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Pelican.ai and the expensive art of the false alarm
A payment can travel the world and still get stuck on a name. Pelican.ai has spent three decades teaching banking software to untangle the instructions, checks and false alarms that hold money up.
Veritran built the bank app. Now it wants the stadium.
The Argentine software company helps banks put everyday finance on a phone. Its next proving ground is football, where the same identity technology has a very different crowd to please.
Neptune Software Group and the million-dollar bank upgrade
A Zimbabwean bank’s replacement bill reveals the business behind Rubikon: helping financial institutions outgrow the software that once served them. Neptune’s next test is carrying that experience into new markets.
Fimple wants banking to move at the speed of a product idea
A six-week core banking deployment gave Fimple a calling card. Now the software company is taking its mix of configurable banking, Islamic finance and local partnerships into new markets.
Eurobase and the £250,000 case for less retyping
The software behind insurers and bank dealing rooms rarely gets a curtain call. Eurobase’s customer projects show why joining up the paperwork can matter as much as the next new product.
ICSFS builds the bank behind the balance
From Islamic finance contracts to a five-month core replacement in South Sudan, ICS Financial Systems sells the machinery that makes banking work. Its latest deployments show the appeal - and the demands - of buying a whole banking system.
United Fintech wants banks to share the machinery
Five global banks have bought into Christian Frahm’s fintech group. His wager: rival institutions can share the software behind finance while competing for the business in front of it.
The Fastest Core-Banking Launch in Colvir History Began With One Radical Decision: Customize Less
Colvir spent 25 years making the machinery behind banks configurable. Then a new Kazakh bank tested the proposition: five months, a fixed deadline and almost no appetite for custom code.
The $400 Million Bet to Give Small Banks a Megabank Brain
Alkami spent years perfecting the banking app. Then it paid $400 million to own the moment before the first login - and turned a useful utility into a growth machine for community finance.
The $140 Billion Bet That Checks Aren't Dead - They're Just Badly Designed
AP Technology spent 37 years modernizing the payment method fintech forgot. Its useful trick is not killing the check - it is wrapping the check in software, controls and a choice of what comes next.
The Banks That Got Tired of Their Tech Vendor - So They Bought the Company
COCC runs the unglamorous machinery behind 175 community financial institutions. Its clever twist is structural: the customers own the vendor, sit on its board and help decide what gets built next.
The Bank That Got Tired of Banking Software - Then Built nCino
Born inside a working bank, nCino turned one lender's spreadsheet problem into a $594.8 million cloud-software business. Its next test is harder: making AI useful in the most regulated rooms in finance.
Abrigo’s Quiet Bet: Make 2,400 Community Banks Move Like the Giants
Community banks cannot outspend the giants. Abrigo’s answer is to package the unglamorous machinery of lending, fraud, compliance and risk into one operating layer - then let smaller institutions automate the work that used to eat their week.
Biz2X Turned a Lending Scar Into Software Banks Can Actually Use
Banks know small businesses want fast answers. Biz2X sells the less glamorous thing that makes those answers possible - a configurable lending stack built from years of watching loans move, stall and sometimes go bad.
Alloy Took 100 Investor Noes. Now It Helps 900 Banks Say Yes.
The founders started with a failed nightlife app, found a sharper problem inside bank payments, and endured 100 investor rejections. Their reward is a quiet piece of infrastructure that helps more than 900 financial institutions approve good customers without giving fraudsters a free pass.
The Bank Security Company That Wants You to Notice Almost Nothing
Entersekt built a global financial-authentication business around a stubborn idea: the best security step is often the one a legitimate customer never sees. Now its bet is moving from a protected phone to one context-aware layer across banking and payments.
Zafin Spent 24 Years Escaping the Banking Core. Now It Wants to Govern the AI Agents Moving In
The Canadian fintech made its name by putting a clean control layer over stubborn bank infrastructure. Its new bet is that the same trick - externalize the messy logic, preserve the evidence, keep humans accountable - can tame enterprise AI.
Casca Tried to Automate the Whole Bank. Then One Customer Showed It the $1 Trillion Wedge.
