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    <title>Fintech Firsthand - Episodes Tagged with “Unit”</title>
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    <description>When bankers want to launch or grow BaaS or Fintech projects, they need access to peers – CEOs with firsthand experience – to reduce unknown unknowns. The hard part is finding them, and getting time on the calendar to learn from them.
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Erik Skovgard, a community bank CEO who helped launch Square, Acorns, and other prominent fintechs, interviews BaaS bankers to bring you their stories and experiences.
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    <itunes:summary>When bankers want to launch or grow BaaS or Fintech projects, they need access to peers – CEOs with firsthand experience – to reduce unknown unknowns. The hard part is finding them, and getting time on the calendar to learn from them.
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Erik Skovgard, a community bank CEO who helped launch Square, Acorns, and other prominent fintechs, interviews BaaS bankers to bring you their stories and experiences.
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  <title>The Future of Core Banking and Embedded Finance</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, we talk with Itai Damti, CEO of Unit, about the history and future of embedded finance. In their early days, banking-fintech relationships required multifaceted innovation. Fintech products and services were already novel in some way, and then a bank and fintech would innovate again—through partnership—to bring those novel services to market. Itai and Erik talk about how technology is addressing what can become a friction-filled and clunky relationship. What does it mean for the future embedded finance or BaaS?  </itunes:subtitle>
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In the past, banking institutions have faced an enourmous build-out in technnology and personnel in order to launch and manage an embedded finance – otherwise known as banking as a service – program. Just to build the technical foundation for tasks like reconciliation, end user indentification, compliance, statements, reporting, and fraud, an institution needed 20 or more solutions. 
In this episode we cover what limited the success of early fintech, why embedded finance became essential to fintech success, how innovation to serve institutions, and how fintech could redefine embedded finance's future.  
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