Welcome to The Archive – the essential collection of Marqeta’s popular API Chronicles livestream sessions.
Hosted by Liz Lumley, our expert panels delve into innovators’ experiences to help guide you through the API landscape, supporting your mission to make tomorrow’s financial technology propositions today’s reality.
In this archive:
Why Today’s Financial Products Need Modern Tools
Zoom 2 The Future: How Innovators are Shaping Banking and Financial Services for ‘Zoomers’
To Greenfield or Not to Greenfield – How Banks are Disrupting Themselves
Bridging the Gap – How Payment Cards are Accelerating Crypto Adoption
How Digital Payments Technology is Supporting Sustainable Living
Taking it Global – Enabling Seamless Expansion
Primary cardholders: how modern platforms are teaching children lifelong money skills
Putting your cardholders in control: how to boss the UX space
Embracing diversity: how modern APIs are powering financial inclusion
The Future of Money – Tracking the transformation of money
Why Today’s Financial Products Need Modern Tools
Zoom 2 The Future: How Innovators are Shaping Banking and Financial Services for ‘Zoomers’
To Greenfield or Not to Greenfield – How Banks are Disrupting Themselves
Bridging the Gap – How Payment Cards are Accelerating Crypto Adoption
How Digital Payments Technology is Supporting Sustainable Living
Taking it Global – Enabling Seamless Expansion
Primary cardholders: how modern platforms are teaching children lifelong money skills
Putting your cardholders in control: how to boss the UX space
Embracing diversity: how modern APIs are powering financial inclusion
The Future of Money – Tracking the transformation of money
Watch this livestream and you’ll discover:
1. How APIs can help financial institutions reduce the costs associated with testing and improve the speed of launching new systems
2. Learn what makes a great API and how to evaluate and select the optimum partner platform for your innovation roadmap
3. Understand the steps you need to take to secure your future market positions by tapping into trends such as open banking, open finance and low code or no code platforms
Featuring:
Snehasri Purama
Technical Product Manager, Cards Issuing & Processing, Mambu
Steve Naudé
Head of Product, Wise Platform
Anthony Walton
CEO, Iliad Solutions
“Everything used to be siloed but open banking has really opened up a lot more data sources, many that do not necessarily pertain to payments or the financial world. A big example is identification. If I can prove who I am, then I can open a lot more transaction capabilities.”
Anthony Walton, Chief Executive Officer, Iliad Solutions
Three key takeaways for audiences of this livestream:
1. Gain insights from a 500-respondent Zoomer survey and discover how they bank today and how they might bank in the future
2. Learn how HSBC, Butter.co.uk and Wirex are designing propositions, solutions and experiences to meet the needs of Zoomers
3. Discover the modern platforms and tools fintech innovators are using to deliver seamless and frictionless payments experiences and how they put Zoomers in control
Featuring:
Timothy Davis
CEO and Co-founder – Butter.co.uk
Georgy Sokolov
Co-founder – Wirex
Rita Martins
Fintech Partnerships Lead – HSBC
“Millennials are increasingly expectant of rewards and it’s becoming a table stakes matter to offer something - because to have a level of stickiness and if you can offer that then you will have a very loyal customer.”
Timothy Davis, CEO, Butter
Watching this livestream, you’ll learn:
1. How banks are reducing the cost to serve customers through API and modern technology
2. What impact does building a greenfield bank have on time to market
3. How banks are reaching new audiences by embedding themselves in the platform economy
Featuring:
Carlo Panella
Head of Direct Banking, illimity.
Jose Rosa
Head of Product, Yuh
Simon Boonen
FinTech Consultant, ING
“Banks need to use APIs in every direction - to give solutions to customers but also to work with partners to bring about a holistic experience.”
Carlo Panella, Head of Direct Banking, illimity
Three things you’ll learn from this livestream:
1. How to bridge the gap between traditional and digital finance using APIs and modern payment cards
2. Why real-time crypto to fiat conversion at point of authorisation is making crypto work for consumers and merchants
3. How to enable your customers to use cryptocurrencies in their everyday banking needs
Featuring:
Arina Dudko
Head of Corporate Payment Solutions, CEX.IO
Nikola Plecas
Crypto Business Lead Europe, Visa
Austin Kimm
Co-Founder and Director for Strategy & Investments, Crypterium
Cormac Dinan
General Manager, Ireland, Crypto.com
“Crypto is global and this means we’re going to need to be able to issue globally capable cards. We need to work together to make that happen.”
