Sokin

Sokin, a global business payment solutions FinTech, disclosed first financials showing $90m run-rate net revenue (H1 2026) with 100%+ YoY growth. The company built and launched its own stablecoin infrastructure in 2026 and operates settlement rails across 36+ countries. Positioned Manchester United as official payment partner (August 2025).

Leadership read: Rapid growth (tracking $120m+ RR by December 2026) suggests urgent hiring needs: infrastructure/platform engineers (stablecoin and settlement stack ownership), compliance and regulatory specialists (licenses across 36 countries with ongoing applications), embedded finance product managers (fastest-growing route to market), treasury/payments product specialists, and customer success teams for banking partnerships and fintech integrations. Likely expansion of US operations team (40%+ of revenue).

curated · 2026-07-30 · context →

Sokin signed three-year global partnership with Professional Triathletes Organisation for T100 Triathlon World Tour, providing unified global treasury and payments platform

Leadership read: Sokin's three-year title partnership with the PTO commits it to something more operationally demanding than a logo placement. Naming rights across the T100 series, including the San Francisco and Escape From Alcatraz events, means Sokin is now the visible payments layer for an international sports property with multi-currency athlete prize pools, cross-border operational spend, and a global broadcast audience. The PTO relationship functions as a live proof-of-concept environment for Sokin's unified treasury platform: the obligation to perform at scale, across jurisdictions, in a high-visibility context is now contractually locked in for 36 months. This is one of 12 partnership signals we have tracked in the last 90 days across fintech, sports, and adjacent categories. The most directly comparable are Ten Lifestyle Group's integration with AEG Presents UK for premium ticketing distribution and Taymar's entry into college athletics revenue management, both cases where a financial or commercial services firm used a sports or events property as a distribution mechanism for a platform product. The consistent shape: the sports brand provides reach and credibility; the fintech or payments layer gains a demanding operational reference customer. Across companies using sports partnerships to validate cross-border payments infrastructure, the functional pressure concentrates in treasury operations leadership with genuine multi-jurisdictional depth, commercial capability at the brand-partnership and enterprise sales seam, and compliance operations able to manage regulatory variance across the event-calendar geographies.

curated · 2026-05-07 · context →