Wheel of FinTech

At this year’s Singapore Fintech Festival, we brought a special moment to life: the Wheel of Fintech. Together with Apix, our own magazine, The Connector, and FIT – Flanders Investment & Trade, we had the pleasure of creating a stage where eight companies could present their work to an engaged and curious audience.

It became a warm and collaborative session, not a competition, but a chance to let each company shine in its own way. Thanks to the strong partnership between all involved, the result was a concise yet meaningful fintech pitch moment that reflected the diversity and ambition of our ecosystem.

We invite you to discover the eight featured companies below. Each brings its own perspective, expertise, and drive for innovation.

First stop on the different companies was InvestSuite from Belgium. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Leuven, InvestSuite has grown into a recognised leader in B2B InvestTech. The company supports banks, brokers, and wealth managers worldwide in modernising and scaling their digital investment offerings, without the need to build complex solutions in-house.

InvestSuite’s strength lies in its fully modular, white-label product suite. Its Robo Advisor helps financial institutions launch a personalised, automated investment service, while Self Investor empowers more active clients with sophisticated yet intuitive tools. The Portfolio Optimizer brings institutional-grade risk management and portfolio construction techniques to a broader market, and StoryTeller translates complex portfolio data into clear, client-friendly insights. Together, these solutions allow institutions to upgrade their digital channels quickly, securely, and cost-efficiently.

Technology is another core pillar of InvestSuite’s approach. The platform is architecture-agnostic, integrates easily with existing systems, and meets enterprise security standards. This combination of flexibility and depth has earned InvestSuite a place in the global WealthTech 100, underscoring its role as an innovator shaping the future of digital investing.

A Belgian scale-up with global impact, InvestSuite continues to help financial institutions deliver better, more engaging investment experiences to their clients.

Located in Ghent, QuontX is a deep-tech company that provides financial institutions with advanced systems to navigate the increasing complexity of global markets. Their mission: transform societal and systemic dynamics into real-time, actionable insight for banks, asset managers, hedge funds and risk teams.

QuontX offers two flagship solutions. The first, QuontX Data, delivers harmonised, enriched time-series data—from socio-economic indicators to alternative signals—ready for analysis and built with transparency and auditability in mind. The second, QuontX Network, brings structural insight and scenario analysis to the table, helping users model how interconnected forces across society, markets and policy may drive future financial outcomes.

What sets QuontX apart is the blend of systems-thinking, research-driven modelling and next-level data engineering. They don’t just supply data—they frame the context around it, enabling clients to uncover hidden drivers, anticipate shifts and adapt more proactively. For institutions looking to rise above conventional market signals and embrace a holistic, future-facing view, QuontX stands as a compelling partner.

Backed by the expertise of the Topicus Group, Akkuro offers a next-generation composable banking platform built for financial institutions that demand speed, modularity and scalability. 

Akkuro enables financial institutions across retail, business, wealth, pension and micro-finance to evolve on their own terms. Its API-first, cloud-native architecture allows them to pick and assemble only the modules they need — whether core banking, lending, savings, investments or CRM — without vendor lock-in or legacy drag.

With its composable design, Akkuro supports everything from real-time loan origination and multi-currency accounts to embedded wealth services and automated calculation engines.

Delivered via rapid, iterative implementation cycles, the platform helps institutions respond quickly to regulatory shifts, customer demand and change-driven markets.

In short: for financial firms that want to build agile, future-ready banking services while retaining control and minimizing disruption, Akkuro stands out as a strategic, high-flexibility technology partner.

Founded in Stockholm in 2019, Centiglobe is on a mission to transform how value moves across borders. Their vision: empower banks, payment service providers and corporates to compete globally by modernising cross-border payment infrastructure.

At the heart of Centiglobe’s offering is Centiglobe Connect, a member-based global payments network powered by tokenised deposits and distributed ledger technology (DLT). With a single API integration, members gain access to a peer-to-peer network for real-time, traceable, two-way cross-border payments—without intermediaries or scattered pre-funding.

For banks and PSPs, Centiglobe Connect provides direct access to new markets, reduces capital costs and creates opportunities to offer collection and pay-out services across the network. For corporates, it enables agile global cash flow models, instant B2B or B2C transfers, and leaner liquidity management.

