Best How To Embed Finance Fintech Podcasts (2025)

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Davi Strazza of Adyen on banking licenses, agentic commerce, stablecoins, embedded finance and more 30:19

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In this episode, I sit down with Davi Strazza, who leads Adyen's business in North America. Davi brings a fascinating global perspective on payments, having spent over a decade at Adyen working across Brazil and now the US market. We dive into how Adyen's banking license, which they've held since 2021, fundamentally changes what they can offer to m…

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Bridging Permissionless DeFi and Regulated On-Chain Finance with Predicate 33:32

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Nikhil Raghuveera is the Co-Founder and CEO of Predicate, a company building on-chain policy infrastructure that enables organizations to set programmable, enforceable rules for transactions within blockchain-based financial systems. Predicate's technology underpins compliance and policy enforcement for next-generation stablecoins, privacy protocol…

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E144: Three big takeaways from Norway's biggest AML event 30:19

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This week, The Laundry set itself a challenge: head to Hvitvaskingskonferansen 2025 – Norway's biggest AML and CTF conference – and come back with a learning about the state of the industry today. Conferences are more than just a chance to gossip over free coffee – these events really matter for information sharing, finding new strategies to tackle…

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Austin Capital Bank CEO Erik Beguin on AI-driven fraud 14:20

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Fraud is on the rise, and AI is contributing to both the solution and the problem. “Fraud is a really large problem and growing exponentially,” Austin Capital Bank Chief Executive Erik Beguintells FinAi News in this episode of “The Buzz” podcast. Consumers reported losing $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, according to the FTC. And that’s probably und…

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How to build a partnership that can survive market disruptions ft. Cross River and Best Egg 36:14

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Some partnerships in financial services begin with a handshake and end with a contract dispute. Others start with a Sunday morning LinkedIn message and evolve into something that transcends the typical vendor-client relationship. The collaboration between Cross River Bank and Best Egg falls firmly into the latter category."When we first got into th…

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How CFOs can regain strategic control in times of economic volatility ft. FIS’ Chrissy Wagner and Seamus Smith 26:54

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CFOs are abandoning quarterly planning cycles for week-by-week assessments as trade tensions, tariff uncertainty, and supplier volatility force a new short-term reality onto financial leadership. Seamus Smith, EVP and Group President of Automated Finance at FIS, and Chrissy Wagner, SVP of GTM at FIS, break down how finance leaders can balance urgen…

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Banks or Pipes: Where financial institutions go when agents take over 29:46

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Welcome to a special 4dFi podcast exploring the latest trends and technologies reshaping finance. I'm Zack Miller, Tearsheet's Editor in Chief.Today, we're unpacking the rise of AI agents and their potential to transform how consumers interact with financial services. I'm joined by my partners Russell Weiss, an AI expert and startup builder, and Jo…

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Rich Clow of Bank of America on driving payments innovation at scale 31:26

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In this episode, I sit down with Rich Clow, Head of Innovation and Strategy, Global Payments Solutions at Bank of America, to explore how one of the world's largest financial institutions is approaching payments innovation, such as instant payments and digital wallet technology. Rich shares insights into Bank of America's unique perspective, given …

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143: What keeps FATF up at night? 44:00

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You're given two years to make a difference in the global battle against money laundering, financial crime, and corruption. The clock is ticking from the very moment you start the job: so where do you begin? For some, the pressure could be too much – but this is all part of being President of the Financial Action Task Force. Our expert host, Marit …

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AI agents in production: Nvidia's Kevin Levitt on infrastructure for live banking systems 27:19

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Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast, where we explore financial services together with an eye on technology, innovation, emerging models, and changing expectations. I'm Tearsheet's editor in chief, Zack Miller.We've been covering AI in financial services for a while now—chatbots, generative AI, fraud detection models. But something fundamental is shif…

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Casca CEO Lukas Haffer on opportunities for AI in small business lending 23:17

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Small business owners need fast access to capital, with fair rates. That’s the reality that Lukas Haffer, chief executive of AI-native loan origination provider Casca, tells FinAi News on this episode of “The Buzz” podcast. For small business owners, the “No. 1 problem is access to capital,” he says. The time it takes to close a Small Business Admi…

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Live @ Fintech Americas, 2025 - Only Human 52:50

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Recorded live at Fintech Americas in Miami, Florida, Eyal is joined by author and advisor Chris Colbert, former Managing Director at the Harvard Innovation Lab and Partner at Digital Fuel Capital. Technological innovation is often a double-edged sword; despite our best intentions, the progress we make often comes with unintended consequences. As op…

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#124: Crypto’s Maturity and the Rise of Private Equity with Maelstrom's Akshat Vaidya & Adam Schlegel 36:22

