In this episode Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo sits down with Increase CEO, Darragh Buckley to explore long-term infrastructure thinking, compliance as code, stablecoins vs. traditional rails, and what’s actually broken in payments.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:19 The motivation for Increase: addressing payment disbursement failures
03:04 Technical and business challenges in international financial expansion
05:00 Viewing compliance as an engineering problem to be solved
07:31 Admiration for legacy financial systems built with constraints
09:10 The simplicity curve: abstraction, complexity, and underlying simplicity
12:45 The philosophy of building "lovingly boring" financial infrastructure
14:30 The necessity of early partnerships and gatekept features in fintech
16:50 Stablecoins as parallel infrastructure versus replacement for traditional systems
19:58 The existing strengths of US deposit rails and last-mile delivery
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