The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life.
Investing, banking, credit, crypto, 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 illustrate that shift as clearly as Robinhood. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Abhishek Fatehpuria, Vice President of Product Management for Brokerage at Robinhood, joins the Smart Money Stage with “Winning the Modern Financial Consumer.” He’ll explore how technology and changing expectations are reshaping financial services, and what it takes to build trusted products at massive scale.
Join the conversation with Abhishek Fatehpuria on October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, where 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech decision-makers will come together to examine and connect with the companies, technologies, and business models shaping what comes next.
Register now to save up to $200 before prices go up on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Save up to 30% on group passes of four or more.
From trading app to financial platform
Robinhood, which became synonymous with commission-free stock trading, now spans a much wider financial landscape. Its offerings include investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, and prediction markets, while its recent launches have pushed further into AI, private markets, and international expansion.
The scale is significant. Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in total platform assets at the end of August 2026.
And customers are increasingly using products outside Robinhood’s original trading proposition. In its second-quarter results, the company said Robinhood Banking had attracted more than $3 billion in deposits, its credit card business had surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue, and prediction markets had traded more than 3.5 billion contracts through that point.
The bigger story isn’t simply the number of products. It’s the attempt to earn a larger role in how customers manage their financial lives. That creates a very different product challenge. Learn all about navigating this evolution in fintech on the Smart Money Stage in October by registering for your pass today. Save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
The next customer may expect something completely different
Consumer expectations rarely change one feature at a time. Once people become accustomed to instant access, personalized recommendations, and seamless digital experiences in one part of their lives, they begin expecting them elsewhere.
Finance is no exception. Robinhood is now experimenting with AI-powered investing tools, including Cortex and Agentic Trading. In Q2, the company said nearly 100,000 customers had already opened Agentic Trading accounts, allowing users to trade equities, options, and crypto through AI-powered agents.
Meanwhile, prediction markets have become one of its fastest-growing businesses. Robinhood said 4.7 billion event contracts were traded in August alone — up 15x year-over-year.
The question for the wider market is what these behaviors tell us about the next generation of consumers — and which expectations will spread beyond Robinhood. Dive deep into what’s ahead in the finance world with one of the leaders in fintech by registering for your Disrupt pass. Register today to save up to $200 before prices increase on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Whether you build, fund, or buy technology, you’ll find answers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
For founders, Fatehpuria’s session offers a look at how a product organization keeps expanding without losing sight of the customer experience that drove its original growth.
For investors, it’s a window into how one company is trying to increase wallet share by moving from individual products toward a broader financial ecosystem.
For line-of-business and product leaders, the lessons extend well beyond fintech: prioritization, trust, customer behavior, and the difficulty of adding complexity without making the experience feel complex.
And if you’re earlier in your career, studying where technology and finance are heading, it’s a chance to see how one of the sector’s best-known platforms thinks about building for the next generation of customers.
The financial consumer is changing. The products competing for that consumer have to change with them.
Join Abhishek Fatehpuria at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and hear what Robinhood is learning along the way. Register now to save up to $200 on your pass before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Save up to 30% on group passes for four or more.
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