Observed Signal · Aug 12, 2026 · Partnership · Source: Manager Magazin · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Neutral
Email & Newsletter Market: Finance Forward merges into manager magazin and OMR
Manager magazin and OMR are integrating the Finance Forward brand: the Finance Forward newsletter will continue under the name “manager magazin Finance Briefing” with the same editorial leads, while OMR will fold more finance topics into its Finance Journey and the OMR Festival. The Finance-Forward podcast will end after 315 episodes with a final farewell episode. The newsletter’s data controller will now be manager magazin new media GmbH & Co. KG. The edition also reports a series of finance industry updates: N26’s partnership with Wero, Revolut obtaining a French full banking license, Apple’s planned Apple Pay India launch tied to upcoming CEO John Ternus, a Bitkom survey showing 61% of Germans unaware of a new state-subsidized retirement depot, and a rescue sale of hedge fund assets to Citadel during a crisis at Leopold Aschenbrenner’s fund.
Publisher brand integration and newsletter rename affect media distribution and owned-email inventory but are not industry-shifting; useful for publishers and marketers tracking newsletter and podcast inventory.
Wichtigste Kernpunkte & Evidenz
- The Finance Forward brand is being merged into the offerings of manager magazin and OMR.
- From next week the newsletter will be renamed “manager magazin Finance Briefing” with the same editorial leads (Caspar Schlenk, Katharina Slodczyk and Hannah Schwär).
- The Finance-Forward podcast ends after 315 episodes; a final farewell episode was recorded this week.
- OMR will integrate more finance, payment and banking topics into its Finance Journey and continue Executive Dinner events within the OMR Festival.
- Revolut won a French full banking license and will move parts of its Western Europe business from Lithuanian to French supervision.
Verknüpfte Unternehmen
10 verknüpfte Unternehmenmanager magazin
Führende deutsche B2B-Wirtschaftsplattform, die erstklassigen investigativen Journalismus über ein hybrides Modell aus digitalen Abonnements (manager+) und hochperformantem First-Party-Werbeinventar monetarisiert.
“The previously jointly run brand Finance Forward is being merged into the offerings of manager magazin and OMR; the newsletter will be renam...”
Bitkom
Der führende Branchenverband der deutschen Digitalwirtschaft zur strategischen Interessenvertretung und politischen Mitgestaltung der digitalen Transformation.
“A survey by the digital association Bitkom found that 61 percent of Germans have never heard of the state-subsidized retirement depot....”
Anthropic
Anbieter von KI-Basismodellen, der intelligente KI-Assistenten und Modell-APIs für Entwickler und Unternehmen bereitstellt.
“Avital Balwit is described as an Anthropic top manager and was the spouse in Leopold Aschenbrenner’s wedding mentioned in the newsletter....”
Apple
Globaler Technologiekonzern mit integriertem Betriebssystem-Ökosystem, proprietärer Consumer-Hardware und einem hochskalierbaren First-Party-Advertising- und Services-Netzwerk.
“John Ternus is set to become Apple CEO in three weeks and Apple reportedly plans to launch Apple Pay in India from October....”
OMR
Führende deutsche Plattform für digitale Marketingmedien, Live-Events und berufliche Weiterbildung.
“OMR will in future offer more topics within its Finance Journey around finance, payment, banking, corporate financing and tools and will lin...”
N26
Eine mobile-first, regulierte europäische Neobank für Retail-Konsumenten und Freelancer mit voll integrierten Zahlungsverkehrs-, Anlage- und Krypto-Diensten.
“Daniel Lappas, product chief at the Berlin neobank N26, announced a new alliance enabling customers to send money in seconds via the Europea...”
Revolut
App-first Fintech-Plattform für Banking, Zahlungsverkehr, Trading und Geschäftsfinanzen.
“Nik Storonsky, founder and CEO of the British digital bank Revolut, has secured a French full banking license and will shift parts of the We...”
PayPal
Digitales Zahlungsnetzwerk, das digitale Geldbörsen, Händler-Tools und Commerce Media vereint.
“The N26–Wero feature is described as a direct attack on PayPal....”
Bloomberg
Finanzdaten, Analysen und Medien für professionelle Akteure und Investoren.
“Bloomberg reported that new investors were already lining up for Leopold Aschenbrenner shortly after his fund’s rescue sale....”
Klarna
Eine Plattform für Buy-now-pay-later, Händlerzahlungen und Retail Media.
“The newsletter describes how Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski behaves off-microphone in the podcast farewell episode....”
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