All Episodes

Featured Replay - Fintech Talks: Bridging Digital Assets & Traditional Finance – Insights from Annelise Osborne (Kadena)

FEATURED REPLAY: Streamlining Payments with Elavon's Chief Product Officer, Pari Sawant

Fintech Meetup Prep: Real Advice on Networking, Burnout, and Making It Count with Pam Kaur

Fintech Meetup Mashup: Michael Bugno (Fiserv) on Fintech Careers, Conferences, and Building Connections

🎙️Fintech Talks: Connecting Fintech Frontiers — Lithuania’s Rise as a Global Innovation Hub

🎙️ Fintech Talks: Larry Anderson – Cracking the Resume Code and Navigating AI in Recruiting

🎙️From Gimmick to Gamechanger: Why Crypto's Time Has Finally Come with Greg Johnson (Rubicon Crypto)

🎙️ Fintech Talks: Agentic AI & the Future of Work - Fintech Talks w/ Billy Harbinson from Go Studio

🎙️ Fintech Talks: Atlanta Runs on Fintech

🎙️ Fintech Talks: Navigating Careers in FinTech - Insights from Chrissy Wagner (FIS)

Fintech Talks: Closing the Gap - Financial Literacy and Inclusion in the Digital Economy

Fintech Talks: Bridging the Gap - Financial Inclusion & Access with Crystal Bryant Minter SVP at GreenDot

Fintech Talks: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Fintech

AI in Fintech

Student Chronicles

Resilience in Fintech & Payments

S5: Episode 2: Job Search Success and Best Practices with Hailey Hunt

S5: Episode 1: Driving Growth and Innovation in Fintech with Cyrus Taheri

S4: Episode 8: Empowering Fintech with Terra Wallace-Hearn with U.S. Bank/Elavon

S4: Episode 7: Financial Literacy and Fintech - Bridging the Gap

S4: Episode 6: Empowering Financial Futures with Kudzu

S4: Episode 5: Fintech Frontiers - Deep Dive into Product Management

S4: Episode 4: Entrepreneurship in Fintech with Steven Nigri

S4: Episode 3: The Future of Embedded Payments with Momnt

S4: Episode 2: GFTA and KSU - a partnership fueling the future of fintech

S4: Episode 1: Georgia Fintech Academy with FIS and Greenwood

Season 4 - Announcement

S3 - Episode 16: Kevin Lee, CEO, Kobiton with Astrid Cuellar-Benitez, Kennesaw State University

S3 - Episode 15 - Ade Sturley, VP FIS Global Impact Ventures and Nick Lommen, Georgia State University discuss Banking as a Service - Platform Opportunities

S3 - Episode 14: Rachel Hansen, CIO Payment Services U.S. Bank and Seyi Fason, Georgia State University finance grad

S3 - Episode 13: Rob Hanlon - Cybermoney and Kumar Shivam Georgia State University Big Data

S3 - Episode 12: David Berglund, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, FIS Global and Vijay Ahuja, recent grad from Indiana University

S3 - Episode 11: Rohin Tagra, CEO and Founder or Azimuth GRC joins Morgan Blackmon, rising senior, Georgia State Robinson College of Business

S3 - Episode 10: Zoe Newman, U.S. Managing Director, CapitalOnTap with Anna Gelderman, senior, UGA

S3 - Episode 9: Somesh Chablani, Global Head, Go-to-Market, FIS Global and Jonathan Laurent, senior, Georgia State

S3 - Episode 8: Akita Somani, SVP, BNPL/POS - U.S. Bank - Elavon with Divij Sharma, fintech senior at UGA

S3-Episode 7: Strategic Partnerships with Oliver Burns, Head of Strategic Partnerships, FIS Global and Astrid Cuellar Benitez, Junior, Kennesaw State University

S3 - Episode 6: Greg Cunningham, Chief Diversity Officer, U.S. Bank and Bri'Asia Acklin, Senior finance major, Georgia State University

S3 - Episode 5: Danny McDowell, Sr. Director, Global Transformation Delivery, FIS Global joins Charles Gibson, UGA Fintech Senior

S3 - Episode 4: Steve Ledford, SVP, Products and Strategy at The Clearing House with Lilly Sharples, Senior, UGA Terry Fintech Society

S3 - Episode 3: Jamie Walker, CEO Elavon Inc. with Miracle Golden of University of West Georgia

S3 - Episode 2: Hassan Thalji, SVP, Freddie Mac and Naomi Chen, UGA junior studying MIS

S3 - Episode 1: Exploring digital assets with Darin Carter and Nick Carden from Coinbase along with Keshav Laul of UGA

