Hello and welcome to the Punch Bull News Reback podcast. I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen,

and today I'm joined by Dr. Vault, Brendan Peterson, who of course helms our financial services coverage here at Punch Bowl,

and as I mentioned, co-leads our Vault newsletter.

Brendan's joining me to talk about DC FinTech Week, also known as Finchella,

and his involvement in interviewing some key figures in the space.

Brendan, thanks for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Max.

Good to be here.

It's great to have you, as always.

And we're going to do this a little bit differently in the reback.

We're going to tee up some interview portions that you conducted during the course of DC FinTech Week from two figures in the space, as I mentioned.

And I'll turn it over to you, Brendan, tell us about the interviews and what we should look out for.

Yeah, DC FinTech Week is great.

I've been going to it since 2018, which is right around when I started covering financial services in Washington.

And it's been this event that has grown and grown over the years.

It's been really funny to see it become, like, basically a mega conference now.

When it started, it was basically a legal conference for professors.

And so it's really cool.

I spoke to two folks, I interviewed two folks, and we're going to have clips of both of those in the

Readback podcast.

The first interview is with Chris Brummer, who is the architect of DC FinTech Week, now

known as Finchella, a name that I will support.

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