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LHoFT wants banks to share their homework
Luxembourg’s fintech hub is tackling the work financial firms keep repeating. Its toolkit now stretches from a shared-data competition to an AI showroom and investment opportunities for financial-inclusion startups.
The VC Fund Whose Limited Partners Are Also Its Portfolio's First Customers
Most venture funds hand founders a check and a Rolodex. Canapi Ventures hands them roughly 70 banks that write the check and then become customers.
The $4.6 Trillion Bank That Runs on Software
It moves trillions of dollars a day, employs more engineers than most tech companies, and answers to one of the longest-serving CEOs on Wall Street. Here is how a 227-year-old bank became a software business that happens to hold your deposits.
9fin
9fin is a London-based, AI-native intelligence platform for the global debt markets. Founded in 2016 by former banker Steven Hunter and former engineer Huss El-Sheikh, it uses machine learning to extract structured data from dense financial documents and pairs that data with news, analytics, and AI-powered workflows. Its platform covers leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, CLOs, private credit, and asset-based finance, and is used by investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, and advisors. In March 2026 the company raised a $170M Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation.