Fintech One•On•One
Fintech is eating the world. Join Peter Renton, Co-Founder of Fintech Nexus, every week as he interviews the fintech leaders who are leading the transformation of financial services. If you want to understand what the future will look like for lending, payments, digital banking and more tune in to Fintech One•On•One (formerly the Lend Academy Podcast).
Episodes
596 episodes
Arad Levertov, CEO of Sunbit, on creating an offline BNPL leader
Today, I welcome back to the show Arad Levertov, CEO and co-founder of Sunbit (I last had him on the show in 2019), one of the lead...
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Joseph L. Breeden, CEO of Deep Future Analytics, on the hidden math behind credit risk
Today, I sit down with Joe Breeden, CEO and founder of Deep Future Analytics (DFA), for what is, in effect, a two-part conversation. First we do a deep dive into credit risk management and wh...
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Joe Heck, US CEO of Zip, on the role of BNPL for America's underserved consumers
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has transformed how consumers approach purchasing, yet adoption in the US still trails markets like Australia and Europe. In this episode, we sit down with Joe Heck, US CEO of Zip, who b...
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Jason Guss, CEO of Octane Lending, on building the number one powersports lender
In this episode, I sit down with Jason Guss, CEO and co-founder of Octane Lending, to discuss how the company became the #1 powersports lender in the country. The conversation covers Octane's early pivot from le...
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Violet Abtahi, CEO of Platonic, on building the next generation of financial infrastructure
Violet Abtahi is the CEO and Founder of Platonic, a company developing blockchain infrastructure to solve counterparty risk and privacy challenges in financial markets. With over a decade of experience in both...
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Tomás Campos, CEO of Spinwheel, on building fintech infrastructure for consumer debt
In this episode, I sit down with Tomás Campos, CEO and Co-Founder of Spinwheel, a fintech infrastructure company that's revolutionizing how lenders and financial platforms access consumer credit data. With ov...
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Paulette Rowe, CEO of Stax, on winning in embedded payments
In this episode of the Fintech One-on-One podcast, we talk with Paulette Rowe, CEO of Stax, a payments technology company that's making waves in the embedded payments space by taking a fundamentally diffe...
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Matt Potere, CEO of Happy Money, on building a great consumer lending business
As long-time listeners will know, I love the consumer lending space. So, I am delighted to welcome back to the podcast Matt Potere, the CEO of Happy Money, a position he has held since September 2024. Previ...
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Sam Lewis, CEO of Fruitful, with a new approach to financial advice
In this episode, we are talking personal financial management, but with a human twist. Sam Lewis is the CEO and Founder of Fruitful, a fintech company reimagining financial advice for millennials and Gen ...
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Arjan Schütte, Founder of Core Innovation Capital, on investing in financial empowerment
One of the fintech investing pioneers is Arjan Schütte, the founder and managing partner of Core Innovation Capital. He has been around fintech for more t...
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Tim Newell, CEO & Founder of GreenFi, on building a climate-friendly fintech
In this episode, I'm joined by Tim Newell, CEO and founder of GreenFi, a climate-focused fintech that emerged from the ashes of Aspiration's consumer banking business. Tim brings a fascinating fintech and ...
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Carol Hamilton, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Provenir, on AI-powered risk decisioning
In today's episode, we have Carol Hamilton, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Provenird. She discusses how AI-powered decisioning platforms are transforming risk management across financial services. She explores the critical balance financ...
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Penny Lee, CEO of the Financial Technology Association, on the changes in Washington
To say it has been a busy year for fintech policy folks would be a gross understatement. With the change in administration to Trump 2.0, we have a 180-degree different perspective on most fintech issues than the previous administration. And the...
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Olugbenga “GB” Agboola, CEO of Flutterwave, on creating African payments infrastructure
Africa is quietly becoming one of the hottest areas for fintech investment. I am overdue to focus on Africa here on the podcast, so when the chance to interview the CEO of the largest African fintech presented itself, I jumped at the opportunit...
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Brandon Spear, CEO of TreviPay, on taking the complexity out of cross border B2B payments
Streamlining international B2B payments is a complex undertaking. TreviPay has been taking the complexity out of this process for several decades now. In my conversation with CEO Brandon Spear, we explore...
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Anthony Soohoo, CEO of MoneyGram, on rethinking global remittances
In this episode, Anthony Soohoo, CEO of MoneyGram, shares his vision for transforming one of the world's largest global payments networks through what he calls a "
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Michele Alt, Co-Founder of Klaros Group, on the new era for fintechs and bank charters
When it comes to fintechs getting bank charters we are entering a golden age. With zero fintech-oriented bank applications approved in the Biden administration we already have several fintechs with shiny new bank charters just a few months into...
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Ravi Adusumilli, President, Americas of Airwallex on building a global B2B payments platform
Moving money internationally is mission-critical for many businesses in the world, particularly those outside the U.S. But, today, for businesses using traditional banks, moving money across borders is often expensive, slow and a terrible user ...
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Vince Passione, CEO of LendKey, on digital network lending
One of the big challenges for community banks and credit unions is that they often have a very concentrated base of customers. The vast majority of their accounts could be with people and businesses within a 100-mile radius. While setting up di...
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Shensi Ding, CEO of Merge, on building the leading unified API platform
Most fintech companies, and increasingly banks, rely on API integrations to run their business. Yet, building and maintaining these integrations can be time consuming and complex, particularly when it is only a part of what an engineering team ...
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30:48
Fintech Revealed: Earned Wage Access with Clair and Gusto
Welcome back to the occasional series on the podcast called Fintech Revealed. This is a sponsored show where we take a deep dive on one topic with a couple of industry experts.Today, we have Nico Simko, CEO and Co-Founder of
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John Mitchell, CEO of Episode Six, on next generation payments infrastructure
There are not many US-based fintech companies that are global from day one. Nearly every company starts in the domestic market, gets established and after a few years starts looking at overseas markets. That was not the case for today's podcast...
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Simon Taylor, Head of Strategy & Content at Sardine, on a framework for AI Agents
Most of us have heard the term "AI agent" but it is only the minority of banks and fintechs that have done any kind of implementation. This is partly because it is not a trivial task and there are real risks to getting this wrong. What is neede...
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Andrew Jamison, CEO of Extend, on building a more flexible spend management platform
Many of us have used virtual credit or debit cards and haven't given them a second thought. In today's world of contactless payments, there is no difference between a virtual and physical card. But a virtual card is actually a piece of software...
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Jerry Tylman, Founder of the Fraud Red Team, on the gaps in fraud detection systems
Every bank and fintech company has a suite of anti-fraud tools that they use to keep the bad guys out. Few tools are 100% effective, however, and often the implementation of these tools, along with their interfaces with other system leave gaps....
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