Last week, UK digital bank Starling became the latest European fintech to partner with Nvidia, promising to build a “transactional foundation model” (TFM).
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October 20, 2026
‘The true barrier to entry is scale’: Inside the new frontier of European fintech’s AI arms race
Revolut, Lendable and Starling are all building their own transactional foundation models
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Damisola Sulaiman is Sifted's fintech reporter, based in London. She writes Sifted's weekly Fintech newsletter . You can find her on LinkedIn
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