HEAD OF THE DAY
💳 The anti-bank founder behind Airwallex
At 25, Lucy Liu wrote a one-million-dollar check over dinner in Melbourne and put it into an idea that almost no one took seriously at the time: a new system for cross-border payments.
Today Airwallex is a nearly 10-billion-dollar fintech that moves money across borders for 150,000 companies worldwide without relying on the traditional banking system.
💸 Her goal: Airwallex should become for global financial flows what AWS is for the internet — an invisible, scalable infrastructure on which other business models can be built.
🌍 A global view of money flows: Raised in China and New Zealand, studied in Melbourne, worked in Hong Kong and Shanghai. She is perfectly suited for a business that lives between currencies, regulations and time zones.
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