Lesslie Technologies announces a strategic alliance with Bits Technology, aiming to transform regulatory compliance from a necessary burden into a driver of scale, trust, and competitive advantage. With Bits’ automation-first infrastructure, Lesslie will embed compliance deeply into its operations, fueling growth without compromising control.

From Cost to Opportunity

For many financial and payment businesses, compliance is viewed as a cost - manual reviews, regulatory overhead, and slow approvals all eat into margins and agility. However, Lesslie views it differently: with the right foundation, compliance can become a source of differentiation and momentum.

By integrating Bits’ platform, Lesslie will be able to:

• Accelerate onboarding with adaptive flows that still enforce regulatory standards

• Continuously assess and adapt risk without manual bottlenecks

• Detect anomaly and fraud in real time, reducing losses and false positives

• Manage investigations and audits with full traceability, cutting friction under scrutiny

• Scale operations with automation, so growth doesn’t demand proportional increases in compliance staff

The result: a compliance backbone that supports velocity, trust, and expansion - not one that drags them down.

“Lesslie’s core promise is to make international payments easier and cheaper, and to optimize liquidity for growing companies. With compliance now even further embedded, we’re unlocking room to scale boldly - and confidently.”

Gunnar Rytterling, CEO & Co-Founder, Lesslie

How This Helps Lesslie Deliver More Value

This shift has immediate and long-term implications for Lesslie’s business model:

• Lower friction = higher conversions - prospective customers face fewer delays, increasing adoption

• Faster time to value - new accounts become active faster, shortening the path from sign-up to engagement

• Operational leverage - fewer manual checks and escalations mean team capacity doesn’t need to scale linearly

• Credibility that scales - Lesslie’s proactive compliance framework builds trust and reliability across every new market and customer segment.

• Focus on product innovation - with compliance handled, Lesslie can devote more energy to its core value proposition: seamless cross-border payments with embedded bookkeeping

“When compliance is just a cost line, growth always fights with control. But when you build compliance as a core capability, it becomes a growth enabler. That’s exactly what Lesslie is doing - embedding discipline in a way that accelerates their mission.”

Jonatan Klintberg, CEO & Co-Founder, Bits

About Lesslie

Lesslie Technologies AB is a Swedish Payment Institution regulated by Finansinspektionen. Their product, Lesslie PAY, simplifies cross-border payments, slashes foreign exchange costs, and automates bookkeeping tied to international transactions and further optimize liquidity. They serve businesses engaged in import, export, and global operations, helping them reclaim time, reduce costs, and navigate complexity with ease. Founded in Stockholm in 2020, Lesslie was born from the conviction that financial services should be easily accessed, cheap and automated.

About Bits

Bits Technology provides a modular compliance automation platform for regulated financial and payment service providers. Its tools cover onboarding, risk decisioning, ongoing monitoring, and case management - enabling partners to scale securely while maintaining audit-grade control.