Business Economics
Credit Suisse Payments Research Note
Insights & discussion with Infinicept: As part of our 4th Annual Credit Suisse FinTech Conference, we hosted the Co-Founder and Co-CEO (a twenty five-year payments industry veteran) of Infinicept, a business described by our guests as an “operating system for embedded payments” with plans to expand into embedded finance. Watch the full interview.
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