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Tal Schwartz

Tal Schwartz

Aug 13, 2026

4:49
If I were to take a group of sort of American fintech founders and Canadian fintech founders and maybe Latam fintech founders, how would you be able to tell the difference? What's the ethos or what's the approach or is it in the product? Is it in their relationship with the customers? What is it that makes Canadian fintech founders tick?
5:08
Sure.
5:08
So I would say the biggest, because financial services is such a heavily regulated industry, policy development in Canada is a huge differentiating factor.
5:22
So lots of similarities between the Canadian and the American market.
5:25
You know, the U.S. market, you also have a high concentration of very large financial institutions.
5:32
Um, the, uh, the key different is around major pieces of, uh, policy and legislation that allows for competition in the financial services industry.
5:45
So these terms are a little bit wonky, but if you're in the fintech industry, you'll, uh, have heard of a concept called open banking, which is, uh, the ability for, uh, The sharing of financial information between banks and third parties, that's permission by the user.

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Can you mention a few of the deals you've made that you think might really have legs?

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