The Spark of Interest in Financial Innovation

In today's episode, Wesley Aster speaks with Ezra Kebrab, Founder and CEO of Caliza, a cross-border payments platform leveraging stablecoins to eliminate geographic barriers by allowing companies around the world to open digital dollar accounts for their users to save and transact. Ezra shares how is personal journey - from his childhood to his experience at Visa and Intuit - inspired him to build infrastructure for the next generation of global payments. Tune in to hear about: - Ezra's path from Intuit and Visa to launching Caliza - The problems Caliza solves for businesses in Brazil and the company's recent expansion to Mexico and Asia - The advantages of using stablecoins over traditional cross-border systems like SWIFT - Caliza's 2024 raise with Initialized, Quona, Abstract Ventures, Digital Currency Group, and others For more FinTech insights, follow us on: - Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech - Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech - Instagram: instagram.com/whartonfintech