The Blue Wave Hits Financial Services

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If you're building the next great financial product and need a bank that gets it, visit increase.com. Hello and welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. Today's episode is uh kind of an emergency episode.

I uh sort of flashed the regulatory bat signal to get uh the great Rob Blackwell, chief content officer and head of external affairs at Intrify and host of the very wonderful Banking with Interest podcast uh to come on and talk about the blue wave. Uh obviously we just had a midterm election. It was a once in I don't know every 50 years, every 75 years, every hundred years kind of election in terms of the results and I wanted to get an expert's opinion on what it will mean for the financial services industry.

Uh there is literally no one better in the world to ask that question to than Mr. Blackwell. As you will hear, I dabble in trying to be a uh political analyst uh mostly every couple of years when elections are happening.

Rob lives and breathes this stuff every week. He knows every corner of DC extremely well. and we cover a lot of ground about what it means for uh Democrats to retake Congress, for Democrats to flip a lot of state houses and governorships around the country, uh and what it's going to mean for the dynamics that banks, fintech companies, crypto companies have to navigate over the next couple of years.

So, really wonderful episode, jam-packed. Uh Rob is also a bit of a Treky, so we got into some Patrick Stewart and Star Trek stuff at the very end.