DACH Fintech Review 2025: DORA, Digital Assets & Real-Time Payments

Startuprad.io’s 2025 year-end Fintech Review — a structural look at what became irreversible in finance in 2025: AI embedded in core decisions, enforcement-era regulation (DORA-like operational resilience), real-time-payment constraints, digital assets, and the trust limits reshaping banking. Part of Startuprad.io’s annual Fintech Review — the year-end DACH fintech talkshow Jörn “Joe” Menninger has hosted since 2014, published just before Christmas to close the year and carry the community through the holidays.

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Why this matters for fintech: The flagship annual wrap-up of DACH and European fintech — the definitive year-in-review the scene’s operators return to. If you read one fintech retrospective for 2025, this is it.

In this episode, we cover:

• What became irreversible in finance in 2025
• AI embedded in core financial decisions
• Enforcement-era regulation and DORA-like operational resilience
• Real-time payments, digital assets, and trust limits
• How the year reshapes banking and fintech into 2026

Related fintech episodes: DACH Fintech Review 2024 · DACH Fintech Review 2023.

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