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Sam Broner shared thisBanks should get more comfortable with crypto custody. They're ready to work with digital assets, but they seem a little confused about who keeps digital assets safe. Guess what banks, you do! Remember those big vaults you have with the security guards? Big metal doors? Maybe made by Diebold or Mosler? Then you trained people on policies, procedures, key management, and physical security? Providing practical safety for wealth (cash, gold, stock certificates, etc) used to be part of the job (not "we won't make risky investments" safety), and it will be again. Not necessarily inventing the vault, but keeping money safe and providing practical, convenient, safe access to it.
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Sam Broner shared thisThe dollar is the product with the largest and broadest demand in the history. There's no other product that people recognize and want in any corner of the planet. Excited to watch Augustus continue to make dollars available to more people!Sam Broner shared thisAugustus has raised 180M$ on 1B$ to build the Global Dollar Bank. The Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But International Fintechs and non-US banks are left with two unsatisfying options to access it: Either they build on legacy clearing banks that are slow and unreliable, or they interface with middleware providers that don’t move and hold the dollars directly, but themselves rely on underlying legacy banks. Augustus collapses this stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code. If you’re looking to build on the Dollar - message me or the team directly, or check us out at Augustus.com.
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Sam Broner shared thisMade Stablecon's Most Influential list as a leader in the Liquidity and Markets space. That seems right: The Better Money Company is proud to help more people access stablecoins (Better Money!) on a 1 to 1 basis -- exactly the way money should be! Lots of great people, including many of our partners, were recognized here for pushing stablecoins forward. Congrats to all.
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Sam Broner shared thisExtremely happy that Reagan joined The Better Money Company. I want to share how I first met Reagan and just how much impact she made in her first (checks calendar) 8 weeks. I first met Reagan at Consensus in Miami. I thought I recognized her name from a list of applicants we'd broadly bucketed as "prior consultants" - but that bucket completely undersold her. She doggedly stayed in touch, had deep knowledge on the stablecoin space, and showed up with ideas for how to contribute on day one. Our first meeting was on the floor outside of a meeting room between customer meetings. She started that Friday. Since then Reagan's taken on two key projects and wrestled them to ground - a complex enterprise customer and a rearchitecture of our onboarding and compliance process. The Better Money Company is helping every business own their payments and treasury stack with stablecoins -- we can do that because we have people like Reagan on the team who see problems and own them. Lucky to have her. Back to building.Sam Broner shared thisI'm excited to share that I've joined The Better Money Company! For stablecoins to be the future of money, they need to move as easily and reliably as the dollars in our bank accounts. You don't sell your Wells Fargo dollars to buy Bank of America dollars, and stablecoins should work the same way. The Better Money Company's stablecoin clearinghouse makes that possible, any stablecoin in, any stablecoin out, settled at par. It's a privilege to be working on this alongside Sam Broner, Adam Zuckerman, and the rest of the team. Excited to be building better money!
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Sam Broner reposted thisSam Broner reposted this"Wait, so you're saying I can finally bill someone $789.87 and receive not 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 that amount, but 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 that amount?" This is what Sam Broner from The Better Money Company (TBMC) hears from finance professionals all the time, and is one of the many operational pain points that Notabene solves with the integration of TBMC's clearinghouse service and Notabene Flow. You can put any number you want on an invoice. But the only thing that really matters is the number that shows up in your wallet. When stablecoin payments require conversion through trading-based systems, market slippage means the amount that arrives is never quite what the invoice states. You bill $789.87, you receive a slightly different amount. Your finance team now has a reconciliation problem, and your compliance team has questions they can't cleanly answer. Operationally, it just doesn't scale. A clearinghouse settling at par closes that gap. The amount invoiced is the amount received, regardless of the stablecoin that the payer sends and the stablecoin that the invoicing party wants to actually receive in their wallet. Sam and I unpack the topic in greater detail in this latest episode of Stack Chats on Notabene (link in comments). Thanks Sam, this was a fun one. We're excited to build with you and your team. #NotabeneFlow #StablecoinPayments #B2BPayments
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Sam Broner posted thisMy view of hiring is something like Billy Beane's from Moneyball. We have JDs - they're fine, good, clear - but what we actually need is the aggregate of abilities. Never built in crypto? Haven't built software for payments? I don't care. We are creating a team that wins. We're hiring a team that, in the aggregate, can do everything The Better Money Company needs to succeed. I want to hire you. I want to hire you if you know payments inside and out, but also if you're an engineer stuck in the back office who should be driving revenue. If you are obsessed with simplifying a complex, regulated onboarding flow and can help our customers start using our product faster, we want to talk to you. If you can drive first-pass payment success from 99.25% to 99.75%, if you're not afraid to spelunk through legacy code and can connect legacy systems to modern payments, if you are maniacally obsessed with ensuring that our team can trust AI completely because we are certain our test harness covers our core state machine, if you can solve a max-flow problem and instrument a system to collect costs, we want to talk to you. You don't need to have all of these skills, we need the *team* to have all of them. I want to meet you if you're the best person you know at any of them. If you're humble and not sure, but there's a little part of you that thinks maybe, maybe I am the best at one of these things and I want to prove it by building Better Money, that's even better. DMs open, but so is email: samb@bettermoney.com, subject line: Better Money | {problem you want to solve or skill you have}
