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    Fintech

    PR for fintech founders and financial technology brands

    Fintech PR carries a burden most technology PR doesn't: the product touches people's money, so trust has to be earned before a journalist, a partner bank or a regulator takes a pitch seriously. That means substance-first positioning, care around regulatory claims, and a founder prepared to be the face of the company. Zeebu, a B2B payments and settlement platform for telecom carriers, is one of our clients.

    What news moments drive fintech PR demand?

    Funding rounds, where the story is rarely the money but what it lets the company do next. Product and feature launches, especially anything touching payments, lending or compliance infrastructure, which need translating for a business audience without losing accuracy for a technical one. Licensing and regulatory milestones, which are genuine news in fintech in a way they rarely are elsewhere. And the founder visibility work that builds a trusted name well before any of those moments.

    Why does trust matter more in fintech PR than in general tech PR?

    A consumer app failing is an inconvenience. A fintech product failing touches someone's money, which makes journalists, partners and regulators more sceptical by default and more careful about who they platform. That means fintech PR has to lead with substance: real numbers, real regulatory standing, real customer outcomes, not the aspirational language that passes elsewhere. AI visibility follows the same logic: it compounds trust already earned through real coverage; it can't manufacture trust that isn't there.

    How does founder visibility fit into fintech PR?

    Financial products are sold on trust in the people behind them as much as the product itself, so a fintech founder's own visibility, commentary on industry shifts, conference appearances, a recognisable voice on LinkedIn, is not a separate workstream from company PR. It's usually the fastest way to build the credibility that makes the company's own announcements land.

    PROCESS

    How it works

    Our process

    01

    Brief

    Understand the product, the regulatory environment it operates in, and what's genuinely newsworthy versus routine.

    02

    Position

    Build the narrative around substance the target outlets actually cover: real numbers, real regulatory standing, real outcomes.

    03

    Place

    Direct outreach to the journalists and outlets who cover fintech specifically, not a generic tech list.

    04

    Compound

    Turn one placement into founder visibility that makes the next announcement, or the next raise, easier.

    FAQ

    Common questions

    Yes. Founder visibility work often starts before there's a product to announce, so there's a recognisable name and prior coverage in place when the launch does happen.

    Yes. A funding announcement is only as good as the narrative around it: why the round matters, what it enables, and why a specific journalist's readers should care. We build that narrative and run the outreach.

    Every claim about licensing, compliance or regulatory standing is checked against what's actually documented before it goes out. We're not a compliance or legal function, so a fintech client's own counsel should review anything with real regulatory weight; our job is making sure the PR narrative never runs ahead of what's verifiable.

    Both. Our deepest current experience sits at the crypto/fintech overlap (payments and settlement infrastructure), and the same media relations discipline applies to traditional financial services and neobank-style products.
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