Posted by Alumni from Substack
February 6, 2026
' Hey, Linas here! Welcome to another special issue of my daily newsletter. Each day, I focus on 3 stories that are making a difference in the financial technology space. Coupled with things worth watching & the most important money movements, it's the only newsletter you need for all things when Finance meets Tech. If you're reading this for the first time, it's a brilliant opportunity to join a community of 370k+ FinTech leaders: Thomson Reuters suffered its biggest single-day drop on record, falling about 16%. RELX, the owner of LexisNexis, fell 14% in London. Gartner crashed by more than 21%. LegalZoom lost a fifth of its value. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF entered bear market territory, down 28% from its September 2025 peak. Pundits on X and LinkedIn declared the end of an era. Analysts at JPMorgan titled their note 'Software Collapse Broadens with Nowhere to Hide.' Traders at Jefferies even coined the term SaaSpocalypse. The narrative coalesced around a single idea:... learn more