Fintech One-On-One
Fintech is eating the world. Join Peter Renton, Co-Founder of Fintech Nexus and now an independent fintech media and events consultant, 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.
Episodes
638 episodes
Why the Best Fintech Companies Are Staying Private With Sahej Suri, Founder of Blue Dot Investors
Sahej Suri is the founder of Blue Dot Investors, a late-stage growth equity firm that invests exclusively in fintech across both primaries and secondaries. Before Blue Dot, he built his career at J.P....
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Why Full Autonomy Beats Co-Pilots for AI in Banking with Dimitri Masin, CEO of Gradient Labs
Dimitri Masin was one of the first 30 employees at Monzo, where he led AI and data science as the bank grew from 30 to 4,000 people. That vantage point showed him where the real work in financial services still lives: the manual, repetitive cus...
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How Navan Coded Company Policy Onto the Card to Kill the Expense Report with Yuval Refua
Yuval Refua is the Chief Product Officer at Navan, the global travel and expense platform he joined seven years ago when it was still just a travel booking service. Since then, he has built out its payments and e...
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Fintech Revealed: Deep Dive on Vertical Fintech with Increase and Tekion
This episode is part of our occasional Fintech Revealed series, where we do an extended deep dive into one topic with two industry experts. The topic today is vertical fintech, and I am joined by Matt Hennessy, the Business Lead at
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How Edge Focus Is Bringing Quant Trading Precision to Consumer Lending With CEO Elliott Lorenz
Elliott Lorenz took an unusual path into consumer lending, moving from applied mathematics and high-frequency trading into the business of pricing credit risk. Today he is the CEO and co-founder of E...
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What's Finally Changing to Help Catch More Financial Crime With Andrew Davies of ComplyAdvantage
Andrew Davies has spent more than three decades fighting financial crime, starting with sanctions screening tools for central banks in the mid-1990s and arriving at ComplyAdvantage after nearly 16 years...
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Why Embedded Payments is a Retention Strategy for Vertical SaaS with Joshua Silver, CEO of Rainforest
Joshua Silver has spent two decades in embedded payments. Before co-founding Rainforest, he built Patient Co, a healthcare payments business scaled to billions in processing volume and tens of millions of...
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How Figure Is Cutting Mortgage Costs from $12,000 to $1,000, with CEO Michael Tannenbaum
Michael Tannenbaum became CEO of Figure in early 2024, taking over from founder Mike Cagney and leading the company through its September 2025 IPO. In this conversation, we get into the mechanics of how Fig...
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Fixing the Broken Appraisal Model in Asset-Backed Lending With Thomas Galbraith, CEO of Barkr
Thomas Galbraith is the CEO and co-founder of Barkr, an AI-driven valuation platform for asset-backed lending. He spent his early career in high net worth insurance at AIG and AXA, where he grew comfortable with t...
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Building the Bank-Grade Ledger That Payments Infrastructure Was Missing With Patricia Montesi, CEO of Qolo
Patricia Montesi didn't start her career in payments, she started it in car rental. After nine years at Alamo and National Rent-A-Car, she was recruited into fintech with zero industry experience. That outsider perspective became her edge, and ...
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The Case for AI as a Revenue Driver in Financial Infrastructure with Chris Walters, CEO of Finastra
Chris Walters is the CEO of Finastra, one of the largest financial software companies in the world, serving over 7,000 banks globally including 45 of the world's top 50. He joined the company a little over...
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Building a Profitable Neobank by Doing Everything the Hard Way With Ali Niknam, CEO of Bunq
Ali Niknam is one of fintech's most unconventional founders. He built multiple unicorns before turning his attention to banking, then self-funded Bunq with nearly €100 million of his own money before taking a ...
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No Code Infrastructure and the Future of Lending with Timothy Li, CEO of LendAPI
Timothy Li, CEO and Co-Founder of LendAPI, has spent nearly a decade trying to solve the same problem: launching a lending product takes too long and costs too much. With LendAPI, he's built a no-code plat...
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Building the AI Enablement Layer for Financial Services with Kareem Saleh, CEO of FairPlay
Kareem Saleh is the CEO and co-founder of FairPlay, an AI enablement platform helping financial institutions test, tune, and monitor AI systems in production. Four years after his
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Jess Conroy, CEO of ROH, on Building the Financial Core Hotels Never Had
Most of us assume that major hotel brands have sophisticated financial systems running behind the scenes. In this episode, Jess Conroy, CEO and co-founder of ROH, explains just how wrong that assumption is — and wh...
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Building the First Agentic Brokerage with Leif Abraham, Co-CEO of Public
My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One Podcast is Leif Abraham, the co-CEO of Public.com. Public has been carving out a really interesting niche in the brokerage space. They're not trying to be another discount...
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Non-Dilutive Capital for AI and SaaS Companies with Denada Ramnishta of Efficient Capital Labs
My guest today is Denada Ramnishta, the Chief Revenue Officer at Efficient Capital Labs. I've known Denada for over a decade, having first met her during her time at American Express where she was part of...
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Amir Wain, CEO of i2c, on Turning Payment Declines into Trust-Building Moments
Payment declines happen millions of times a day, but how a financial institution handles that moment of failure can define the entire customer relationship. My guest on this episode is Amir Wain, the Founder and CEO of
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Transforming the Middle Layer of Banking with the CEO of Aliya
In banking, we often talk about the "front end" customer experience or the "back end" systems of record. But according to S.P. “Wije” Wijegoonaratna, the founder of Aliya, the real revolution is happening ri...
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Building a Community Bank for the Embedded Banking Era with Chris Black, CEO of Thread Bank
My latest guest is Chris Black, CEO of Thread Bank, a Nashville-based community bank that has been purpose-built around embedded banking. Chris came to banking by way of a career as an Air Force pilot, followe...
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Open Banking, 1033, and the Agentic AI Catalyst - Steve Boms, Executive Director of FDATA
Open banking in the United States has been on a long and winding road, and the journey is far from over. In this episode, I sit down with Steve Boms, Executive Director of FDATA North America, the tr...
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Why All Money Will Be On Chain in 10 Years With the CEO of Polygon Labs, Marc Boiron
What happens when all the world's money moves on chain? That's not a hypothetical for Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, it's the company's mission. In this episode, Marc explains how Polygon is evolving...
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From 70 Hours to Minutes: Vestwell CEO Aaron Schumm on Simplifying and Automating Savings
Aaron Schumm, CEO and Founder of Vestwell, knows firsthand how broken America's savings system is. When he tried to set up a 401k for his previous 30-person company back in 2010, the process was so diffic...
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Rate Caps, Stablecoins and the New Credit Infrastructure with Rhett Roberts, CEO of LoanPro
The financial system has run on basically the same payments rails for the past several decades. But there is new infrastructure being built today that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of stablecoins. In some ways, the future is alread...
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Utah's Hidden Fintech Powerhouse: Ryan Christiansen on Building Bridges Between Academia and Industry
Ryan Christiansen has had one of the more unusual career trajectories in fintech, from managing credit portfolios during the 2008 financial crisis to leading bank integrations at Finicity during the early days of open banking, helping launch th...
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