Going Down the Rabbit Hole of Fintech Structure with Chris McCann

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who's behind the boom in fintech startups? How are digital-wallet entrepreneurs, for instance, launching their ideas? How much of their products are they building in house? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The front end of fintech garners a lot of attention, but the back end has often gotten ignored. Nevertheless, there's an infrastructure powering everything. What is it? Who is it? How will it change?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today's episode of the Payments Innovation podcast, we invited</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mccannatron/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chris McCann</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, managing partner at</span> <a href= "https://proof.fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proof of Capital</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, to take us down the fintech rabbit hole by exploring these ideas from his popular article,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fintech-infrastructure-101-overview-market-landscape-chris-mccann/"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The FinTech Infrastructure 101</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Chris helps us understand the fintech ecosystem, specifically who does what and the value of the chain.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What we talked about:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the idea for</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The FinTech Infrastructure 101,</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chris' article, got started</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The landscape of banking as a service and the "really, really, really new idea" of APIs</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What fintech companies are using to power their existing applications</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Trends that are fundamentally challenging the core assumptio