Fintech Scout / company profiles
Fintech ScoutLorum
A New York fintech building a neutral clearing, custody and cash-management layer — out to become the successor to correspondent banking.
Fintech ScoutGoldCore
An international precious-metals dealer and platform to buy, sell and securely vault gold, silver, platinum and palladium.
Fintech ScoutSprault
A wealth-building platform helping everyday people understand, grow and optimise their finances with personalised long-term guidance.
Fintech ScoutBlock Infrastructure
A UK fintech building coordinated identity, compliance, payment, and settlement infrastructure for regulated institutions.
Fintech ScoutFraudio
An Amsterdam-based fintech tackling payment fraud and financial crime for payments companies of all sizes.
Fintech ScoutE&E Business Solutions
The company behind Tawjih AI, helping banks in the GCC replace generic offers with AI-driven product recommendations.
Fintech ScoutInterpolitan Money
A London-based fintech building a cross-border capital infrastructure layer so capital can move and be structured internationally.
Fintech ScoutOper Credits
A Belgian fintech using agentic AI to help more people get on, and stay on, the property ladder.
Fintech ScoutProspero Systems AG
Liechtenstein-headquartered Prospero has ambitions to build the future of financial crime compliance, one module at a time.
Fintech ScoutHagbad
Millions use informal, offline group savings. Hagbad offers this underserved group ethical, digitalised and formalised financial services.
Fintech ScoutSecurely Group
Australia's award-winning fintech tackling the biggest trust, verification and identification challenges in global finance.
Fintech ScoutBelong
Millions of young people sit on cash and miss out on long-term returns. Belong is a wealth platform built to fix exactly that.
Fintech ScoutAuthologic
A Y Combinator-backed fintech — "Stripe for KYC" — offering a single integration for the world's e-IDs and other verification methods.
Fintech ScoutHusk
A tool that's optimising spending for European startups — the cash-flow oxygen founders need without a CFO's toolkit.
Fintech ScoutPaceUP Invest
A German-British wealthtech blending AI, behavioural science and human expertise to make personalised wealth-building accessible.
Fintech ScoutCoinCover
Digital-asset recovery pioneers with a perfect record for recovering customer wallets.
Fintech ScoutBridgeWise
AI-powered fintech with 25M+ users, driving investment insights for investors and institutions.
Fintech ScoutmyTU
A fully automated, AI-native and cloud-first digital bank headquartered in Vilnius.
Fintech ScoutVangwe
The Montevideo-based team helping fintechs build and scale secure payment platforms.
Fintech ScoutVouchsafe
A London-based fintech at the vanguard of digital ID innovation.
The LFG! Podcast / Conversations with fintech leaders
Ep. 15â–¶Building an Agentic AI C-Suite for Fintech & SMEs
Beyla AI founder and CEO Daniel Callis on how SMEs can put agentic AI to work across the business.
Ep. 14â–¶Why You Should Hire a Chief People Officer
Griffin's Chief People Officer Jenna Baker on building a culture that nurtures high-growth fintech teams.
Ep. 13â–¶Inside the FinTech Innovation Lab
What to know about Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab — the benefits of joining, and how to make an impression.
Ep. 12â–¶From CTO to CEO: Mambu's Fernando Zandona
Fernando Zandona on going from fintech outsider to CEO of a $5bn+ banking infrastructure provider.
Money20/20â–¶The Undecided Future of Agentic Commerce
The Money20/20 miniseries finale: Signifyd's Simon Hunter on the next steps for agentic commerce.
Money20/20â–¶Launching the UK Payments Initiative
GoCardless's Paul Foster on pay-by-bank, payments sovereignty, and the UK Payments Initiative.
Money20/20â–¶How AI is Shifting the Narrative for Young Fintech Talent
Laura Gibson-Lamothe of the Georgia Fintech Academy on AI's impact on the fintech talent pipeline.
Money20/20â–¶Bringing In-Store Payment Experiences to E-Commerce
Justin Pike on the origin of Burbank and lessons from 25+ years as a serial founder and payments expert.
