Appointed a Chair and Non-Executive Director, and a Chief Financial Officer.
VeryPay — Mobile-payments business advancing financial inclusion across Switzerland and Africa.
Challenge. Build out the board and finance leadership of a mobile-payments business scaling across two continents.
The market for this leadership
Live MitchelLake intelligence across Fintech / Payments and EMEA.
Adjacent signals across Fintech / Payments
Restructuring · EMEA
Savannah Group →Savannah Group, a UK-based executive recruitment firm, has entered insolvency and been listed for sale after a failed pivot to AI-driven talent acquisition. Revenue fell 20% YoY (£15.6m to £12.4m), debt costs spiked 5.5x, and net profit halved. The company invested heavily in MapX, an AI recruitment platform launched publicly in February 2023 after internal development since 2019.
Restructuring · EMEA
Sasol →Sasol and Denmark's Topsoe announced strategic review of their Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) partnership, deciding to prepare for orderly operational wind-down of joint venture Zaffra while continuing technology-led licensing collaboration through Single Point Licensor (SPL) framework.
Ma Activity · EMEA
Gymshark →Gymshark founder Ben Francis is in talks to buy back a portion of the 21% stake he sold to General Atlantic in 2020, signaling intent to increase founder control and reduce private equity ownership.
Partnership · EMEA
eDreams ODIGEO →eDreams ODIGEO (eDO) partners with Visa to enable AI agents to initiate and complete travel purchase transactions across its eDreams, Opodo, GO Voyages, and Travellink platforms using Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Agentic Directory, and Payment Passkey infrastructure.
Partnership · EMEA
Leonardo →Leonardo secured a £4.6 billion ($6.1 billion) 18-month development contract as part of Edgewing consortium for the GCAP sixth-generation fighter jet program alongside BAE Systems and JAIEC.
Partnership · EMEA
Worldline →Worldline partnered with ING and Visa to pilot AI agent-driven payment transactions in Germany, demonstrating compliant agentic commerce using Strong Customer Authentication and biometric verification. Both Worldline and ING joined Visa's Agentic Ready Programme.