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People need the financial sector to be safe; people also need the financial sector to go through a massive phase of innovation. That means delivering on the positive rhetoric, like around settlement accounts, not allowing Open Banking to be diluted, and leading the way on AML.
— Taavet Hinrikus
Tags: innovation, go, people, positive

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In 2011, when we launched TransferWise, it was our frustration with banks not giving us what we wanted or needed as customers. The motivation was a strong desire to solve a problem and not just fix something that was broken but create a better alternative and a new system for doing things.
— Taavet Hinrikus
Tags: frustration, new, better, broken
Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.
— Taavet Hinrikus
Tags: valley, belief, innovation, people
Changing behaviour is a very slow process.
— Taavet Hinrikus
Tags: very, behaviour, slow, process
Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.
— Taavet Hinrikus
Tags: like, control, feel, business
International money transfer is a massive consumer rip-off. Banks and companies like Western Union have gotten away with it for too long.
— Taavet Hinrikus
Tags: away, like, long, money
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