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Sam Broner reposted thisSam Broner reposted thisBlockchains let you build money products without ever touching the money. It's "trustless" infrastructure. This can be incredibly useful. And is very cool and novel! Building without touching the money is also a tempting path practically. If you never touch customer funds, you may not have licensing or legal obligations that otherwise might be necessary. This can shave months or years and potentially millions of dollars off getting to market. At The Better Money Company, we made the early decision not to go this route. Our clearinghouse is going to sit in the money flow. Own the hard parts - legal, compliance, security, reporting. Because for our stablecoin clearinghouse, these hard parts are the parts that really matter to our customers. We need to own them to build the best, most scalable product. But if its not "trustless", it has to be trusted! This has always been something we've very intentionally baked into the DNA of the company. Building and maintaining trust is essential. We're hiring our first dedicated security person to help do that! Come join us to build the trusted infrastructure for the next era of money!
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Sam Broner reposted thisSam Broner reposted this"Money runs on infrastructure built before the internet existed. I started The Better Money Company because I'm impatient for that to change." Sam Broner, Founder of The Better Money Company, is helping build the infrastructure for a world where money moves at internet speed. As digital dollars become infrastructure, the opportunity extends far beyond faster payments. It changes what money can do. Join Sam Broner at Stablecon USA to explore what's possible when money becomes software. 📍Washington, D.C. 📅September 9-11, 2026 Secure your pass: https://hubs.li/Q04mbG7k0
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Sam Broner shared thisExtremely proud that Connor joined us to build Better Money. I was immediately struck by his ability to combine deep attention to detail with a "f-it we ship" attitude. Since joining, he's: 1. Shipped a redesigned (and meaningfully better) onboarding experience Better Money customers 2. Improved our inhouse agentic tooling (the code is good now) 3. And is now shifting our infrastructure over to a new orchestration system to substantially improve fault tolerance. We're glad to have him. Welcome Connor!Sam Broner shared thisI'm too busy shipping to write a proper announcement, so I had AI write this one. Here's what it knows about me: I just joined The Better Money Company to help build the stablecoin clearing house. Here's what it doesn't know: why this is the role I've been quietly preparing for. When I joined Block in 2018, I told my hiring manager (s/o Joel Kustka) I wanted to become more detail-oriented. For nearly eight years I worked at exactly that — and somewhere along the way it turned into something bigger: I grew into a technical leader, and I learned that in money, the details aren't a nice-to-have. They're the whole job. Because money movement is one of those domains where "mostly correct" isn't a thing. A payment either settles or it doesn't. The ledger either balances or you have a very bad day. There's no partial credit. I still love Bitcoin — it made the case that money should be open, programmable, and beyond any single gatekeeper. But "a future of money" was never going to be one thing. Stablecoins are the part that quietly settles a payroll run, moves a remittance home in seconds instead of days, and gives people in high-inflation economies access to dollars that actually hold. That future doesn't arrive on its own — someone has to build the boring, unglamorous, has-to-be-right infrastructure underneath it. The clearing house. That's the problem I get to work on now. The constraints aren't annoying. They're the point. If you're into stablecoins, payments infra, or just systems that aren't allowed to lie — let's talk. (I had AI draft this. I just couldn't stop editing it — old habits die hard.)
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Sam Broner liked thisSam Broner liked thisQuick personal update. Four years ago, Matías Caricato and I set out to bring the stablecoin future closer. We started Mountain Protocol with a simple thesis: regulated, transparent stablecoins would matter more than anyone expected. We took it from zero — licensing, the issuance stack, banking relationships when almost no bank would touch a crypto issuer, and distribution. Then we joined Anchorage Digital, to build stablecoin-as-a-service inside an OCC-chartered bank, leveraging the upcoming (and then passed) GENIUS Act that made the rules clear. We built the product and have shipped products alongside partners like Western Union, Tether, OSL and Ethena. Thank you to Nathan McCauley and Sergio Mello for believing in the whole Mountain Protocol team and giving us room to build and push the category forward. Today, the bottleneck has moved to reach/distribution/scaling. Stablecoin supply sits around $300B (or ~1.5% of US M2), large, but still small for such a transformative technology. I grew up in Argentina, where I saw firsthand how stablecoins quickly became a basic tool of economic freedom. And while stablecoins have been embraced globally by innovators and early adopters, there is still a huge opportunity to close the adoption gap. That's the next challenge. I'm joining Coinbase to work on exactly that. Coinbase has been building toward this for over a decade and is uniquely positioned to lead the next phase of stablecoin growth. Relentless Forward Progress.
