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https://sifted.eu/articles/atom-bank-four-day-week-fintech
Can a four-day week work for fintech? | Sifted
Critics have said it's a working pattern that's not compatible with financial markets. But is it time for fintech to break the mould?
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https://sifted.eu/articles/acquire-exit-fintech-banks
Digital banks won’t be acquired by incumbents, says founder of France’s top fintech | Sifted
Hugues Le Bret - who sold his neo-bank to BNP Paribas in 2017 - says his peers will struggle to follow suit.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/fintech-angel-investors
Meet the top angel investors in European fintech | Sifted
A list of the top fintech angels investing in Europe, including TransferWise's Taavet Hinrikus and Baroness Denise KIngsmill.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/pennylane-raises-175m-series-e
Fintech unicorn Pennylane raises €175m round at €3.6bn valuation | Sifted
Jan 21, 2026 - The Series E round comes less than a year after the startup raised a €75m Series D
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https://sifted.eu/articles/ranked-europes-top-investors-climate-b2b-saas-fintech
Ranked: Europe’s top investors in climate, B2B SaaS, healthtech, fintech and consumer tech | Sifted
Apr 2, 2026 - Sifted’s final roundup of the biggest cheque writers in 2025, covering everything from B2B SaaS and consumer to healthtech and fintech.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/klarna-revenue-losses-2019
Klarna's US and UK expansion take their toll, as fintech posts first annual loss | Sifted
Feb 27, 2020 - Klarna is Europe's most highly-valued fintech, alongside Revolut. In a bid to keep its crown, it invested heavily last year - causing overall losses despite...
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https://sifted.eu/articles/fintech-kevin-lithuania-bank-news
Lithuanian fintech kevin blocked from serving new clients by national bank | Sifted
Jul 25, 2024 - The bank said in a statement that it reached the decision after the Lithuanian startup failed to submit its financial statements on time.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/meet-europes-fintech-soonicorns-2
Meet Europe's fintech soonicorns | Sifted
Four new fintech unicorns have been created so far this year in Europe. We crunch the numbers to see which startups could be next.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/uk-tech-in-2023-review
Funding troubles, privately-educated VCs and the fall of fintech: UK tech in 2023 | Sifted
Find out the trends that shaped the year in UK tech, including the rise of AI, and the fall of Babylon and Silicon Valley Bank.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/fintech-operators-to-watch
13 fintech operators to watch in Europe | Sifted
Nov 7, 2025 - Fintech has served as the launchpad for Europe’s top operators
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https://sifted.eu/articles/december-2023-hottest-seed-rounds
A big month for energy, but fintech and healthtech lose their shine: December’s seed wrapup | Sifted
Jan 5, 2024 - The holiday season meant a slowdown in seed funding in Europe, according to data from Dealroom. UK-based companies took the most capital.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/fintech-ai-native-europe-deals
European fintech is going AI-native | Sifted
A growing number of fintech startups are making AI a core component of their offerings from the outset.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/fintech-trust-gap
Fintech still has a serious trust gap - and it could be getting worse | Sifted
Aug 25, 2020 - People still don’t fully trust consumer fintech, research shows. Has the pandemic created a new opportunity or fuelled further distrust?
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https://sifted.eu/articles/turkey-fintech-startup-latest
Is Turkish fintech about to have a breakout moment? | Sifted
Having been overlooked, things are starting to change in a country with a highly digitised banking sector and a population of 86m.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/we-dont-see-ourselves-as-a-fintech-company
Pleo: “We don’t see ourselves as a fintech company” | Sifted
Jul 4, 2019 - With Kinnevik, Creandum and Stripes as backers, Danish card issuer Pleo raised its $56m B-round whilst keeping its recent A-round untouched. Why?
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https://sifted.eu/articles/europes-top-fintech-angel-investors-2022
Meet Europe's most active fintech angel investors | Sifted
Aug 18, 2022 - Fintech dominates Europe's tech scene. Here are the investors and founders reinvesting into Europe’s fintech space you need to know about.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/anne-boden-starling-bank
Starling’s Anne Boden: Fintech founders are “naive” | Sifted
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https://sifted.eu/articles/traditional-bankers-fintech
Why traditional bankers make terrible fintech CEOs | Sifted
If bankers want to make it in fintech and run a successful business, they need to stop thinking like bankers and more like tech CEOs.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/fintechs-going-green
The green fintech ecosystem: The next big trend? | Sifted
Jun 11, 2021 - The European ‘green fintech’ ecosystem is rapidly growing but still young: meet the startups mixing money and climate action.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/payroll-is-ripe-for-disruption
Could a new kid on the fintech block be the answer to these woes? | Sifted
According to software company Intuit, one in four workers say they have had paycheque errors. And cloud company Kronos found the same.
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https://fintech-intel.com/news/payments-fintech-yaspa-announced-as-fourth-fastest-growing-start-up-in-uk-ireland-by-sifted/
Payments fintech Yaspa announced as fourth-fastest growing start-up in UK & Ireland by Sifted -...
Mar 24, 2026 - Yaspa, a leading fintech specialising in payments and identity solutions, announced its outstanding success in being named one of fastest-growing start-up in...
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https://sifted.eu/articles/female-insurtech-gig-economy
Jove's founder thinks her fintech can help fix the gig economy| Sifted
Nov 10, 2021 - Uber drivers, consultants and freelancers face a serious insurance gap according to Lizhen Cai, the founder of hot new insurtech Jove.
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