# Wade Arnold

> Wade Arnold is the co-founder and CEO of Moov, a payments infrastructure company with roots in an open source ACH project he began in 2017. He previously founded Banno, acquired by Jack Henry in 2014, and held technical leadership roles at BillGO. His public writing focuses on engineering craft, shared knowledge, employee autonomy, and making financial infrastructure easier to use.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Moov
- **Organizations:** Moov, Banno, Jack Henry & Associates, BillGO, Eccentric Hosting, T8 Webware, Association for Financial Technology, Technology Association of Iowa, Techstars
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in computer science, University of Northern Iowa, Master of Business Administration, University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, Graduate School of Banking program, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
- **Known for:** Founded Banno, which Jack Henry acquired in 2014., Co-founded Moov with Bob Smith after starting an open source ACH library., Led Moov through its announced $45 million Series B in January 2023.

## Career timeline

- **Late 1990s** — Started Eccentric Hosting from his dorm room at the University of Northern Iowa after working in hosting support at Powersurge.
- **2005** — T8 Webware took over services for roughly 30 bank clients following a merger opportunity.
- **2008** — Founded Banno, a digital banking platform serving community banks and credit unions.
- **2014** — Jack Henry acquired Banno; Arnold became a managing director at Jack Henry.
- **2016** — Left Jack Henry; subsequently worked with BillGO as an investor, technical advisor, interim CTO, and EVP of Technology.
- **2017** — Began the open source ACH library that formed the roots of Moov.
- **2020** — Moov announced a $5.5 million seed round and a $27 million Series A.
- **2021** — Moov hosted the first fintech_devcon; Moov won the global Visa Everywhere Initiative.
- **2023** — Moov announced a $45 million Series B led by Commerce Ventures.
- **2026** — Introduced Moov Money, a P2P payment product built with Visa and Mastercard.

## Achievements

- Founded Banno, which Jack Henry acquired in 2014.
- Co-founded Moov with Bob Smith after starting an open source ACH library.
- Led Moov through its announced $45 million Series B in January 2023.
- Moov won the global Visa Everywhere Initiative in 2021.
- Helped establish fintech_devcon, whose inaugural 2021 gathering brought together 500 people.
- Received the Technology Association of Iowa CEO of the Year Prometheus Award in 2014, as listed on his LinkedIn profile.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Discussed Moov Money, debit-card-based P2P payments, and payments infrastructure with Peter Renton on Fintech One-on-One, published October 15.
- **2026-09** — Published the September 18 launch announcement for Moov Money, built in partnership with Visa and Mastercard.
- **2025-06** — Published a technical article on type-safe XML processing in Go and Moov’s wire20022 library on June 24.

## Links

- Website: https://moov.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wadearnold
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/wadearnold
- GitHub: https://github.com/wadearnold

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Last updated: 2026-10-27