Centiglobe offers a modern alternative to traditional correspondent-banking rails, giving financial institutions a faster, more transparent and more cost-efficient way to move money across borders. It marks a clear step toward a more connected, real-time global payment landscape, one where institutions can operate with greater confidence, efficiency and reach.

Based in Vienna and formally established in 2014, 7Security originates from a strong background in network engineering and application security. Over the years the company has expanded its focus to include compliance, penetration testing, and IT-governance services—serving banks, e-commerce platforms, fintechs and other mission-critical infrastructures.

Today, 7Security specialises in helping financial institutions and payment service providers meet and maintain rigorous security and compliance standards. As a certified Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) company under the PCI Security Standards Council, it offers guidance and audit services covering PCI DSS, 3-D Secure core security, PIN security, and ISO/IEC 27001. digital-finance-platform.ec.europa.eu+1 Its team holds credentials such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, and ISO 27001 Lead Implementer—demonstrating deep technical and regulatory expertise.

7Security provides financial-firms with the security foundation they need to build trust, stay compliant and resist evolving cyber-threats. By making compliance and protection not just a checkbox, but a strategic asset, they enable their clients to operate with greater assurance and agility.

Next up was, Torus founded to tackle one of payments’ most persistent pain-points: the hidden and growing cost burden of card-scheme fees and profit leaks across issuing and acquiring. 

With decades of banking and fintech experience, the team built a SaaS intelligence platform that helps banks, fintechs and processors analyse transactional data, predict card-scheme fee movements and optimise profitability at the merchant, BIN or product level.

The strength of Torus lies in turning complex cost structures—interchange, scheme fees, margin squeezes—into clear actionable insight. Whether you are a card issuer trying to control cost-centre leakage, an acquirer reconciling scheme invoices or a BaaS provider designing profit-first fee structures, the platform supports you.

The result: better cost transparency, smarter pricing decisions and the ability to reclaim hidden margin. Torus moves banks and fintechs beyond hindsight analytics towards proactive profitability control in card payments. With data-driven clarity, institutions can shape their strategy around real-time margins—not just volumes.

With a presence in over 40 countries and thousands of lawyers globally, DLA Piper supports financial institutions, technology platforms, fintech disruptors and regulators alike as they navigate the evolving intersection of finance, innovation and regulation.

The firm’s Fintech & Financial Services practice covers the full spectrum of legal services: from regulatory advice, authorisations, payments-and-lending products, digital assets and tokenisation to IP/technology rights, data protection, corporate transactions and enforcement.

Their work is not purely advisory—they also help build frameworks, for example acting as global legal advisor to the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) of Dubai in crafting its virtual-assets regulation.

What differentiates DLA Piper for banks, fintechs and innovation-driven firms is its ability to combine deep regulatory and financial-services expertise with technology-company DNA: advising on distributed-ledger technology, AI/ML products, embedded finance models and the upstream legal structuring as well as downstream compliance.

DLA Piper acts as a strategic legal partner for financial and innovation-led firms that need not just counsel but also alignment of product, regulation and market-go-to-market. With a global footprint and cross-discipline capabilities, they enable clients to move from ambition to execution in regulated finance.

Based in Budapest, Ergomania is a specialised digital product design agency with deep expertise in the fintech and banking sector. From mobile banking apps to complex internal platforms, they focus on delivering user-centric, business-driven interfaces.

Ergomania’s approach centres on UX research, service design and UI design tailored to financial institutions and fintech firms. With more than 30 fintech projects completed across Europe and a core team of seasoned UX/UI professionals, they bring both sector-specific insight and design discipline. 

Their work ranges from white-label banking apps, digital onboarding flows, to chat or voice interface design for financial services.

What distinguishes Ergomania is their focus on aligning end-user experience with strategic financial-business goals. They don’t just craft pretty screens—they aim to solve real earnings, adoption and retention challenges for banks and fintechs navigating digital transformation.

Ergomania acts as a partner for financial institutions that aim to elevate digital experiences, increase engagement and translate complexity into clarity. Their design-first, finance-aware approach helps unlock the full potential of digital banking solutions.