The chief product officer of a cross-border payments company sits in a quarterly board meeting. The board wants to know why two...
An investor reviewing fintech deal flow in early 2026 searches LinkedIn for “embedded lending infrastructure.” Two companies appear in the results. The...
Two payments companies launch in the same year, targeting the same market: cross-border B2B transactions for mid-sized importers. Company A ships a...
A compliance officer at a European bank receives a vendor shortlist for a new transaction monitoring system. Five providers made the cut....
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...
A payments startup founder spends her Saturday morning writing a breakdown of cross-border settlement costs. She includes figures from a public central...
Fintech companies with strong media visibility grow revenue 2.6 times faster than competitors with equivalent products but lower visibility, according to a...
Fintech companies with active thought leadership programmes achieve 3.3 times stronger market presence scores than non-publishing competitors, according to a 2024 Kantar...
A payments infrastructure company based in London processes transactions across 14 countries. Its product handles currency conversion, compliance checks, and settlement in...
HubSpot spent $47 million on content marketing in its first decade and built a business worth over $30 billion. The company’s blog,...
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...
In 2021, Brex, the corporate card startup, spent millions on a Super Bowl advertisement featuring a talking dog. The ad was entertaining....
Adyen, the Dutch payment processor, spent just 0.3% of revenue on sales and marketing in 2023 while growing revenue 21% year-over-year. The...
Traditional PR measures success in media placements and audience reach. A press release picked up by 50 outlets is a success. A...
When Wise (then TransferWise) launched its “Nothing to Hide” campaign in 2015, the company projected its fee comparison data onto the Bank...
In 2019, Wells Fargo’s fake accounts scandal had been public knowledge for three years, yet the bank was still losing customers at...
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 2022, Klarna cut its workforce by 10% and saw its valuation drop from $45.6 billion to $6.7 billion. Most companies in...