Specialised banking for consumer credit — focused on lending products distributed through merchant partnerships rather than building general-purpose retail banking — is a model with deeper European roots than the venture-backed BNPL conversation suggests. Inbank was founded in Tallinn in 2011 as a specialist lender focused on point-of-sale consumer credit, partnering with retailers across Estonia and the broader Baltic and Central European region to offer instalment finance at the moment of purchase. The company received a full Estonian banking licence and has built operations across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Czech Republic, expanding from a domestic specialist into a Pan-European consumer finance bank. Inbank is publicly listed on the Nasdaq Tallinn exchange — one of the few publicly traded Baltic fintechs — giving it both the regulatory standing of a licensed bank and the funding access of a public company. Its product range covers point-of-sale finance, BNPL, and consumer deposit products, with merchant partnerships across automotive, electronics, home improvement, and other categories where consumers commonly finance purchases. In the European specialist consumer banking landscape, Inbank represents one of the more successful examples of a focused operator scaling across borders while maintaining the operational discipline of a regulated bank.