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Almost Eight Years From Founding to Exit. What That Asks of the Banks Behind Scale-Ups
NatWest’s new report on UK venture capital exits has a number in it that matters well beyond investors. Among venture-backed companies that exited, the median time from founding to exit…
How a Bank Network Brings the Rest of the Expansion Journey In
A client tells their bank they’re opening in a new market next quarter. The account is the part everyone can picture. The entity that has to exist first, the local…
What Happens When Europe Stops Letting 27 Countries Write Their Own Payments Rules
Most banks are still working to PSD2, a directive written for a payments world that’s already moved on. Open banking was still finding its feet when it was drafted. Instant…
SMEs Are Going Global Earlier. Their Banking Relationships Haven’t Caught Up.
A decade ago, an SME expanding into a new market had usually earned the right to. Years of domestic trading. A proven product. Time to plan the move properly. That…
Bank-Led Stablecoin Governance: What Qivalis Signals for International Banking
Qivalis is heading toward launch. The Amsterdam-based venture is working through its application for an e-money licence with the Dutch central bank, with a commercial launch targeted for the second…
When Cross-Border Expansion Starts Before the Bank Account Does
Most conversations about international banking start in the wrong place: with the account. Can this corporate open one in this market, how fast, with which documents. By the time that…
When Resilience Becomes a Network Problem: What DORA and NIS2 Mean for Multi-Market Banking
For years, operational resilience in banking was something a bank answered for on its own. Could its systems stay up, and could it keep serving clients through an outage. The…
Southeast Europe: Why Local Banking Depth Matters for International Expansion
On an international expansion map, Central and Southeast Europe can look like one region. A business planning its next few years of growth might sketch a sequence: Croatia, then Serbia,…
Beyond Virtual Accounts: Why Banking at Scale Depends on Coordination
Scale can give a bank reach, capacity and new capabilities. But for clients, the value of that scale depends on something less visible: how well those capabilities are coordinated. That’s…