Best FinTech Companies in Central Region, Malta
The 55 best FinTech companies in Central Region, Malta in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Founders Bank project.
Our analysis of 1,006 FinTech companies
$195.5b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Central Region
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Founders Bank project Challenger bank | $10M | 81 mo ago | Deadpooled | Kenan Altunis Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 2 | Quidax App-based trading & exchange solutions for cryptocurrency | $120K | 56 mo ago | Seed | Buchi Okoro CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 3 | QnA3.AI AI powered web3 data platform for the crypto industry | — | 28 mo ago | Seed | Kane Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | SentryNode.jsTailwind CSS+15 | — |
| 4 | Gamium Blockchain-based social metaverse platform for NFTs | — | 47 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+14 | — |
| 5 | Ferrum Network Blockchain-based network for the finance industry | — | 83 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2018 | WordPressDrupalMySQL+21 | — |
| 6 | Novum Bank Commercial Bank | — | 205 mo ago | Seed | Michael Hutko CEO | 2009 | SitecoreMicrosoft ASP.NETMicrosoft Advertising+15 | — |
| 7 | AI Finance Group AI-driven credit solution | — | — | Unfunded | Sarah Miller Benichou Co-Founder & CMO | 2019 | — | — |
| 8 | ALB Multi-asset trading platform | — | — | Unfunded | Emre Arıkan CEO | 2017 | Node.jsPHPAnimate.css+29 | — |
Top 6 FinTech companies in Central Region
#1
Deadpooled · Gzira, Central Region · founded 2018 · 6 employees$10Mraised▾
Founders Bank is developing a corporate challenger bank. Aims to offer banking services to the tech industry, including blockchain and other emerging technologies.
#2
Seed · San Gwann, Central Region · founded 2016 · 80 employees$120Kraised▾
Developer of a cryptocurrency trading application designed to send, receive, buy, and sell digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Litecoin using local currencies. The company's cryptocurrency services aim to build the liquidity that would power the next generation of remittances, making it cheaper, faster, and efficient, enabling users to buy and sell cryptocurrency with their local currency.
#3
Seed · Birkirkara, Central Region · founded 2023—raised▾
QnA3 is an AI-powered web3 data platform that provides answers to web3-related questions. It aims to be a knowledge-sharing platform for the crypto industry.
#4
Seed · Ta Xbiex, Central Region · founded 2021 · 23 employees—raised▾
Blockchain-based social metaverse platform for NFTs. It enables users to create avatars, digital identities of humans, exchange NFTs, and more. It also allows users to govern Metaverse, access exclusive events, receive NFT & token airdrops, and more.
#5
Funding Raised · Ta Xbiex, Central Region · founded 2018 · 34 employees—raised▾
Blockchain-based network for the finance industry. It provides management, transaction, and exchange of digital assets without taking custody of the user's assets. It also provides DApps like Kudi Exchange Fiat Gateway, Infinity DEX, UniFyre Wallet, and Sub Zero Wallet. It also provides an FRM token for the transactions on the network.
#6
Seed · Ta Xbiex, Central Region · founded 2009 · 124 employees—raised▾
Operator of a private credit institution intended to help people to access financial services. The company specializes in card/store value and micro-lending, it provides Prepaid Cards to customers looking for an alternative financial answer to traditional bank accounts and short-term loans, enabling customers to get the desired financial flexibility as per their requirements.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of FinTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Fintech is moving in Malta
A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 6 Malta-affiliated papers.
- University of Malta5
- Middlesex University1
- Interpretability3
- Loan3
- Equity (law)3
- Financial services2
- Boosting (machine learning)1
- Financial services3
- Money laundering1
- Principle of legality1
- Digital currency1
- Payment1
Where fintech is researched across Malta
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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