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Why are some developers opting for an open-first model?
Well, there are many benefits, but one stands out:
Community. 
That’s why Wade Arnold, Founder and CEO at Moov.io, opted for an open-source approach to building the company’s portable platform for embedding banking services in any application. 
In this episode, Wade and I discuss:
-How Moov are moving finance forward
-Why open-first made sense for the platform
-What fintech really means — now and in the future
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Until next time!

Consumer products these days are sleek.
So, why do business products look like they were all made in preparation for a 19th-century world fair? 
Hamed Abbasi, Co-Founder & CEO at Plooto, is on a mission to prove there is no reason business products can’t be just as sleek.
In this episode, we discuss:
-How Plooto is innovating accounts payable and receivable
-Why most business products create a terrible experience
-How to make complex products easy to use
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If you want to succeed…
You have to always put your customers’ needs first.
And partners are a great way to do that.  
Just ask Johanna Pugh, MD North America at Mambu, an innovative fintech that has broken into new markets and stayed customer-centric by leveraging their partner ecosystem. 
In this episode, we discuss:
-How partners help you stay focused on the customer
-Why the customer is all you need to worry about
-How partners help you break into new markets
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Until next time!

Falls Fintech almost didn’t happen. 
The 12-week accelerator program started on March 9th, 2020. 
By March 13th, participants had to pack up and go. But the story doesn’t end there…  
What kind of fintech entrepreneurs would let a little thing like a global pandemic stop them from innovating?
In today’s Challenger Series episode, I’m excited to be joined by 3 amazing guests involved with the accelerator program:
Nikkee Rhody, SVP, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Falls Fintech and Vice President - Product Development & Marketplace Strategies at Central Payments. 
Fonta Gilliam, CEO and Co-Founder at Invest Sou Sou.
Rishi Chand, Account Manager at Mastercard.
We discuss:
-How Falls Fintech started
-How they overcame the pandemic
-What the post-COVID-19 future holds for fintech
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To partner or not to partner. That’s the question. 
As a fintech company, you’ve made the decision to expand your offering through a partnership. What does the partnership look like? How much control are you going to be giving up? What are the things you need to be thinking about when making decisions around partnerships? 
It can all be a bit (okay, a lot) confusion, which is why on this episode of the Payments Innovation podcast, we got to sit down with Marcel Klimo, Tech Evangelist at Vacuumlabs, for a conversation all about, among other things: 
-Technology in fintech partnerships
-The decisions you need to be making
-The agile approach, 
-Monolith vs. microservices 
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Until next time!

Open banking seems like it’s been just around the corner for years. 
Now it’s here… 
But most organizations are still a little scared to move into it. 
Why?
To find out, I caught up with Phil Peters, EVP/Chief Operating Officer & Head of Institutional Banking at Radius Bank, a company who’ve embraced open banking with open arms. 
In this episode, Phil explains:
- Why Radius moved into open banking
- How embedded finance is shaping the future
- What makes a winner (and why there will be many) 
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Until next time!