# Fintech

‘Customers are happier if we provide the full suite’: Why startups are embracing all-in-one finance platforms

As accounting teams face a talent crunch and a rise in automation, demand for fully integrated financial platforms has never been higher

AI is turning finance from reactive to proactive

AI is most valuable when it gives people more confidence and the capacity to do the work they're best placed to do — applying judgement, understanding context and building relationships

Leatherback is now Foren. The name was the last thing to change

Leatherback has announced its rebrand to Foren, marking the overhaul of its technology and compliance infrastructure to provide businesses with a unified global banking platform

Monzo in talks about a sale to Nubank

The London fintech is reported to mulling a sale, or a fresh round of funding

Exclusive: Revolut’s Storonsky hits back in €350m superyacht court case

Storonsky says he does not owe any money to the yacht broker who brought a case against him last month

Exclusive: Nik Storonsky’s VC firm closes $500m for second fund

QuantumLight CEO Ilya Kondrahov said the firm’s latest fund was ‘oversubscribed’

Stablecoin remittance app goes live in UK after $1m in transactions during silent beta

Fixing the BaaS bottleneck: How Papaya is redesigning fintech infrastructure

Fintech infrastructure is buckling under the weight of compliance, but correspondent service Papaya is redesigning the system

Beyond a sleek interface: The new wave of European fintech

Fintech is no longer about building a better-looking digital bank, but about building the operating system that helps run businesses

Blackcat CTO on the future of European fintech: multi-rail finance and operational maturity

The region’s fintechs are entering a new phase with mutli-rail stacks slowly becoming the new normal.

European fintech’s most active angel investors

Fintech angel investment has sunk from a peak of $2.7bn in 2022 to just $837m last year

How infrastructure is changing agentic payments: ‘A quiet but fundamental shift’

As AI agents gain the ability to initiate payments, a new breed of startups is emerging that are prioritising infrastructure over anything else

Wise aims to crack US market ahead of dual listing

CPO Nilan Peiris tells Sifted how the company plans to make it in America

Cleo CEO Barney Hussey-Yeo wants to build a £100bn company — and save Western democracy

The AI fintech founder believes Europe’s inability to scale tech companies at home could threaten democracy

Why the smartest startups treat their finance stack as a growth function

Finance teams are often treated as cost centres — but that mindset can hold fast-growing companies back

How startups are creating financial technical debt without realising it

How founders can build a unified financial system and avoid a messy ‘Franken-stack’

What messy finance stacks signal to investors – and how to fix them before Series B

Being unable to produce good financial data is a red flag, says Octopus Ventures’ Rich Bolton.

Building from the basement: Why true entrepreneurship solves foundational problems

How true entrepreneurship solves foundational problems

Dutch fintech Mollie buys GoCardless for €1.1bn

Sifted previously reported Mollie was the frontrunner to acquire payments startup in August

Why fintechs are betting on sports sponsorships to win European markets

Sports sponsorships are becoming fintech’s new playbook for breaking into European markets.

Checkout.com launches secondary share sale at $12bn valuation, reports say

The fintech — once valued at $40bn — is the latest to use share buybacks to stay private for longer

Outdated compliance tools are holding back fintechs

As regulators raise the bar, fintechs are turning to AI-powered transaction monitoring to stay compliant and scale

The fastest-growing fintechs in the Nordics and Benelux

The Nordics and Benelux regions continue to show their expertise in fintech

SumUp seeks IPO at $15bn valuation, reports say

Public markets are looking more hospitable to European fintechs