Vetted. Trusted. On the journey with you.

The Top Fintech Vendors
that deliver true ROI.

The products, and the people behind them.

Every vendor pitches you a demo. Most of it is noise. I spent ten years working with C-levels in global fintech, separating the tools that move revenue from the ones that just look busy, and I vet the people behind every product as hard as the product itself: the founders, the history, how they show up when something breaks at 3am. Only what survives earns a place on the shelf. Pick wrong and you burn budget, months, and credibility with your board. Pick from my Top Fintech Vendors and you don't.

See What Made the Cut
10yrs
Working with C-levels in global fintech
~15%
Revenue growth, year on year, nine years straight
$1B
The fintech that acquired Autochartist, a deal built on that growth
C-suite
A decade-deep network of founders, CEOs and the people who sign
The Stance

Everyone is selling you something. I bring vendors that deliver true ROI.

My network took ten years of showing up and delivering to build: founders, CEOs and the people who sign. One bad recommendation would burn it overnight. That's why my shelf is short: 19 categories, and in almost every one of them a single vetted name. The list is short because my name is on every line of it.

I sat through the demos. I pulled apart the pricing line by line. I tested every claim against operators who'd know, and I vetted the people as hard as the products: who built it, how long they've carried it, how they show up when it breaks. Almost everything got rejected. What survived are the Top Fintech Vendors, and when I bring one of them to your table, my reputation arrives with it.

That's the entire business model.

What "vetted" means here

  • I. Run and tested by me, not read about in a deck
  • II. Pricing pulled apart line by line before you ever see it
  • III. Claims checked against operators who'd know
  • IV. Almost everything rejected. The shortlist is short on purpose.
  • V. Consultative to the end: diagnosis before recommendation, and I stay in the room after signature
The Top Fintech Vendors

Top Fintech Vendors that made the cut.

Every filled seat earns its place the same way: it grows revenue, protects revenue, or frees the capacity to chase it. I compounded ~15% growth for nine straight years, so I know exactly what moves a P&L and what just looks busy. Nobody buys a seat on this list. Products earn it, and the people behind them earn it too, because I've known most of them for a decade. That's what a recommendation from this list is worth.

PR &MEDIAEVENTS &EXPOSRISK &DEALINGPLATFORMPLUGINSTRADINGPLATFORMCRMHOSTINGLIQUIDITYPAYMENTS &BANKINGPAYMENTSCOMPLIANCELEGAL &LICENSINGCYBER &DORAENGAGEMENTMESSAGINGENGAGEMENTHUBTRADERCOMMUNITYTRADERACADEMYCUSTOMERINTELAIAGENTSAITRANSFORMATION

Every category, in one picture. One conversation reaches all of them.

PR, Media, Events & Expos
01PR & Media

PR That Gets You Quoted in Tier-One Media

  • Financial services PR only, for a decade. Brokers from tier-one to start-up.
  • Earned coverage, not paid placements. 60 to 70% of what runs is earned, with press releases, print features and thought leadership behind it.
  • Your analysts on air with Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters and Al Arabiya.
  • Billboards, airport, metro, digital screens, sports sponsorship and launch events. Dubai first, global reach.
  • Type your brand into ChatGPT. AI search ranks earned coverage above press release blasts. That answer is now your first impression.
  • The service is tier-one. The pricing is not.
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02Events & Expo Strategy

You Host. You Close. The Rest Is Already Done.

  • Expo strategy and delivery, built around the expos that actually move deals, not the ones that only move budget.
  • Broker and partner events planned and run end to end, including the client events around each expo.
  • Your team shows up. Nothing else is yours to carry.
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Core Trading Infrastructure & Risk
03Risk Management & Dealing Desk

A Full Risk Desk Without Hiring One

  • Runs your A and B book and the daily risk decisions. 24/5 coverage, 24/7 monitoring, 15-minute incident SLA.
  • Prop firms: catches group passing, cross-account hedging and latency arbitrage before the payout, not after.
  • 1 in 7 prop firms worldwide shut down, 2024 to 2025. (VeritasChain)
  • Cloudflare's November outage cost brokers roughly 1% of monthly revenue. (Finance Magnates)
  • Prefer to keep risk in-house? Start with an independent audit.
  • Close to 20 years in risk. A senior team at a fraction of the payroll.
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04Platform Plugins

