Curiosity Code Podcast
Curiosity Code Podcast
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Wise Owns Its Rails. Remitly Rents Them. Who's Winning?
One remittance company owns its payment rails and keeps 52 cents of every $100. Another rents them, keeps about $2, and grew faster last year. So does owning the pipes decide who wins?A solo episode of Curiosity Code. I work through a qu...
AI Agents: Who's Accountable for Mistakes? | Erich Barlow
AI governance for AI agents in financial services: when an agent makes a mistake at computer speed, who is accountable? Erich Barlow says the organization that deployed it, not the system and not the vendor. "Regulators and customers will not a...
Crypto-Backed Lending Explained | Himanshu Sahay
Himanshu Sahay, Co-Founder of Arch Lending and a former engineering leader at Snapchat, Tinder, and Bird, breaks down how crypto-backed lending works, from bitcoin-collateralized loans to no-liquidation borrowing, currently available to institu...
AI Agents in Fintech: Are They Out of Control?
Are AI agents out of control, or are most companies just governing them with suggestions? A solo episode on agentic AI in banking and fintech: who is in control, and who is accountable when an agent gets it wrong.In July, hundreds of AI ...
Crypto Won. So Where Did the Money Go? | Colin Butler
Colin Butler spent 2022 to 2025 as Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Labs, where his team ran every major institutional launch on the chain. In this episode he goes back through four years of his own calls and says where he was wr...