# This Week in Fintech: the investor podcast, by episode

> This Week in Fintech: The week in fintech: rounds, launches and the investors behind them. 165 episodes, each linked to the investors in it.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-fintech (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

The week's news · new episode 22 Oct 2026

# This Week in Fintech

Hosted by **This Week in Fintech**

The week in fintech: rounds, launches and the investors behind them.

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**165** episodes

**52** investors heard as guests

**36 min** an average episode

29 in the last 12 months

## The regulars

Investors named as guests in the most episode titles on This Week in Fintech.

[JW *6* **Jillian Williams** Cowboy Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/person/jillian-williams)[LA *2* **Leif Abraham** Prehype](https://millionrounds.com/person/leif-abraham)[SR *2* **Soups Ranjan** 2 episodes](https://millionrounds.com/person/soups-ranjan)[AF *1* **Aaron Frank** Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/person/aaron-frank)[AC *1* **Alex Chriss** PayPal Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/person/mr-alex-chriss)[AE *1* **Andrew Endicott** Gilgamesh Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/person/andrew-endicott)[AH *1* **Anu Hariharan** Avra](https://millionrounds.com/person/anu-hariharan)[AL *1* **Art Levy** Brex](https://millionrounds.com/person/art-levy)[BF *1* **Benjamin Fernandes** 1 episode](https://millionrounds.com/person/benjamin-fernandes)[CB *1* **Charles Birnbaum** Bessemer Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/person/charles-birnbaum)[CM *1* **Charley Ma** Exponent Founders Capital](https://millionrounds.com/person/charley-ma)[CC *1* **Christina Cacioppo** 1 episode](https://millionrounds.com/person/christina-cacioppo-2)

## Every episode 165 · page 1 of 6

- 165 **Can AI Give Every Small Business a Virtual CFO? With Clover's Krishna Bhagavatula** 22 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… ▶
- 164 **Vishal Garg Is Back at Better, Plus Vinyl’s Bid to Fix IPO Infrastructure** 20 Oct 2026 · 32 min [Rob Schoder](https://millionrounds.com/person/rob-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… ▶
- 163 **How PayJoy Turns Smartphones Into a Path to Credit** 15 Oct 2026 · 48 min [Doug Ricket](https://millionrounds.com/person/doug-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… ▶
- 162 **Can AI Catch Invoice Fraud? Plus, How Imprint Is Rebuilding Credit Cards** 13 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,… ▶
- 161 **What Happens to Your Money When an Account Goes Dormant? With Eisen CEO Allen Osgood** 8 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… ▶
- 160 **Cute AI Avatars and How Arca Is Reinventing Wealth Management** 6 Oct 2026 · 23 min [Arca](https://millionrounds.com/fund/arca) About this episode 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… ▶
- 159 **Can Reusable Identity Fix Fintech’s Verification Problem? - With SOLO Founder Georgina Merhom** 2 Oct 2026 · 40 min About this episode 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… ▶
- 158 **How Warp Raised $60M in Six Days - Plus the Kalshi Controversy** 29 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… ▶
- 157 **Rain is Building Embedded Financial Services for Your Global Brand** 16 Sept 2026 · 33 min About this episode 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… ▶
- 156 **Circle's Arc: The Economic Operating System for the Internet** 2 Sept 2026 · 50 min About this episode 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… ▶
- 155 **Nico Simko on Building Clair, Embedded Earned Wage Access and the Future of Payroll** 28 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… ▶
- 154 **Alchemy Is Building the Wallet Layer for Agentic Commerce You Can Trust** 19 Aug 2026 · 48 min About this episode 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… ▶
- 153 **Sokin's Blueprint for Global Treasury** 17 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… ▶
- 152 **How Pomelo Is Rebuilding Fintech Infrastructure in LATAM** 10 Jun 2026 · 33 min [Gaston Irigoyen](https://millionrounds.com/person/gaston-irigoyen) About this episode 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… ▶
- 151 **PayPal’s Stablecoin Playbook** 4 Jun 2026 · 36 min About this episode 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,… ▶
- 150 **The Fintech OG Series: Shanthi Shanmugam and Natasha Vernier** 27 May 2026 · 49 min About this episode 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… ▶
- 149 **How MoneyGram Is Modernizing Global Payments with Stablecoins** 13 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… ▶
- 148 **Coinbase Q1 '26 Earnings: A conversation with Coinbase Chief Business Officer Shan Aggarwal** 8 May 2026 · 8 min [Shan Aggarwal](https://millionrounds.com/person/shan-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… ▶
- 147 **Western Union’s Stablecoin Moment** 29 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… ▶
- 146 **Stablecoins Are Going to Main Street** 15 Apr 2026 · 54 min About this episode 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… ▶
- 145 **BONUS: Reintroducing The Fintech OGs** 6 Apr 2026 · 47 min About this episode 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… ▶
- 144 **Credit Beyond The Score with Andrew Endicott** 31 Mar 2026 · 51 min [Andrew Endicott](https://millionrounds.com/person/andrew-endicott)[Gilgamesh Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gilgamesh-ventures) About this episode 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… ▶
- 143 **Okay, So You've Got a Stablecoin… Bhau Kotecha on What Happens After You Go On-Chain** 17 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,… ▶
- 142 **Coinbase Q4 '25 Earnings: A conversation with Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas** 13 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:… ▶
- 141 **Revolutionizing Payroll: The Earnin Story with Ram Palanappian** 20 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… ▶
- 140 **Agentic Commerce is here w/ Michelle Gill, PayPal** 18 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… ▶
- 139 **How Nubank Rewrote Brazil’s Banking Rules with Cristina Junqueira** 4 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… ▶
- 138 **Modern Treasury Unlocking Payment Innovation with Stablecoins** 18 Nov 2025 · 45 min [Matt Marcus](https://millionrounds.com/person/matt-marcus) About this episode 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… ▶
- 137 **Sierra CEO & OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor - Live at M20/20. AI Bubbles, SaaS Future, and Why Sierra Wins** 13 Nov 2025 · 19 min [Bret Taylor](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bret-taylor)[Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments) 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'… ▶
- 136 **Unlocking Embedded Finance Opportunities with Adyen** 22 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… ▶

## Who the show talks about

Firms named in its episodes, and people named in descriptions: talked about, rather than on the show.

[V **Visa** *12*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/visa)[**Cowboy Ventures** *4*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cowboy-ventures)[**HSBC** *4*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/hsbc)[C **Capital One** *3*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/capital-one)[M **Matthew Goldman** *3*](https://millionrounds.com/person/matthew-goldman)[**Bain Capital** *2*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bain-capital)[N **Nik Milanovic** *2*](https://millionrounds.com/person/nik-milanovic)[**Y Combinator** *2*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator)[**Alexa von Tobel** *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alexa-von-tobel)[**Andreessen Horowitz** *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/andreessen-horowitz)[A **Annie Lamont** *1*](https://millionrounds.com/person/annie-lamont)[**Anthemis** *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/anthemis-group)

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