Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes

In this conversation, we chat with Adam Hughes – the Chief Executive Officer at Amount, a technology company focused on accelerating the world’s transition to digital financial services via its digital retail banking platform, world-class digital authentication & fraud prevention tools, and ecommerce point-of-sale financing technology. Prior to his role at Amount, Adam was President & COO at Avant, an industry-leading digital consumer lending platform. Earlier in his career, Adam was an early employee at Enova International where he played a critical role building and scaling the company's international digital lending business. Adam holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and is a member of the Founders Pledge community, a group of entrepreneurs and investors who have pledged to give a substantial part of future proceeds to charitable causes More specifically, we touch on digital lending industry Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), as well as the trends of working with large banks and enabling their digital transformation to access some of these themes as part of embedded finance and banking-as-a-service. Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD. Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella Want to discuss? Stop by our Discord and reach out here with questions.