Dive's Daily Dive delivers the payments beat each weekday — card networks, processors, fintech entrants, regulation, and B2B payments — reported by Industry Dive's staff journalists. Free to subscribe with an email address.

  10. The Daily

    FreeDaily (afternoons ET)The Block

    The Block's The Daily wraps crypto news each afternoon with the seriousness of a trading-desk brief: markets, deals, and regulation, reported rather than aggregated. The Block's research pedigree shows in the selection. For readers who want institutional-grade crypto news.

More Fintech newsletters

The rest of our catalog for this category, in our ranked order.

  1. The Fintech Blueprint

    FreemiumWeeklyLex Sokolin

    The free tier delivers one analysis a week; paid ($12/month or $100/year) adds a second weekly letter, archive access, IPO primers, and company financial breakdowns. Sokolin is a former ConsenSys CMO and Autonomous Research fintech strategist, now at Generative Ventures, with 15+ years covering roboadvisors, crypto, and financial AI. The site claims 200,000+ subscribers across Substack and LinkedIn.

    Audience
    200k readers

  2. The Financial Brand Newsletter

    FreeThe Financial Brand

    Digests The Financial Brand's articles on bank and credit union marketing, digital banking, CX, and growth strategy, aimed at senior retail-banking executives. The publication claims more than 2.1 million financial services executives receive its emails. Free to subscribe at thefinancialbrand.com/subscribe.

    Audience
    2 readers

  3. American Banker Daily Briefing

    FreeWeekdaysAmerican Banker (Arizent)

    A weekday roundup of American Banker's coverage: policy and regulation, lending, payments, and bank technology, alongside sibling newsletters like BankThink and Payments. The email is free to receive, though full articles sit behind American Banker's subscription. Manage signup at americanbanker.com/email-options.

  4. Net Interest

    FreeWeeklyMarc Rubinstein

    Marc Rubinstein, a former hedge fund analyst, writes Net Interest as a weekly deep essay on how the machinery of finance actually works: banks, exchanges, insurers, and the plumbing nobody covers until it breaks. Finance professionals cite it to each other.

    Audience
    100k readers

  5. Sifted Fintech Newsletter

    FreeWeeklySifted (Financial Times-backed)

    Every Tuesday Sifted's fintech correspondent shares a take on what's hot and what's not across European fintech — neobanking, payments, buy-now-pay-later, and the startup scene. Free to receive with a free Sifted account; Sifted's deeper reporting sits behind a paid membership. Sifted is the FT-backed outlet covering European startups.

  6. PYMNTS Today

    FreeDailyPYMNTS

    A daily summary of what's happening on PYMNTS.com — breaking payments and commerce news plus data-driven trend coverage. The subscribe page also offers companion B2B, AI, and Digital Transformation dailies and a weekly 'This Week in Data' wrap-up. All free; produced by PYMNTS' newsroom rather than a single author.

  7. a16z Fintech Newsletter

    FreeMonthlyAndreessen Horowitz (a16z)

    One issue a month with the a16z fintech team's read on the sector — AI in financial services, banking infrastructure, M&A, and company trends. Originally distributed via a16z.com (legacy signup at info.a16z.com/newsletters-fintech.html) and now hosted on Substack. Free.

    Audience
    47k readers

  8. FinTech Weekly

    FreeTwice weekly (Tue & Thu)Tipping Point UG (Cologne, Germany)

    Curated links and industry commentary sent Tuesdays and Thursdays, with occasional special editions and a daily-updated news site alongside. Founded by Jan Kus and published by German company Tipping Point UG. Free.

  9. The Financial Revolutionist

    FreeTwice weekly + Saturday editionThe Financial Revolutionist

    Subscribers choose a Weekday Edition (Tuesday and Thursday), a Saturday Weekend Wrap, or all three. Mixes news digests with self-described 'boots-on-the-ground and highly opinionated' analysis of financial innovation. Free.

    Audience
    50k readers

  10. Connecting the dots in FinTech

    FreemiumDailyMarcel van Oost

    A five-minute daily briefing of the most important fintech news, with deep dives, financial-report breakdowns, and a MENA edition on the site. Van Oost is a former payments-startup founder turned fintech angel investor. Free newsletter with a paid members-only content library.

  11. Banking Dive: Fintech Weekly

    FreeWeekly (Wednesdays)Industry Dive

    Lands every Wednesday from Banking Dive's newsroom, focused on the bank/fintech relationship: banks buying fintechs, the rise of neobanks, and regulatory moves. Free, like the publication's weekday Daily Dive newsletter.

  12. The Fintech Times Newsletter

    FreeThe Fintech Times

    Email signup gives 'priority access' to reporting from the self-described first newspaper dedicated to fintech, established in 2016. The print/digital paper publishes bimonthly while the site posts daily news. Free signup form.

  13. FinTech Magazine Newsletter

    FreeBizClik

    Digital-magazine publisher BizClik (Norwich, UK, est. 2007) runs FinTech Magazine alongside its events business; the newsletter bundles news, features, interviews, and event updates. BizClik's marketing copy describes weekly or monthly sends. Free.

  14. Fintech Wrap Up

    FreemiumSam Boboev (Substack)

    News wrap-ups plus deep dives into topics like Visa's ecosystem and payment-processing platforms, with recent coverage of agentic commerce, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits. Free tier plus a paid tier with exclusive analyses and alerts. The subscribe page lists over 19,000 subscribers.

    Audience
    19k readers

  15. Fintech Radar

    FreeWeeklyAlan Tsen (Substack)

    Each issue curates the week's fintech news with analysis and occasional hot takes; 145+ numbered issues to date. Tsen has worked at Chipper Cash and Stone & Chalk and heads a corporate accelerator for Australia's largest insurer. Free.

    Audience
    3k readers

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Frequently asked

What is the best fintech newsletter?
Our top pick is This Week in Fintech from This Week in Fintech (Nik Milanović). The full ranking above lists every fintech newsletter we recommend, in order.
Are these newsletters free?
Every newsletter in the main ranking is free to read or has a real free tier. Paid-only newsletters are listed separately in the paid recommendations section.

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Last updated: August 2026