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Fintech Layer Cake — 82 episodes

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1

What to Look for in Your First Hire, and Why the Perfect Candidate Is a Trap with Lithic's Shirley Zhang

2

Webinar: How Fundbox Launched a Loan-to-Card Program in 7 Weeks

3

How a $7B Bank Out-Loaned Chase, and What Fintech Policy Needs Now, with AFC’s Phil Goldfeder

4

Nobody Loves SWIFT: Payments Inertia and Invisible Crypto Rails with Davi Strazza from Lightspark

5

A Former Prosecutor on How Fintechs Become Targets, with Laurel Loomis Rimon from Jenner & Block

6

Payments at Square, Etsy, and the Agentic Era, with Drew Edmond, Partner at Glenbrook Partners

7

From Fannie Mae's first PM to Pathward Innovation with Suhas Reddy

8

Escheatment Primer + Innovation with Eisen CEO Allen Osgood

9

Why Credit Cards Are Hard with Scott Bass from Ensemblex

10

The Future of Payments is Agentic and Tokenized, with Basis Theory CEO Colin Luce and CTO James Armstead

11

Building the Modern Tax Engine with Gavin Nachbar, Column Tax co-founder and Aiwyn CPO

12

Simon Taylor on Where Agentic Spend is Going

13

A Primer on US Fintech Expansion with Klaros' Andy Kampf

14

Middesk CEO Kyle Mack on AI, Good Data, and Business Onboarding in 2026

15

Reducing Oversight Costs for Fintechs and Banks with Narrative CEO Gokul Dhingra

16

2025 Cards Year in Review with Matthew Goldman

17

Sarah Wilson, Circle's General Counsel, on the IPO Process, GENIUS Act, and More

18

AI Adoption Survey and Fintech Trends with Jas Randhawa

19

MTLs and Money Transmission Primer with Evan Minsberg

20

Imprint CTO Will Larson on Fintech Engineering Strategy

21

Fixing SMB Cash Flow with Ariel Blum, Founder of Receive

22

The Future of Agentic Financial Crime Work with Greenlite Cofounder Will Lawrence

23

Bank Data Crash Course with Lee Easton of iDENTIFY

24

Taktile Cofounder Max Eber on LLMs and Risk Infrastructure

25

Taktile’s Journey with CEO Maik Wehmeyer

26

Vertical SaaS & Fintech Opportunities, Founder Lessons, and More with Matt Brown

27

New Fintech Bank Charter Opportunities with Michele Alt from Klaros Group

28

Simon Taylor on Agentic Payments and Opportunities

29

Card Processor 101 with Braulio Lam from EQ Bank

30

Lessons from Loop, Canada’s #1 Business Banking Platform with Cato Pastoll and Nik Nampalli

31

LoanPro’s Scott Johnson on launching credit cards, lessons from Galileo, and more

32

FTA's Penny Lee on Federal Fintech Developments and Open Banking

33

Lead's Journey and Tips for Fintech with co-founder Erica Khalili

34

FS Vector on Election Fintech Implications with Ashwin Vasan and Peter Freeman

35

State of the Card Union: 2024 Trends, AI, and Secured Cards with Matthew Goldman

36

Canadian Fintech Primer with Tal Schwartz

37

Money 20/20

38

Crash Course in Sponsor Bank MSAs with Andrew Grant

39

Discover and Google Lessons, and Recent Compliance Trends with Zarik Khan

40

Navigating Net Interest Margins and Fintech Partnerships with Saira Rahman

41

The Ghost of Fintech Future: Fraud, UK Fintech Lessons, and Sardine Insights with Simon Taylor of Sardine

42

Climate Fintech with Atmos co-founder Ravi Mikkelsen

43

Legal Ops and RegTech Lessons with Faraz Rana, former CLO of Bread

44

Lithic’s 10-Year Anniversary Episode: Insights from the Co-Founders

45

Contrarian Takes on Visa Flex, Fintech VC, and more with Lithic's Nikil Konduru

46

Building Strong Fintech Partnerships with Nick Rasines of Column

47

Earned Wage Access and Fintech Policy Primer with Ben LaRocco of EarnIn

48

Bank Earnings Takeaways with American Banker Reporter Polo Rocha

49

Fleet Card Masterclass with Coast Founder Daniel Simon

50

Compliance 3.0, the Future of Bank Sponsorship, and Lessons from Monzo with Cable CEO Natasha Vernier

51

The Future of Ecommerce Payments with Tandym CTO Sairam Rangachari

52

The Bank Sponsor Crackdown, and Lessons from Stripe and Airwallex with Jas Randhawa

53

The Bank Sponsor’s POV with Coastal’s Chris Rigoni

54

Cards, Real Time Payments, and Credit Trends with Matthew Goldman

55

Public’s COO Stephen Sikes Talks Rising Rate Effects and New Products

56

Breaking Down the Open Banking Rules with Matt Janiga

57

Alloy’s State of Compliance Report with CEO Tommy Nicholas

58

Unraveling the Complex World of Buy Now Pay Later with Paul Kesserwani

59

Building M1, Growing Consumer Wealth, and Buying a Bank with Brian Barnes

60

Payroll Payments with Gusto's Jeff Forkan

61

Digital Wallet Innovation and Adyen Lessons with Sophia Goldberg

62

AI and Chatbots in Fintech featuring Ron Shevlin and Alan Kaplinsky

63

Modern Fraud and Compliance Needs with Soups Ranjan

64

Exploring Debt Collection Innovation with Ohad Samet

65

The “New” Bank-Fintech Risk Guidance with Jonah Crane

66

Exploring Spend Management with Thejo Kote

67

Exploring FDIC and Bank Failures

68

Inside Plaid and Open Finance with CEO Zach Perret

69

Card Network Dynamics and Utah Fintech

70

2023 Fintech Trends with Alex Johnson and Jason Mikula

71

Fraud & AML Functions with Trisha Kothari

72

Fintech Lending Capital Market Primer

73

Sanctions with Former OFAC Head John Smith

74

What Bank Partners Want from Fintechs

75

Ron Shevlin Snarks Up the Cake: Apple Checking, Super Apps and Teen Spirit

76

Selecting a Bank Partner

77

An Insider View of the CFPB (with Manatt)

78

CFPB Primer

79

History of Platform Payments

80

Fintech State Regulators

81

Pain Points in Crypto Infrastructure

82

Compliance 101