Interview: Tyler Allen, Unit21's Chief Operating Officer

About this episode

Jason Mikula interviews Tyler Allen about the evolution of fintech and compliance challenges at Unit21.

In this episode, I had the chance to chat with Tyler Allen, the chief operating offier at Unit21. We had the chance to discuss: * How fintech, financial crimes compliance, and software engineering have evolved since Tyler joined Unit21 back in 2019 * The limitations of addressing compliance challenges by throwing bodies at them * How regulators are thinking about agentic AI * What an AI-first approach to compliance looks like * And much more! Get full access to Fintech Business Weekly at fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Jason Mikula

Guest: Tyler Allen

Topics covered

• fintech
• financial crimes compliance
• software engineering
• AI in compliance
• regulatory challenges

Keywords

• fintech
• compliance
• AI
• software engineering
• financial crimes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Unit21

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