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David Weinstein Co-founder and CEO at KayOS
Part 4 in a 4-part series on intelligent agents in fintech This is the final article in our series on how AI agents are transforming fintech operations. We’ve explored how lean teams are scaling with agents instead of headcount, how data chaos can be turned into structured context, and how embedded governance enables safe autonomy. Now we turn to ...
03 July 2025 /ai /startups Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Katherine Chan CEO at Juice
SME lending is back in the headlines. In the first quarter of 2025, UK high-street banks issued billions in new loans, supported by expanded government schemes and renewed interest in business credit. On paper, the recovery looks strong. But in practice, many founders still find themselves working around finance rather than with it. During the yea...
27 June 2025 /startups /inclusion Fintech innovation and startups
Small businesses do the heavy lifting, but fair access to finance is still out of reach for many. In 2024, gross lending rose 13% to just over £16 billion (UK Finance). But repayments outpaced new loans, leaving a funding gap that hasn’t closed. Debt levels have more than doubled since before the pandemic (OECD, 2024). Many firms now carry liabilit...
23 June 2025 /startups /inclusion Fintech
Imanuel Kaiser President at Bloxley
You can tell in seconds, some fintech products click. Why? They look good, feel considered, give a sense of control. What you're seeing is design doing the heavy lifting. To their detriment, most startups don’t treat design like a real business lever. Instead, they might think of it as a coat of paint to add once the product works. But great fint
20 June 2025 /retail /startups Digital Banking Trends
The data problem faced by many Fintech’s isn’t scarcity, it’s chaos - too much scattered information, and not enough meaning. Customer notes are stashed in Notion. Key metrics sit in Looker. Compliance lives in dense PDFs. Slack channels hold buried insights. Internal docs reflect half-written strategies no one remembers updating. Multiply this ac...
19 June 2025 /ai /startups Artificial Intelligence
For the better part of a decade, fintech growth has followed a familiar trajectory: secure funding, hire aggressively, and scale fast in pursuit of market traction. It worked. High-performing teams, ambitious roadmaps, and well-capitalised burn rates became the standard operating model for any startup with global aspirations. But that playbook is ...
13 June 2025 /ai /startups Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Zurab Ashvil Founder & CEO at T3RRA Ltd
In a dimly lit co-working space in downtown Lisbon, Maria refreshes her investor deck minutes before a Zoom pitch to a London VC. Her marketing dashboard pings - the latest ad campaign just hit a 7% click-through rate. Slack is blowing up with a UI bug flagged by a user in Singapore. She sips her espresso, opens Figma, and starts sketching a new p...
08 June 2025 /people /startups
Greta Ranonyte CEO at Fintech Hub LT
As annual financial reports begin to surface, it’s clear that Lithuania’s fintech sector is gaining impressive momentum. In 2024, revenues generated by electronic money and payment institutions (EMIs and EPIs) in Lithuania grew by 25%. The volume of payment transactions surged by one-third compared to the previous year, reaching an impressive €152...
05 June 2025 /startups /predictions Fintech
Saumil Patel Content Marketing Manager at InCred Money
The thought of starting a business can provide a fair level of excitement, but choosing the perfect idea for a business can surely be a difficult task. There are industries and businesses, investments to explore, but most entrepreneurs always find themselves stuck at the most important task, selecting one. In the modern day where every business is...
04 June 2025 /startups /inclusion
Arun Poojari CEO & Co - Founder at Cashinvoice
Payment-linked lending (PLL) is re-shaping the cash flow realities of small businesses by synchronizing credit repayments with actual revenues. The model provides MSMEs the convenience they require to control working capital without being burdened with fixed repayment schedules. In recent years, MSMEs have been in a better financial position, than...
01 June 2025 /payments /startups
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