Infrastructure That Thinks Like a Dealing Desk

  • MT4, MT5, cTrader and DXtrade. Live in days. Zero added latency.
  • 5ms of latency costs 1% of flow. (TABB Group)
  • Execution controls, margin enforcement, swap and bonus management, NOP limits, synthetic indices, prop tooling.
  • Built by dealing-desk veterans, not developers guessing.
  • Bespoke plugins, fixed-priced before a line is written.
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05Trading Platform

The Platform Your Traders Judge You On

  • Every session, every spread, every fill: the platform is the product.
  • Vetted under real volume, not in a demo. Execution, stability, pricing.
  • Matched to your model and your budget, not to the vendor's sales target.
  • Pick wrong and you replatform later, with the churn to prove it.
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06CRM

One Client Record, From First Click to Funded

  • Registration, KYC, deposits, IB tracking, retention: 1 record, not 5 exports.
  • Vetted on what the sales floor does with it on a Friday afternoon, not on the demo.
  • The CRM is where the trader journey either compounds or leaks.
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07Hosting & IT Infrastructure

Uptime Is a Revenue Line

  • Hosting and IT infrastructure for trading operations.
  • An hour of downtime runs past $300,000 for mid-size firms. (ITIC)
  • The vendor apologised. Nobody owned the fix. Infrastructure needs an owner, not an apology.
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Liquidity, Payments & Banking Rails
08Institutional Liquidity

Liquidity That Holds When Others Panic

  • FX, metals, indices and commodities. Tier 1 bank and non-bank feeds. Full STP, around the clock.
  • 1 LP's rejection rate: 3% to 60% in a month. (XTX Markets, 2020)
  • Direct prime, Prime-of-Prime or sub-prime, matched to your flow and your balance sheet.
  • Leveraged funding on a profit-share basis for brokers who want to run a larger book than their capital allows.
  • Lean on 1 LP's mood and the next spike prices your book for you.
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09Payments, Digital Assets & Banking

Money In, Money Out. Best Rates. No Excuses.

  • Clients forgive a bad trade. Never a stuck withdrawal.
  • False declines cost 1 to 2% of revenue. (Checkout.com / Oxford Economics)
  • Open banking in Europe: no card network, no chargebacks, fees 40 to 85% lower. India rails: payment success from 25% to 65%.
  • Fiat and crypto pay-ins, on and off-ramp, same-day OTC settlement.
  • De-banked? Dedicated EU and UK accounts.
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10Payments Compliance

Compliance Built for High-Risk Flow

  • EDD-tiered compliance processing for high-risk payment flow.
  • Due diligence matched to the risk of each flow, not 1 blanket policy.
  • 1 termination puts you on Mastercard's MATCH list for 5 years.
  • Get the compliance right before the acquirer decides for you.
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Legal, Regulatory & Cyber Security
11Legal, Licensing & Regulatory Advisory

Get Licensed. Or Buy One.

  • "And where are you licensed?" Then silence.
  • 45% of first-time applications fail, up from 27%. (FCA)
  • Starts with counsel: do you even need a licence, and where. Then build the licence, or acquire a company already licensed.
  • 12 jurisdictions: UK, Australia, Cyprus, South Africa, Singapore, UAE, Vanuatu, St Lucia, Mauritius, Cayman Islands, Seychelles, Comoros.
  • Same advisor stays on: contracts, structuring, disputes, whatever hits mid-deal.
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12Cyber Security & DORA

Security That Survives the Audit

  • Posture assessment and penetration testing.
  • DORA and FCA dashboards built to hold up under audit.
  • DORA has applied since January 2025. The regulator asks for evidence, not policies.
  • Fix the gaps before an incident or an examiner finds them.
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Trader Growth & Engagement
13Client Engagement Messaging

Own Every Client Conversation

  • The deal-closing conversation is on someone's personal WhatsApp. Untracked. Gone when that rep resigns.
  • 41% of the off-channel breaches the FCA reviewed involved directors or senior managers. (FCA, 2025)
  • One compliant inbox: WhatsApp, live chat, Instagram and SMS. Management oversight and an audit trail across every conversation.
  • Meta's official Business API. No ban exposure. Up to 72% higher open rates than email.
  • Keep it on personal phones and you are 1 resignation from losing the relationship.
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14Trader Engagement Hub

