Banker’s Hours with First International’s Trent Sorbe

Bank Nerd Corner welcomes Trent Sorbe, chief payments officer at First International Bank and Trust, for this episode of Banker’s Hours. 

Banker’s Hours explores the personalities in banking for some real talk on important, interesting and fun topics. 

Trent has specialized in payments over his career, and that has led him into the land of payments technology and banking as a service. First International, which includes the Kotapay division Trent oversees, is the $5.5 billion bank unit of Watford City Bancshares and is based in Watford City, North Dakota.

Trent and Kiah about why and how South Dakota became the payments capital of the United States, how all banks do payments but not all banks are payment banks, and the risk and opportunity that underpin banking as a service, as well as how this business line has evolved. 

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Follow Trent on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsorbe/

Read Trent’s piece about why banks must reinvent BaaS: https://www.bai.org/banking-strategies/why-banks-must-reinvent-baas/

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