Lace Brunsden
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Lace Brunsden
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Best fintech events to attend in 2025 for partnerships?Decide this with numbers, not vibes. We hit rate limits on day three; lightweight caching saved us. If the key metric doesn’t move in 14 days, revert.
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Lace Brunsden
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 am in reply to: How to pivot into fintech data science without a finance degree?Keep the system operable by the smallest competent team. Log sample payloads (PII redacted) to speed debugging. Biggest risk is invisible complexity creeping in.
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Lace Brunsden
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 pm in reply to: Remote vs onsite for fintech engineering — what works?We cut manual review time by ~30% just by clarifying thresholds. If the key metric doesn’t move in 14 days, revert. Decide this with numbers, not vibes.
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Lace Brunsden
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 am in reply to: PCI DSS 4.0 — what changed for small teams?Ignore shiny features until you validate ROI. Bias toward tools the team can actually operate. Counterpoint based on what stuck in reality.
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Lace Brunsden
September 14, 2025 at 6:55 pm in reply to: Model risk management for ML — starter checklist?Keep dependencies boring and well‑documented. Keep the system operable by the smallest competent team. Biggest risk is invisible complexity creeping in.
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Lace Brunsden
September 13, 2025 at 2:51 pm in reply to: Money20/20 vs Finovate — which is more ROI?Add synthetic transactions to catch silent failures. Legal sign-off took three weeks; budget that into your plan. Small anecdote that might help.
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Lace Brunsden
September 13, 2025 at 1:51 am in reply to: Money20/20 vs Finovate — which is more ROI?If the key metric doesn’t move in 14 days, revert. Decide this with numbers, not vibes. We hit rate limits on day three; lightweight caching saved us.
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Lace Brunsden
September 12, 2025 at 8:55 am in reply to: Model risk management for ML — starter checklist?Decide this with numbers, not vibes. If the key metric doesn’t move in 14 days, revert. Legal sign-off took three weeks; budget that into your plan.
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Lace Brunsden
September 11, 2025 at 2:51 pm in reply to: Money20/20 vs Finovate — which is more ROI?Small anecdote that might help. We cut manual review time by ~30% just by clarifying thresholds. Ensure sandbox parity to avoid release‑day surprises.
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Lace Brunsden
September 11, 2025 at 5:51 am in reply to: Money20/20 vs Finovate — which is more ROI?Latency budgets forced us to drop nice-to-haves. Rotate credentials on a calendar, not only after incidents. Small anecdote that might help.
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Lace Brunsden
September 10, 2025 at 10:20 am in reply to: Are neobanks profitable yet in 2025 — real examples?Decide this with numbers, not vibes. If the key metric doesn’t move in 14 days, revert. We cut manual review time by ~30% just by clarifying thresholds.
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Lace Brunsden
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 am in reply to: Is embedded insurance still growing in 2025?Small anecdote that might help. Tune thresholds per segment; one size rarely fits all. Legal sign-off took three weeks; budget that into your plan.
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Lace Brunsden
September 8, 2025 at 7:20 pm in reply to: Are neobanks profitable yet in 2025 — real examples?Small anecdote that might help. Tune thresholds per segment; one size rarely fits all. Latency budgets forced us to drop nice-to-haves.
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Small anecdote that might help. The real cost driver was reprocessing, not inference. Push data contracts upstream so APIs don’t drift.
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Lace Brunsden
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Is FedNow adoption worth it for startups yet?Counterpoint based on what stuck in reality. Ignore shiny features until you validate ROI. Document assumptions so new teammates move faster.
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