Skip to content
McCoy
Filter
·

Get the weekly brief

Top movers, comp benchmarks, and the week’s hiring shifts, in your inbox each week. Free.

By subscribing you agree to our privacy policy. Unsubscribe anytime.

About the Forbes Fintech 50

The Forbes Fintech 50 is Forbes' annual ranking of the 50 most-innovative private financial-technology companies. It spans the fintech spectrum — payments, banking, personal finance, crypto and blockchain, insurance-tech, real-estate tech, and wealth management — with Forbes editorial staff weighing revenue growth, product traction, and market positioning against a private-only eligibility filter.

Once a Forbes Fintech 50 company files to go public, it exits the list. For a broader view that includes public fintechs, see the F-Prime Fintech Index — F-Prime Capital (Fidelity's venture arm) tracks publicly-traded fintechs and index performance by vertical. Data on this page is pulled from each company's official ATS API; see our methodology for the full source list.

List year
Currently viewing the 2026 list. Forbes publishes a new Fintech 50 annually; roughly 15–20 companies typically turn over each edition as newer entrants raise later-stage rounds and older ones exit private status.

Recent cuts

via layoffs.fyi

Layoff data from layoffs.fyi. Absent entries mean no publicly reported event in the period — may not reflect private RIFs.

Fintech at a glance

Currently open roles
Role mix
Engineering
23%
Sales
22%
Operations
16%
Customer Success
8%
Marketing
6%
Finance
5%
Product Management
5%
Data
4%
n = 3,531 roles
Workplace
Onsite
50%
Hybrid
36%
Remote
14%
n = 3,531 roles
Seniority
IC75%
Manager17%
Director5%
Exec2%
Unknown0%
Top metros
New York
453
San Francisco Bay Area
429
Bengaluru · IN
174
Toronto · CA
96
Seattle
93
London · UK
61
Dublin · IE
36
Incline Village
31

Leaderboard

Open roles and today's movement, sorted by total open.

These are excluded from the leaderboard counts above. Click to see who and why.
Help us make this better

Missing a company? Notice a bug?

We're actively growing this tracker. Suggest a company to add, report anything that looks off, or share what you'd like to see next.

Company suggestions and bug reports go to the same place. Takes 30 seconds.

Job seekers
McCoy

Get seen for how you think and work.

Record a short McCoy Reel and send it with your application, so hiring teams see more than a resume.

Free on iOS and Android.

Hiring teams
McCoy IQ

See how they think before the phone screen.

Create a 90-second video challenge for any open role and watch candidates walk through their actual approach.

Crowdline challenge page

Free for 30 days. No credit card.

Featured
You can't be sure a remote applicant is really in the country they claim.
From the blog · AI News

You can't be sure a remote applicant is really in the country they claim.

Remote applicants are increasingly hiding what country they are in, and the IP checks most companies rely on fall to a cheap VPN. Here is how location spoofing works, why it matters, and why a phone's GPS read through a native app is a far stronger signal.