55X in 12 Months: The Clearing and Settlement Layer No One Is Rebuilding Till Now | George Davis, CEO and Co Foudner of Lorum

Most fintechs treat cross border payments as a cost centre. George Davis built a business that treats it as the $100B infrastructure opportunity nobody else is rebuilding, and grew 55X in 12 months doing it.

In this episode I speak with George Davis, Co-Founder and CEO of Lorum, a global clearing and settlement infrastructure business serving financial institutions across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and beyond. George is a serial founder who previously co-founded BVNK before leaving to rebuild the layer of the payments stack that big banks have left untouched.

Key takeaways:

The payment system isn't broken; banks running it are wrongly incentivisedWhy stablecoins add friction to cross border payments rather than removing themHow mid market fintechs can access wholesale treasury rates and turn FX into a profit centreWhat access to clearing infrastructure actually means for remittance, payroll, and import-export businessesWhy Lorum 55X'd in 12 months by going after the bottom of the payments stack

George also shares the founder mindset behind Lorum's growth: first principles thinking, radical adaptability, and hiring for obsession over experience.

👉 Connect with George:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgedavis-lorum/

Website: https://www.lorum.com/

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