Fintech Corner

About Fintech Corner

For fintech innovators and finance leaders ready to evolve how money moves. We bring together bankers, treasury practitioners, and technology builders to tackle the real questions reshaping finance — from AI agents automating the treasury workflow, to stablecoins and digital assets rewriting the rules of liquidity, to open banking and API connectivity finally closing the gap between what banks offer and what corporate clients need. For decades, that gap has slowed finance down. We're done waiting. Episodes explore the infrastructure, intelligence, and ideas driving treasury and finance.

Publisher

Fintech Corner

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jan 2023

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Supply and Demand: Paxos on What Moves Stablecoins Into Corporate Treasury

   Most stablecoin conversations start with a list of use cases. Cross-border payments, access to dollars, micropayments, and treasury. Walter Hessert's view is that a stablecoin's properties don't create adoption on their own. Someone has to understand the buyer. In this episode of the stablecoin series, Brett Turner, Founder and CEO of Trovata, and Paul Bances, who leads Trovata's stablecoin efforts, are joined by Walter Hessert, Head of Strategy at Paxos. Paxos issued its first stablecoin under prudential oversight in 2018 and now operates as an OCC-regulated national trust company. Walter and Paul first met at Money20/20 in 2019. Less than a year later, PayPal launched crypto with Paxos as its infrastructure provider. Walter's case is that the GENIUS Act gave the market a definition of a regulated stablecoin, and the infrastructure work it started has kept moving. Issuers can create supply. Demand has to come from applications built by people who understand the buyer's incentives and risks, and he points to treasury as one of the clearest examples. Highlights Paxos has operated under bank-level oversight for a decade. Walter sees that track record as what large, regulated firms look for in an infrastructure partner. GENIUS gave the market a working definition of a regulated stablecoin. The CLARITY Act failing its cloture vote hasn't changed the plans of the firms Paxos is building with. The reciprocity provision in GENIUS lets a single dollar stablecoin move across jurisdictions without a separate version for each market. Issuers create supply. Demand comes from applications that understand the buyer's incentives and risks.

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   When Money Goes On-Chain: The Bank's Role in the New Financial Infrastructure

   Most of the conversation about banks and digital money assumes banks are on defense. Protecting deposits, watching issuers take share, and moving because they have to. BNY's account of how it got here is a different one. In episode four of the stablecoin series, Brett Turner, Founder and CEO of Trovata, and Paul Bances, who led the team at PayPal that architected PYUSD, are joined by Nader Souri, who leads corporate and digital banking at BNY. Nader was making the internal case for digital assets six or seven years ago, well before stablecoins became a mainstream topic for banks. Where he and Paul land is that regulation has stopped being the barrier for corporate treasury. Handing a treasurer a wallet solves nothing unless it connects to the systems already running the function. BNY built digital asset custody because institutional clients asked for it, not out of fear of being disintermediated. Stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and tokenized money market funds are legally and economically different instruments. They will coexist rather than compete. Regulation has stopped being the barrier to treasury adoption. Ubiquity and integration are what is left. A wallet on its own solves nothing without integration into the treasury management system, the ERP, and the investment policy.

3. 

   13 Aug 2026

   What Tokenized Deposits Mean for Banks

   Banks are worried about losing deposits to stablecoins. Ryan Zacharia thinks the fear is legitimate but the reasoning behind it is wrong. In episode 3 of the stablecoin series, Brett Turner and Paul Bances are joined by Ryan, a partner at FINTOP, which invests in companies serving financial institutions and counts roughly 100 regional and community banks among its strategic LPs. He was also a founding board member of the USDF Consortium. Ryan's argument is that deposit pricing was already under pressure from new charters and fintechs buying banks. Stablecoins are one more channel, not the root cause. The real corporate risk isn't deposits walking out the door, it's the bank losing its place in the settlement flow. He also thinks nobody has stress tested the economics of stablecoin issuance itself, and that banks have a better position than they realize. A stablecoin issuer can hold your dollar, but it can't extend your mortgage or your working capital line. Watch the full episode to hear what he tells banks to start doing.

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• Brett Turner
• Paul Bances
• Matt Kelley
• Samma Hollier
• Kyle Fisher

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73

Social presence

0

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72

Engagement

51

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