A Reason to Log In Daily

  • White-label hub under your brand: social feed, copy trading, rewards.
  • Engagement before and after the first deposit.
  • IBs run their own communities inside your hub. Their traders stay on your platform, and you see the activity.
  • Sits on your existing platform and CRM. No rebuild.
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15Trader Community Platform

Where Your Next Traders Already Are

  • Open FX and CFD community, app and web. Traders follow analysts, IBs and each other.
  • Brokers sponsor verified pages and receive the traders the community generates.
  • IBs bring their followers and are paid through you, not around you.
  • Acquisition that compounds, instead of every trader bought at full price.
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16Trader Education & Academy

Education That Converts, Gated by Your CRM

  • White-label academy: courses, quizzes and CRM gating.
  • Content unlocks as the trader progresses and funds.
  • The trader who registers and finds nothing to do before the deposit page leaves. This gives them a reason to stay.
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17Customer Intelligence

Why Traders Leave, From the Traders Themselves

  • Client-journey feedback and real churn data, not guesswork.
  • Know why the funded trader traded twice and drifted, while you can still act.
  • Retention decisions on evidence, not on the loudest opinion in the room.
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AI Agents & Executive Automation
18Executive AI Agents

Not Chatbots. Your First AI Hire.

  • CEO Advisor: pressure-tests every decision before you commit. SEO Advisor: outthinks agencies charging 10x more.
  • Roughly 5% of a specialist hire's monthly cost. (Cooper Fitch)
  • Only 16% of Copilot pilots reach production. (Gartner)
  • Onboard in days. Never drop a thread. Sharper every day.
  • Wait on headcount and your competitors already hired theirs.
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19AI & Business Transformation

Rebuilt Around AI. Not Bolted On.

  • 95% of GenAI deployments show no profit impact. (MIT) Adoption isn't the gap. Redesign is.
  • Only 21% of firms have redesigned the work. (McKinsey)
  • The Business Brain learns how your company actually runs, finds the one constraint choking growth, hands you the fix.
  • Led by an operator behind 40+ businesses across 20 industries.
  • Sit this out and you compete against the version of your industry that didn't.
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Every name on this shelf has already survived my vetting. The only question left is which one goes to work for your business.

30-Minute Diagnostic
Who This Is For

Any company serious about winning.
Especially the ones who move fast because they can't afford not to.

Any Industry

Founders and leadership teams

The Business Brain, AI Transformation and Executive AI Agents don't care what you sell. They care that you have revenue, ambition, and a constraint you haven't found yet. If your board meetings run on opinion instead of clarity, that's the problem I solve.

Individual Executives

One executive, one AI hire

You don't need a board mandate to move. Executive AI Agents are hired one seat at a time: a CEO with an advisor that pressure-tests every call, a marketing lead with an SEO brain that outthinks the agency. If you carry the number personally, this one is yours.

Home Turf

Brokers, prop firms and trading platforms

This is home. I know your P&L, your sales floor, your churn curve and your risk book, because I spent ten years building growth for the companies that supply you. Engagement, risk, infrastructure, plugins: most of this list was built for exactly this floor.

How I Work

No pitch deck. A diagnosis.

1.

We talk. Thirty minutes.

You tell me where it actually hurts: growth, conversion, operations, clarity. I tell you straight, on the same call, whether I have your answer. If I don't, I say so on the spot, and you've still spent thirty minutes with someone who knows your market cold. No follow-up email trying to keep the deal alive.

✓ Straight answers on the call itself
2.

First the audit. Then the answer.

A short, sharp audit of how you handle the problem today, not a sales deck dressed up as discovery. You keep the findings whether we go further or not. I'd rather lose the deal than recommend into the dark, because a bad recommendation costs me more than it costs you.

✓ You keep the findings, deal or no deal
3.

I open the right door. And walk through it with you.

Senior people, not sales reps. Terms that make sense because I've negotiated both sides of this exact table. And I don't disappear after signature: I'm in the demo with you, an insider's eye across the legal process, deep in the onboarding until it runs, and still on the journey with you years later.

