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Banker’s Hours with Valley Bank’s Rodrigo Suarez

Banker's Hours at Bank Nerd Corner welcomes Rodrigo Suarez, Head of Partner Banking at Valley National Bank, a $66.3 billion bank based in Passaic, New Jersey.

Listen as Kiah and Rodrigo trace the arc of embedded banking from the early neobank boom, exploring why so much of the first wave was built on Durbin-exempt interchange and proved to be unsustainable at scale.

Rodrigo argues the more durable opportunity for banks with a larger balance sheet and a more complete product suite is through partnering with software companies and other businesses that want to embed financial products without…

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