Fintech Advisory Collaborations & Ecosystem Partnerships | DNYC Ltd
Daniela Sozzi collaborates with leading legal advisors, regulatory intelligence platforms, and AI strategy specialists to deliver end-to-end fintech advisory across the UK, EU, and offshore. Current collaborators include Vixio Regulatory Intelligence, GLG Insights, and StratEdge, covering expert commentary, research, and AI governance for European SMEs.
DNYC works with legal advisors, regulatory intelligence platforms, research networks, and consultancies on a referral and co-advisory basis.
Project Execution
Expert Commentary
Thought Leadership
Industry Events
Multi-disciplinary Collaborations
Complex financial transformation and cross-border strategy rarely happen in a silo.
DNYC acts as an agile advisory catalyst, bringing together multi-disciplinary expertise through strategic collaborations across the financial services value chain. We routinely partner alongside leading law firms, tier-one management consultancies, specialized software developers, and regulatory affairs consultancies. Coupled with strong ties to local business admin outsourcers and fintech advocacy groups, our collective network ensures our clients receive comprehensive, board-ready solutions from strategy through implementation.
Transformation Execution and Fintech Domain Expertise | DNYC x LIAS
The strategic partnership between London-based DNYC and Swiss-based advisory studio LIAS establishes a high-impact execution bridge across the key UK–DACH deal axis, and it serves clients across Europe.
By uniting DNYC’s deep fintech sector fluency with LIAS’s structured lifecycle framework, we offer private equity firms, venture capital funds, and high-growth fintechs an agile, cross-border boutique advisory solution.
Key Complementarities in delivering ambitious projects
Comprehensive Investment Lifecycle Execution (LIAS): Hands-on advisory spanning four core phases: Investor Brokerage, Investor Readiness, Strategy-to-Execution Assessments, and Post-Merger Integration Governance.
Deep Fintech & Regulatory Fluency (DNYC): Specialized domain expertise across payments, board-level governance, and navigating complex UK and European Union regulatory landscapes.
Integrated Operational & Financial Planning: Combined capability to bridge high-level corporate strategy with ground-level operational execution, financial modeling, and capital allocation.
Shared values and foundations for a trusted partnership built on experience and scope alignment
- Directly addresses the growing demand for specialized cross-border advisory across Europe and the UK, serving both high-growth fintechs and international investors.
- Both firms share a reputation for high-conviction expertise, reliable execution, and trusted relationships across the PE and VC ecosystems.
- Client engagements benefit from expanded reach across Europe without sacrificing the agility, founder-led accountability, and speed of boutique advisors.
About LIAS
Founded by Lucia Italiano, LIAS brings enterprise-grade governance, strategic execution and trusted AI advisory to organisations navigating growth, transformation and innovation.
AI Strategy for European SMEs | DNYC x StratEdge
A collaboration between Daniela Sozzi (DNYC Ltd) and Barbara Cresti (StratEdge) to help European SMEs adopt AI strategically — avoiding over-reliance on external vendors and building internal AI governance capability.
AI strategy · European SME adoption
European SMEs — including fintechs — face a structural challenge with AI adoption: they either sit out the transition entirely, or outsource it to vendors without building internal understanding or governance. Neither outcome is sustainable.
This collaboration combines DNYC’s regulatory and fintech strategy expertise with StratEdge’s AI strategy capability to offer SMEs a practitioner-led path to AI adoption that is commercially grounded, governance-aware, and built for the regulatory environment they operate in.
The joint output includes the Futureproof AI Leadership framework, a practical guide for board-level AI governance and strategic AI integration for SMEs.
About Stratedge
AI strategy advisory led by Barbara Cresti, specialising in AI adoption frameworks for European businesses.
Women in AI leadership series — StratEdge x Seriously Client Centric x DNYC
Daniela Sozzi featured in Barbara Cresti’s Women in AI series, discussing strategy, governance, value creation, and risk management from a fintech practitioner’s perspective.
Ai strategy · thought leadership
The Women in AI series, produced by StratEdge in collaboration with Seriously Client Centric, profiles women driving AI strategy and governance across industry. Daniela’s contribution focused on the practical application of AI governance in fintech, translating board-level frameworks into operational reality for regulated businesses.
The series positions AI governance not as a compliance exercise but as a strategic capability, a perspective central to DNYC’s advisory practice and directly relevant to the EMIs, CASPs, and PE-backed fintechs DNYC advises.
Regulatory intelligence & expert commentary | DNYC x Vixio
Daniela Sozzi is a regular quoted expert for Vixio, one of the leading regulatory intelligence platforms for the global payments and fintech industry.
Expert commentary · Regulatory intelligence
Vixio covers regulatory and policy developments across payments, crypto-assets, and open banking for an audience of compliance professionals, lawyers, and senior executives.
Daniela contributes expert commentary on UK and EU regulatory developments, providing the strategic and commercial context that distinguishes practitioner insight from regulatory summary.
Topics have included the UK National Payments Strategy, fintech sector expectations from the new UK government, and the strategic implications of major industry transactions such as the FIS–Worldpay spin-off.
Vixio — UK political manifestos and fintech support
Vixio — UK National Payments Strategy
Vixio — FIS and Worldpay spin-off analysis
Fintech research & blockchain webinar | DNYC x GLG Insights
DNYC is a regular contributor of GLG Insights on strategy matters related to the Fintech and Payments sector.
Research · Webinar · Network survey
Fintech Payment Platforms survey series. Daniela Sozzi supported GLG’s surveys team in drafting the network survey series on fintech payment platforms — providing the practitioner framing that ensures survey questions capture commercially meaningful signals rather than generic industry sentiment.
Blockchain integration webinar. Daniela led a GLG Insights webcast presenting a business-first framework for blockchain integration in fintech — addressing when and how blockchain creates genuine commercial value, and when it does not. The session was attended by institutional investors and senior fintech executives.