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Plaid to acquire This Week in Fintech

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 — 18:57:31 (UTC)

Plaid is acquiring This Week in Fintech

New York, Nik Milanović, March 25, 2026—Today, we’re excited to begin the next chapter in This Week in Fintech.

In our continued pursuit to build the front page of fintech, we’re thrilled to share that Plaid is acquiring TWIF. You can read the Axios article here. At TWIF, what started out as a single fintech newsletter 6 ½ years ago has grown over time into the largest global fintech community, with 200k+ subscribers, 75k+ event attendees, and 10k+ members of our online channels.

Plaid has been a big part of that story: we’ve profiled them to our readers and interviewed CEO Zach Perret on the podcast. We’ve been long-time admirers of the fintech-first platform they’ve built to scale financial innovation.

In my 2019 TechCrunch article, Who will the winners be in the future of fintech?, Plaid was the first example I picked. At the time, I wrote, “It’s possible in 2020 to build a range of powerful financial products because fintechs can pull in robust data through aggregator services like Plaid, so a bet on the fintech industry is, in a sense, a derivative bet on Plaid.”

That has only become more true over the past 6 years.

That is why we are excited to join them to continue building the largest global fintech community and the front page of fintech. Our thesis remains the same as it has been: A better informed and more connected ecosystem moves the category forward. It helps founders move faster, build better products, and make informed decisions. That’s good for consumers, and good for fintech.

We think this is a moment when the industry needs more great content, more thoughtful conversation, and more places for people to learn from each other

We share a belief that fintech is still early, and that the best ideas need a place to be surfaced, challenged, and improved, working across fintech, banks, and consumers.

Our north star mission statement remains the same: Be the most trusted voice in the global fintech community and provide a way for people to easily digest everything happening in fintech.

Even with this new partnership, we retain our commitment to truly independent journalism and editorial coverage. TWIF will operate as an independent subsidiary of Plaid, with its own goals and mission. We want to build the best product for you, the people in TWIF’s community, and the question we will keep asking ourselves is what will drive fintech forward.

We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter.

(Importantly: Stablecon and The Fintech Fund will remain entirely independent.)

Want to get involved? Have questions? Reach out!

You can find Zach’s writeup about this on his linkedin and you can join the conversation in the TWIF online community here.

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Source: Company press release.

Categories: Acquisition