Services
We work the four connections that decide whether anything ships.
No audience tabs and no packages. This page explains what Nexus actually does. The Ambassador Program, Membership and Get Connected carry the conversions.
The model
Four connections, because that is where the work actually is.
Almost nothing in this sector fails because someone built the wrong product. It fails in the gap between two parties who needed each other and could not get a meeting, could not agree a standard, or could not get a straight answer on whether the thing was even permitted.
So Nexus is organised around the gaps rather than around audiences. Each of the four below is a pairing that has to work for the sector to move, and each has its own reason for stalling. The services under them are the specific pieces of work that unstick each one.
None of this is a retainer or a package. We are an industry body, funded by membership and partnership, and everything here is available to members at the tier that covers it.
Connection 01
Fintechs and Banks
Most partnership talks die in procurement, not in the pitch. We work the part that actually stalls.
Partnership matchmaking
A shortlist of banks whose roadmap already needs what you built, instead of a cold outreach list.
Integration readiness review
Your stack, security posture and documentation checked against what a bank risk desk will ask for.
Pilot design and sponsorship
A scoped pilot with success criteria both sides signed off before anyone writes code.
Connection 02
Fintechs and Regulators
Regulators are not the obstacle. Not knowing what they need to see is the obstacle.
Regulatory navigation
A clear read on which licence, exemption or sandbox route fits what you are building.
Sandbox and licensing support
Application material prepared to the standard the reviewer expects, first time.
Policy consultation channel
Your operating reality reaches the desk writing the rule, before the rule is written.
Connection 03
Banks and Regulators
Two institutions that need the same evidence base and rarely build it together.
Industry research and data
Primary research on how the market actually operates, gathered on the record and published.
Standards working groups
Shared technical and compliance standards agreed in the room rather than litigated after launch.
Closed door roundtables
A candid session where both sides can say the quiet part without it becoming a headline.
Connection 04
All Stakeholders and Investors
Capital moves when the risk is legible. Most of the risk here is policy risk, so we make that legible first.
Deal facilitation
Founders and funds matched on stated mandate, with diligence groundwork already started.
Demo days and Deal Room
A short format session where investors state what they want and founders answer to it directly.
Sector briefings
The policy and market context behind a thesis, written for people who will act on it.
How an engagement runs
Four steps, and we tell you at step one if it will not work.
Step 01
Tell us the problem
A paragraph is enough. We will tell you whether this is something we can help with, including when the answer is no.
Step 02
We map who is needed
Usually the blocker is a person or a permission, not a plan. We work out which, and who actually has to be in the room.
Step 03
We convene it
A session, an introduction, or a working group, whichever fits. Both sides arrive briefed, so nobody spends the first hour catching up.
Step 04
We stay through the boring part
Procurement, risk sign off, integration timelines. This is where most of these die, so this is where we do not leave.
What we do not do
The boundaries are the point.
An industry body that will do anything for anyone is not an industry body. These are the lines that make the rest credible.
We do not take equity
Not in members, not in the startups we introduce. The moment we own a stake in one outcome, every introduction we make is suspect.
We do not pick winners
Deal flow goes to investors filtered by their stated mandate, not by who we like. Nobody buys a place at the front of that queue.
We do not lobby for one firm
Advocacy is for positions the sector can hold in common, evidenced by research. A single company's commercial problem is not a policy position.
We do not sell consulting
We are not an accelerator, an agency or an advisory. If what you need is billable delivery work, we will say so and point you elsewhere.
Not sure which of these you need?
Describe the problem in a paragraph. We will tell you whether it is something we can help with, including when the answer is no.