Very much echoing Pam Pecs Cytron, the CEO of PendoSystems, who I wrote about earlier, the key challenge the INTIX team encountered was that larger banks would say they were interested in the solution, but were reluctant to do business with a relatively new, unknown startup company.

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Granted, this is far from a perfect solution, but given the prevailing interest rate environment, it is less risky than trying to predict unknown outcomes.

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