Damisola Sulaiman

Current and former employees, internal Slack messages and public reviews reveal questionable culture at fintech startup.

Last week, inside the offices of sustainable neobank Green-Got, staff huddled around Crowdcube's live funding tracker as millions of euros poured into the company's latest crowdfunding campaign every few minutes.

Fintech giant Revolut's corporate culture pillar is “never settle”, an evolution of its earlier tagline “get shit done”, which once adorned the company's office walls.

Digital bank N26 reached its first full year of net profitability in 2025 after facing management and regulatory challenges.

Financial superapp Revolut is moving away from its ‘remote-first' work model for graduates and interns, who will be expected to work from the office three days a week.

As they venture forth to spin up their own companies, Revolut alumni are adopting the company’s internal "new bets" model.

Over the past few years, Revolut has joined the likes of Klarna, Spotify and Wise in producing a new generation of European startup founders.

Small business payments fintech SumUp has launched personal banking accounts as it seeks to broaden its scope to a “complete financial ecosystem” for merchants and consumers.

Swedish fintech giant Klarna has won $1.97bn in antitrust damages in a lawsuit against Google.

A handful of European fintechs have spent years in the IPO rumour mill, with investors eagerly awaiting a wave of public listings