Fintech

Leaders

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank ratcheted up the financial pressure on startup companies that was already building. How can new entrants adapt?

April 3

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Podcast Are big banks spreading misinformation about fintech?

Penny Lee, president and CEO of the Financial Technology Association, is pushing back on some claims banks and their trade groups have recently made about financial technology companies, for instance that fintechs don't meet consumer financial protection standards.

Sponsored by IntraFi
Podcast Kristy Kim says buy now/pay later is like fast food

The founder and CEO of the fintech Tomo Credit says the popular form of credit helps consumers perpetuate bad habits.

Sponsored by IntraFi

Leaders

Up next in digital banking: What to expect

CEO Mike Butler of Grasshopper Bank surveys the landscape of fintech and discusses how new developments will affect banks and their customers.

June 25
Leaders

Wendy Cai-Lee offers advice on how to do banking-as-a-service well

The founder and CEO of Piermont Bank recently won recognition as a Digital Banker of the Year from American Banker. She discusses her approach to working with fintechs.

June 16
Podcast What Seattle Bank learned from the collapse of the Google Plex deal

The bank was one of the 11 that collaborated with Google in 2020 on a plan to introduce checking accounts through Google Pay. Josh Williams, chief banking officer and head of partnerships at Seattle Bank, talks about what the company gained from that experience and what he looks for in potential fintech partnerships.

Sponsored by IntraFi
Podcast How one fintech founder got funded despite not being a bro: 'I had a higher bar'

TomoCredit's Kristy Kim watched while VCs wrote checks faster to her male counterparts with similar metrics, but bypassed her startup. Now she has the growth to show they were wrong.

Sponsored by IntraFi
Podcast ‘This is a tremendous community and it’s not getting services it needs’

Yasaman Hadjibashi, who formerly worked at Citi and Barclays, and Keith Armstrong, a co-founder of Abe.ai, have created a fintech startup that helps people coming home from prison find work, obtain a bank account and reenter society.

Sponsored by IntraFi
AB - Technology

Grasshopper Bank’s challenge: Designing apps for people who make apps

The digital-only bank, which is due to launch March 1, is trying to develop an Amazon-like banking experience for the most finicky of clients: tech startup founders, says CEO Mike Butler.

By Penny Crosman

February 14
AB - podcast

‘Small banks are disappearing’: FDIC’s Jelena McWilliams

In her last week in office, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair discusses why she worries about the dwindling number of community banks and minority-owned banks, why she has made serving low-income communities a priority during her tenure, and what she might do next.

By Penny Crosman

January 31

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