An investor reviewing fintech deal flow in early 2026 searches LinkedIn for “embedded lending infrastructure.” Two companies appear in the results. The...
A fintech startup spends eleven months building a compliance-ready lending API. The product works. The documentation is clean. The engineering team has...
A neobank processes a batch of international transfers three hours late on a Friday afternoon. By Saturday morning, screenshots of failed transaction...
Fintech companies with strong media visibility grow revenue 2.6 times faster than competitors with equivalent products but lower visibility, according to a...
A payments infrastructure company based in London processes transactions across 14 countries. Its product handles currency conversion, compliance checks, and settlement in...
When Revolut was a pre-launch startup in 2014, co-founder Nikolay Storonsky secured an interview with Business Insider that generated several thousand sign-ups...
When Wise (then TransferWise) launched its “Nothing to Hide” campaign in 2015, the company projected its fee comparison data onto the Bank...
Revolut’s 2023 Financial Times profile did something that twelve months of the company’s own advertising had failed to do: it made CFOs...
In March 2024, Ramp published an analysis showing that the average US company was paying for 3.2 duplicate software subscriptions it did...
Wise launched in the UK in 2011 as a service for sending money between British pounds and euros. By 2025, the company...
In 2015, Transferwise (now Wise) placed a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times that consisted entirely of data: a table comparing the...
In 2019, Transferwise (now Wise) bought a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times. Instead of a brand message, the ad contained a...
In January 2019, the New York City subway system began displaying advertisements for a company most commuters had never heard of. The...
In November 2020, Kristo Kaarmann stood outside the London Stock Exchange wearing a t-shirt that read “Nothing to hide.” The co-founder of...
In 2013, Ismail Ahmed sat in a cramped office in East London trying to solve a problem that spanned four continents. His...
In late 2018, a compliance technology startup called ComplyAdvantage faced a problem common to fintech companies operating in unsexy but essential market...
In September 2021, Klarna became the official payment partner of the Chicago Bears, placing its logo on the NFL team’s stadium, jersey...
In December 2022, Wise ran what the company called the “World’s Most Transparent Billboard” campaign in downtown Manhattan. The digital billboard displayed,...
Fintech companies with active thought leadership programmes in three or more international markets achieve 3.4 times higher global brand recognition than those...