Conversations / No. 02
Building a payments company from the outside
Target guest profile: founder of a regulated cross-border payments business. Western Europe. Planned conversation.
- Entrepreneurship
- Technology
- Capital
Editorial outline
A planned conversation on founding a regulated payments business in Europe for a market connected to home: operating at a distance, licensing where you live, and avoiding assumptions about customers you think you already understand.
Lines of inquiry
- 01
What a local operating partner with real authority changes about building from a distance.
- 02
How licensing affects credibility with institutional counterparties.
- 03
Why diaspora customers can be an attractive first cohort and difficult to retain.
- 04
How smaller operators manage currency exposure and settlement risk.
- 05
Where investors misjudge the balance of regulatory, distribution and technical work.
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