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Nigel Verdon On Raising Tens Of Millions To Allow Any Company Or Brand To Offer Financial Services

September 13, 2020
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DealMakers: Entrepreneur | Startups | Venture Capital

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Nigel Verdon is the cofounder and CEO of Railsbank which is an open banking API and platform that gives regulated and un-regulated companies access to global banking. The company has raised over $14 million from top tier investors like Kima, Moneta VC, and Visa to name a few.
In this episode you will learn:

Operating in regulated industries
How much they’ve raised at RailsBank
Models that scale
His top advice to his younger self




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About Nigel Verdon:
Nigel Verdon is Co- Founder and CEO of Railsbank, a global banking and compliance platform that gives companies access to global wholesale banking services in 5 lines of code.
Nigel Verdon is an entrepreneur and tech evangelist. Previously Nigel Verdon worked at Swiss Bank Corp (now UBS) and was a director at Dresden Kleinwort Investment Bank – both sighted for their digital innovation.
Nigel Verdon is Chairman/Founder of one of the world’s best known FinTech brands, Currency Cloud, founder of the award winning Evolution Consulting Group plc. (exited to FTSE 100 company), an investor in FinTech specialist Anthemis and a board member of FX options hedge fund LCJ.
Connect with Nigel Verdon:




* Linkedin
* Crunchbase
* Twitter




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FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:



Alejandro: Alrighty. Hello everyone, and welcome to the DealMakers show. Today, we have a serial entrepreneur that is going to be joining us, and it’s quite exciting. Also, he’s very well-versed in Europe, but he’s been all over the world. So, without further ado, let’s welcome our guest today, Nigel Verdon. Welcome to the show.
Nigel Verdon: Thank you. Thank you for the invitation and also that warm welcome. That’s very kind of you. 
Alejandro: Nigel, originally born in Germany,