Fintech Takes
Fintech moves fast. But here at Fintech Takes, Alex Johnson and his rotating panel of guests move faster so that you can stay on top of the latest and greatest news in the industry without breaking a sweat.
Welcome to Fintech Takes—the place where fintech’s biggest nerds come to sit back, relax, and completely geek out.
Join Alex and a lineup of fintech’s brightest minds as they dissect what’s happening in fintech and banking.
Each week, Alex and his guests recap the most interesting developments in fintech and explore the industry’s most pressing questions, diving headfirst into the intricate workings of some of the industry’s most ground-breaking business models and unpacking the emerging players that promise to shape fintech’s future.
From riveting conversations with fintech’s most relevant operators to comprehensive recaps of the month's most compelling news stories and in-depth analyses of the latest regulatory developments, Fintech Takes is your one-stop-shop for navigating the fintech universe.
Subscribe now to join fintech’s nerdiest podcast around!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 160
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth Episode 4: Wave a Magic Wand
We’re at the finish line of Source of Truth, the new podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at SOLO.
And much like in a relay race, Eric Woodward (CEO at FinatIQ, who shaped…
00:45:22 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth Episode 3: Hard Lessons Learned from the Trenches
Hello, and welcome back to Source of Truth, a new miniseries sponsored by our friends at SOLO. This series is about information asymmetry; the enemy of financial services.
Until now, we’ve focuse…
01:08:00 |
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Bank Nerd Corner: OCC vs. States, NBA Moneyball, and Tokenized Deposits
Welcome back to Bank Nerd Corner featuring Kiah Haslett (whose inaugural Fintech Takes Banking newsletter is officially live – subscribe here to stay dangerously informed and entertained).
First u…
01:30:36 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Fintech Recap: Open Banking, BaaS Island, and GENIUS Act Updates
Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my partner-in-recapping, Jason Mikula.
First up, the open banking saga continues with a new 13-paged ANPR (Advance Notice of…
01:11:52 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth Episode 2: Context is King
Hello, and welcome back to Source of Truth, the new podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at SOLO.
This series is about information asymmetry (the enemy of financial serv…
00:57:23 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth. Ep 1: Is Truth Enough to Unlock Trust?
Hello, and welcome to Source of Truth, a new podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at SOLO.
This series is about information asymmetry (which is *the* enemy in financial …
00:52:44 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Bank Nerd Corner: CFPB’s Flip, Crypto’s Endgame, and The Erebor Backdoor
Bank Nerd Corner is back with Kiah Haslett returning … not just as co-host, but as an official member of Fintech Takes!
That’s right, big news: Bank Nerd Corner will soon be its own podcast feed,…
01:16:19 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Inside Open Banking’s Rule, Reversal, and Reset
Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Dan Murphy — Founder of Sunset Park Advisors and former CFPB official who helped craft the agency’s open banking rule (finalized…
01:15:09 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders Title: E6: Crystal Ball – The Future of Financial Regulation
In the finale of Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders (a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with FairPlay), we confront the biggest questions yet…
01:06:17 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Why Is This Happening? The CFPB’s 14-Year Culture War
Welcome back to Fintech Takes.
I’m Alex Johnson, and today we’re trying something different: a little audiobook experiment.
I’m turning my recent deep dive, “Why Is This Happening? An Exhaust…
00:49:32 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders Title: Episode 5: AI Agents in Financial Services: What Happens When Robots Make the Calls?
Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with FairPlay.
In some ways, this is the episode ev…
00:54:53 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: Ep 4: Customer Acquisition in the Age of AI
Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with FairPlay.
In Episode 4, we’re turning the spot…
00:51:13 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Not Fintech Investment Advice: Alix, Narrative, Ogment AI, & SOLO
Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I riff about fintech companies we're absolutely not giving investment advice on (though this one may test our willpower).
We k…
01:04:02 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens Ep 3: Compliance Officers in the Age of AI: Creating Second Line 2.0
Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with FairPlay.
With FairPlay’s Kareem Saleh (Found…
00:50:10 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Fintech Recap: Chase vs. Data, Congress vs. Crypto
Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my partner-in-recapping, Jason Mikula.
Usually, we sift through a grab bag of headlines, but not this time. There are two sei…
01:12:43 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens Ep 2: Credit Risk Analytics in the Age of AI
Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with FairPlay.
With FairPlay’s Kareem Saleh (Found…
00:49:59 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: Into the CFPB Void: Regulatory Free-for-All in Financial Services
Welcome to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with FairPlay.
In this series, I’m joined by FairPlay’s Ka…
00:48:50 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Fintech Takes: Chase Leads, the CFPB Retreats, and There’s Still No Throughline
Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Evan Weinberger, Bloomberg Law reporter and bank regulation whisperer (and the rare guest who can quote both Caddyshack and Empi…
00:57:46 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Fintech Takes: Cards, Rent, and Crypto
Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Matthew Goldman — Totavi founder, serial fintech builder (Wallaby, Vertical), ex-Bankrate, and still rocking 30 credit cards.
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00:55:36 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Not Fintech Investment Advice: Polar, Multiply Mortgage, OpenTrade, & Spinwheel
Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I talk about fintech companies that we're definitely not giving investment advice on.
We kick things off with Polar (think Str…
00:59:59 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
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