After Selling His Company to SumUp, He Built a Compliance Business with Aurimas Bakas from Copla
Aurimas Bakas, CEO and co-founder of Copla, on why he saw DORA coming years before it existed and what changes when the regulator starts auditing.
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Aurimas Bakas, CEO and co-founder of Copla, on why he saw DORA coming years before it existed and what changes when the regulator starts auditing.
Patrick Liptak, partner at Berlin law firm MYLE, on when to involve legal, lean contracts, and what AI has done to document quality.
Julius Danek, product lead for Stripe in DACH and CEE, on why German platforms are leaving money on the table by staying grey-label and what Stripe Capital, Issuing, and Connect actually unlock.
Mark Holleman, co-founder of Thred, on embedded accounting and why the race to own the SME runs through the platforms they already use.
Airwallex Head of Growth DACH Tom Sellin on the embedded finance API, who is already using it, and what it takes to bring a global fintech to the German market.
Jane Podbelskaya advises North American software companies on embedded finance. We compare notes across continents on investors, AI, and vendor selection.
Ismael Belkhayat on building Morocco's first VC-backed payment institution from scratch and opening the infrastructure to third parties.
Matteo Benedetti, co-founder of Debtist, on embedding debt collection into vertical SaaS platforms and how they reached €12M ARR while staying profitable.
Christin Burmeister explains why Otto built a 250-person payments company in-house and what it takes to run a BaFin-licensed fintech unit.
Intergiro was profitable and bootstrapped. Then the Swedish regulator revoked its license overnight. CEO Nick Root tells his side of the story.
NoCFO’s Teemu Karuluoto explains why they chose a neobank over BaaS for embedded banking, and how it’s reshaping their accounting platform.
Banxware shifted from direct lender to lending enabler. Jens Roehrborn explains how their orchestration layer connects platforms with bank funding.