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Akshat Vaidya – Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Maelstrom Akshat Vaidya is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Maelstrom, the family office founded by BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes. In this role, Akshat leads Maelstrom’s investment strategy across its multiple verticals, including venture investments, liquid markets, and private equity deals. He…

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#123: Sandbox to Scale The MENA Fintech Playbook with VentureSouq's Sonia Gokhale 35:37

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Sonia Gokhale, Co-Founder and General Partner at VentureSouq, breaks down how founders can build and scale fintech across the Gulf. We unpack why Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the first markets to crack, how government sandboxes and clear licensing paths reduce friction, and why B2B fintech often delivers the strongest unit economics. Sonia also wal…

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FIS's McWilliams on SMBs, data sharing, and the strategy that wins in a competitive environment 20:03

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Banks dramatically underestimate how their customers share financial data, and most of it happens through insecure screen scraping that creates fraud vulnerabilities and slows performance. Shane McWilliams, Head of Retail Digital Banking at FIS, breaks down the three critical challenges separating thriving institutions from those being left behind:…

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Lily Liu, CEO of Piñata, on creating a credit building and rewards program for renters 34:26

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When it comes to paying for a place to live, the economic benefits have always skewed towards homeowners, with renters getting no credit for all their on-time rent payments. But that is changing today. Piñata is helping millions of renters across America build their credit score and earn rewards with their rent payments. In this episode, CEO and Co…

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142: What the Louvre heist can tell us about money laundering 35:18

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Seven minutes. Nine pieces of priceless jewellery. A place in heist history. The theft of the Louvre in Paris has made headlines across the world. You may think this is a story about priceless items linked to Napoleon – but the truth may be something closer to home for compliance professionals. Our expert hosts, Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser, and …

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How Wix built payments, checking, and capital for 293 million users 39:34

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Although every company is becoming a fintech now, Wix didn’t set out to do so – the firm’s entry into financial services started from observing what millions of small business owners actually needed when building their online presence. For Amit Sagiv and Volodymyr Tsukur, co-heads of payments at Wix, the path to serving these SMB customers well was…

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#122: The Future of Sales: How AI and Human Relationships Will Redefine Customer Acquisition with SalesAI’s Devin Johnson 28:07

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Devin Johnson is a tech entrepreneur and AI innovator who has built multiple high‑growth SaaS companies by combining an obsessive focus on relationships with cutting‑edge automation. His entrepreneurial journey began at 16, when a series of family hardships — a father involved in drugs, a sister battling brain cancer and the death of a close friend…

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#121: How a SaaS Marketplace Is Redefining Plastic Waste Recovery with PCX’s Sebastian DiGrande 36:43

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Sebastian DiGrande is the Chief Executive Officer of Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX), where he leads the company’s mission to eliminate plastic waste through a technology-driven, market-based platform. Under his leadership, PCX is building a verified marketplace that connects corporations with plastic recovery and recycling partners worldwide, creati…

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#120: Bridging Global Innovation with Enterprise Tech and Trust with Sentinel Global’s Sylvester Wee 44:14

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Sylvester Wee is a Partner at Sentinel Global, a New York–based, Singapore-anchored venture fund that leads a $200M+ vehicle backing frontier enterprise technologies. At Sentinel, he focuses on enterprise AI, fintech, cybersecurity, programmable finance, and next-gen infrastructure partnering with Series-A and growth teams that demonstrate strong p…

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Bill Capuzzi, CEO of Apex, on the critical infrastructure powering modern investing 40:24

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Today, I sit down with Bill Capuzzi, CEO of Apex Fintech Solutions, to explore the critical infrastructure powering modern fintech investing. Bill shares the fascinating journey of Apex from its roots as a pioneer in API-enabled clearing to fractional share trading and becoming the clearing firm behind investment accounts for close to 25 million pe…

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Stablecoin Market Dynamics post-GENIUS with Matt Homer of The Venture Dept. 42:06

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Matt Homer is the Founder and General Partner of The Venture Dept., a venture capital firm investing at the intersection of fintech, digital assets, and regulation, with a particular focus on stablecoins and stablecoin infrastructure. Before founding The Venture Dept., Matt was a regulator at the FDIC and then the New York Department of Financial S…

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141: What keeps the regulator up at night? 36:42

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For some, we know that the knock on the door from the regulator might be what’s keeping them up at night. But for this episode, let’s flip the perspective. Think about the regulators: they’re the ones building the rules, fighting complex financial crime risks, keeping up with global sanctions, and dishing out unpopular penalties. That has got to le…

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Jon Fry, CEO of Lendflow, on how AI is finally delivering on the promise of embedded lending 37:48

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In this episode, I sit down with Jon Fry, CEO and co-founder of Lendflow, to explore how AI is transforming the embedded lending landscape. Jon shares his unconventional journey from building websites in college to becoming a key player in embedded lending, including the challenge of launching LendFlow in early 2020—just as COVID shut down the lend…