S2 - Episode 31: Innovation at Synovus Bank - Matt Maxey, Head of Innovation, Synovus and Yesha Shah, senior, Valdosta State University

S2-Episode 30: Tony Evans, Americas Business Lead, Microsoft Financial Services and Andy Su, University of North Georgia

S2-Episode 29: Buy Now Pay Later with Mike Smith, US Head of Risk, OpenPay and Tony Erwin, Georiga State Robinson College of Business

S2 - Episode 28: Regulation in Fintech - David Katz, Adams & Reese; Sagar Badve, Georgia State

S2 - Episode 27: Innovative prepaid approaches to early wage access - FinTwist - Don Ault, VP Prepaid Product Mangement, COMDATA with Ansley Israel, University of North Georgia

S2 - Episode 26: OB Rawls, former CEO of Paysafe Payment Processing and independent director discusses merchant payment acquiring

S2 - Episode 25: Designing Digital Financial Advisory Tools for Low/Moderate Income Older Adults with Heidi Johnson of Financial Health Network

S2 - Episode 17 - Alumni return to share wisdom - Jonathan Pinder, Blackrock and Minas Yohannes, Salesforce

S2-Episode 24 - The world is outpacing the USA in payments - Matt Collicoat, VP Strategy, B2B Payments, FIS Global and Ansley Israel, University of North Georgia

S2 - Episode 23 - Jagruti Solanki, CFO, BitPay with Tariq Waseem, Georgia State University Blockchain Group

S2 - Episode 22 - Steve Logue, Google Pay and Faeez Juneja, University of Georgia

S2 - Episode 21: Banyan Hills Technologies, CEO Steve Latham and Cam Holmes from Georgia Tech discuss iOT and Fintech

S2 - Episode 20: Featurespace, fraud prevention, and the ARIC Risk Hub with David Excell, founder of Featurespace and Andy Su from the University of North Georgia

S2 - Episode 19: ParkMobile -- the journey towards powering smart mobility for every driver, everywhere - John Brown, COO of ParkMobile and Daniel Hadgu, Georgia State

S2 - Episode 18: Digital Transformation in Payments with Bob Howe, VP of Business Development, Opus Consulting Solutions and Anna Gelderman of UGA Terry College of Business

S2 - Episode 16: Legal considersations of Fintech and Bank partnerships with James Stevens of Troutman Pepper and Thomas Long of TripActions

S2 - Episode 15 - Fintech South 2021 - June 22-24 - a preview with Glen Sarvady, Kristin Slink, and Qazi Haq

S2 - Episode 14: Inside the Wallets of Working Americans with Anita Ward, Chief Development and Diversity Officer, Salary Finance and Lilly Sharples of UGA

S2 - Episode 13: The role of data analytics in fraud prevention - Chief Seer, Adwait Joshi along with Ansley Israel, University of North Georgia

S2 - Episode 12 - Capital Markets and Crypto - John Avery, Senior Strategy Director, FIS Global and Tariq Waseem, BlockchainGSU

S2-Episode 11: Transformative effects of Gen-Z on financial services - Julia Carreon, GenZ expert and Daniel Hadgu, Georgia State alum

S2 - Episode 10: Fintech Data Analytics with John Wittenbrook, Global Data Analytics & Strategic Insights, FIS Global with Vinitha Ramani, Georgia State University, Masters in Big Data

S2 - Episode 9: Medxoom COO, Shankha Basu and Nikhil Malani, Georgia Tech

S2-Episode 8: Suneel Tummala, LEAN IT - FIS Global and Dennis Williams, Georgia State

S2 - Episode 7: Community Banking and Fintech - John McNair, President, Community Bankers Association of Georgia and Anindya Majumdar, MS-Information Systems, Georgia State

S2 - Episode 6: Sudheer Chava, Professor of Finance and Executive Director of the Financial Services Innovation Lab

S2-Episode 5: Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) - Fintech Vertical - Kristin Slink

S2 - Episode 4: FintechU from Georgia Tech Professional Education - Amy Corn, Academic Program Director and Daniel Hadgu, Georgia State Robinson alum

S2 - Episode 3: Artificial Intelligence Unpacked with David Berglund, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, FIS Global and Patricia Whitley, graduate student at Kennesaw State

S2 - Episode 2: Capital Markets Explained with Scott Marean, CTO, FIS Global Capital Markets and John Butler of University of North Georgia

Season 2 - Episode 1: Defynance - founder, Farrukh Siddiqui and Cameron Vanderwiele

