Oban MacTavish of Spade on creating a real-time system of enhanced card merchant data
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The core of the card payments system as we know it today has been around for many decades. This system has a number of major shortcomings, not least of which is the 45-character limited established by the ISO 8583 standard. That may have been enough characters back in the 1980s but it is severely limiting in today's complex world. But problems like these create opportunities for creative minds.My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Oban MacTavish, the CEO and Co-Founder of Spade. ...
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