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How Lendflow is helping embedded lenders reduce system fragmentation and gain an edge in AI 40:15

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SMBs don't have access to the same level of sophisticated lending options as consumers.There is one fundamental problem that prevents this class of product from pushing forward: lenders juggle multiple data vendors, wrestle with disconnected point solutions, and these tools lack the ability to paint a full picture of the SMB customer and their need…

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E140: How is organised crime and dark money infiltrating Norway? 33:44

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Grenade attacks, kidnappings, young boys coerced into gang crime. This is all currently happening in Norway and it's causing a frenzy in the news. But where there’s organised crime and violence – there is also dark money. Otherwise, why bother? Our expert host, Robin Lycka, is joined by Diamant Salihu, Investigative Journalist at SVT, to ask: How i…

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How Upstart's AI is mastering growth, credit performance, and profitability 23:55

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Welcome to the Tearsheet podcast, where we explore financial services together with an eye on technology, innovation, emerging models and changing expectations. I'm Tearsheet Editor in Chief, Zack Miller.There's an old theory in lending that you can only master two or three things: growth, credit performance and profitability. For decades, this has…

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Temenos embeds AI at the core, not just around it ft. CPO Sai Rangachari 15:32

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In a sector where AI is promising a significant leap forward, financial institutions demand speed — with safety. Temenos has a track record of innovation and the customer trust to bring AI into the core of banking. Chief Product Officer Sai Rangachari is just nine months into his role at Temenos, but his mandate is sweeping: simplify product experi…

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Driving Digital Financial Inclusion for Pakistan’s Truckers 21:45

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Fintech for the People Season 8, Episode 5 featuring Sheryar Bawany, Co-founder and CEO of Trukkr Amee Parbhoo, Managing Partner of Accion Ventures, welcomes Trukkr’s Co-founder and CEO, Sheryar Bawany, to the podcast this week for an in- depth discussion of Pakistan's $35 billion road freight market, an industry critical to the economy yet held ba…

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Preventing Burnout and Building a Sustainable Career 14:47

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In this episode of Pay It Forward, host Kristin Kwiatkowski, V.P. HR Business Advisor at J.P. Morgan Payments engages in a compelling conversation with Soomin Hu, Head of J.P. Morgan Access at J.P. Morgan Payments. From Soomin’s beginnings as a computer science graduate to her leadership role in building digital-first payment experiences, she has n…

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From ETFs to Tokenized Assets: Building the Next Trillion-Dollar Market with WisdomTree 26:27

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Will Peck is the Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree, a $130 billion asset manager and ETF sponsor and a pioneer in tokenized assets. Over his 11-year tenure at WisdomTree, Will has helped the firm navigate the evolution from ETFs to tokenized assets, stablecoins, and on-chain investment infrastructure. WisdomTree is at the forefront of innovation…

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Farooq Malik, CEO of Rain, on How a 4-Year-Old Fintech Became a Visa Principal Member Using Stablecoin Infrastructure 38:24

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What if you could settle card transactions on weekends and holidays, reduce working capital requirements by orders of magnitude, and give fintechs global reach without the traditional banking infrastructure headaches? In this episode, I sit down with Farooq Malik, CEO and co-founder of Rain, a company that's quietly rewriting the rules of payment i…

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E139: The Dark Money Files crossover! Finding passion for compliance 34:19

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Welcome to the first part of The Dark Laundry Files! No one grows up dreaming of being named the Head of AML Sanctions at a tier 1 bank. In fact, many of us in compliance and AML have stumbled our way into the profession – so where does the passion come from? Our expert host, Marit Rødevand, is joined by Ray Blake and Graham Barrow, presenters of T…

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Understanding the jabuticaba factor: How QED's Camila Vieira mastered local nuance in Latin American fintech investing 26:30

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Today, we're joined by Camila Vieira, a Partner at QED Investors focused on Latin America. Camila brings a wealth of experience to our conversation, having established herself as one of the region's most influential fintech investors.Camila joined QED in 2022 as the company's first employee based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she focuses on early sta…

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Cultivating Prosperity: Verqor Aims to Revolutionize Agricultural Finance in Mexico 18:36

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Cultivating Prosperity: Verqor Aims to Revolutionize Agricultural Finance in Mexico Fintech for the People Season 8, Episode 4 featuring Valentina Rogacheva, Co-founder of Verqor Amee Parbhoo, Managing Partner of Accion Ventures, sits down with Valentina Rogacheva, Co-founder of Verqor, to explore the ways her company is tackling the significant ga…

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Nuno Sebastião, CEO of Feedzai, on completely rethinking fraud management 39:17

