Jekaterina Romanova has spent most of her career in payment cards, e-commerce risk management, and compliance. She started in payment card-related roles at Baltic Trust Bank and GE Money Bank. Her work covered customer support, POS and ATM management…
Money20/20 Europe is where the fintech and payments industry comes to take the temperature of the market. Banks, fintechs, technology providers, platforms, investors, consultants, and regulators all end up in the same place for three days of meetings…
28 May 2026 is a date the Wallester team will remember for a long time. After long preparation, Wallester UK Ltd has received authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an Authorised Electronic Money Institution (EMI). In practica…
Anti-money laundering, or AML, might look the same from the outside, but inside, it behaves very differently. The work at a private bank does not transfer cleanly to a fintech serving payment processors or to a consumer lending platform. In short, th…
Danielle Coimbra started out in journalism in Brasília, where her early work ranged from government radio and online reporting to health and wellbeing magazines in both digital and print. She later moved into PR in Brazil, handling communications wor…
For most SaaS platforms and marketplaces, payments are still treated as a cost. There are several reasons for this. Mainly, processing fees go out. But reconciliation also takes time, and finance teams deal with the admin in the background. Too often…
Straightforward and open, the invitation went out through Slack a few days earlier. The first of May fell on a Friday this year, and a group of colleagues in Tallinn decided to spend it on bikes. In short: swap laptops for handlebars, meet at the off…
Karine Martinez has spent twenty years in financial services across two countries and two very different disciplines. She started in wealth management, building investment cases, managing client portfolios, running cross-asset allocation strategies a…
Financial crime doesn’t look the way most people imagine it, because it rarely announces itself. It hides in transaction patterns, in the gap between what a business says it does and what it actually does, in the split second between a payment…
On the first Friday of April, Wallester teams in Tallinn, Riga, and Cannes did something very simple yet very worthwhile. They went to the cinema together. Now, on paper, that might not seem like that big of a deal. In practice, though, it was, becau…
Danila Kuznetsov has been organising events since 2013 – across sports, government, entertainment, and business. He has coordinated world championships with participants from 50 countries, managed business conferences for the Baltic’s largest e…
The world of embedded finance is moving away from fragmented financial systems toward “all-in-one” infrastructure. At Wallester, we believe that launching a card program shouldn’t feel like building a bank from scratch. That is why…
Wallester has been ranked the fastest-growing fintech company in Europe in the Financial Times FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2026, securing the #1 position in the Fintech, Financial Services & Insurance category and 38th place overal…
With more than two decades of experience across infrastructure, platform engineering, and technical leadership, Andrei Skopenko has built and scaled engineering organisations in some of the most demanding environments in fintech and crypto. He…
The European tech landscape is evolving rapidly. Gone are the days of “growth at all costs.” Today, successful scaling requires precision, adaptability, and a strategic approach to talent acquisition. In a recent live discussion, Anna Met…
For a long time, launching a branded card programme felt like climbing Everest – expensive, bogged down by regulation, and reserved only for the banking elite. That has officially changed. We recently hosted a high-level webinar, “Scale y…
At Wallester, we believe that the same drive, precision, and teamwork that fuel our fintech innovations are just as vital on the court. That is why we are incredibly proud to sponsor Vortex, a team that perfectly embodies the spirit of competition an…
Sadly, some people fall through the cracks. The state can’t step in or they don’t qualify for state support, but they can’t make it on their own either. There’s a single mother whose roof is leaking and a child with special ne…
