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THE COVER STORY 1 JUN 2026

Fintech’s $500 Billion Recovery Comes With a Catch

BCG and FT Partners say global fintech revenues passed $500 billion in 2025, but funding is flowing more selectively towards scaled, profitable and AI-enabled firms.

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INTERVIEWS

In their own words.

ALL INTERVIEWS

UK · ·

Five Minutes With…. Tom Lamb, Head of UK at Aria

Aria’s UK head Tom Lamb discusses late payments, embedded finance and why better B2B payment infrastructure could do more for small business cash flow than regulation alone.

Five Minutes With…. Lisa Lewison at AWS

Fintechly’s Five Minutes With…Jacob Bennett, CEO of Crux Analytics

Fintechly’s Five Minutes With… Mouloukou Sanoh, CEO, MANSA

LIVE · NOMINATIONS OPEN

INAUGURAL LIST · CLOSES 30 JUN · PUBLISHED 08 SEP

The forty-seven private fintechs most worth knowing about right now.

Open to any private fintech in the world — payments, infrastructure, neobanks, capital markets, crypto, insurance, embedded finance. Judged on what you are building, not on what you have already banked. No revenue floor. No regional caps. One Tuesday morning in September, the list is published.

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private fintechs, globally

∞

geographies eligible — every market counts

named operators & investors on the panel

revenue floors, bands or quotas

BANKING & NEOBANKS

The institutions, the challengers, the compounders.

ALL BANKING

UAE Fintech UAE ·

Zand and DWTC Free Zone Partner to Expand Digital Banking Access

29 MAY 2026

United Texas Bank Wants to Be the Regulated Bridge Between Crypto and US Banking

28 MAY 2026

Bitget Pushes Further Into Tokenised TradFi With Reality Platform

27 MAY 2026

PAYMENTS

The plumbing, watched closely.

ALL PAYMENTS

UK ·

Five Minutes With…. Tom Lamb, Head of UK at Aria

1 JUN 2026

Card Businesses Are Data-Rich but Insight-Poor, Says Enfuce

28 MAY 2026

UK ·

Nayax Brings PIN Payments to UK Self-Service Commerce as Market Moves Upmarket

27 MAY 2026

INFRASTRUCTURE

The plumbing the plumbers don't talk about.

ALL INFRASTRUCTURE

UAE Fintech UAE ·

Invest in Sharjah (FDI Office) and PWC Boost Investment Amid Global Economic Shifts

1 JUN 2026

UAE Fintech UAE ·

Dubai Maritime City Inaugurates AED160 Million Maritime Business Centre 2

30 MAY 2026

Project Agorá Moves Tokenised Cross-Border Payments Towards Real-Value Testing

28 MAY 2026

CAPITAL & DEALS

The money behind the money.

ALL CAPITAL & DEALS