Finance

British businesses are going global faster as technology removes traditional barriers.

Erez Agmon built billing infrastructure for a world where pricing never sits still, then put AI agents on top to run the entire revenue process, from billing and revenue recognition to intelligence that shows whether every price still covers its cost.

NatWest expands She Scales nationwide, empowering female founders to grow.

Jagdeep Rai explains how ambitious UK businesses can scale globally.

Europe’s startup funding crunch is squeezing early-stage founders despite record innovation.

For some, creating a successful enterprise can be an effective route to accumulating personal wealth.

The appointment brings a veteran of regulated digital-asset and brokerage businesses to a firm turning its focus from growth alone to the foundations that sustain it.

Personal wealth can create options. It can give us the option to stay in a job or leave it. It can give us greater flexibility about where we live, how we spend our time, and how we respond when circumstances change. It can reduce the number of decisions we are forced to make from a position of financial necessity.

“Take ownership” has become a familiar promise in technology and financial services. In financial infrastructure, however, autonomy has limits: decisions can affect clients, systems, and teams far beyond the person making them. Coinspaid Solutions offers one view of how that tension can shape both work and careers.

David Sutter explores how stablecoins are moving into mainstream finance, driving demand for safe, compliant yield products and reshaping payments, financial services, and access to digital dollars.

UK businesses gain full access to £12.9 trillion CPTPP trading bloc.

Payment acceptance has continued to evolve as providers seek to improve their offerings, with faster settlement times, user experience, and global payment options being amongst the top priorities for businesses looking to boost sales and provide customers with frictionless ways to pay. 

When trust is low, decisions are checked repeatedly. Information is guarded. Responsibility remains concentrated at the top. Even talented teams can become slower because people hesitate to act without reassurance or approval.

Timing, leverage and strategy can make or break a company’s biggest deal.

We want Bitcoin to become money. For that to happen, payments have to work in native Bitcoin, with users paying in the original asset quickly and without fees

MiCA is now fully operational in the European Union, while the UK is preparing to introduce its own authorisation framework. Firms planning to operate in both markets will need to align their legal structures, technology platforms and control environments with two distinct regulatory regimes.

Tag Markets has approached that challenge primarily through product design, beginning with its 12X and 24X account structures.

BFA and Elite Franchise join Ideas Fest to inspire future entrepreneurs.

At this year’s Payments Leaders’ Summit at The Landmark London, one message cut through the noise surrounding crypto, AI, and fintech disruption: the battle for the future of global payments is about infrastructure. Pavel Kashuba, Strategic Leader at Coinspaid Solutions, took the stage with a deliberately provocative premise: stablecoins are no longer an emerging experiment; […]

John DiGiovanni explains what makes healthcare companies attractive to private equity investors.

Investment professional Michelle Luan on how AI-assisted diligence is changing the way fintech companies are valued.

The next chapter of financial services will likely reward firms that understand this balance. Cross border wealth is becoming more complex, but complexity does not excuse haste.

From tokenized assets to borderless transactions, digital assets are redefining what it means to participate in global markets.

Startup experience beats Big Tech pedigree when building successful venture-backed founders.

The conversation around artificial intelligence in wealth management has been dominated by a familiar fear: replacement. The idea that algorithms will render human advisers obsolete is compelling in theory, but fundamentally flawed in practice. What AI will do is far more meaningful. It will force the industry to confront a long-standing inefficiency and, in doing […]

Mastercard explores how AI will transform hospitality SMEs and everyday business operations.