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Moving Money: Formance with Clément Salaün

Feb 5, 2025
35:36

Clément Salaün (@superzamp) is the co-founder and CTO of Formance, the open-source platform which is building an agnostic infrastructure for the future of the financial Internet. Formance is divided into several modules which allow fintech engineers to build and operate complex flow of funds, weaving together multiple payment rails with internal ledger accounts. Tune in to find out what it takes to build a scalable and extensible financial core system.

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In this episode we discuss:

  • How Clem got into fintech through Minecraft

  • Thoughts on the European open-source scene 

  • Formance’s ratio of community size to Github stars

  • The influence of crypto on Formance

  • What it means to split an open-source project into many repositories

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