The Stanford founders began with AI agents for everything a bank might do. A failed platform deal and one unusually candid customer pushed them toward the unglamorous bottleneck that mattered: getting small-business loans out of inboxes and into underwriting.
Vikar Wants Community Banks to Stop Buying Software One Broken Handoff at a Time
The New Jersey fintech is betting that smaller financial institutions do not need another shiny front door. They need one configurable system that keeps customers, bankers, underwriters, compliance teams and core software in the same conversation.
Jifiti Built the Lending Button You’re Not Supposed to Notice
The 2011 gift-card startup grew into the quiet machinery behind bank-branded loans at checkout. Its wager is that the next phase of embedded finance belongs to regulated lenders - and to software customers barely notice.
The $2.4 Billion Fintech You Use Without Knowing Its Name
Jack Henry powers the institutions that still know their customers by name. Its next act is moving five decades of banking infrastructure into an open, cloud-native future without asking community banks to surrender the relationship.
Upstart
Upstart wants to replace the blunt instrument of conventional credit scoring with a learning system that prices each borrower more precisely. Its next test is larger than approval rates: proving an AI marketplace can grow through a full credit cycle without becoming the bank it once said it did not need to be.
Newgen Software
For three decades, Newgen has quietly run the paperwork that banks, insurers, and governments would rather not think about. Now it wants to orchestrate the whole enterprise.
ISIS Papyrus
For more than 35 years, a bootstrapped software company outside Vienna has quietly run the letters, statements and claims of some of the world's largest banks and insurers - on one platform it refuses to break into pieces.
Lenk
Lenk is a Latin American loan-origination platform that lets banks, financial entities, and fintechs digitize the entire credit lifecycle - from lead capture and onboarding to underwriting and disbursement. Its white-label, modular software automates commercial, consumer, mortgage, automotive, and leasing credit with configurable workflows and dozens of pre-built integrations to regional registries and bureaus. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (W22), Lenk says it serves 20+ institutions across three countries, processing roughly 500,000 applications and $2B in transactions a year.
N5 Now
N5 Now is a Buenos Aires-founded software company built specifically for the financial industry. Its 'systematics' platform - along with AI products AIfred, Pep and Singular - lets banks, insurers and payment companies connect CRM, campaigns, analytics, compliance and omnichannel operations on top of existing legacy systems instead of replacing them. Founded in 2017 by former Santander executive Julian Colombo, N5 works fully remotely across teams in dozens of cities, serves clients including Santander, Mastercard, Itau, Interbank and Zurich in roughly 15-18 countries, and closed a $20M Series A in 2025 to accelerate its AI agents for banks.
FIS (Fidelity National Information Services)
FIS (Fidelity National Information Services) is a Jacksonville, Florida-based financial technology company that powers the software behind banking, payments and investing. Its platforms run core banking systems, card and payment processing, fraud and risk management, and capital-markets tooling for more than 20,000 financial institutions and businesses across over 100 countries. Traded on the NYSE as FIS, the company positions itself around what it calls 'money at rest, in motion and at work,' serving global banks, regional and community lenders, credit unions, asset managers and corporates.
MeridianLink
MeridianLink is a California-based financial technology company that builds cloud software helping banks, credit unions, and consumer reporting agencies originate loans, open accounts, and verify credit data. Its flagship platform, MeridianLink One, connects consumer lending, mortgage origination, account opening, data verification, and collections into a single system used by roughly 2,000 financial institutions. Founded in 1998, the company went public on the NYSE in 2021 and was taken private by Centerbridge Partners in a roughly $2 billion deal completed in October 2025.
RS Software
RS Software is a payments-focused technology company headquartered in Kolkata, India, with a US office in Milpitas, California. Founded by Raj Jain, the firm has spent more than three decades building payment infrastructure for banks, processors, networks and central institutions. It is the team that engineered core pieces of India's public payments stack, including the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) for NPCI, and today offers a suite of cloud-native, API-led products for real-time payments, bill payments, switching, fraud and risk under a Payment Platform as a Service model.