How to Get Daily Fintech News as a Product Manager — Regulation, Rivals and Rounds in One Email

What you'll build

Every fintech newsletter has a beat: payments, crypto, banking, lending. Your product crosses two or three of those, plus a vertical nobody covers. Covering all of that with subscriptions means an hour of skimming — mostly about markets you don't operate in.

MorningMail inverts that. You write one instruction describing what you build and what moves your decisions, and every morning an agent searches fresh and writes the email against it. It's not a link forwarder like Google Alerts: a BaFin circular and a Stripe pricing change can share one paragraph if both touch your product.

And your prompt carries your context permanently, so the brief evolves at roadmap speed. Entering the Dutch market? Add a clause tonight and DNB coverage appears tomorrow. Killed the crypto feature? Delete a word and the MiCA noise drops out.

Step by step: from zero to your first edition

The whole setup takes about two minutes. And every screenshot below comes straight from the real product — nothing is mocked up.

1. Step 1 Open morningmail.ai

   Head over to morningmail.ai. You'll see a sample edition and the Compose button — that's your entry point. Nothing to install; everything runs in the browser.

   

2. Step 2 Create your free account

   Sign up with your Google account. Every new account comes with a free first edition built in — so you can send yourself a real email before paying a cent.

   

3. Step 3 Create your first template

   A template is the blueprint of your email: name, delivery time, recipients, and your content sections. Click "New template" and the builder opens with a live preview right next to the editor. Everything saves automatically — there is no save button to forget.

   

4. Step 4 Add a news section

   Click "Add section +" and pick "News topic". You'll see six starters — real, editable prompts for a city, a sports club, a company, a tech topic, a professional field, and a personal interest. Pick one, and you're thirty seconds away from a working brief.

   

5. Step 5 Make it yours: Fintech

   Pick the "Professional brief" starter card and type Fintech into the highlighted field. The card rewrites its prompt live as you type — what you see on the card is literally the instruction your agent will execute every morning.

   The prompt is opinionated, and that's the point: the top three stories shaping the field today, written for someone already in the industry, with the trade publication or government source cited directly. Run it as-is for a week, then sharpen it around your product — for example: "My product is a B2B payments app under an EMI licence in Germany. Prioritise PSD3 and MiCA, BaaS provider news, and launches by Adyen, Stripe or local neobanks; funding only above Series B in Europe."

   

   The exact prompt your section starts with

   Top three stories shaping Fintech today, written for someone who already works in the industry: regulation, M&A, new entrants, notable filings, and any precedent worth pulling. Cite the trade publication (e.g. trade press, government source, court docket) directly so I can follow up.

6. Step 6 Set your delivery time and send yourself a test

   Almost there! Choose when the email should arrive and add your address as a recipient. Hit "Send test" — your first edition is free — and check your inbox. If something reads off, tweak the prompt and send again. Then flip the template to Active. Congratulations — you've just built your own morning brief!

   

Get more out of your brief

Name your competitors in the prompt

"Notable fintech launches" gets you whatever was loudest; "any product, pricing or licensing news from Revolut, N26 and Wise" gets you a competitive-intelligence column. Named competitors are the highest-signal words you can give the agent.

Separate regulation from market news with two sections

A template can hold multiple news sections, each with its own prompt, length and tone. A dedicated regulatory section — PSD3, MiCA, EBA consultations — keeps compliance items from competing with funding gossip, and it reads better forwarded to legal.

Ask for the 'so what' in one line

Append "for each story, one sentence on the likely product impact" to your prompt. It's the sentence you'd write anyway when you paste the link into your team channel — let the agent draft it, and reading time becomes decision time.

Set thresholds to keep funding noise out

Fintech produces a seed round a day, and most are irrelevant to you. A constraint like "funding news only for payments infrastructure, and only from Series B" keeps the brief focused on moves that could actually reshape your market.

Share the brief with your squad — or the gallery

Templates support multiple recipients, so your designer and tech lead read the same three stories before planning. And if your section prompt turns out great, share it to the public community gallery for other fintech PMs to pick up 😊

Good sources to anchor your brief on

The agent searches the open web every morning and cites where it read things. These are the sources I'd point it at in your prompt:

• Finextra — The daily wire for banking and payments technology — announcements, partnerships and platform news across every fintech vertical, often straight from the institutions.
• Fintech Business Weekly — Jason Mikula's deeply reported analysis of BaaS, sponsor banking and fintech regulation — where partner-bank trouble tends to surface first.
• European Banking Authority (EBA) — The primary source for PSD3/PSR technical standards, consultations and guidelines — the paperwork that becomes your compliance backlog twelve months later.
• TechCrunch — Fintech — The fastest broad coverage of funding rounds, launches and shutdowns, with the strategy context that press releases leave out.
• Sifted — Fintech — The FT-backed outlet for European startups: neobank economics, market entries and the operator interviews that reveal roadmaps before they ship.
• Payments Dive — Focused trade coverage of the payments industry — interchange, networks, BNPL and regulation — written for practitioners rather than investors.

Frequently asked questions

What's the price after the first free edition?

The first edition is free and needs no credit card. After that, each send costs a few credits per section, depending on the AI model tier the section runs on. Credits never expire — buy once, use them at your own pace.

How does this beat a Google Alert on 'fintech'?

An alert on "fintech" is a daily avalanche of links you still have to read, rank and deduplicate. This brief arrives written: the agent searches fresh each morning, applies your priorities — regulation first, competitors by name — and delivers three paragraphs with sources underneath.

Can it follow specific regulation like PSD3 or MiCA?

Yes — name the frameworks in your prompt and the agent tracks consultations, technical standards and national transposition. Because it cites government sources directly, you can pull the actual document the moment something moves.

Can I track named competitors?

That's one of the strongest uses. List them in the prompt — "any launch, pricing change or licensing news from Revolut, N26, Wise" — and their moves land in your inbox the morning after they happen, announcement linked.

Can my whole product squad get it?

Yes. A template can have multiple recipients, so the squad reads the same brief before standup. You pick the delivery time and weekdays too — daily for you, or a Monday-only edition if the team prefers a weekly pulse.