These fintech startups are revolutionizing finance and making lives easier for everyone.

Innovation has transformed many industries and banking and finance are some of them. The emergence of fintech has made the lives of finance professionals and of the common public so much easier. Fintech startups and companies are launching avant-garde solutions to make sure that all global industries are efficiently and securely carrying out their daily transactions. In this article, we have listed the top fintech startups that are making huge strides in 2022

Acorns

Acorns are the first-ever company that offers micro-investing to the world. The exclusive financial engine permits to roundup and spare change from everyday buying and invests these sub-dollar amounts into a professionally managed portfolio of index funds. The mission of this fintech startup is to look after the financial best interests of up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering step of micro-investing. The firm offers services in the banking, earning, and education sectors.

Active.ai

Active.ai is a fintech startup that connects consumers with their banks via micro conversation. It offers a conversational banking platform to financial institutions which is created using an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant that caters to emergent banking needs by enabling banks, wealth managers, and financial service providers with their customers using voice, messages, and IoT devices. The firm helps banks and credit unions to create intelligent virtual assistants by bringing in automation and insightful customer engagement.

Adyen

Adyen allows businesses to accept e-commerce, point-of-sale, and mobile payments. It offers risk management, integrated gateway, acquiring, processing, and settling of the payments. It provides end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods and also delivers frictionless payments across several online, as well as the in-store channels serving customers such as Facebook, Uber, Casper, Spotify, L'Oreal, and Bonobos.  The platform enables merchants to accept payments in a single system, allowing revenue growth easily.

Affirm

Affirm is a fintech startup company that operates as a financial leader of installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase. The firm uses technology to bring vital disruptive innovation to the financial industry. It aims to improve the lives of consumers by delivering honest, simple, and transparent financial products. Affirm provides shoppers an alternative to transitional credit cards that can be easier to use.

Anyfin

Anyfin saw that very many people pay unnecessarily much interest and fees for their installments, credit cards, and personal loans. That's where this company reaches out. With the help of smart technology and skipping unnecessary intermediaries, they were able to offer as low an interest rate as possible. And decided right away that they would always try to help you to a better economy. Anyfin claims to do this with a combination of AI and publicly available consumer data, and with additional information garnered through a photo of existing loan statements, including repayment history. This, it says, gives Anyfin a more complete picture than a credit score alone, which is likely the main data point used by the original lender.

Argyle

At Argyle, they recognize that employment data is owned by the individual it represents. By building the first gateway to employment data, the company is unlocking a dataset that has been monopolized by a single, giant corporation (name omitted, because of decorum) for 70 years. It is making it easier, faster, better, and smarter for innovative companies to put points around the world and is accessible via mobile devices employment data to work for their users, enabling access to products and services that improve lives.

Array

Array is a fintech platform to gain personalized credit and financial data for users. The platform is helping businesses form deeper bonds with consumers through meaningful information sharing. The company's API is complete with data attribution and dictionaries, plus it's fully structured. Its aggregator model simplifies pricing by avoiding large monthly data commitments and the need to stick with any single bank, credit bureau, or security vendor Array was founded by Martin Toha and Phillip Zedalis in 2020.

Ascend Money

Ascend Group is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud centres, fintech, and E-commerce. It is driven by its mission to be the leader in digital services and platforms for customers and businesses. Ascend Money is a testimony to our beliefs. The company constantly innovates and enables millions of people to ascend to lives' of greater heights with accessible, affordable, and secure financial services. For that reason, their logo – the Binary Bond – symbolizes our desire to integrate the opportunities of the world (the'O') with the individual (the 'I') in the digital age using advanced technologies.

Atom

Atom Bank is a mobile banking application that offers a range of personal and business banking products. Users can log in using face and voice recognition and receive support from a 24/7 customer service team. The application, available on iPad and iPhone devices, was launched in March 2014 and its operations are based in Durham, the United

Kingdom. In 2017, Atom was named by LinkedIn as one of UK's top 25 start-ups and ranked 14th alongside companies such as Deliveroo, Uber, and Airbnb, and in 2019, Atom ranked second in business analyst Beauhurst's list of 50 top fintech UK start-ups and scale-ups. It was the only company from outside London in the top 20 of the lists.

Avant

Avant operates an online marketplace that provides users with access to personal loans to consolidate debt, pay unexpected medical expenses, and for family vacations. Through the use of big data and machine-learning algorithms, the company offers a customized approach to streamline credit options. The company caters to consumers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Upon entering the growing financial technology FinTech industry, Avant developed proprietary software that attempts to efficiently mitigate default risk and fraud by using machine-learning technology. The company has worked towards a fully online experience where customers can apply on Avant's website.