Full coverage: Fintech

Jacob Claflin is the co-founder and CEO of Cambrist, an Irish fintech start-up focused on optimising foreign transactions for banks. He talks about what brought him to Ireland, his frustration with the payments industry and the company's plan to expand into five new countries in the next six months.

Creditors, including companies in Australia and Belize, have appointed a liquidator to Leveris, an Irish fintech that was once valued at €190m. Documents reveal who was owed money and how much they lost.

Ronan Horgan’s Irish alternative lender Capitalflow has advanced €650m to Irish SMEs. It has now being acquired by Bunq, the Dutch challenger bank. Horgan explains the rationale for the deal and what it means for the Irish market.

Digital payments company CleverCards has just acquired the business of ExpendiaSmart and a €10m funding round will close within weeks. But CEO Kealan Lennon is already thinking about the next acquisition and a follow-on €50m funding round.

Noel Moran devised Prepaid Financial Services on his kitchen table, hoping to just make enough to cover his bills. Eleven years later he sold the company to EML payments for €327m. That seemed to be the end of the story. Until a letter from the Central Bank of Ireland arrived at EML Payments this week.

Stripe's Dublin office has just filed annual accounts revealing the central role Ireland has come to play in its expanding business outside the US. Just before the pandemic provided a huge boost to its business, it also posted its first ever Irish profit.

The latest funding round secured by the world's fastest-growing online payments provider brings its valuation close to $100 billion. The Silicon Valley business founded by two Irish brothers plans to expand in Dublin.

Wayflyer is growing quickly by financing small to mid-sized e-commerce companies. Last month, QED Investors, which has backed 13 unicorns to date, invested in the Irish company. Is Wayflyer a $1 billion business of the future?

Karl Deeter, who has raised €1m in funding for his online mortgage and insurance solution fintech, talks to Sean Keyes about the future of mortgage applications and the doomed future of incumbent banks.

Professor Pinar Ozcan is an Oxford University expert on innovation and fintech. She sets out why the banks are vulnerable to disruption by fintech, why the fintechs have struggled to capitalise, and why there's an opportunity for a new type of company to step in and dominate the industry.