145: Constantinople | Macgregor Duncan

By Dexter Cousins on 19/05/2023

In episode 145 of Fintech Chatter, Dexter Cousins is joined by Macgregor Duncan of Constantinople.

Constantinople is the first of its kind: an all-in-one software and operational platform for banks. Providing a fully-managed platform service, covering customer experience, product, infrastructure, operations, servicing, and compliance.

Macgregor founded Constantinople with Co-Founder Dianne Challenor in 2022 and this week they officially announced their launch along with a record breaking $32m seed raise with Square Peg, Airtree and Great Southern Bank

Macgregor talks about the huge problem Constantinople is tackling, how they managed to raise such a significant amount at such a tough time and his journey from Global banking executive to Fintech founder

About Constantinople

Constantinople’s services cover both retail and business banking. Its platform supports a full range of customer products, including mobile apps and internet banking, transaction and savings accounts, payments, debit and credit cards, and a range of secured and unsecured lending products. These customer products are fully configurable and issued by banks under their brand.

Constantinople also supports all underlying operational services, including customer
onboarding, KYC, AML, fraud management, payments and lending operations, loan origination and decisioning, regulatory reporting, and customer service. The platform uses software to embed compliance obligations, risk settings, and automated controls.

Constantinople recently released its platform into production and is soon to commence a live pilot with its first client bank, Great Southern Bank.

About Macgregor Duncan

Constantinople’s co-founders and co-CEOs, Macgregor Duncan and Dianne Challenor, are global banking executives with extensive banking and technology experience in the United States, Asia and Australia.

Find out more - https://www.cxnpl.com/
Connect with Macgregor - https://www.linkedin.com/in/macgregor-duncan-bb0381179/

Article written by Dexter Cousins
Founder of Tier One People and host of the Fintech Chatter Podcast.

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