fintech_devcon 2021
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 recap | 01m | |
About fintech_devcon
For far too long, developers have struggled to build great financial products. fintech_devcon is the first-ever conference for fintech… | ||
| Day 2 recap | 01m | |
About fintech_devcon
For far too long, developers have struggled to build great financial products. fintech_devcon is the first-ever conference for fintech… | ||
| Full event recap | 01m | |
About fintech_devcon
For far too long, developers have struggled to build great financial products. fintech_devcon is the first-ever conference for fintech… | ||
| What to expect in fintech's next 10 years | Angela Strange | 25m |
Discover why every company will be a fintech company. Learn how building open source primitives is the next evolution for financial services.
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| Fireside chat | Tom Adams, Joshua Silver | 33m |
Hear two fintech industry veterans Tom Adams and Joshua Silver share valuable insights on what it takes to run a scaled international engineering organization… | ||
| Slaying fintech dragons for fun and profit | Ohad Samet | 18m |
Argues debt collection and benefit access are neglected, high-impact fintech problems where 70 to 18 million consumers in the US face barriers and a $15… | ||
| Translating card auths for emerging user expectations | Maia Bittner | 26m |
Explains how card authorizations actually behave and what to surface: detect partial approvals and show the original amount plus the remaining balance due… | ||
| Using Terraform and AWS to create environments on the fly | Aaron Junod | 01h 32m |
Uses Terraform to provision an AWS VPC, S3 backend and an EKS cluster in ~10 minutes, stores state in an S3 backend, and then deploys Argo CD via Terraform so… | ||
| Intro to IAV best practices | Adam Hutchison | 24m |
Explains why traditional micro-deposits fail (nearly half of users never complete them) and contrasts screen-scraping (industry 85% of data) with modern OAuth… | ||
| Do compliance the hard way | Joel Tosi | 01h 00m |
Practical steps for building compliance programs rather than theory: a team forks and fixes the open source Comply renderer, uses markdown + pandoc + minimal… | ||
| Challenges in building neobank infrastructure | Shamir Karkal | 01h 01m |
Distills a decade into concrete steps using the Sila demo app: clone, npm install, register in the Sila sandbox, call the APIs to onboard users, KYC/OFAC, link… | ||
| Secure your data computations efficiently | Mohamad El Hajj | 01h 14m |
Claims a new restricted language, Starlarky, that isolates computations at the language level and prevents common abuse by design: no filesystem or network… | ||
| Dealing with data in dynamic systems | Trisha Kothari, Nick Miller | 25m |
Unit21 describes running 2 billion+ events per month and catching $100M+ in fraud while prioritizing consistency over raw availability, and lays out concrete… | ||
| Building inclusive fintech from code to messaging | Paul Barnes-Hoggett | 41m |
Walks through concrete moves: launching an LGBT-focused neo bank, printing chosen name on card and changing vendor flows so mail and support preserve chosen… | ||
| Deploying dollars on the blockchain | Brent Perreault, Ilan Gitter | 44m |
Builds an ERC20 USDK 1:1 backed token on a local Ganache chain, deploys the contract, and mints tokens via Go code using the go-ethereum bind package. The mint… | ||
| Taming the data demon using HPCC systems | Adwait Joshi | 01h 28m |
HPCC Systems is an open‑source big‑data engine with a data‑centric language ECL and separate analytic and delivery clusters Thor/Roxie. Real examples… | ||
| QLDB deep dive | Omi Chowdhury | 01h 14m |
A production double-entry ledger built on AWS QLDB that stores accounts, lines and balanced entries, updates per-account balances transactionally, and enforces… | ||
| Scraping and reverse engineering the right way | Scott Weinert | 01h 33m |
Claims that much of fintech integration is screen scraping and shows how to reverse‑engineer Domino’s API end to end, extracting requests with the browser… | ||
