About - The Bright Minded (Manifesto - April 26, 2026)
The Bright Minded covers the good side of FinTech and Technology. But don't get me wrong — not in the naive way.
"The good side of Fin-Tech" means showing that even when things seem to go extremely wrong — in the global economy, in international politics — there are still people building tools and companies that focus on improving and simplifying the life of other people.
After working closely with hundreds of professionals in the fintech space, I realised I was tired of a couple of things.
First, to know what really happens in the world of fin-tech you have to be an insider. That's why everyone else feels helpless when they look at the world and at innovation. Second, the people who work hard to create the useful stuff don't easily find a place to tell what they're doing. Third, they're not fully aware of how to tell it — and if no one reads their messages, it's like those messages don't exist.
So if you're someone who's not an insider but daily meets Fin-Tech stuff, chances are you need to open 12 tabs and 100 posts just to figure out what's going on. And if you're a Fin-Tech professional, builder, or entrepreneur, chances are you don't have the right place to tell what you do.
So I thought: how do I solve both? By creating a place where you can have the knowledge of an insider and the chance to find your voice.
If you're wondering why I know all this — fair question. Here's the short version.
I've been writing since high school, starting with domestic and foreign politics, then moving towards finance and economics, thanks to my background in international politics and economics. I've studied and worked in Spain, Mexico, Japan, and Paraguay — and it was precisely in Paraguay, during my internship at the Italian embassy, that I discovered my love for cryptocurrencies. I still didn't know it was there, but it was. That was the turning point. Since then I started asking a lot of whys, which led me to specialise in fintech, which led me to want to know more about new technologies — AI, needless to say — which led me to also become a data scientist. And since I'm basically in love with all of it, I found a way to put everything together in my editorial work as a content, marketing, and growth manager.
So if you're wondering whether this outlet will grow — yes, it will. And if you're wondering whether I'm able to let professionals share their voices — yes, I am.
So, I hope that this (for now future) editorial success, The Bright Minded, becomes your professional gateway. A place where you discover the natural anti-depressive character of Fin-Tech.
Enjoy.
P.S. If you want to know more about me, here's my LinkedIn: Rosalia Mazza - LinkedIn profile
Muck Rack profile: Muck Rack - Rosalia Mazza
Contact: rosalia@thebrightminded.com
About Cantica
Cantica is The Bright Minded's Fin-Tech intelligence system. It tracks regulatory and market developments across the fintech sector 24/7, and turns them into original Fin-Tech intelligence reports that firms use to make strategic decisions.
What Cantica covers
- Licensing and authorisation activity across Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), Electronic Money Institution (EMI) and payments regimes, and United States federal and state frameworks
- Regulatory exposure mapping: which firms are affected by a specific rule, deadline, or enforcement direction, and how much time they have
- Market structure developments in stablecoins, tokenisation, settlement, payments, and digital assets
- Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in financial services, including deployment, procurement, and workforce effects
- Funding, acquisition, and consolidation activity, with the regulatory context that explains it
- Competitor sets and market entrant tracking
- Talent and hiring signals across specific fintech ecosystems and jurisdictions
- Anomaly detection: developments that break an established pattern, identified while they are still early
- And more...
Fin-Tech intelligence reports, commissioned
A commissioned Fin-Tech intelligence report answers one question for one client. The question is agreed before work begins, the sourcing is documented, and the finished report is customised.
Firms commission them for a defined purpose. For example, executive search practices use them to understand a hiring market before pitching a retained mandate. Communications agencies use them to give fintech clients a position nobody else in the sector is arguing. Compliance consultancies and RegTech vendors use them to size a regulatory exposure across a named group of firms. Event organisers use them to build programming around what is actually moving, and funds without an internal research desk use them in place of one.
Reports are delivered as a written document with full source citation and, where relevant, the underlying dataset. Scoping conversation first, fixed price, agreed delivery date.
The State of Fin-Tech Report
The State of Fin-Tech Report is published monthly, before the 15th, and is free to read. It covers licensing, regulatory movement, funding, and market structure.
Readers who want the method applied to their own question commission a report.
Common questions
What is Fin-Tech intelligence?
Fin-Tech intelligence is structured and original research into regulatory, licensing, and market activity across financial technology. It answers what is happening and what follows from it.
Who commissions Fin-Tech intelligence reports?
Executive search and recruitment firms, communications and public relations agencies with fintech clients, compliance consultancies, RegTech vendors, conference and event organisers, boutique strategy consultancies, investment funds without an in-house research function, among others.
How is a Cantica report different from a market research report?
Standard Fin-Tech market reports are written once and sold to everyone. A Cantica report is commissioned to answer a specific question for a single client, and delivered with the evidence attached.
How long does it take?
Delivery dates are agreed at scoping and depend on breadth.
Commission a report
Write to cantica@thebrightminded.com with the question you want answered. If Cantica can answer it, you will get a scope, a price, and a delivery date.