pick 01 · our own firm
Digital Heroes
New York HQ at 1140 Broadway for leadership and account directors · code written in Delhi, Lucknow and, for iOS and Android, Sydney · since 2017
First for this page's buyer: a US company wanting its first money app built on licensed partners, at a fixed price, with every account in its own name. Two paid weeks of discovery end in a threat model, a data flow map and a check on where secrets live, before any build price is set. Your repositories and cloud accounts hold the work from sprint one, and code written for you is assigned to you once paid in full.
Our weakest test is the first. No banking, wallet or lending app appears among our published case studies, so there is none to show you. The nearest work is the pair of AirTrainr mobile apps, one for athletes and one for trainers, built in React Native with Expo on Supabase, where trainers track what they earn; and SpeedyPrint, a print store whose PayFast checkout runs on payment webhooks.
From the first build sprint, each week ends with a recorded demo of the working app, and we do not bill a week that has none. Our New York headquarters answers on the day you write, on weekdays from 9 AM until 6 PM New York time. Clutch lists us at 5.0 from 66 verified reviews (checked 13 October 2026). The fintech product page lists the payment, bank data and identity work we take on.
Fits: a US startup or product team launching a payments, wallet or lending app on licensed partners, that wants a fixed price, replies in Eastern hours and the developer accounts in its own name.
Does not fit: anyone who will only sign after seeing a shipped banking or wallet app the vendor built, which DashDevs and GeekyAnts can point to and we cannot; a contract that insists on US-based engineers; a bank replacing its core platform; and jobs too small to justify a senior engineer plus a designer.
pick 02
DashDevs
Offices in London, Wilmington (Delaware), Budapest, Warsaw and Lisbon · 15 years in fintech, by its own count · fintech first, with a few other industries on its menu
The most fintech-focused firm here. It says it builds regulated financial products for startups, banks and fintech companies, and it sells Fintech Core, a configurable layer for customers, payments, accounts and reporting, with ready blocks for a ledger, KYC flows and card issuing. Fintech Core is meant to sit on top of a licensed partner rather than stand in for one, the site explains, and it puts typical time into production at 12 weeks.
Its named work includes the core banking orchestration behind Dozens, a UK challenger bank whose own site now says it has closed, and the open banking engine for Tarabut, a regulated open banking platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The providers it names are TrueLayer, Yapily and Tink for open banking; Marqeta, Modulr, Adyen and Stripe for cards and payments; and Sumsub, Veriff and Onfido for identity checks.
Fits: teams launching under a partner licence that want a ready base for wallets, ledger, onboarding and cards, and products aimed at Europe, North America or MENA, the markets it says it builds for.
Does not fit: a US-only app whose bank linking runs on US rails, since it describes its open banking integrations as UK, EU and MENA work, so ask for US references. Also buyers who want no vendor platform inside their product: get in writing what you keep of Fintech Core if you leave.
pick 03
GeekyAnts
Offices in Bangalore, London and San Francisco · 20 years of product engineering, by its own count · React Native and Flutter first
The cross-platform pick. GeekyAnts built NativeBase, an open-source component library for React Native, in 2016, and later gluestack as its successor; its React Native hiring page counts more than 250 React Native engineers. Its fintech page lists React Native first among its front-end tools, names Flutter and Expo too, and counts 40+ fintech engineers and 50+ fintech projects.
Named fintech work includes an admin platform for a North American fintech that runs cross-border payments, a mortgage planner for a UK fintech connected to more than 14 UK lenders with the MVP delivered in four months, wealth work with Bambu, and a crypto payments app for Zapit built end to end in nine weeks. Its engagement models start with a fintech discovery sprint of two to four weeks.
Fits: a team that has settled on a single React Native or Flutter code base shared by both platforms and wants a vendor with fintech cases built that way.
Does not fit: buyers set on fully native Swift and Kotlin apps, so ask who on the team writes them every day. Its FAQ says a simple fintech MVP may start around $10,000 to $20,000; check what a quote near that figure leaves out.
pick 04
Intellectsoft
Office at 500 Fashion Avenue, New York, with a London phone line · banking, wallets and trading among many industries
The pick for consumer finance apps with names you know. Its finance page lists a mobile app giving Experian Credit Report members quick access to their key information, a share price app for the London Stock Exchange with push alerts, watch lists and a stock finder, and a mobile banking platform that uses face and voice recognition with three-factor authentication.
It also lists a crypto wallet that sends Bitcoin and Ethereum with a shake of the phone. Its finance page promises a reply within one business day, an optional mutual NDA within one to two days, and a first estimate in about three to five days.
Fits: banks, credit businesses and trading firms that want a vendor with a New York address and named consumer finance apps behind it.
