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- 165Can AI Give Every Small Business a Virtual CFO? With Clover's Krishna Bhagavatula22 Oct 2026 · 45 min▶
About this episode
In this sponsored episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Krishna Bhagavatula, Chief Product Officer at Clover, to talk about how the platform is evolving far beyond payments. Krishna explains why small business owners need something very different from enterprise software. They are…
- 164Vishal Garg Is Back at Better, Plus Vinyl’s Bid to Fix IPO Infrastructure20 Oct 2026 · 32 minRob Schoder▶
About this episode
This week on This Week in Fintech, Sasha Pilch is joined by reporter Mary Ann Azevedo to unpack the latest twist at Better. Just two months after being removed as CEO, Vishal Garg has regained control of the company’s board, helped remove the directors who ousted him, and now says he does not actually want the CEO job…
- 163How PayJoy Turns Smartphones Into a Path to Credit15 Oct 2026 · 48 minDoug Ricket▶
About this episode
In this sponsored episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Doug Ricket, founder and CEO of PayJoy, to talk about how the company is expanding access to credit for people who have historically been left out of the formal financial system. PayJoy began with a simple idea: use the smartphone…
- 162Can AI Catch Invoice Fraud? Plus, How Imprint Is Rebuilding Credit Cards13 Oct 2026 · 25 min▶
About this episode
This week on This Week in Fintech, Sasha Pilch sits down with Daragh Murphy, co-founder and CEO of Imprint, to talk about how the company is helping major brands rethink credit cards, rewards, and customer loyalty. Imprint is building financial experiences directly into the brands consumers already know and love,…
- 161What Happens to Your Money When an Account Goes Dormant? With Eisen CEO Allen Osgood8 Oct 2026 · 43 min▶
About this episode
In this episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Nik Milanovic sits down with Allen Osgood, founder and CEO of Eisen, to unpack one of the seemingly least glamorous but most important parts of financial infrastructure: what happens when customer accounts go dormant. Allen explains the world of escheatment, the…
- 160Cute AI Avatars and How Arca Is Reinventing Wealth Management6 Oct 2026 · 23 minArca▶
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This week on This Week in Fintech, Sasha Pilch sits down with Rron Rexha, founder and CEO of Arca, to talk about how AI could modernize one of the most traditional corners of financial services. Arca is using AI to take administrative work off financial advisors’ plates, from account opening and money movement to…
- 159Can Reusable Identity Fix Fintech’s Verification Problem? - With SOLO Founder Georgina Merhom2 Oct 2026 · 40 min▶
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In this episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Georgina Merhom, founder and CEO of SOLO, to explore why financial services still asks customers to prove who they are over and over again, and what it would take to make identity verification reusable. Georgina explains how SOLO is…
- 158How Warp Raised $60M in Six Days - Plus the Kalshi Controversy29 Sept 2026 · 24 min▶
About this episode
This Week in Fintech is back with a new look, a new host and a new weekly format. Hosted by Sasha Pilch, each episode will dig into one of the biggest stories moving fintech before sitting down with a founder, operator or investor helping shape where the industry goes next. For our first episode, Sasha is joined by…
- 157Rain is Building Embedded Financial Services for Your Global Brand16 Sept 2026 · 33 min▶
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Host Justin Friedman sits down with Sophia Goldberg, Rain’s Head of Payments and founder of Ansa, the branded stored value platform acquired by Rain in 2026. They discuss how combining Ansa’s closed-loop, stored value infrastructure with Rain’s stablecoin-powered open-loop payment rails could change the way global…
- 156Circle's Arc: The Economic Operating System for the Internet2 Sept 2026 · 50 min▶
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Host Justin Friedman sits down with Rachel Mayer, VP of Product at Circle and one of the masterminds behind Arc, to unveil Circle’s new layer one blockchain. Drawing on Rachel’s experience trading emerging-markets currencies on Wall Street, they start with the inefficiencies still embedded in traditional cross-border…
