Mansa wants to fix crossborder payments with stablecoins. $400M+ processed across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
Payments is a capital problem. To solve it, you need: liquidity, infrastructure, and compliance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2-i...
#CrossBorderPayments
Paul Forster co-founded Indeed, scaled it to 1,000 employees with 100% YoY growth before selling.
He invested in Griffin twice: at seed when many VCs wouldn't and at Series A. Both bets seemed contrarian.
Watch the latest episode of Griffin Uncut to find out why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMM3...
How does wealthtech ignore affluent millennials earning six figures with £250K-£500K in assets?
Matt Ford, CEO of Sidekick Money, explains the massive gap between robo-advisors and private banking, and why he's building to fill it.
Listen 👇
youtu.be/SgLuvdRpp1k
Sidekick upgraded their customer wallets in 8 weeks. Thousands of users now get FSCS protection and interest.
This is banking infrastructure that moves as fast as the fintechs building on it.
Welcome to Griffin, Sidekick.
griffin.com/blog/sidekic...
First podcast of 2026.
Stablecoins, agentic payments, and cards. Our CEO explains why these three areas matter and how we 5x'd revenue in 2025.
🎧 Listen - youtube.com/watch?v=bKVI...
As we wrap up the year, we're excited to welcome Uber, Marqeta, Aspora, The Access Group and Sidekick to Griffin!
We've had an incredible year so far and can't wait to make more magic in 2026!
Happy Holidays! 🥳
griffin.com/blog/griffin...
Xapien built AI-powered due diligence in 2018, years before LLMs became mainstream. They turn days of due diligence research into minutes.
CEO Chris Green joins us on Griffin Uncut this week.
Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWX2...
Watch the latest episode of Griffin Uncut about the arms race between banks and fraudsters, common misconceptions about financial crime, and how AI is changing the landscape.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfLq...
Are we living through a new Bretton Woods moment?
Marieke Flament joined us on Griffin Uncut this week to explain what it means for 99% of stablecoins to be in USD and why more countries need to get involved.
Listen to the full conversation - youtu.be/hfzcyO8pdRA
💡 What does it take to keep a bank running when things go wrong?
We chat to our Operational Resilience Manager, Rebecca Gee on the latest episode of Griffin Uncut. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=662_...
Follow along as we try to vibe code a fintech app using our sandbox!
www.youtube.com/shorts/H0oNz...
Random Monday musing: Some of the best product decisions come from the conversations that happen after the strategy meeting ends. Customer service calls, compliance reviews, bug reports. That's where reality lives. 💜
💡 Payments is just the initial pain point... but what happens next?
Nicholas Murphy drops some serious insights in this chat about why solving cross-border payments with Stablecoins is only the beginning.
This is one interesting use case. Worth the full listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wxS...
We just dropped a new episode with Stephen Millard from Notion capital, who analysed 14,000 companies over 20 years to uncover what separates the winners from the 99%.
The 'Why only 1% of startups hit $100M ARR' is now streaming!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=piB_...
Building rewards cards that people want to show off is harder than you might think. Tim Chong from Yonder tells David Jarvis his story on Griffin Uncut this week.
The "Debit with Credit benefits" episode is now live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W9o...
Could your Instagram post be a criminal offence? In our latest blog, we take a look at the FCA's guidelines for Financial promotions on social media in the UK.
Read here: griffin.com/blog/underst...
Sales Manager wanted: Help ambitious founders sleep better at night by selling them the banking infrastructure that actually works for their business.
Come talk to us - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
What's it like being employee #13 at a fintech startup? youtu.be/EfhVNrozQo0?...
According to Lars, embedded finance is when brands seamlessly integrate financial services. They should
✅ be non-financial brands (not banks/fintechs)
✅ seamlessly integrate (not referrals)
✅ offer financial products that solve specific problems
Agree? Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFZ1...
New episode of Griffin Uncut! We chat all things embedded finance and why banks are terrible at being banks :)
Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFZ1...
Learn how Prosper got rid of payment complexities and transformed their customer experience: griffin.com/customer-sto...
Whether you're already following CASS rules or this is new territory for you, our guide with Thistle Initiatives breaks down the complexity and shows you what you need to do.
Get the guide: www.thistleinitiatives.co.uk/cass-surviva...
"The last thing you should do is try and sell to everyone."💡
In the latest Griffin Uncut episode, Stephen Lemon, co-founder of CurrencyCloud and partner at Volution VC, shares why API-first businesses that technically could serve everyone need to resist that temptation.
youtube.com/shorts/sziEh...
From dark basement to $1bn exit: Unicorn founder, Steve Lemon on building and scaling a fintech. 🎧
youtu.be/6_yePCxAsuQ?...
🎧 Episode 017 of Griffin Uncut is live!
From small movement in Shoreditch to multi-billion dollar industry, we talk early days of convincing journalists that fintech wasn't just for criminals and how stable coins will change the world.
Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmfg...
Watch AI agents open accounts, make payments, and handle banking workflows through simple commands like "Please open a savings account."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR4-...
“Building Prosper on market leading technology is absolutely critical for us to deliver the user experience our members expect and Griffin is proving to be an exceptional partner.” - Nick Perrett, Founder and CEO at Prosper
Get the scoop: griffin.com/blog/griffin...
Catch up on how @yondercard built a brand new product, fixed operational complexities and improved their customer experience in our latest customer story.
griffin.com/customer-sto...
We had a really good week @money2020.
Mo demo'd our MCP server, David shared Silicon Valley war stories, and Phoebe + David talked fintech with our friends at Bain and @11FS.
Amsterdam, you've been really good to us. See you next year! 🇳🇱
#Money2020 #fintech #banking
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