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‘There were all these other great services, but banking was kind of static’: Mercury’s Immad Akhund on banking startups

  • Entrepreneur Immad Akhund was disenchanted with banks serving his startup.
  • So, in 2017, he started his own challenger bank to service startups.
Zachary Miller | November 02, 2020
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