Nashville Hot Chicken Challenge: Chris Noe in the Hot Seat
In this special episode of Fintech Corner, Trovata’s Joseph Drambarean and guest Chris Noe, Head of Wholesale Payments Product at Truist, dive into a fiery lineup of hot sauces and even hotter topics. From how AI can help corporate clients discover financial services to ongoing challenges with KYC compliance, they share hot takes on new possibilities within banking. All while trying to survive an increasingly scorching lineup of hot sauces complemented by Nashville’s legendary hot chicken from Hattie B’s.
Episode Highlights
- Chris shares the toughest challenges in his career while sampling Hot Sauce #3: Smoked Onion
- Hear Chris’s insights on if AI will make any aspects of banking obsolete while trying to survive Hot Sauce #5: Apple Caraway
- During hot sauce #6: Jerk & Scotch Bonnet, Joseph explores how AI can help clients discover available services and optimize decision-making around their use
- Joseph and Chris discuss the complexities of Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance as things heat up with Hot Sauce #7: Ninja Napalm
- Watch Chris and Joseph squirm as they try to survive The Last Dab: Xperience
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Learn more about Trovata at https://trovata.io.
About Fintech Corner
A podcast for fintech lovers that starts conversations between bankers, financial technology innovators, and their clients to evolve finance and treasury for the 21st century. For decades, there has been a gap between the technology that banks can offer and what corporate clients need for modern cash flow management and analysis. We’ll cover emerging trends to help bridge this gap, technologies that can reshape the roles of treasury & finance, and the in’s and out’s of API bank connections & open banking.
Chris Noe
Head of Wholesale Payments Product, Truist
Chris Noe is the head of Wholesale Payments Product for Truist Financial and joined the company in March 2023. As head of product, Chris is responsible for driving innovation and enabling client success through successful product management and development of our Treasury, Liquidity, Merchant and Commercial Card businesses. Chris has more than 25 years of product management and design experience with a focus on client experience, fostering innovation and driving execution. Chris joined Truist from Wells Fargo where he most recently served as head of embedded finance and sales engineering for Commercial Digital. In this role and others, Chris was focused on leveraging new technology
and strategic relationships with market-leading fintechs to help create best-in-class digital experiences for cash management.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Chris and was previously Application Manager at Wachovia Bank. Prior to that, he was a Systems Engineer/Analyst at First Union National Bank. Chris has a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Joseph Drambarean
CTO, Trovata
Joseph is one of the founding members of the company and the first engineer. Before Trovata he worked with companies like Capital One where he was at the forefront of digital transformation, leading product management as head of the innovation labs and mobile banking teams. Joseph is driving innovation around rapid deployment and customer onboarding, bank-grade security, and machine learning at Trovata, creating a more consumerized user experience for customers from small businesses to enterprises.
