A Specialised Boutique for Fintech Strategy & Bespoke Advisory Services
DNYC Ltd provides high-impact strategy and corporate finance advisory to fintech boards, private equity firms, and leadership teams across the UK and EU.
Daniela Sozzi brings 20 years of direct fintech experience to critical inflection points, from regulatory licensing to M&A and value creation.
How DNYC Operates
Who leads consulting engagements at DNYC?
Daniela Sozzi, founder and principal of DNYC Ltd, personally leads every engagement from scoping through delivery, serving as the single point of accountability so clients work directly with her rather than a rotating team.
How does DNYC scale to meet specific technical or operational needs?
Daniela draws on a vetted bench of independent legal, technical, and operational specialists, bringing them in selectively based on the exact demands of the mandate—such as licensing filings, tech integrations, or operational build-outs.
What are the main benefits of this advisory model?
It combines dedicated senior-level continuity with the flexibility to scale specialist capacity as needed, avoiding the high overhead, hand-offs, and diluted ownership typical of larger firms.
Corporate Finance Advisory and Execution for UK & EU Fintechs
ENABLING value creation through rigorous DELIVERY and advisory.
- Corporate Finance: Capital structure, financial modelling, investment framing
- Strategic investment into crypto specialist
- Recapitalisation structure
- Due Diligence
- Strategic and financial review for EMIs
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- PE and VC exits in the UK and Europe
- Post-merger integration
- Special Projects & Transformation
- Operating model reviews for scale and margin efficiency
- Strategy Execution
- Bespoke plans to scale past product-market fit
- Acquisition consolidation
- GTM plans
- Investor Documents
- Board packs, investor decks, equity event materials
- Risk Management
- Structure enterprise risk frameworks grounded in EMI & MiCAR realities
Board-Level Strategy & Regulatory Governance (MiCA, FCA, AI)
Defining where to compete, how to grow, and how to navigate the regulatory and market landscape.
- Business Plan Development
- Regulatory business plans for licensing & authorisation
- Market Entry Strategy
- Define UK & EU market positioning across payment ecosystems
- Regulatory Strategy
- Complement legal advisory workstreams
- How cyber resilience, operational risk and regulatory obligations affect fintech strategy.
- Blockchain Innovation
- Provide roadmap leadership steer
- Advise on digital assets & blockchain business model
- Digital Euro
- AI Governance
- Provide board-level frameworks for responsible AI adoption in fintech
Sector Expertise
Applying deep sector knowledge to investment decisions, industry insight and expert analysis.
- Investment Scouting
- Supporting institutional investors in identifying and assessing potential investment opportunities across fintech and payments.
- Portfolio Performance Analysis
- Assessing portfolio company performance, business models, competitive positioning and value creation opportunities.
- Sector Presentations & Briefings
- Delivering tailored sector overviews, market intelligence and strategic briefings for investors and executive teams.
- Webinars & Speaking Engagements
- Sharing practitioner insights on fintech strategy, payments innovation, regulatory developments and emerging business models.
- Expert Witness & Litigation Support
- Providing independent expert analysis, technical and commercial assessments, and litigation support in fintech and payments disputes.
- Expert Network Consultations
- Providing specialist industry perspectives to investment professionals, research firms and expert networks to inform commercial and investment decisions.
what clients say about dnyc
Across platforms such as Google, Clutch, and Trustpilot, client feedback for DNYC Ltd consistently highlights Daniela Sozzi’s board-level influence, rapid execution, and deep expertise in payments and digital asset regulation (including MiCA and VASP frameworks).
Reviewers praise her practical, solution-focused approach to stakeholder alignment, compliance remediation, and operational restructuring, emphasizing her ability to bridge high-level strategic vision with executive board priorities.
Clients frequently commend the exceptional quality and rapid turnaround of her deliverable artifacts, noting her unique capacity to unstick complex mandates and drive immediate value across cross-functional leadership teams.
How to Engage
Advisory & Board Roles
Ongoing strategic guidance and ad-hoc workshops for leadership teams.
Project Work
Outcome-driven engagements — due diligence, remediation, post-merger integration.
Daniela owns and leads every engagement personally; a vetted bench of legal, technical, and data specialists is brought in per mandate.
“Any strategy is only as good as the ability to execute it under pressure. My process begins by framing specific problems, identifying key stakeholders, developing custom KPIs, and designing targeted actions to drive measurable improvements.”
Commitment to Continuous Professional Development
Her ongoing professional development combines board governance certificates from the Institute of Directors (IoD), advanced training in AI ethics and cyber resilience with The Alan Turing Institute and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and assessed fiduciary oversight modules from ICAEW.
This commitment to continuous learning reinforces DNYC’s expertise in board-level advisory, fintech transformation and turnaround, AI governance, and regulatory compliance.