CNBC and Statista named Copla to their World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 list:
- World’s Top 500 Fintech Companies — recognised worldwide across eight segments and more than 50 countries;
- Top 40 in Regtech — one of very few full GRC platforms on a list otherwise made up of narrower, single-function tools.
That distinction matters more against the size of the market behind it. The fintech sector generated $650 billion in revenue in 2025, a 21 per cent increase on the year before, according to McKinsey — large and fast-growing enough that a narrow tool solving one compliance problem well can still find a home in it. Building the fuller platform instead is the harder, slower option, and it’s the one Copla chose.
What Actually Got Copla Onto the List
How Copla got onto it comes down to a handful of decisions about how the platform actually works.
Risk First, Everything Else After
Most compliance platforms start with a framework and work outward from there: pick ISO 27001 or DORA, generate the control list, ask the client to fill it in. Copla starts with a Business Impact Analysis instead, working out which processes, vendors and assets in a client’s business actually carry risk before a single control gets assigned.
Built from a client’s existing documentation, or generated from their public footprint where none exists, a task that typically takes weeks or months by hand comes back as a working draft in minutes, then gets reviewed and confirmed before anything downstream depends on it.
Execution, Not Evidence Collection
Most platforms in this space help clients upload evidence and tick boxes. Copla’s platform does the underlying work. Registers update as contracts and vendor relationships change, evidence is validated as it’s collected rather than assembled once a year before an audit, and gaps trigger follow-up tasks instead of sitting unnoticed until a regulator finds them first.
Where a gap needs judgement rather than another workflow step, Copla’s own CISOs and compliance experts – people who’ve run audits and incident response inside regulated firms themselves – step in directly, rather than leaving the client to work it out alone.
What This Recognition Sits Alongside
The CNBC listing lands in the middle of a fast run for the company. Copla closed a €6 million Series A earlier this year, now serves more than 100 regulated customers across Europe, and crossed seven-figure annual recurring revenue within roughly a year of its previous seed round – built out of Vilnius, one of just three Lithuanian companies on this year’s full 500-company list.
None of that guarantees a place on next year’s list. It does suggest the operating model behind this one is working.
