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Will Beeson

Brands as Banks

Brands as Banks

There are a few trends we at Rebank are watching particularly closely at the moment, and I want to take a few minutes to look at how they're related. Most everyone in financial services recognizes the following: * Fees and margins are disappearing across the industry, driven by tech-led

A Platform for the Next Wave of Financial Innovation

A Platform for the Next Wave of Financial Innovation

Sankaet Pathak is the Founder and CEO of Synapse, a platform banking provider. Fresh off a Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, Synapse is operating at the leading edge of the potentially massive platform banking trend. In this conversation, we discuss the issues with existing sponsor banking infrastructure, examples of

Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Assets with Shearman & Sterling

Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Assets with Shearman & Sterling

Donna Parisi is a Derivatives Partner and Global Head of Financial Services and Fintech for Shearman & Sterling, a leading global law firm. In addition to her work on a range of derivatives, structured products, securitization, capital markets and commodities matters, Donna has built specific expertise in crypto, tokens and

In Pursuit of Comprehensive Financial Wellbeing with Betterment

In Pursuit of Comprehensive Financial Wellbeing with Betterment

Jon Stein is the Founder and CEO of Betterment, one of the world’s leading digital investments companies. We first connected with Jon in January 2018 in a great episode that’s still very relevant today. Since then, Betterment has added $4 billion in assets under management to its platform

Designing Winning Financial Services with Barclays, TSB and Idean

Designing Winning Financial Services with Barclays, TSB and Idean

The subject of today’s conversation is design in financial services. We talk all the time about the new customer experiences shaping the evolution of finance, generally focusing on the implications of those forces and others on the trajectory of the industry. Today, we take a closer look at the

Maintaining the Edge in an Evolving Market with BlackRock and Hargreaves Lansdown

Maintaining the Edge in an Evolving Market with BlackRock and Hargreaves Lansdown

The investments space is changing as fast as any other financial services vertical, with roboadvisors, free stock trading apps, contextual behavioral experiences, software automation, AI, new pricing structures and crypto all shaping the future direction of the industry. Today, we discuss the current state and likely future of the space

Core Banking as a Competitive Advantage with Thought Machine

Core Banking as a Competitive Advantage with Thought Machine

Paul Taylor is the founder and CEO of Thought Machine, a cloud native core banking platform. We first connected with Paul in November 2017, where we walked through his background as a Google AI engineer and the origins of Thought Machine. Today, we zoom out and update, digging deeper into