Published work

Everything here is published, linked and open to checking. Market analysis, interviews with founders and senior executives, the briefings and newsletters I write on a schedule, and writing beyond fintech. Some of it carries my name. Some of it is written for a client’s, working inside their editorial process.

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Analysis

Analysis written for event newsrooms and companies in and around fintech. These pieces cover public listings, private markets, ESG data and AI.

Fintech IPOs Are Booming Again in the US: Is Europe Set to Follow?

Why the US listing window reopened in 2025, and what Europe would need to follow.

FIBE
September 2025

From Wall Street to Main Street: The Fintech Revolution in Private Equity

How ELTIF 2.0 opened private equity to investors with a few thousand euros instead of a few hundred thousand.

FIBE
November 2025

The Agentic Leap: Transforming ESG Data and Reporting With AI

What CSRD and EU Taxonomy reporting costs teams now, and what AI agents change. Written for a client’s journal.

Dydon AI
November 2025

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Newsletters and briefings

Recurring editorial work, on a schedule, over years. Recent samples: the FIBE Briefing, drafted with the FIBE media team, and the fintech edition of the Techstars Startup Digest, which I’ve curated since 2019, 220+ issues.

AI Agents Are Starting to Move Money in European Banks

Two banks opened accounts to AI agents in the same week, while the EBA started consulting on the rules.

FIBE Briefing
September 2026

Secondary Share Sales Are Spreading Across European Fintech

Staff and early backers are cashing out without an IPO, and London and Euronext are competing to host the trades.

FIBE Briefing
August 2026

Issue #225: Stripe’s $8B AI bet, Visa’s $2.4B fraud buy

Plus Revolut’s French licence and euro stablecoin, and the $50B PayPal bid that collapsed.

Techstars Startup Digest
September 2026

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Interviews

On-site interviews with founders and bank executives at FIBE 2026 in Berlin. Each conversation starts after the stage session, with the questions the panel format didn’t leave room for. Short format, a few minutes’ read.

Murat Kalkan, BBVA

Global Head of Digital Banks, on keeping human customer service while everyone else automates it.

Yoni Assia, eToro

Founder and CEO, on what going public changed and whether AI can close the financial literacy gap.

Marc-Alexander Christ, SumUp

Co-founder, on stablecoins as a cost story rather than a revolution.

Daniel Llano Manibardo, JPMorgan Chase

Head of Chase in Germany, on launching a bank in a market of savers.

Tamaz Georgadze, Raisin

Co-founder and CEO, on why fintech augments banks rather than disrupting them.

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Beyond fintech

Writing outside financial technology: climate finance, music tech and football economics.

What VCs Look for in Climate Tech Startups: Opportunities and Deal Breakers

What climate tech VCs fund, and what makes them walk away.

EU-Startups
October 2023

75,000 AI Songs a Day, but Europe’s Music Startups Are Looking Somewhere Smarter

What Europe’s music startups are building instead of AI song generators.

EU-Startups
June 2026

The World Cup Nobody Can Afford

Who gets priced out when a tournament costs what this one costs.

This Is Football
May 2026

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