✓ Still on the journey years later

Thirty minutes. No deck, no pitch. If I can't help, I'll tell you inside the first ten.

30-Minute Diagnostic
Track Record

You've probably shaken my hand already.

I'm Bazil De Bruyn. Baz, to an industry that's shaken my hand for a decade. For nearly ten years I was the commercial engine at Autochartist: roughly 15% revenue growth, every single year, nine years straight, trusted directly by ownership with no layers in between. That growth played a direct role in the company's acquisition by oneZero Financial Systems, a billion-dollar fintech and the largest technology provider in the space, where I served as Director of Business Development.

Since then: SVP of Partner Solutions in stablecoin payments, and a career spent evaluating platforms, pricing and vendor claims for a living. I've sat close enough to legal, finance, marketing, product and growth, not as a spectator but as the one making the pieces fit, to know when a pitch will survive contact and a product will thrive with your actual business, and when it's just a good deck.

Every deal across that decade was won the same way: diagnose first, recommend second, stay in the room after signature. Elevate Edge is that judgment, working for you.

Bazil De Bruyn
  • —Seven years driving the growth, then the acquisition by a $1B fintech
  • —Director of Business Development, oneZero Financial Systems
  • —SVP Partner Solutions, stablecoin payments
  • —Enterprise sales, consultative from first call to close
  • —A C-level network across global trading, ten years deep
  • —The vetting already done. The shortlist already made.
In Their Words

Don't take mine for it. Take their word.

Enterprise value sales in B2B fintech is challenging: long cycles, technical buyers, multi-year contracts and senior stakeholders across the globe. Bazil thrives in exactly that environment. He took the time to genuinely understand what a prospective client was trying to solve, and then built a compelling case around their specific context. He had a regular cadence of closing large deals.

Grant AnsellCEO, Smoke Customer Intelligence · managed Bazil directly at Autochartist

His consistency was key in helping maintain a 15% annual growth rate in a mature, highly competitive market. Highly capable of mapping out multi-phase enterprise deals and engaging professionally with senior decision-makers, always backed by thorough preparation.

Rob HortonManaged Bazil directly at Autochartist

The most tenacious sales person you'll ever meet. Never takes no for an answer. Process driven, meticulous.

Ilan AzbelFounder & CEO, Autochartist · managed Bazil directly

Working with Bazil across both Autochartist and oneZero Financial Systems was one of the more genuinely positive professional relationships I have experienced in this industry. I was conducting a rigorous, research-driven evaluation of competing platforms at the time, and Bazil supported that process with exceptional responsiveness, product knowledge, and a level of personal investment that is rare in a vendor relationship. He is someone who genuinely invests in the people he works with, and that makes all the difference.

Maged Abidou, PhD, FRMHead of Product Innovation, GTN Group · client across Autochartist & oneZero

In a world where people often go quiet after the contract is signed, Bazil was the opposite. Proactive, attentive, and genuinely invested in making sure the solutions we had implemented were delivering real value. He set the bar for what great client relationship management looks like.

Andrew QuineCOO, SaaS & FinTech scale-ups · client at oneZero Financial Systems

Having worked with Bazil for almost a decade in various roles, I found him an excellent collaborator. He is persuasive, communicative, competent and thorough, and of impeccable character. In other words, what a top executive should be. I would have no hesitation in recommending him to anyone.

Christos AgathocleousInstaforex · client for almost a decade
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In the Press

The launch, as the industry reported it.

Elevate Edge went public in October 2026. This is the coverage, in the industry's words, not mine. Media: every announcement lives in the newsroom, link straight to it.

Official Announcement · elevate-edge.xyz

Elevate Edge launches as strategic technology and services advisory firm for brokerages, prop firms and banks

21 October 2026 · Limassol, Cyprus
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FX News Group

Former oneZero exec Bazil De Bruyn launches broker tech advisory firm Elevate Edge

21 October 2026 · by Gerald Segal
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Finance Magnates

Former oneZero Executive Launches Firm to Vet Technology Vendors for Brokers

21 October 2026 · Executive Moves
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Finextra

Elevate Edge launches as fintech advisory firm

21 October 2026 · Wholesale banking
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TradingView News

Former oneZero Executive Launches Firm to Vet Technology Vendors for Brokers

21 October 2026 · syndicated from Finance Magnates
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Finance Magnates RU

Former oneZero executive launches a technology-selection service for brokers

22 October 2026 · Russian edition, in Russian
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Latest from LinkedIn

The conversation, as it happens.

