Paytm launches AI-first travel app as strategic bet on conversational commerce 🤖🧳; Robinhood’s epic transformation: from millennial trading app to diversified financial powerhouse 😳📊

FinTech is Eating the World, 7 November

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Good morning & happy Friday! Another incredibly packed FinTech week is about to end… Brex’s AI Agents that signal the arrival of autonomous corporate finance, deep dive into FinTech & e-commerce giant Shopify’s 3Q 2025, The Ultimate LLM Toolkit for Unleashing AI Innovation, and more was covered over the last 5 days alone 🤯 But the good thing is that it’s not over yet, as today we’re looking into Indian FinTech giant Paytm, which just launched AI-first travel app as strategic bet on conversational commerce (what it’s all about & why it matters for Paytm + more bonus reads about Agentic Finance inside), and Robinhood’s epic transformation, or how it went from millennial trading app to diversified financial powerhouse (deep dive into their 3Q 2025 financials, breaking down the most important numbers, what they mean and what’s next for HOOD 0.00%↑ + bonus dive into its biggest competitior Coinbase inside). So let’s just jump straight into the underrated stuff 🌶️

Paytm launches AI-first travel app as strategic bet on conversational commerce 🤖🧳

The news 🗞️ India’s FinTech giant Paytm has just unveiled Checkin, a standalone AI-powered travel booking application that represents a fundamental strategic shift for the Indian payments heavyweight.

Rather than treating artificial intelligence as merely an operational efficiency tool, Paytm is positioning AI as a core revenue driver through conversational commerce.

Let’s take a closer look at this, understand what it’s all about, and what this means for the future.