Fintech Nerdcon - Interview with Increase CEO Darragh Buckley

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