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Welcome to the 2025 De Bank Connect in Miami.

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I'm now joined with Steven edis

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with Dynamic Capital, who's looking dynamic. Well,

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Thank you for having me.

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You're bringing the My Miami color.

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Well, as a Miami local, you have to bring the flavor.

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It's good. De Bank came to you this time. Oh,

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Well I don't mind going to Vegas.

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I don't mind go into their unique locations.

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So having in our backyard is always a fun time.

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How's business been going so far this year?

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Business has been absolutely phenomenal.

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The, uh, new, uh, climate for, uh, for business owners, the,

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um, whole, um, theory of taking advantages

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and growing your business has been phenomenal since January.

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And we're gonna ride that wave, uh, through 2025.

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I like the sound of it. Uh,

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you bringing any new aspects into your business this year?

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Well, we're taking a, um,

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a multichannel marketing approach, adding more, uh,

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technology to, uh, expand our horizons

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Using ai. Uh,

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AI is one of the concepts, uh,

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that we incorporate into our marketing. Yes.

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Are you, how do you feel about that?

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Are you open to using AI or are you kind of on the fence?

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So we absolutely love it.

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We've incorporated in both our underwriting as well

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as some of our origination.

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You know, we have some AI doing outbound reach,

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qualifying merchants and bringing them in on a daily basis.

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So we're leveraging it every aspect we can.

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I like that. We have to keep up

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with all the trends and what's happening. Right. You

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Gotta stay ahead of the curve.

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And how else are you doing that this year?

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Um, we're really focused on human talent right now.

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Uh, taking our team right now that we, uh, that we have,

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most of my guys have been with me four plus most, some 10,

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10 years and making the, uh,

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them sharper sharpening our iron that we have in house.

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Gotta keep things sharp and on point. Yep.

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If without those guys we're nowhere. That's

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Without a doubt. Well, thank you

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for spending some time with me

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and there's still more to come from Miami. Thanks

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For having us and.