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You're 100% right about this. This is one of these things that seems so obvious, but I hadn't considered until I read this. Infact I'd say there is a large portion of the popular (web2) internet which is junk.
Roughly what time do the live talks happen? Is there a published list of the cities for the live meetups (founder talks and self organised)?
Thanks
Looking after yourself, e.g., sleep, diet, fitness, hobbies, deep breathing, meditation, seeing friends & family.
Work boundaries, e.g. work only the core hours, take your breaks and be unavailable to contact during these times, list all of the things your working on and prioritise them, and talk through the workload with your line manager and let them know how you feel.
Frame of mind, e.g. book a holiday or something after the deadline so you have something to look forward to, try to see the challenges in their most positive light where possible, speak(think) positively to yourself i.e. don't be too hard on yourself if your mind is ruminating negatively. Know that it will be over soon.
Others, e.g. talk to team mates and see how they're doing, remember that going through these tough times can build resilience for future, if your job is the root cause (and not something deeper) consider a new job, if you think it's something deeper consider speaking to a therapist.
Lastly, if you're truly at risk of burnout or on the edge of it, you should certainly seek help from someone in a position to help, your mental health is so important.
Wishing you all the best.
Some things I found were;
Both had a mix of large (household name) and small banks offering Banking as a service (e.g. access to payment infrastructure, or specific products). Large banks worked with the fintechs for diversification and for future growth, small banks for the above plus added revenue. Banks of all sizes were always open for meetings, discussions, it wasn't restricted to small ones.
Some banks didn't understand how their own legacy systems worked at the edges, and relied on us to reverse engineer processes. By edges I mean as we were often pushing the boundaries and limits of these technologies and integrations.
All banks generally had good support, a dedicated person for day to day assistance and who could get specialists or senior people if required. Especially if there was a formal integration happening we had access to bank engineers etc. Support degraded where the day to day contact either didn't understand our business, or if they had far too many clients to look after. It also became trickier the further away the banks were geographically e.g. the other side of the world. And so face to face visits were very important.
The key bottleneck is always compliance, risk, AML, due diligence, and associated reviews. Fintechs are generally considered high risk by bank risk teams/policy and often the regulator, so there is high scrutiny. This is often a good thing however, as the fintech has to have great processes in place to meet these expectations.