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Some partnerships in financial services begin with a handshake and end with a contract dispute. Others start with a Sunday morning LinkedIn message and evolve into something that transcends the typical vendor-client relationship. The collaboration between Cross River Bank and Best Egg falls firmly into the latter category.

"When we first got into the business, we met several new companies, and some of them were like three guys in a garage," recalls Adam Goller, EVP and Head of Fintech Banking at Cross River. 

An impromptu conversation in 2013 between Best Egg's founder and Cross River's CEO would eventually grow into a partnership that has facilitated nearly $35 billion in loans and 2.5 million customers – reshaping the lives of people and communities who were previously underserved by traditional FIS and had limited access to credit.

What began as basic loan origination has evolved into sophisticated closed-loop capital market solutions, including the development of Best Egg's "BEAST" securitization platform, which uses Cross River’s CRB Securities to package assets for sale to institutional investors.

The progression reflects Cross River’s willingness and ability to help fintechs climb the rungs of product expansion as they grow: "We have so many use cases where a partner came to us for lending, and that ultimately expanded to a deposit product, a payment service, and a card product," Goller notes.

Although partners that offer point solutions can help fintechs get started, they don’t set them up for the future. The Cross River - Best Egg partnership shows how the right BaaS and bank partner helps fintechs move beyond the start up mindset with more sophisticated financial support as they mature. 

Listen to this conversation to learn about the blueprint fintechs should use to identify the right banking partners at the start and how Cross River can help fintechs look beyond isolated business cases and build long term product road maps, with the support of a large financial institution and the agility of a fintech.

How to build a partnership that can survive market disruptions ft. Cross River and Best Egg

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Toujours techniquement à la rue, Lapin réalise qu'en fait on lui a un peu volé sa vie.

La Chute de Lapinville
Lapin, pervers narcissique en fin de droits, raconte son retour à Lapinville et sa décision de faire un podcast pour se venger de ses anciens camarades d’école. Il est bientôt rejoint par Chloé Bloomington, star de cinéma qu’une énorme shitstorm oblige à revenir dans sa ville natale pour jouer dans une fiction quotidienne à la con. Puis, on suit l’enquête de Spiruline, astucieuse stagiaire à la mairie, qui dévoilera des scandales insoupçonnés dans les plus hautes sphères de Lapinville… Tour à tour, les Lapinvillois témoignent pour essayer de comprendre comment, une chose en entraînant une autre, ils ont fini par provoquer la destruction de la Terre. Leurs destins entremêlés forment une pelote visible de l’espace dont cette série, cinq minutes par jour, va dérouler le fil. Fresque épique et palpitante, chronique de la catastrophe en cours et de ses ramifications les plus inattendues, La Chute de Lapinville a pu être décrite comme une variante des Simpson à la sauce rond-point ou un jumeau maléfique de Plus belle la vie.

Création
2023

Scénario et dialogues
Benjamin Abitan, Wladimir Anselme, Laura Fredducci

Direction artistique
Benjamin Abitan

Conseillère littéraire
Noémie Landreau

Réalisation
Jean-Yves Pouyat

Assistante réalisation
Anissa Zidna

Musique originale
Samuel Hirsch

Comédiens
Aurélien Gabrielli (Lapin)
Charlotte Corman (Spiruline)
Lucrèce Sassela (Colombe)
Olivier Saladin (Laurent)
Hélène Alexandridis (Laurence)
Juliette Allauzen (Cliente)
Samuel Roger (Sarkis)
Lisa Toromanian (Chantal)
Joseph Cerutti (Lapin enfant)
Saadia Bensaïd (Christiane)
Bénédicte Bosc (Conseillère d'éducation)

Voix générique
Jacques Falgous
Valérie Mairesse

Production
ARTE Radio
ARTE Studio
Virginie Lacoste
Sahar Pirouz
Jacques Falgous

Illustration
Roxane Lumeret

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After several remixes for @distant-gaze, Barcelona-based DJ and producer @sestrica returns to the label with her first solo EP, 'A Way to Ananda'.

Across three emotionally charged compositions, Sestrica unfolds an intimate sonic journey that mirrors her own path of transformation. “This EP is my experience of coming back to life and bliss after going through divorce,” she says.

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