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"Banks need to be sold stablecoin infrastructure in a particular way," says @TylerSherwin at @BVNKFinance "When you have a technical audience mixed with a less technical audience both on the same call, your technical team might say, I have a question about this API, and suddenly you've got the code snippet right there." "Nobody looks at the API docs when you send them to them because it just feels so overwhelming. But when you present it in a contextualized format, it crushes and people love it."

Banks shouldn't have to KYC the same customer twice. "What BVNK does is we have an embedded program that allows you to embed stablecoin wallets into your platform. It allows us to send, receive, store, and convert stablecoins on your customer's behalf." "We can essentially ingest the KYC process that the bank has already done on a customer to quickly spin up a stablecoin wallet for them." @TylerSherwin, VP of Sales at @BVNKFinance