Financial content sits squarely in Google's "Your Money or Your Life" category, which means fintech sites are judged to a standard most industries never face. Thin content that ranks fine elsewhere goes nowhere here; authority, accuracy and demonstrable expertise aren't nice-to-haves here, they're the minimum requirement.
Add the competitive reality - comparison giants and aggregators dominating every commercial keyword, banks with decades of domain authority, and regulatory constraints on what you can say - and fintech SEO becomes a genuinely different game.
It's a game that can be won. The playbook is expertise-led content with named authors and real credentials, authority earned from financial and business press, and picking the battles where a focused fintech can beat a generalist comparison site.