Austin Kimm, co-founder and COO, Crypterium
This livestream discusses:
1. How APIs are increasing collaboration across the payments ecosystem and beyond to support and maintain the sustainability shift
2. How companies are using real-time APIs to inform more environmentally-friendly purchase decisions among consumers
3. The value propositions and company ethos required to thrive as a genuine sustainability innovator
Featuring:
Josh Berle
Director Business Development, Mastercard
Mathias Wikström
CEO, Doconomy
Ivan Mazzoleni
Cultural Energy Orchestrator, Flowe
Oli Cook
CEO & Co-Founder at ekko
“The fintechs of today have shown you can do it smarter … but they’re now adding an incentive of individual responsibility driven by transparency. We see responsibility becoming the new prestige. I want a card saying that I care about things, about where this world is going.”
Matthius Wikström, Chief Executive Officer, Doconomy
Watch this livestream to gain insights on:
1. The key components of an expansion strategy that enables innovators to quickly and seamlessly enter new markets
2. Modern card programme innovations that are giving businesses the ability to deliver relevance anywhere in the world
3. Ways to help ensure compliance with local regulations from the outset and the steps needed to minimise risk of failure
Featuring:
Adrian Klee
Partner, Digital Banking Ross Republic
Zoe Newman
US Managing Director, Capital On Tap
Aaron Carpenter
Director, Transact Payments
Marni Kruppa
Head of Fintech, Visa Europe
“If you’re not having surprises every other week when you launch in a new market, then you’re doing something wrong. But the key to understanding a market is having on-the-ground customer contacts that will help you understand whether the product is right for that audience. You’ll find that sometimes you have to take a step back and make it work for the user, because you might actually be ahead of the market.”
Adrian Klee, Partner - Digital Banking, Ross Republic
In this livestream you’ll learn:
1. How innovators are evolving their businesses to support financial literacy and wellbeing among a young audience
2. What tech and tools are capable of providing a seamless user journey for platforms used by parents and children
3. Where children’s payment products can go next and the potential role of blockchain in shaping customer experiences for young people
Featuring:
David Gonzalez
Head of Sales, Gimi
Igor Curic
CEO and Co-Founder, Nicky
Tom Bishop
Product Lead, Osper
Vasilis Zoupas
CEO,Woli
“All of the teenagers we talk to say 'I'm done with school at five and I will never learn anything again, don't teach me stuff.' So, you have to kind of teach them in a way that they don't notice they're being taught.”
Igor Curic, CEO and Co-Founder, Nicky
Watch this livestream to learn about:
1. The key UX measures innovators need to implement to optimise customer retention
2. The essential technical and cultural ingredients that enable successful partnerships with API providers
3. The impact digital innovations are having on UX across all customer touchpoints
Featuring:
Mark O’Keefe
Director, Optima
Jas Shah
Product Consultant, Bitsul
James Lynn
C-Founder, Currensea
Arseniy Korobchenko
Solutions Architect, Mambu
“When we look at all our partners the first questions we ask are, are they very API driven? Do they have sandbox environments? Do we actually need to have a huge consulting project to figure out how to actually do something together, even in the sandbox environment?”
James Lynn, co-founder of Currensea
Watch this livestream to understand:
1. How successful innovators are designing financial services that meet the needs of the unbanked or underbanked
2. The role of modern APIs in building modular financial inclusion products
3. The importance of building financial products that deliver educational nudges at the point of use
Featuring:
Payal Dalal
Senior Vice President, Social Impact – Mastercard
Nina Mohanty
Founder, Bloom Money
Carla Hoppe
Founder, Wealthbrite
Tynah Matembe
Founder & CEO – MoneyMatiX
“What I really love about where we are right now in fintech is that we can go to any number of technical service providers and just stitch together a bunch of APIs and really focus on a particular segment.”
Nina Mohanty, co-founder of Bloom Money
Topics covered in this livestream include:
1. Tokenization technology and how it is changing the way people store and exchange assets ranging from art to land
2. Transparency versus anonymity in the age of digital banking
3. Smart wallets and their potential to transform the way we procure goods and services
Featuring:
Cameron Parry
CEO & Founder, Tally Money
David Birch
Global Ambassador, Consult Hyperion
Kristian Sørensen
Founding Partner, The Tokeniser
"This development around tokenization is moving from the crypto enthusiast to what can we actually do with these technologies and improve the financial services industry and even our idea of value of exchange."
Kristian T. Sorensen, co-founder, Norfico consultancy and The Tokenizer