Episode 31: Inclusion and Diversity - Jennifer Frasier, Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity, FIS Global and Alisa Wilson, Valdosta State

Episode 30: Advancements in Merchant Onboarding Experience - Dave Pritchett, Senior Product Management, Partner Experience, FIS Global with Fang Zhou of Georgia Tech

Episode 29: Early Stage Fintech Enablement - The Venture Center - Daniel Schutte, Managing Director Accelerator Programs and Jake Bulim of Kennesaw State

Episode 28: Kim Goodman, President, Merchant Joint Ventures & Acquiring Processing, Fiserv joins Ayesha Munnaza, graduate student Georgia State

Episode 27: Atlantic Capital as a fintech enabler, Chris Stanley, SVP Fintech Atlantic Capital and Zach Schneiderman, UGA

Episode 26: Fintech Foundations, an overview of a Georgia Fintech Academy course with Dr. Jonathan Godbey and student Enrique Pujals

Episode 25: Innovation approaches at FIS Global and Beyond with Ernie Buday, VP of Market Engagement and Ideation, FIS Global and Stephen Montague, Kennesaw State

Episode 24: Oliver POS - Acquiring Payments, Canada, and more..Mathias Nelson of OliverPOS and AJ Al-Bawab from Georgia State

Episode 23: Venture capital in fintech with Luke Timberlake of Fintech Ventures and Arinze Akomas of Georgia State

Episode 22: Government relations and fintech and the role of the American Transaction Processing Coalition - West Richards, Executive Director ATPC and Enrique Pujals, Georgia State

Episode 21: The upcoming virtual conference - Fintech South is discussed with Glen Sarvady, Reese Porter, and Jamila Maria Velez-Khader

Episode 20: Finastra Cloud Platform, Fintech, and Payments - Stephanie Foster, Finastra and Laine Kehoe, UGA

Episode 19: The Digital Evolution of Merchant Onboarding for Payments. William Tong and Rich Hill of FIS Global, Ayesha Munnaza, Georgia State

Episode 18: Digital Assets, DeFi and the story of Verady's Success - Kell Canty, Verady and Tariq Waseem, Georgia State

Episode 17: Fintech cybersecurity with DefenseStorm - DJ Landreneau/DefenseStorm and Michael Olajide, Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Episode 16: Community bank innovation acceleration -- Charles Potts, ICBA and Faeez Juneja, UGA rising junior and author

Episode 15: Global Payments from Africa to LATAM - Elizabeth McQuerry of Glenbrook Partners and Michael Olajide of Georgia State

Episode 14: Mortgage industry, Maxex exchange, and B2B Marketing - Andy Payment, CMO of Maxex and Angie Korol, UGA recent fintech grad

Episode 13: Fleetcor's remarkable B2B payments business with Charles Freund, Head of Corporate Marketing and Tyler Acree, University of Georgia

Episode 12: Core Banking Technology and Open Banking - Don Free, Gartner and Kai Currie, Georgia State Robinson

Episode 11: Payments - gift cards, general purpose reloadable, Incomm and financial inclusion - Bob Skiba, EVP Incomm and Qazi Haq, recent GSU Robinson College grad

Episode 10: Real Estate and Fintech - Return to Work Strategies, Jason Jones, Cresa and Tiffany Din, Georgia State Robinson School of Business

Episode 9: We are all learning new fintech behaviors. Andrew Morris, former Chief Content Officer of Money2020 with Diana Conde, Kennesaw State University senior

Episode 8: Fintech Response to Paycheck Protection Program - Terry Ammons, Fintech Leader, Wipfli and Michael Okwilagwe, Georgia State Robinson School of Business

Episode 7: Blockchain Technology in Fintech Today - Daniel Cage, Speedchain and Cameron Vandewiele, Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Episode 6: Cybersecurity in Fintech - Jude Fils-Aime of Verizon, Sabrina Netters and Amiralca Johnson, Albany State

Episode 5: Phillip Naples, founder/CEO of Layr and Ayesha Munnaza, Georgia State Robinson College of Business - Risk Management

Episode 4: The Role of Fintech Venture Studios and The Biggest Fiscal Stimulus Ever - Manoj Govindan of Kashat Venture Studios and Jael Ortiz of Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Episode 3: The Coronavirus Crisis - Impacts on the Financial System and the role of Fintech - Jeff Gapusan, Primerevenue and Qazi Haq of Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Episode 2: Rodrigo Dantas e Silva - Americas Payments Leader at EY joins Daniel Hadgu and Minas Yohannes students from Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Episode 1: The Georgia Fintech Academy overview with guest Glen Sarvady and Jonthan Pinder