Does not fit: a startup that wants a fintech-only team, since finance is one of more than ten industries on its site. Its finance case studies carry no dates, so ask which were shipped recently and by whom.
pick 05
*instinctools
US headquarters in Potomac, Maryland, EU headquarters in Stuttgart, office in Warsaw · development centers in Poland, India, Kazakhstan and Latin America · working since 2000
The native-depth pick. Its fintech mobile page treats native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI and Combine, with Face ID, NFC tap to pay and Keychain storage), native Android with tamper detection, Flutter or React Native, progressive web apps and hybrid apps as separate offers, and it names Apple's App Review and Google Play's privacy rules as part of the work.
Its company page lists ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 among five ISO certifications, counts 400+ in-house professionals, keeps about 12% of its engineers on the bench for new projects, and promises six to eight hours of overlap with the US East Coast. Its FAQ puts a basic fintech app at around $70,000.
Fits: product owners who want native and cross-platform options from one vendor, East Coast overlap and an ISO 27001 certificate to hand a partner bank.
Does not fit: anyone who needs a fixed price. Its company page says it does not offer fixed-price contracts and bills time and materials or a managed capacity model instead.
pick 06
Appinventiv
Offices in Noida and Mohali (India), New York and Emeryville (California), Stones Corner (Queensland), Dubai, London and Calgary · 1,600+ specialists, by its own count
The largest firm on this list. Its fintech page covers mobile banking, multi-currency wallets with NFC contactless payments, trading platforms and P2P lending, claims more than 11 years of fintech work, and names the rules it works to: PCI DSS, PSD2, GDPR, AML and KYC checks, SOX and CCPA. Its mobile stack runs from native iOS and Android to React Native and Flutter.
Named finance work includes Mudra, a budgeting app, an AI assistant for a European bank's customer queries, and Edfundo, a platform that teaches children to manage money. Its FAQ puts fintech apps at $30,000 to $300,000 or more, and a low to medium complexity app at more than 2,000 hours.
Fits: enterprises that want one vendor for mobile, AI and cloud work, with offices on four continents.
Does not fit: teams after a fintech specialist group, since fintech is one practice among dozens on its menu. Ask for the fintech mobile history of the people you would get, not of the company.
pick 07
Artkai
A remote team, with no street address on its contact page · 100+ people in house · 8+ years in business
The design-led pick for banks. Its fintech page names ProCredit's web and mobile online banking, DNA Payments' tools for merchants, and Red Rocks, a financial wellness app sold to businesses. It says it has delivered more than 50 fintech products, and its about page puts 60% of its projects in fintech and enterprise work.
Its mobile stack lists Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native and Ionic. It sells time and materials, a dedicated team or project-based work, hands over source code at launch and helps with app store submission. It builds web3 products too.
Fits: banks and payment companies that want web and mobile banking designed and built by one team.
Does not fit: buyers who want an office to visit. Its about page describes a remote team, and its contact page showed Europe, UK and US tabs but printed no street address when we read it.
pick 08
Agilie
Offices in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Tallinn (Estonia), plus a US phone number · 16 years in business · 50+ engineers
The white-label pick. Its mobile banking page offers GoFinance, a ready package for neobanks and mobile banks, along with card issuer integration, P2P payments in fiat and crypto, and multi-currency accounts in 50 currencies. The sign-in options it lists include PINs, Face ID, Touch ID and voice, with two-factor authentication and KYC.
The case it names on that page is Chameleon, a multi-currency crypto wallet. It says more than 10 fintech companies trust it, and its service menu includes an MVP in six weeks.
Fits: a neobank or wallet founder who would rather start from a white-label base than an empty repository, with a small team on European hours.
Does not fit: a US buyer who wants a US office, since its contact page lists offices only in Slovakia and Estonia; and a program that needs several teams at once from a bench of 50+ engineers.
pick 09
DICEUS
US headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware; offices in Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, the Faroe Islands, Austria, the UAE and Jordan, with Spain also listed · established 2011 · delivery center in Poland
The enterprise finance pick. Its fintech page covers mobile banking apps, contactless payment apps for iOS and Android, buy now pay later, lending and blockchain apps, and its menus run deep into insurance and core banking. It counts 250 full-time technical staff and 150 delivered projects, and offers fixed price, time and materials or a dedicated team.
Its named cases include E-Murabaha, an Islamic finance project on blockchain, the SmartValor blockchain app, and a payment plugin optimization for Pinpoint. Its process section says deployment is done on the client side, with DICEUS checking your environment and listing fixes before the date.
Fits: banks, lenders and insurers with their own IT and operations people who run releases.
Does not fit: a startup with nobody to run deployments, since the firm's own process hands deployment to the client.
We read more firms than the nine here and stopped there rather than pad the list to ten.