About Us

Built on real
fintech experience.

Five Crafts was founded by professionals who spent years building payment solutions, financial products and regulated services inside fintechs, banks and high-growth companies.

Five Crafts was founded by people who spent years building payment products and financial solutions inside fintechs, banks and regulated companies.

Long before Five Crafts existed, we worked together on payment products, card programmes and financial infrastructure that ran under central bank supervision.

We kept seeing the same thing. Founders with good ideas, stuck on the operational side. Payments, regulation, security: each its own world, each needing someone who had actually done it before. Big consultancies meant hierarchy and overhead, not someone hands-on. Specialist advisors covered one piece and left the rest.

So we built Five Crafts.

Why clients choose us

What makes Five Crafts different.

Financial Services DNA

We understand regulated environments because we have worked inside them.

Broad Expertise Under One Roof

Payments, compliance, finance and security working together.

Delivery-Focused Approach

We don't stop at recommendations. We help clients move forward.

Flexible by Design

Every project is different. Our teams adapt accordingly.

How We Work

The way we approach every engagement.

Four principles that guide how we show up for every client, every project.

Five Crafts team
01

Challenge Assumptions

We identify risks before they become expensive mistakes.

02

Stay Practical

We focus on solutions that can actually be delivered.

03

Take Ownership

We stay involved and help projects move from idea to execution.

04

Build Long-Term Partnerships

We aim to become trusted partners, not just external consultants.

Leadership

The team behind Five Crafts.

Marián Vandas
Security & Compliance
Marián Vandas

For more than 10 years, Marián has helped fintechs and banks navigate complex regulatory, risk and security challenges. He combines deep compliance expertise with hands-on delivery and crisis management, turning complexity into practical solutions that work for the business.

Marián Vandas →
Václav Malý
Finance & Funding
Václav Malý

Our "numbers guy" Václav is an experienced finance manager with a solid background in fintech innovation, financial modeling, and project management. He oversees finance operations and heads our CFO as a Service offering, bringing executive financial leadership to growing companies.

Václav Malý →
Petr Macalík
Architecture & Delivery
Petr Macalík

With 20+ years across architecture, analysis and delivery management, Petr owns the full delivery lifecycle. Go-to expert on transaction and payment card systems.

Petr Macalík →
Viktor Gřešek
Payments & Cards
Viktor Gřešek

Viktor spent fifteen-plus years building fintechs from the inside – as analyst, project and product manager, head of cards, and in fintech business development at Mastercard. Viktor helps clients reach their business goals and find the right solution within the complexity of a regulated sector – and where something's missing, he's already working out how to fill it.

Viktor Gřešek →
Our Vision

Building the future of financial services in Central and Eastern Europe.

Our ambition is to become the partner for payments and financial services companies across Central and Eastern Europe.

1 FTE
Budget covers 4–5 expert roles through our flexible team model
CEE
Active in Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland
20+ yrs
Combined experience in payments, cards, regulation, financial technologies and banking.
Let's work together

Let's build something that works.

Whether you're launching a fintech, navigating regulation or scaling an existing business, we'd be happy to help.

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