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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infinicept CEO Todd Ablowitz (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You provide Escrow-type of service? Todd Ablowitz: We provide just SaaS tools. Our customers can send us the transaction information. We don’t process the transaction. We don’t get into the chain. We teach them how to do it. We enable it and make it better, but we don’t compete with our customers. We
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infinicept CEO Todd Ablowitz (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about some customers who have become payment facilitators on top of your platform. Focus on use cases and customers that are interesting. Talk about the before and the after. Todd Ablowitz: One of the most interesting customers is FiveStars. FiveStars is a loyalty tablet that goes on the counter of your
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infinicept CEO Todd Ablowitz (Part 2)
Todd Ablowitz: Then in 2009, Jack Dorsey started Square. He scratched that itch that I always had – more like 15 questions in 45 seconds to sign up a merchant. I loved what he was doing except I knew enough to know that what they were doing was breaking the rules at that time. Ten
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infinicept CEO Todd Ablowitz (Part 1)
FinTech is a complex industry with massive changes underway. In this interview, Todd and I attempt to explore what is defensible in this highly competitive space. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and to Infinicept.
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Bristol Gate Capital Partners CEO Richard Hamm (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: If they’re significantly assisted by technology, they need to be trained to use that technology and do their job of helping investors as opposed to making those decisions themselves, which involves a different level of financial understanding. Richard Hamm: As I pointed out, Digit is doing exactly that. They’re trying to develop it
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Bristol Gate Capital Partners CEO Richard Hamm (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to the other question which is open problems in FinTech using the kinds of approaches you’re talking about. Where do you see the possibilities of applying these kinds of techniques? And to do what? Richard Hamm: In the FinTech world, which is alive and well in Toronto, my biggest concern, particularly
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Bristol Gate Capital Partners CEO Richard Hamm (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How is this information consumed by your customers? Is there a human in between the bank’s automated system and where the consumer touches the bank? Richard Hamm: At the front-end, we use predictive analytics. We also add our own human influence on this to verify the accuracy of the models by good old-fashioned
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Bristol Gate Capital Partners CEO Richard Hamm (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: When a bank does hire you to do this kind of work, double-click down to exactly how the technology works and what it is that it’s doing on behalf of the bank. Richard Hamm: What the banks want us to do is to satisfy their investment-oriented customers by giving them a good return.