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Today we are focusing on financial crime and fraud management with the CEO and co-founder of Feedzai, one of the world's largest independent risk management platforms serving banks and fintechs. Nuno shares his fascinating journey from being the first Portuguese engineer at the European Space Agency to building a global fintech powerhouse with over…

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$1T Per Year: Building the Leading Crypto Prime Broker with FalconX 29:18

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Raghu Yarlagadda is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, the leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage. In the last year, FalconX has done $1 trillion in trading volume across spot and derivatives. FalconX is an incredible success story, starting early and growing alongside broader institutional adoption of crypto and digital assets. With c…

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E138: How can data help solve the money mule crisis? 33:04

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We have a financial crime crisis going on. Everyday people are coerced into money muling via flashy social media ads Recruited to transfer "dirty" money through their bank accounts and turning it into seemingly "clean" cash by obscuring its origin. Cases of money muling sky-rocketing globally! But why? And what can the data tell us about this probl…

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Magma's Fintech Fix for Factory Supply Chains 20:11

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Fintech for the People Season 8, Episode 3 featuring Neal Thakker, Founder and CEO of Magma Neal Thakker, Founder and CEO of Magma, joins Amee Parbhoo, Managing Partner of Accion Ventures, on the podcast this week for an exploration of  the massive opportunity that exists to modernize India's current manufacturing sector. Against the backdrop of a …

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Fintech Revealed: Understanding Small Business Credit With Nav 48:39

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Welcome back to the occasional series on the podcast called Fintech Revealed. This is a sponsored show where we take a deep dive into one topic with a couple of industry experts. Today, we are focusing on small business credit with Levi King, the CEO of Nav and Gerri Detweiler, a credit expert and educational consultant. We provide listeners with a…

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How FIs are using modular modernization and the cloud to keep up with the change in payments ft. FIS and AWS 17:31

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The payments landscape is experiencing regulatory upheaval, forcing financial institutions to rethink their approach to money movement modernization. With ISO message format changes, Swift updates, and evolving fraud requirements hitting simultaneously, banks are facing a complex web of compliance demands that require immediate attention."The regul…

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E137: What happens when 90,000 businesses become AML regulated? 31:16

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It’s time to turn our world upside down and turn our attention to what's happening in Australia! The Australian government passed new AML and CFT rules that will drastically increase the number of businesses regulated by AUSTRAC—the country’s financial intelligence agency. Lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents, as well as those in precious m…

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'We're changing the narrative on athletes being dumb money': The Player's Company 20:09

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Today on the Tearsheet Podcast, we're diving into a story that captures the evolution of modern finance — where professional athletes aren't just endorsing products, but building the infrastructure that empowers the next generation of wealth creators.I'm joined by Sheldon Day, Co-Founder and President of The Player's Company, a collective of over 5…

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Building a Better Financial Future for Small Businesses in the Construction Industry 22:14

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Fintech for the People Season 8, Episode 2 featuring Fernando Olloqui, Founder of Licify In this episode of Fintech for the People, guest Fernando Olloqui, founder of Licify, dives into the massive yet deeply inefficient construction industry. He shares his firsthand experience with the financial challenges faced by subcontractors, a journey that l…

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Jordan Wright, CEO of Atomic, on building a framework for connected banking 35:00

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There are not many fintechs that can say they work with nine of the top ten banks in the United States. Or that they are working directly on deep integrations with the likes of Apple and Amazon. Meet Jordan Wright, CEO and Co-Founder of Atomic, who can say all those things. While Atomic started in direct deposit switching, a now relatively mature f…

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How design-thinking powers Temenos' empathy-driven experiences 15:59

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From streamlining complex onboarding flows to surfacing the right information at the right time, design thinking encourages product design teams to bring empathy and intentionality into every layer of product development, creating experiences that are intuitive, responsive, and centered around real human needs.Temenos is leading the charge to bring…

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136: Can embedded AI change financial crime prevention forever? 29:58

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When we think about AI solutions, we picture them as disconnected from the systems and tools you're using every day. But for many in banking and compliance, this feels like a misstep. There's a growing belief that true innovation shouldn't require you to go searching for it. Instead, it should come directly to where you already are! Our expert host…

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Scaling Your Infrastructure with Faire & Tom Adams 46:40

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What does it take to build a truly scalable embedded finance infrastructure? In this episode, we dive deep with Adyen CTO Tom Adams and Faire's Senior Director of Engineering, David Collie, to explore the critical technical foundations of embedded finance success. From the importance of reliable payment infrastructure to the strategic implementatio…

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Transforming Small Business Finance with Embedded Fintech 14:08

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Today’s episode of Fintech for the People marks an exciting new chapter, as hosts Amee Parbhoo and Rahil Rangwala, Managing Partners of the newly rebranded Accion Ventures, announce the successful close of a new $61.6 million fund. They also introduce the season's central theme: a deep dive into how verticalized embedded finance is dramatically inc…