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Long-form conversations with the founders, operators and policy-makers building the next decade of finance. Edited for length and clarity. Photographed in person, wherever the work is.

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PHOTOGRAPHY · HARRIET LLOYD-SMITH FOR FINTECHLY

THIS WEEK 27 APR 2026 · 18 MIN

Inside the quiet rewiring of cross-border money.

Stablecoins moved $27.6 trillion last year — more than Visa and Mastercard combined. The CEO of payments-infrastructure firm Conduit on how the plumbing of global finance is being rebuilt in plain sight.

AMARA OKAFOR · CEO, CONDUIT · LONDON

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TREASURY EU · BERLIN · 14 MIN

The CFO is becoming a software developer. Spektral is building for that.

A profile of the German treasury infrastructure company that quietly signed three of the four largest European corporates in the last six months.

PRIYA ANAND · CO-FOUNDER, SPEKTRAL · 22 APR 2026

CAPITAL MARKETS ASIA · TOKYO · 11 MIN

Why Japan is, finally, the most interesting fintech market in Asia.

On the regulator that quietly opened the doors, the demographic forcing function nobody is talking about, and what European founders keep getting wrong about Tokyo.

KENJI MORI · FOUNDER, ORBITAL · 18 APR 2026

SMB PAYMENTS EU · LISBON · 12 MIN

The Iberian merchant stack that took on Adyen — and is winning.

How a four-year-old payments company built a 60-strong sales team across Spain and Portugal and now processes more in-person volume than any local bank.

HELENA MARQUES · CEO, RAMPA · 14 APR 2026

VENTURE US · NEW YORK · 9 MIN

The new fintech LPs are sovereign, family, and nothing like Sand Hill.

On the end of the consensus capital stack and what comes next for the founders raising in 2026.

MARCUS CHEN · MANAGING PARTNER, MERIDIAN CAPITAL · 11 APR 2026

BANKING-AS-A-SERVICE EU · FRANKFURT · 11 MIN

Inside the data-centre arms race reshaping European banking.

The technical leader behind one of the fastest-growing BaaS providers on why every serious European bank is now a data-centre operator.

RACHEL TAN · CTO, CLEARBANK EU · 7 APR 2026

WEALTH & CRYPTO EU · ZüRICH · 10 MIN

How Swiss private banks ended up running the most boring — and biggest — crypto desks in Europe.

A conversation about regulation as moat, MiCA as accelerant, and why the wealthiest families in Europe quietly hold more stablecoins than anyone wants to admit.

FELIX VANDENBERG · HEAD OF DIGITAL ASSETS, BANQUE LOMBARD · 3 APR 2026