Embedded Finance Review

Hi from Berlin,In a previous email, I hinted that the newsletter cadence could be disrupted slightly. And that's exactly what happened last week, as this edition below went out a week later than planned. The reason? 53cm long and a bit over 3,5kg heavy We

ZBD has launched a financial stack that lets game publishers run real-money accounts for their players inside their games. Players can deposit funds, trade with each other and cash out without leaving the game, and studios can issue a debit card under the

Fintech founders lose sleep over compliance. So what keeps a compliance startup founder up at night? That is where I started the conversation with Aurimas Bakas, CEO and co-founder of Copla, on episode 50 of the Embedded Finance Review Podcast.Listen now

Hi from Berlin,Bye-bye summer break and hello September! After a couple of weeks of recapping the first half of the year, I am back with the usual weekly newsletter format. Did I say usual? As we tested before summer break, going forward, each Tuesday new

Accountable has launched Tap to Pay inside its Accountable app, letting German freelancers accept card payments directly on their phone with Swan handling the acceptance behind the scenes. The freelancer opens the app, enters the amount, and holds the cli

Hi from Berlin,It feels like summer is over already. But at least for this newsletter, there is still one more week of recap time.Over the past two weeks, we dove into embedded finance for Marketplaces and Consumer Brands as well as Vertical SaaS and ERP,

If you are building a financial product inside a non-financial brand, the legal question tends to show up late. The product is designed, the provider is picked, the first customer conversations are underway, and then somebody asks whether you can actually

Hi from Berlin,Welcome to the second recap mailing of European Embedded Finance 2026. As a reminder, I am using the quiet weeks of August to recap all news from the past year. Today, we are recapping Vertical SaaS and ERP. The full schedule looks like thi

Mews receives an e-money licence from De Nederlandsche Bank, becoming a regulated entity behind its hotel payments and lending.

Hi from Berlin,It's August, and thus, time to start the recap of the first half of 2026. In the next three weeks, I will share the biggest stories in European Embedded Finance from the past seven months. As this requires a few separate mailings, I was con