Overview
He founded Cambiste.com, a company that gave access to investment in the currency market, and Saxo Bank bought it two years after its creation. Saxo Banque France, the Danish bank's French subsidiary, was launched in 2008 out of that acquisition. Dusoulier was president and chief executive of Saxo Banque France for eight years and head of Western Europe for Saxo Bank. He studied at the University of Westminster. He has also invested in fintech companies including Younited Credit, Dashlane, B2C2 and Trustpair.
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the founder and chief executive officer of IbanFirst, a cross-border payments and foreign exchange platform for small and medium-sized companies. The business was created in 2013 in Paris under the name FX4Biz and took the iBanFirst name in 2016. It is headquartered on Avenue Louise in Brussels, is authorised and regulated as a payment institution by the National Bank of Belgium, and employs more than 350 people across 15 offices in Europe. It serves more than 10,000 clients, lets them hold, collect and send funds in over 25 currencies, and processes more than 2.5 billion euros of transactions a month. iBanFirst raised 46 million euros in venture rounds from 2016 onwards, backed by Xavier Niel, Elaia and Bpifrance Large Venture, before Marlin Equity Partners became its largest shareholder through a growth equity deal announced on 27 May 2021, with Dusoulier becoming the second-largest shareholder. The company bought NBWM and Forexfix in 2019 and closed the acquisition of London foreign exchange provider Cornhill in November 2022. In May 2024 it said it had been EBITDA positive since the end of 2023 on monthly volumes of 2 billion euros. It obtained an electronic money institution licence from the Financial Conduct Authority in March 2025, and Dusoulier relocated to London to lead the company's UK phase. In November 2025 Sonia Azzouzi Boudier was appointed deputy CEO and Aurore Gaspar Colson non-executive director.
Career history
In the news
- Someone's a little early to the party. 👀 The sign is up. The champagne is on its way. And we're getting ready to welcome investors, founders and finance leaders to our Paris office this Thursday for Capital After Hours. On the agenda: 🎤 Xavier Lazarus (Elaia) and Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier (iBanFirst) discussing the story behind Vibe.co's acquisition by Walmart. 🥂 A celebration of 10 years of iBanFirst. 🌆 Some pretty spectacular views of the Arc de Triomphe. And plenty of opportunities to meet people worth knowing. 📅
- For many SMEs, connecting finance tools remains too hard. EBICS and SWIFTNet can be costly and lack real-time access. APIs often require technical resources that SMEs simply don’t have. And in our experience, PSD2 hasn’t made the process simple enough for our clients. That was our conclusion at iBanFirst—until we developed our MCP connector and started seeing what it could unlock for finance teams. 🚀 That’s why I’m excited to bring CFOs and technical builders together with OpenAI and Trame Labs for our first Finance Engineer
- Proud of what we’ve built at iBanFirst. Our infrastructure moves money ultra fast 🚀. Our data 🤓 tells you when to send it and which receiving banks process it faster. We process your payments in real time. Then, our insights into receiving banks’ cut-off times ⏰ and processing speeds ⏱️ give you visibility and control over what happens next, enabling near-instant delivery where the currency, route and receiving bank allow. More visibility. Better timing. More control. https://lnkd.in/ekRuTUXj
- How long does an international payment really take? We looked at over 250,000 SWIFT payments to see how speed varies by route. Opaque fees, unpredictable timescales and a lack of transparency can make international operations harder than they need to be. That frustration was why Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier founded iBanFirst 10 years ago. It's now led to our annual Speed of International Payments barometer. The latest 2026 edition compares 2025 data with data from 2024 to show how payment speed varies across different routes. Shouldn’t
- The best conversations happen after hours. 🌙 On 5 November, we're bringing together investors, finance leaders and industry peers at our new Paris office for Capital After Hours. The evening will feature a candid conversation with Xavier Lazarus, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Elaia, and Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier, Founder and CEO of iBanFirst. Expect behind-the-scenes stories, practical insights from those who've been there and a crowd worth meeting. Plus, plenty of time to keep the conversations going over drinks and bites.
- Stablecoins spent years looking for a problem to solve. Cross-border payments wasn’t it. “Cheaper and faster than traditional payments.” I’ve always found that claim entertaining. Using stablecoin payment is a detour: fiat → coin → fiat. Speed 🚜 . The blockchain leg takes 3 seconds. But 80% of a payment’s time is the last mile: the local bank screening and crediting the account. The stablecoin payment hits the same bank, the same delay. And for a European business, it starts with an international wire to the on-ramp. 1 to 3 days
- 1.49 billion! This is a number we can be truly proud of. Over the last 10 years, our clients have saved €1.49 billion by using iBanFirst instead of traditional banks. That is €1.49 billion that European SMEs have been able to keep and reinvest in their businesses : to hire, to innovate, to grow. This is not just a number. This is real impact.
- Of course, we celebrated what we’ve built. But this was not really a party about the past. It was a Back to the Future party. Because what excites us most is not the last 10 years. It’s the next 10. I can’t wait to see what we build next.
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