Money20/20â–¶How to Pivot Your Fintech
Pawel Oltuszyk, CEO of Keel, on his firm's big pivot and the benefits of building in stealth.
Ep. 11â–¶Tokenised Wine: Modernising an Ancient Market
Savea CEO Sam Mudie on wine, blockchain, and… tokenised horse sperm.
Ep. 10â–¶Symbiotic Selling: The Future of Fintech B2B Sales
Ian heads back to his hometown for a lesson in B2B fintech sales.
Ep. 9â–¶How Hagbad Is Digitising a Global Savings Tradition
Co-founders Shahmad Haid and Tibebe Demissie on plugging the savings gap with digitised group savings.
Ep. 8â–¶The $1.30 Customer: Affinity Africa
CEO Tarek Mouganie on banking underserved cohorts in Ghana and acquiring clients for astonishingly little.
Ep. 7â–¶Crypto, Community & Cowrie Shells: Guapcoin
Aquarius Maximus on launching Guapcoin in 2017 to empower the African diaspora, and her move into AI and banking.
Ep. 6▶From Fraud Victim to Netflix Host: Cecilie Fjellhøy
The keynote speaker and Netflix host on her journey from Tinder Swindler victim to romance-scam fighter.
Ep. 5â–¶How bunq Cracked Profitability
bunq Chief Evangelist Joe Wilson on AI, digital nomads, and neobank evangelism — easier with good profits.
Ep. 4â–¶Building the Blackrock of Africa
Joe Kinvi, CEO of Borderless, on the major funding opportunity across Africa.
Ep. 3â–¶How to Succeed on Dragons' Den
Sprive CEO Jinesh Vohra on his appearance on BBC's Dragons' Den, and the lessons for other founders.
Ep. 2â–¶Decentraland Revisited
Kim Currier on how Decentraland pivoted from metaverse hype to genuine community, virtual worlds and crypto economies.
Ep. 1â–¶From Crime to the BBC: Alex Wood on Fraud, Reform, and Redemption
The LFG! Podcast gets underway with Alex Wood — former fraudster and star of BBC Radio 4's Scam Secrets — on crime, reform and redemption.
Editorial / interviews & long reads
EditorialHow to Succeed on Dragons' Den
Sprive CEO Jinesh Vohra won investment from three dragons on BBC's Dragons' Den. His advice on pitching on TV.
EditorialFraud, AI, and the Fake Duke
Violinist-turned-fraudster Alex Wood stole an estimated £50m. Today he helps institutions protect their customers.
EditorialBringing the Gold Rush to the Blockchain
The price of gold is soaring in 2026 — good news for people looking to tokenise it.
EditorialBringing DeFi to Institutional Markets
DeFi is a huge opportunity for institutions — if they can trust it. Rational privacy and permissioned access may help.
EditorialDecentraland's Big Pivot
Decentraland was a multi-billion-dollar platform in 2022. What happened after the hype — and what's next?
EditorialMarketing & Branding for Growth in 2026
Fintechs can start 2026 on the front foot by refocusing their marketing and branding. Here's how.
EditorialPhone Data: A Secret Weapon for Growth
Phone data can help businesses understand and meet customers more effectively. Is there a truer version of a person?
EditorialCan Fintech Fix Home Ownership?
Over a billion people rent with no equity to show for it. Bloxx — backed by an ex-banker and a Hollywood star — thinks it has a better model.
Fintech PR Unfiltered / Your fast track to understanding fintech PR
PR UnfilteredGeorgia Hanias · Ecology Media
How can PR elevate your fintech? Georgia Hanias on PR leadership across fintech, Web3 and renewable tech.
PR UnfilteredAnna Fedorova · Comms Consultant
Sitting at the intersection of DeFi and traditional finance, Anna Fedorova on cutting through a crowded market.
PR UnfilteredPaul Bowhay · Hotwire
Hotwire's SVP Global Head of Fintech shares lessons learned at the apex of fintech public relations.
PR UnfilteredJulija (JJ) Jegorova · Black Unicorn PR
The Black Unicorn PR founder's candid take on how PR works, its misconceptions, and what founders should know.