- 155Nico Simko on Building Clair, Embedded Earned Wage Access and the Future of Payroll28 Aug 2026 · 42 min▶
About this episode
Presented by Clair. What if the best financial product is the one users never have to go looking for? In this episode of This Week in Fintech , Clair founder Nico Simko joins us to explain how a personal frustration with the US credit system turned into a profitable earned wage access business serving hundreds of…
- 154Alchemy Is Building the Wallet Layer for Agentic Commerce You Can Trust19 Aug 2026 · 48 min▶
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Host Justin Friedman interviews Blake Duncan, Alchemy’s Lead Agent Experience Engineer, about what happens when AI agents replace humans as the economic decision-maker. They start with fundamentals: What makes a smart wallet “smart” and how the x402 protocol will enable the pay-per-use Internet as agents increasingly…
- 153Sokin's Blueprint for Global Treasury17 Jun 2026 · 32 min▶
About this episode
Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Vroon Modgill, Founder & CEO of Sokin, to explore how modern treasury infrastructure is transforming global payments. From slow settlement windows and fragmented banking relationships to stablecoins and real-time treasury management, Vroon breaks down why traditional treasury workflows…
- 152How Pomelo Is Rebuilding Fintech Infrastructure in LATAM10 Jun 2026 · 33 minGaston Irigoyen▶
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Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Gaston Irigoyen, co-founder and CEO of Pomelo, to unpack why waiting a full year to launch a card program became the startup thesis behind one of Latin America’s fastest-growing fintech infrastructure companies. Drawing from his experience scaling fintech in LATAM, Gaston shares how…
- 151PayPal’s Stablecoin Playbook4 Jun 2026 · 36 min▶
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Presented by Rain. Host Justin Friedman sits down with Larry Wade to unpack how PayPal brought PYUSD from concept to real-world payments while balancing innovation, regulation, and consumer trust. The conversation explores PayPal’s early move into crypto, why on-chain transfers became critical for interoperability,…
- 150The Fintech OG Series: Shanthi Shanmugam and Natasha Vernier27 May 2026 · 49 min▶
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Powered by Spade. Money moves faster than ever, but the hardest moments in fintech still happen when something goes wrong: a confusing transaction, a disputed charge, a fraud claim, or a control that fails when regulators come calling. Hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Crossett talk with Shanti Shanmugam, CEO…
- 149How MoneyGram Is Modernizing Global Payments with Stablecoins13 May 2026 · 45 min▶
About this episode
Host Justin Friedman sits dow with Luke Tuttle, Chief Product and Technology Officer at MoneyGram to talk about the realities of building global payments infrastructure at scale. The conversation explores how stablecoins are changing cross-border settlement, why trust and compliance remain critical in remittances, and…
- 148Coinbase Q1 '26 Earnings: A conversation with Coinbase Chief Business Officer Shan Aggarwal8 May 2026 · 8 minShan Aggarwal▶
About this episode
This Week in Fintech’s Nik Milanovic sat down with Coinbase Chief Business Officer Shan Aggarwal to discuss Coinbase’s Q1 2026 earnings following the company’s latest earnings release. • Q1 highlights, including all-time high crypto trading volume market share • USDC growth on-platform and why stablecoin economics…
- 147Western Union’s Stablecoin Moment29 Apr 2026 · 56 min▶
About this episode
Presented by Rain. This episode of Crossing the Chasm, host Chiara Munaretto is joined by Malcolm Clarke to discuss how Western Union is bringing stablecoins into the real world with the launch of USDPT. Malcolm explains why Western Union believes the future of digital dollars is not about making consumers learn…
- 146Stablecoins Are Going to Main Street15 Apr 2026 · 54 min▶
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Presented by Rain. In this special series Crossing the Chasm , we explore when stablecoins stop being “crypto” and start functioning like real money, becoming familiar, fast, and cost-efficient. Justin Friedman is joined by Farooq Malik, founder and CEO of Rain, joins us to break down what true adoption looks like…
- 145BONUS: Reintroducing The Fintech OGs6 Apr 2026 · 47 min▶
