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Fintech Nerdcon - Interview with Increase CEO Darragh Buckley

Fintech Nerdcon - Interview with Increase CEO Darragh Buckley

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Summary

In this episode Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo sits down with Increase CEO, Darragh Buckley to explore long-term infrastructure thinking, compliance as code, stablecoins vs. traditional rails, and what’s actually broken in payments.

Timestamps:

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 01:19 The motivation for Increase: addressing payment disbursement failures
  • 03:04 Technical and business challenges in international financial expansion
  • 05:00 Viewing compliance as an engineering problem to be solved
  • 07:31 Admiration for legacy financial systems built with constraints
  • 09:10 The simplicity curve: abstraction, complexity, and underlying simplicity
  • 12:45 The philosophy of building "lovingly boring" financial infrastructure
  • 14:30 The necessity of early partnerships and gatekept features in fintech
  • 16:50 Stablecoins as parallel infrastructure versus replacement for traditional systems
  • 19:58 The existing strengths of US deposit rails and last-mile delivery
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