Fintech

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

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

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
Podcast Where fintechs will flourish in 2022

Startups focused on embedded banking, small-business finance and health care insurance will prosper in the year ahead, predicts Alex Lazarow, partner at the San Francisco global venture capital fund Cathay Innovation.

Sponsored by IntraFi
Podcast Have fintechs cracked the financial inclusion code?

Many fintech companies are offering quality, low-cost services to people who are left out of mainstream banking. But low-income consumers face barriers that technology alone can't solve.

Sponsored by Talkdesk
Podcast Inside a payments fintech's quest to raise its profile

DLocal, which connects merchants with consumers in emerging markets, has a plan to carry over momentum from its recent listing on Nasdaq into hiring and expansion efforts.

Sponsored by EverC
Data security

What will it take for open banking to take hold in the U.S.?

Europe has encouraged adoption with rules that put consumers in control of the way their data is shared among banks, fintechs and third-party vendors. Whether the U.S. can make similar progress without its own rules is unclear.

By Miriam Cross

June 30

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