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by zt 13y ago
The cliche phrase "software is eating the world" doesn't quite do the future justice. "Startups in industries that didn't previously have them" does it much better: that's agriculture (Sourcerly), payments
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When Tech Turns Nouns Into Verbs(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Standard Treasury is scaling fast to change how companies use their banks
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All Grown Up? At YC, the New Consumer Was the Enterprise(allthingsd.com)
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Murder by Craigslist(theatlantic.com)
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The Tedium is the Message: “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet”(lareviewofbooks.org)
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A much-maligned engine of innovation(ft.com)
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Taken(newyorker.com)
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by zt 13y ago
San Francisco, CA -- Standard Treasury -- Full-Time Opportunity Standard Treasury builds software for banks. That might seem boring, but everyone uses a bank and we dream of making their technology simple, beautiful, and intuitive. Think
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New Credit Card Will Prevent Your Grandma From Getting Scammed(fastcoexist.com)
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by zt 13y ago
Ya, I know Kai well and he definitely let his exuberance get the better of him there. His intentions are genuine and he and Claire are personally driven by this problem.
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by zt 13y ago
(Disclosure: I'm an investor in True Link). A key difference is that the True Link card has built in protections against specific cases of elder fraud, not just the general cases of fraud that something like Amex targets. Just to give
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Detachment: On the scientific research of Romanian orphans(aeonmagazine.com)
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The 10 Most Influential Software Programs Ever(slate.com)
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by zt 13y ago
I'm looking forward to making sure that I'm not overpaying on the review of my commercial contract with banks!
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Big Law, Big Bill. For Now(blog.simplelegal.com)
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by zt 13y ago
This has since been corrected in the original article.
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by zt 13y ago
It's an interesting thought. Why not build an open-source credit card processor (not Stripe or Balanced, but First Data or Vantiv) as well? We'll get there.
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by zt 13y ago
I don't know if technology is generally valued within banks or not. What I do know if that we've had a lot of success working with product folks who "get it" and help us drive through the platform from the business side
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by zt 13y ago
Thanks for the details and the thoughts. It is a difficult industry, obviously. I think we're fortunate that we're starting as a wrapper around existing exposed endpoints (for example SFTP endpoints for ACH flat-files). Core proce
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by zt 13y ago
Standard Treasury wants to bring banks up to speed with the modern era. The Silicon Valley startup is developing a white label collection of APIs and webhooks that will allow commercial banks to give customers access to core banking service
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Standard Treasury (YC S13) Wants to Bring Banks into the 21st Century(blog.programmableweb.com)
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Help us rethink commercial banking
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Standard Treasury (YC S13) Is on Road to ‘Revolutionizing’ Bank Technology(bankinnovation.net)
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by zt 13y ago
This question is one we're still answering with banks. The exact security model will likely differ slightly by bank, depending on their idiosyncratic wishes and standards. Also, the security model could be broken down in to (a) How do
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by zt 13y ago
tbrooks, unfortunately it will be a couple of months until the products are ready for developers. Sorry! We're in contract negotiations and then we have to do the integrations. We might build sandboxes in a few weeks, but that only hel
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by zt 13y ago
(I work on Standard Treasury). Yes! We need a new logo. Know any good designers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014763 ?
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Standard Treasury (YC S13) Is Hiring
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by zt 13y ago
Thanks for the link! We have this exact use case in mind, actually. Trigger based web hooks for transactions is definitely something a few people have mentioned to us and that we're talking to our bank partners about.
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by zt 13y ago
$3 is a lot. Most banks will do it for 50 cents or less. If you have huge volume (someone like Square or Stripe) you can often get it down to one or two cents.

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