What I am seeing across brokers, prop firms and the vendors that serve them. Posted on LinkedIn, streamed here.

Bazil De Bruyn
Bazil De BruynFounder & CEO, Elevate Edge · October 2026

Authority Is Built Before the First Deposit

Type your brokerage name into ChatGPT. That answer is now the first impression for traders, IBs, regulators and liquidity providers.

AI search now ranks 1 earned mention in Reuters, Bloomberg or the BBC above all syndicated releases combined. The mistake was buying presence instead of authority.

Real authority takes a focused financial media strategy: earned placements, analysts on Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters and Al Arabiya, presence in Dubai and London.

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Bazil De Bruyn
Bazil De BruynFounder & CEO, Elevate Edge · October 2026

The Real Cost of a Bad Vendor Decision

Most B2B solution initiatives fail for one simple reason: they were bought on a demo, not reality.

Only 48% of digital initiatives deliver the outcomes they were bought for (Gartner).

Poor contract management erodes nearly 9% of annual revenue value. $1 in every $5 spent on software is wasted. Employees lose 7 hours every week to fragmented systems.

Growth ends up funding the vendor, instead of the vendor driving growth. Elevate Edge exists to fix that.

The real cost of a bad vendor decision Read the post on LinkedIn →
Bazil De Bruyn
Bazil De BruynFounder & CEO, Elevate Edge · September 2026

Half your vendor shortlist is a coin flip. You just don't know which half.

Gartner puts vendor failure at 50%+. That's before anyone gets to the part where it costs you revenue, hours, or a client walking.

Swipe through for what actually happens after the contract is signed.

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Bazil De Bruyn
Bazil De BruynFounder & CEO, Elevate Edge · August 2026

New chapter. I've founded Elevate Edge.

Nearly a decade at Autochartist/oneZero Financial Systems: ~15% revenue growth YoY. That growth played a direct part in the Autochartist acquisition by oneZero, a $1B fintech and the largest technology provider in the space.

Every deal across that decade was won the same way: diagnose first, recommend second, stay in the room after signature.

Elevate Edge is that judgment, working directly for the market.

Elevate Edge Read the post on LinkedIn →
Bazil De Bruyn
Bazil De BruynFounder & CEO, Elevate Edge · July 2026

The Cyprus summer way of networking in style.

Thank you Sonata Naujokaitė and expo-consulting for an incredible event. Ayia Napa is on the annual event map.

Finance Beach Mixer: the video is out, for those who want to re-live Friday for a few minutes.

Finance Beach Mixer, Ayia NapaFinance Beach Mixer flag, Ayia Napa
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Bazil De Bruyn
Bazil De BruynFounder & CEO, Elevate Edge · July 2026

One of the best-run events I've been to in a long time.

Beach Mixer by expo-consulting. Full day on the beach at Agia Napa, a lovely meal, and the people in the room made it easy to walk away with real connections, not just business cards.

If expo-consulting has another event on the calendar, go. Sonata has a gift for building rooms where people actually connect.

Finance Beach Mixer, Agia Napa Read the post on LinkedIn →
Bazil De Bruyn
Bazil De BruynFounder & CEO, Elevate Edge · June 2026

iFX EXPO Cyprus 2026 is a wrap. What a week!

4 packed days, incredible side events, and more meaningful conversations than I can count.

The real value of events like this isn't the venue. It's the conversations. Founders, CEOs and C-suite leaders across some of the most exciting companies in the space.

iFX EXPO Cyprus 2026, EC Markets side event Read the post on LinkedIn →
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The Next Move

Thirty minutes. Your hardest problem.
My straight answer.

If one of them solves it, you'll know exactly how, and I'll be beside you from first demo through onboarding and beyond. If none of them do, I'll tell you that too. This isn't a pitch, it's a door. Walk through it once and you'll know within thirty minutes whether I'm worth keeping in the room.

Vetted. Trusted. On the journey with you.

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