Money2020
October 24th to October 27th is My Annual Fintech Geek Out !
It is that time of year, fall is in the air and my flights are booked for Las Vegas to go geek out on all the cool new stuff and catchup with old friends and make some new ones. As I said at my first Money2020 years ago,
“Money2020 where my LinkedIn comes to life.”
First I gotta tell you all about my own Community Bank workshop at Money2020 this year, a first and I am super excited about it.
I am literally the first presenter this year…not as great as it sounds as it is on Sunday at 10:00 am, I am expecting a mix of confused Church Goers and Gamblers that stayed up all night.
Money2020 was kind enough to let drive a Community Bank workshop that includes these gems:
- 10:00 am “Community Banking Workshop: Cloud Core, Which One Do I Choose?” | Dion Lisle of Forty Grand and David Wexler of ModusBox
- 10:33 am “Community Banking Workshop: Your 90-Day RTP Playbook” | Elena Whisler from TCH — The Clearing House
- 10:55 am “Community Banking Workshop: Digital is Personal” |Marianela Vazquez of Numerated and Chaula Pandya of Community Bank of the Bay (note: ironic naming of this one as the actual case study is about SMB lending)
- 11:23 am “Community Banking Workshop: Grow Deposits using Digital” |Liz High of NYMBUS
- 11:45 am “Community Banking Workshop: Your Customers Are Ready for Digital Assets, Are You?” | Tammy Bangs of NYDIG
For those of you keeping score, other than David and I opening it up, not a manel to be seen. Yes it is intentional but also these folks represent the absolute best speakers for each session.
The Sessions I am excited about:
“Next Chapter of the Embedded Fintech Movement is Procurement”
Merritt Hummer | Partner | Bain Capital Ventures
Tuesday 26, 1:00 PM — 1:20 PM (20min) Spark Stage, Expo Hall, Level 2
“In this session, Merritt will discuss this next wave, in which businesses will buy things they need through vertical B2B apps, rather than through sales reps, distributors, or an individual merchant’s website.”
Huge fan of Bain Capital and the future growth of B2B Embedded Fintech
“Building Trust in Trades: the Vast Territory of Fleet Payments”
Daniel Simon | CEO | Coast
Tuesday 26, 9:45 AM — 10:05 AM (20min) Spark Stage, Expo Hall, Level 2
“Fleet payments today (a 40–50B aggregate enterprise value category in the US) is dominated by a massive, niche oligopoly of legacy players that exist to address the problem of abuse, fraud, and unauthorized charges on company cards.” Most of you know I did a big Fleet payments project for Discover Financial and have ever since tracked the Fleet space.
“The Future of the Currency: Will it be CBDCs?”
Dante Disparte | Chief Strategic Officer & Head of Global Policy | Circle
Sheila Warren | Global Head of Technology Governance |World Economic Forum
Tuesday 26, 10:05 AM — 10:25 AM (20min) Immersion Stage, Expo Hall, Level 2
In this conversation, experts discuss how central banks are working with the private sector to develop secure, competitive, and open digital currencies.
Also speakers worth seeking out IMHO
Alissa Knight | Knight Ink |A recovering hacker that shows how unsafe your bank actually is. Do not miss it! “The Devil in the Details: How Safe Are Your APIs?”
Cedric Bru | CEO | Taulia | Taulia is an OG in the B2B payments space as they showed the way with Dynamic Discounting
Lia Cao| MD, Global Head of Wholesale Payments Solutions | JP Morgan Wholesale Bank | One of the biggest B2B banks in the world
They will both be presenting for this one:
“The Digital Frontier: The Always Evolving Payments Ecosystem”
Carol Grunberg | Global Head Strategic Partnerships & Innovation | CITI TTS, (aka Wholesale Bank) Carol just joined Citi’s Trade and Treasury team to drive partnerships and Innovation, great role for her.
“Fintech Faceoff: The Future of Money & Banking”
Honestly didn’t see any many B2B presentations as I had hoped but here are the companies I think are worth seeking out:
- Nium
- Circle
- Paxos
- Stampli
- Finix
- NYMBUS
- Fundbox
- Bluevine
- Monit
- Codat
- Plaid
- Mambu
- Zeta
Hope to see you in Vegas, please say Hi and let me know you read B2B Buzz and open to suggestions for future blog posts.
Viva Las Vegas !
