Balancing globalization and compliance with Episode Six

Balancing globalization and compliance with Episode Six

After interviewing the Episode Six founding team in 2020, The Financial Revolutionist sat down with CEO John Mitchell, revisiting Episode Six’s strategies and predictions for the future. Mitchell outlines the company’s steady course, shares the vision behind their business model, and hints at the future of hybridized, digital payments ecosystems.

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How fintechs can leverage outsourced customer support for more than cost savings

How fintechs can leverage outsourced customer support for more than cost savings

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Ubiquity COO and Co-Founder Sagar Rajgopal describes the bidirectional benefits of outsourcing, provides examples of the insights customer-experience experts can offer fintechs, and outlines the future of outsourcing in the face of volatility.

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Building a financial ecosystem for SMBs with ForwardAI

Building a financial ecosystem for SMBs with ForwardAI

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Co-Founder and CEO of ForwardAI Nick Chandi outlines the market need ForwardAI addresses, describes the competitive dynamic between accounting platforms and banks, and envisions the future of SMB financial advisory services.

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Loyalty can be a currency, too, with Engage People

Loyalty can be a currency, too, with Engage People

To Len Covello, Co-Founder and CTO of Engage People, a Toronto-based loyalty network that connects loyalty programs with payment systems and retailers to let consumers pay with points at checkout, the future of payments leverages a fully-backed digital currency: the rewards point.

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Investing in fintechs with Information Venture Partners

Investing in fintechs with Information Venture Partners

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Jane Podbelskaya, Principal at Information Venture Partners, suggests economic fundamentals will help early-stage fintechs weather upcoming volatility, and will make them capable of sustained growth under any economic conditions.

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Outsourcing the front office with Northern Trust

Outsourcing the front office with Northern Trust

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Gary Paulin, Head of Global Strategic Solutions at Northern Trust, argues that the future of the front office rhymes with the cloud-computing landscape. He envisions an ecosystem of partnerships built around a client’s value chains, which, he asserts, would offer all firms the opportunity to compete with the fund manager giants.

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Fully digital capital markets with Clear Street

Fully digital capital markets with Clear Street

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, and a week after Clear Street’s $165M Series B announcement—making the company a unicorn—Bailey details the market gap Clear Street tackles, explains why capital markets have been slow to modernize, and outlines how new technology can level the playing field between large and small players.

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Small businesses are people, too, with Grasshopper Bank

Small businesses are people, too, with Grasshopper Bank

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Danielle Kane, Director of Small Business Banking at Grasshopper Bank, explains the bank’s lean partnership model, describes how small businesses can operate like consumers, and hints at the bank’s long-term goals.

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Compliance as a gateway to growth with Federico Baradello (Finalis)

Compliance as a gateway to growth with Federico Baradello (Finalis)

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Federico Baradello, Founder and CEO of Finalis, dives into his company’s mission, outlines how compliance can be a strategy for growth, and encourages other entrepreneurs to find “unsexy” but promising niches to disrupt.

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