Expediting Your Time to Market with REAL Bank-as-a-Service
Presentation Date & Time:
May 3rd & 4th, 2022
Presenter Information:
Name: Trent Sorbe
Organization: Central Payments
Presentation Description:
Fueled by the pandemic, consumers are rapidly changing the way they manage their finances, prompting a flurry of emerging fintech solutions. This presentation will focus on key strategies for early stage fintechs to look for when selecting a Bank-as-a-Service partner that will allow for an expedited path to market readiness. Trent will discuss the concept of REAL bank-as-a-Service API platforms that include a full suite of services. Plus, Trent will discuss starting Falls Fintech, the only fintech accelerator program ran by a full-scale, digital payments bank.
Presentation Date & Time:
May 3rd & 4th, 2022
Presenter Information:
Name: Trent Sorbe
Organization: Central Payments
Presentation Description:
Fueled by the pandemic, consumers are rapidly changing the way they manage their finances, prompting a flurry of emerging fintech solutions. This presentation will focus on key strategies for early stage fintechs to look for when selecting a Bank-as-a-Service partner that will allow for an expedited path to market readiness. Trent will discuss the concept of REAL bank-as-a-Service API platforms that include a full suite of services. Plus, Trent will discuss starting Falls Fintech, the only fintech accelerator program ran by a full-scale, digital payments bank.
Trent Sorbe Biography
Trent Sorbe is the President and Founder of Central Payments, the payments subsidiary of Central Bank of Kansas City. He was an architect of Central Payments’ Open*CP Fintech API MarketplaceSM, one of the only true bank-as-a-service payment platforms and the technology responsible for Central Payments’ rise to the fastest growing prepaid card issuer since 2015.
With more than 28 years of debit, credit, and prepaid payments experience, Trent is responsible for products garnering nine Paybefore Awards, three of which garnered Best in Class or Category. He is also the inventor on 14 patents related to consumer financial services. Trent previously held senior positions at three nationwide payment card issuers and the FDIC.
In 2016, Trent was named to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Community Bank Advisory Council and chaired the agency’s Cards, Payments, and Deposit Markets Committee. He is a co-founder of Falls Fintech, a startup accelerator program committed to bridging the bank-fintech partnership gap and sits on the Board of Directors for the Central Bank of Kansas City.
With more than 28 years of debit, credit, and prepaid payments experience, Trent is responsible for products garnering nine Paybefore Awards, three of which garnered Best in Class or Category. He is also the inventor on 14 patents related to consumer financial services. Trent previously held senior positions at three nationwide payment card issuers and the FDIC.
In 2016, Trent was named to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Community Bank Advisory Council and chaired the agency’s Cards, Payments, and Deposit Markets Committee. He is a co-founder of Falls Fintech, a startup accelerator program committed to bridging the bank-fintech partnership gap and sits on the Board of Directors for the Central Bank of Kansas City.