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Dot put the bank at the checkout
For immigrant students in South Africa, Dot proposed a simple exchange: cash at a shop, spending power on a phone. Its rise and eventual shutdown reveal how much of fintech happens before anyone taps “pay.”
TouchNet and the art of making the queue disappear
A university is a small city with a very particular cash register. TouchNet connects its payments, student accounts, and campus credentials - and shows why the least glamorous software can change an ordinary day.
Mine
Mine (formerly Fizz) is a New York-based fintech building an AI-powered personal finance platform for young adults. Its flagship product is a credit-building card that works like a debit card - spending is capped by your bank balance, repaid daily via autopay, and reported to the credit bureaus so users build credit history without interest, fees, or the risk of falling into debt. In January 2026 the company rebranded from Fizz to Mine and launched MoneyGPT, an AI money agent that learns a user's habits and goals to deliver spending, saving, and planning advice.