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Powered by Spade. Julie VerHage-Greenberg is back for Season 4 of The Fintech OGs, now joined by co-host Lauren Crossett, to sit down with the pioneers who built and transformed fintech. From the early days of digital finance to the innovations redefining money today, these are the stories behind the people who…
- 144Credit Beyond The Score with Andrew Endicott31 Mar 2026 · 51 minAndrew EndicottGilgamesh Ventures▶
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Credit scores feel like destiny, but they’re built on a thin record of borrowing and repayment while ignoring income, cash on hand, and real assets. That blind spot blocks credit for immigrants, younger consumers, gig workers, and anyone whose financial life doesn’t fit the classic bureau file. In this episode, Nik…
- 143Okay, So You've Got a Stablecoin… Bhau Kotecha on What Happens After You Go On-Chain17 Feb 2026 · 43 min▶
About this episode
This week, Stablecon’s Justin Friedman was joined by Bhau Kotecha, co-founder and CEO of Paxos Labs, for a discussion on the transformative potential of stablecoins and tokenization. Bhau and Justin examine how these technologies are redefining the way we think about financial tools, usability, interoperability,…
- 142Coinbase Q4 '25 Earnings: A conversation with Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas13 Feb 2026 · 11 min▶
About this episode
This Week in Fintech's Nik Milanovic sat down on February 12th, 2026 to talk with Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas about 2025 year-end earnings. Some topics they covered: Market Expansion: Coinbase doubled trading volume and market share in 2025, diversifying beyond crypto with Deribit acquisition. Revenue Resilience:…
- 141Revolutionizing Payroll: The Earnin Story with Ram Palanappian20 Jan 2026 · 46 min▶
About this episode
In this episode, Nik Milanovic interviews Ram Palanappian, the CEO and Founder of Earnin, a fintech company that is revolutionizing how employees access their wages. Ram shares the origin story of Earnin, which began when he realized that many employees were struggling with cash flow issues, leading to late fees and…
- 140Agentic Commerce is here w/ Michelle Gill, PayPal18 Dec 2025 · 39 min▶
About this episode
An agentic future of commerce is coming faster than merchants think, and PayPal wants to make sure small businesses don’t get left behind. In this live Money20/20 2025 episode of This Week in Fintech, hosts Nik Milanović and Jillian Williams sit down with PayPal’s Michelle Gill, EVP and General Manager of Small…
- 139How Nubank Rewrote Brazil’s Banking Rules with Cristina Junqueira4 Dec 2025 · 27 min▶
About this episode
We sit down with Nubank co-founder Cristina Junqueira for a candid look at how frustration with fee-first banking led to a product people loved, and how that vision scaled across Brazil. We explore hard-won lessons on leadership, communication, regulation, and why AI plus open finance will reshape money. • leaving an…
- 138Modern Treasury Unlocking Payment Innovation with Stablecoins18 Nov 2025 · 45 minMatt Marcus▶
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In this conversation, Nik Milanović discusses the evolving landscape of stablecoins and digital payments with Dan Mottice and Matt Marcus from Modern Treasury. They delve into the recent acquisition of Beam by Modern Treasury, the implications for the payments industry, and the potential of stablecoins to enhance…
- 137Sierra CEO & OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor - Live at M20/20. AI Bubbles, SaaS Future, and Why Sierra Wins13 Nov 2025 · 19 minBret TaylorGoogle▶
About this episode
In today’s episode, Ryan Zauk sits down with Bret Taylor, Co-Founder & CEO of Sierra and Chairman of the Board at OpenAI. Bret’s career is the stuff of valley legend…he is the former Co-CEO of Salesforce, former CTO of Facebook, and has been credited with building products like Google Maps and Facebook's 'Like'…
- 136Unlocking Embedded Finance Opportunities with Adyen22 Oct 2025 · 43 min▶
About this episode
In this episode, Nik Milanović hosts Natalie Wexler from Adyen and Jamey Kennedy from Jackrabbit Technologies to discuss the untapped opportunities in embedded finance, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. They explore how SaaS platforms can leverage embedded finance to enhance customer experiences, the…
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