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The journal of record for the people building modern finance.

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THE COVER STORY 29 APR 2026

Inside the quiet rewiring of cross-border money.

Stablecoins moved $27.6 trillion last year - more than Visa and Mastercard combined. Our cover interview with Amara Okafor, CEO of payments-infrastructure firm Conduit, on how the plumbing of global finance is being rebuilt in plain sight.

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FLAGSHIP · INTERVIEWS

In their own words.

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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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47
private fintechs, globally
∞
geographies eligible — every market counts
15
named operators & investors on the panel
0
revenue floors, bands or quotas

BANKING & NEOBANKS

The institutions, the challengers, the compounders.

ALL BANKING

PAYMENTS

The plumbing, watched closely.

ALL PAYMENTS

EVENTS

Small rooms. The right people.

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THE LEDGER · FINTECHLY’S WEEKLY LETTER

One letter, every Friday. Read by the people you’re trying to reach.

Our weekly letter on the rounds, the rulings and the rumours that move European and US fintech. Written by the editors. Eight hundred words. No fluff, no sponsored slot, no growth-hack tricks.

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ISSUE No. 142
MON 4 MAY 2026

Banks Face Youth Finance Gap as Money Habits Go Digital Earlier

Research reveals that financial providers need products, guidance and safeguards that reflect how young people already use money across apps, gaming and online platforms.

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ISSUE No. 141
FRI 1 MAY 2026

Lloyds Builds AI Agent Platform as Governance Push Deepens

Envoy is designed to help Lloyds teams build, reuse and monitor AI agents across the group, as the bank expands its responsible AI capability.

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ISSUE No. 140
FRI 1 MAY 2026

FinCEN Form 114 (FBAR): a fintech founder’s guide to the basics

Learn what an AI copilot in finance does, from faster reporting to stronger controls, plus governance risks and a roadmap to deploy it responsibly.

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