Financial Services
Fintech PR's New Hierarchy: Citation Share, Not Press Hits — The Five Brands That Built the Modern Playbook
Fintech PR in 2026 looks nothing like fintech PR in 2018. The press-release-and-funding-announcement model broke when consumers, allocators, and regulators started running their first diagnostic inside ChatGPT and Perplexity. Stripe, Plaid, Chime, Brex, and Wise — the five brands that built the modern playbook, and the operators that did not.