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 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
- €30m recapitalisation structure
- Due Diligence
- Completed strategic and financial review for Lithuanian EMI
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- PE and VC exits in the UK and Europe
- Post-merger integration
- Special Projects & Transformation
- Designed operating model for scale and margin efficiency for a UK acquirer
- Delivered €15M in post-merger synergies for Nexi Group.
- Investor Documents
- Structured board packs, investor decks, equity event materials
- Risk Management
- Structured 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
- Write regulatory business plans for licensing & authorisation
- Strategy Execution
- Bespoke plans to scale past product-market fit
- Delivered acquisition consolidation
- Executed GTM plan
- Market Entry Strategy
- Defined UK & EU market positioning across payment ecosystems
- Regulatory Strategy
- Complemented legal advisory workstream to eliminate regulatory bottlenecks
- Blockchain Innovation
- Provided roadmap leadership steer
- Advised on digital assets & blockchain business model
- AI Governance
- Provided board-level frameworks for responsible AI adoption in fintech
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.”