Forzley: Lending capital scales best when embedded into existing payments workflows
Marwan Forzley · Will Veem's 300,000 SMB Customers Process Over $5b in 2021? 3 Products Driving Growth. · Oct 19, 2021 · at 14:29
Marwan Forzley, CEO of Veem, explains the business rationale for embedding lending and Buy Now, Pay Later capabilities into payments rails.
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“Because if you look at where capital has scaled in the past, it's situations where it is embedded into something else. Payments is a natural.”
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