The apps you use to trade stocks are increasingly becoming the apps you use to manage your financial life.
Investing, banking, credit, cryptocurrencies, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered trading are converging. At the same time, consumers expect financial products to be as intuitive and responsive as the best technology products they use every day, without compromising the trust they expect when their money is involved.
Few companies demonstrate that shift more clearly than Robinhood. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Abhishek Fatehpuria, VP of Brokerage Product Management at Robinhood, will be joining the Smart Money Stage with the slogan “Winning for the Modern Financial Consumer.” He explores how changing technology and expectations are reshaping financial services and what it takes to build trusted products at scale.
Join us for a conversation with Abhishek Fatepuria from October 13th to 15th at Moscone West in San Francisco. There, more than 10,000 founders, investors, and technology decision makers come together to explore and connect with the companies, technologies, and business models that are shaping what’s next.
Register now and save up to $200 before prices go up on September 25th at 11:59pm PT. Save up to 30% on group passes for 4 or more people.
From trading app to financial platform
Robinhood, which has become synonymous with commission-free stock trading, now spans a much wider range of financial sectors. The company’s services include investments, banking, credit, cryptocurrencies, retirement, and prediction markets, with recent launches further expanding into AI, private markets, and international expansion.
The scale is large. Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in total platform assets as of the end of August 2026.
And customers are increasingly using products outside of Robinhood’s original trading offerings. The company said in its second-quarter results that Robinhood Banking had collected more than $3 billion in deposits, its credit card business had more than $100 million in annual revenue, and more than $3.5 billion in contracts had been traded on prediction markets to that point.
The bigger story is not just the number of products. It is an attempt to gain a greater role in how customers manage their financial lives. This presents a completely different challenge for the product. Sign up for a pass today to learn all about how to navigate the evolution of fintech in October’s Smart Money Stage. Save up to $200 by September 25th at 11:59pm PT.
The next customer may expect something completely different
Consumer expectations rarely change one feature at a time. Once people get used to instant access, personalized recommendations, and seamless digital experiences in one part of their lives, they start to expect them in other places as well.
Finance is no exception. Robinhood is currently experimenting with AI-powered investment tools such as Cortex and Agentic Trading. In the second quarter, the company announced that nearly 100,000 customers have already opened agent trading accounts, allowing users to trade stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies through AI-powered agents.
Meanwhile, prediction markets have become one of the company’s fastest-growing businesses. According to Robinhood, 4.7 billion event contracts were traded in August alone, 15 times more than the previous year.
The question for the broader market is what these actions say about the next generation of consumers, and what expectations extend beyond Robinhood. Sign up for a Disrupt pass and take a deep dive into what’s next in the financial industry with one of the leaders in fintech. Register now and save up to $200 before price increases on September 25th at 11:59pm PT.
Whether you want to build, fund, or buy technology, you’ll find the answers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
For founders, Fatehpuria’s session explains how product organizations continue to scale without losing sight of the customer experience that drove their initial growth.
For investors, this is a window into how a company is looking to increase wallet share by moving from individual products to the broader financial ecosystem.
For line-of-business and product leaders, there are lessons far beyond fintech, including prioritization, trust, customer behavior, and the difficulty of adding complexity without making the experience feel complicated.
And for those exploring the tech and finance direction early in their careers, it’s a chance to see how one of the most well-known platforms in the field is thinking about building for the next generation of customers.
Financial consumers are changing. The products that compete with that consumer must also change to match the consumer.
Join Abhishek Fatehpuria at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to hear what Robinhood is learning along the way. Register now to save up to $200 on passes by September 25th at 11:59pm PT. Save up to 30% on group passes for 4 or more people.
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