Fintech Unfiltered

In this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, we sit down with Stephen Corliss, CEO of the social investment startup Huddl. Corliss climbed to senior management positions at big financial firms like UBS and Blackrock before pivoting into the startup world. Bank Innovation talked to Corliss about the transition and what he brings to the table coming from big finance. 

The key benefit of using programming language Scala to build a digital platform is a feature called Type Safety, which allows for better and faster testing because it allows detecting "errors while writing the code," before running it, according to Jason Brown, CEO and co-founder of fintech Tally. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast, Brown explained that Scala is an important, but underrated, layer to develop a cloud-based platform for financial services because of its ability to allow for "faster and better," testing, efficient code compiling and scalability. This "modern programming language," is designed to work within the Java script ecosystem, and although it is not meant to replace Java, it can enhance many features of programming and coding including accuracy and testing, he said.

The volatile markets in 2018 were hard for many investors to grasp. Gal Krubiner, CEO of Pagaya, discusses how his algorithms looked at the year that was and the year ahead on behalf of the company's institutional clients. Krubiner still spends much of his time evangelizing how AI is a better way for managing fixed income assets. How will the wealth management space handle the disruption heading its ways? And where will the smart money be in 2019? Listen to Krubiner's take here.

In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, the podcast from Bank Innovation and its sister accelerator INV Fintech, newly appointment Financial Data Exchange managing director Don Cardinal talks about the group’s mission to set standards for data sharing and where it’s going to focus its attention, which includes the areas of data semantics and secure authentication.

In the five years since payments company PayPal acquired Braintree, a comprehensive payment platform, it has seen a 54% YOY growth, according to Juan Benitez, general manager at Braintree. In 2019, Braintree wants to maintain that momentum but will also be undertaking three key innovation initiatives. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Benitez explains those three areas of focus and much more.