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Sam Broner liked thisTreasury is no longer simply about managing liquidity and risk. It is increasingly becoming a strategic function helping businesses navigate structural volatility, changing trade patterns and rapid technological change. That shift is at the heart of our new Redefining Treasury podcast series. It was a pleasure to join Vivek Ramachandran in the opening episode where we discuss what this evolution means in practice, and how treasury leaders can help their organisations respond to a world where uncertainty is becoming a constant. Listen to the full episode below. #RedefiningTreasurySam Broner liked thisWhat does it take for treasury to shape business strategy when uncertainty is a constant? In the opening episode of our Redefining Treasury podcast series, Manish Kohli, Head of Global Payments Solutions, HSBC and Vivek Ramachandran, Head of Global Trade Solutions, HSBC discuss how treasury is evolving in response to structural volatility, shifting trade patterns and rapid technological change, and what this shift means for treasury in practice. Listen to the full episode and discover what it takes to lead treasury into its next era. YouTube: http://spr.ly/6049BG5MU3 Apple podcast: http://spr.ly/6042BG5MUu Spotify podcast: http://spr.ly/6045BG5MUT #RedefiningTreasuryPresent tense, future perfect: Redefining treasury for the strategic eraPresent tense, future perfect: Redefining treasury for the strategic era
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Sam Broner liked thisSam Broner liked thisA fantastic achievement for our HSBC Global Payments Solutions team and one that means even more because it comes directly from our clients. Being recognised as the #1 Global Cash Management Provider in the Euromoney survey for the fourth consecutive year, with a record 30% vote share and the highest NPS amongst global banks, is a powerful endorsement of the trust our clients place in us. A special thank you to Euromoney for running the leading survey of our industry and for providing such a valuable benchmark for the market. Thank you to our clients for their continued confidence and feedback, and to colleagues across our global network whose expertise, commitment and relentless focus on clients make these wins possible. Hugely proud of what we’ve achieved together and even more focused on continuing to deliver value for our clients every day, putting them at the heart of everything we do. #GlobalPaymentsSolutions
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Sam Broner liked thisSam Broner liked thisFor 25 years, the Secret Service was more than a career - it was a calling, a responsibility, a privilege that shaped who I am. But nothing defined that responsibility more profoundly than being on the Presidential Detail during 9/11. On September 12, 2001, the shock had worn off as I walked the devastation at the Pentagon with POTUS. At that moment, it became clear to me that the world we knew, the mission we understood, and the meaning of protecting the President and country were forever altered. Standing there in the aftermath, I understood the oath was no longer simply about protecting a person - it was about protecting an idea, a nation, and the people we had sworn to serve. Twenty-five years later, I look back with enormous pride, gratitude, and humility. I was fortunate to serve alongside, extraordinary men and women and to witness moments in history that can never be forgotten. Some days become part of your career, 9/11 became part of who I am. So, as we reflect today, feel fortunate to be able to remember the lives lost, the families that were forever changed, the courage of those who responded, and the sacrifice of those who stood between danger and others.
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Sam Broner liked thisSam Broner liked thisI'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position on the GTM Operations team at Sierra!
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Sam Broner liked thisSam Broner liked thisIntroducing OpenReserve, a blockchain native de-novo digital bank, finally out of stealth. This week the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted conditional approval of our full-service U.S. national bank charter application. Preliminary conditional approval to charter a de novo national bank is a privilege our team does not take lightly. It is a significant milestone and the beginning of the most demanding phase of the work. We're building toward real-time settlement across fiat and blockchain rails, direct Federal Reserve connectivity, tokenized deposits, and GENIUS Act-designed payment stablecoin infrastructure. Thank you to the entire OpenReserve team, our board, investors, and to the OCC who ran a rigorous review. More to come! See what we are building: https://openreserve.ai
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Sam Broner liked thisSam Broner liked thisJared Palmer has joined Cognition as our VP of Engineering. While at Vercel, Jared created v0, one of the first successful AI products to turn prompts into software, and the AI SDK, now the default way developers build AI apps in JavaScript. He then served as SVP of GitHub and later VP of Engineering at Xbox for Microsoft. Like many folks at Cognition, he is a builder at heart, having founded Turborepo (acquired by Vercel). Building the AI teammate engineers deserve requires an obsession with building great software that people love. Few have dedicated their career to this more earnestly than Jared. Welcome, Jared!
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