The EUDI Wallet is set to transform digital identity across Europe, creating new opportunities for secure identification, authentication, and seamless digital services. As Germany prepares for rollout, businesses and financial institutions must navigate evolving regulations, interoperability challenges, and new fraud prevention requirements.
Since January 2026, Germany's BRSG II has made it easier for employers to enrol staff into a company pension by default. But enrolment alone doesn't solve the problem. This article uses data from 5,020 employees across 13 sectors to show that the real gap is not whether employers offer a pension, but whether employees understand it. The findings suggest that pension communication is directly linked to retention, and that a significant share of non-participation closes through better information alone.
At the HoFT Scale-Up Academy session on "Regulation & Compliance | Regulatory Roadmap", one central message ran through the entire discussion: Regulation is not a gate you pass through once. It is infrastructure. It shapes your product design, your partnership strategy, your organisational set-up, your fundraising narrative, and ultimately your ability to scale. The sooner FinTechs treats regulatory thinking as a core product discipline, rather – than a downstream legal exercise, the faster and more robustly they will grow.
The barriers to UK market entry are well known. What has changed is the playbook. Banks scout inward, not outward. B2C is a trap. Raises under £10m are harder to close in London than above. Investors kill deals on AI replaceability. And London's listing rules were quietly rewritten in your favour. Five shifts Berlin fintechs need to know before crossing the Channel.
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