Risktech start-ups struggle to clinch big-bank contracts

Light on cash, risk management fintechs face an extended gauntlet most won’t survive

Start-ups are widely reckoned to have a one in 10 chance of survival. For start-ups in the field of risk management, the odds are probably a little worse: the field has all the withering mortality of the ordinary start-up, plus the special hell of being small, agile and captive to the sluggish metabolism of a big bank.

For now, it’s not stopping them. Hoping for a big payoff, this group of disrupters is looking to upend risk management with their products, addressing things from transaction