| Data privacy vault 101 | Evis Drenova, Akshat Agrawal | 01h 28m |
Defines a data privacy vault as a secure, isolated database with built‑in encryption, tokenization and policy-based governance, and shows real deployments at… | ||
| Making it easy for banks to work with you | Peter Hazlehurst | 01h 29m |
Fintech-as-a-service is framed as a bank-backed full stack: a two-sided marketplace (Sintera) plus Coastal’s CCBX 28 partners that sponsors omnibus accounts… | ||
| Card payments 101 - from swipe to settlement | Pritee Tembhekar | 46m |
Explains the exact transaction path: swipe creates an ISO 8583 messages packet with PAN/BIN and MCC, acquirer routes by first digit, issuer processor applies… | ||
| Fintech fear and loathing in banking | Stuart Cook | 46m |
Explains why partnering with a bank slows product velocity: legacy cores split by product while an abstraction layer is being built, budgeting that prioritizes… | ||
| Payments for the 21st century and beyond | Peter Davey | 46m |
A new US real-time rail provides immediate, final settlement between banks with built-in messaging for invoices and requests; RTP launched November 2017 and… | ||
| Stories from a quarter-century in payments | Todd Ablowitz, Deana Rich | 45m |
A quarter-century view of payments traces concrete wins: a merchant application shrinks from ~300 to 150 questions, an API-first, cloud (.NET) layer is built… | ||
| The emergence of developer-first banking | Brody Mulderig | 46m |
Banks are shifting to treat CTOs and developers as buyers because venture funding into fintech hits roughly $80–100B this year and one in five VC dollars goes… | ||
| Engineering resiliency - how I learned to love an outage | Charles Hearn | 45m |
Orchestration platform integrates with 97 integrations (100+ historically) and maps over 4,000 attributes, so vendor errors directly break onboarding… | ||
| From the engine to the bridge - building systems that scale | Steven Robert | 55m |
Builds a payments platform with a partitioned front-end and back-end SQL setup, a rules engine that packages XML payloads into a job queue, and 250 worker… | ||
| Gaps as a service - pitfalls of off-the-shelf tools | Cokie Hasiotis | 41m |
BaaS platforms speed launch but hide big tradeoffs: integrations routinely take add three to vendor timelines (six weeks becomes nine), pricing ranges from… | ||
| How neobanks make money | Saira Rahman | 32m |
Neobanks depend on interchange and fee income because net interest margin is compressed with APYs near zero, so sponsor banks rent charters to capture… | ||
| On-core vs. virtual accounts - what you need to know today | Chris Dean | 31m |
Compares on-core (accounts on a bank core) versus off-core ledger models and argues the surprising bottleneck is integrations not the ledger itself: creating a… | ||
| Build vs. buy panel | Jason Henrichs, Zach Bruhnke, Maia Bittner, Shamir Karkal | 01h 01m |
The build vs buy dilemma in fintech is a tough decision to navigate. Learn how to make the right choice for your business from renowned fintech experts… | ||
| Business of APIs panel | Charley Ma, Justin Overdorff, Cara Hayward, Peter Lord, Ryan Sandler | 01h 01m |
Learn how API-led businesses make money. Hear fintech experts discuss topics like hiring, partnerships, sales, product development, pricing, and more.
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| Getting started with push payments | Alex Cooper, Erin Andrea | 01h 06m |
Tabapay claims >$20B processed and ~250M transactions (peaked ~1M/day) and demonstrates a working Postman sandbox with bearer token and demo client/settlement… | ||
| Building for the customer you want | Zach Bruhnke | 01h 21m |
Argues that rushing to market loses if the customer isn’t defined, and shows how to design a credit card for a specific user: high‑score transactors who want a… | ||
| Fireside chat | Terry Angelos, Wade Arnold | 16m |
Visa frames itself as a centralized, high-performance layer two on top of fiat rails and cites $13 trillion card volume versus $120 trillion B2B and $18… | ||
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