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.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 160
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
S6 Ep6: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Tip Top, Lucite, Rove, and Prosper AI
Simon Taylor’s back and fresh off writing his latest in-depth Q1 fintech report to chat with Alex about more potential fintech companies on the rise, including the instant cash electronic trade-in co…
00:55:46 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
S6 Ep5: Fintech Recap: Regulators Crack Down on BaaS, Buy Now Pay Later’s Newest Offerings, Paypal (Kind Of) Shocks the World
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. That started from this banking port aboard this tiny… okay, so we promise to give up on this BaaS island analogy eventually, but …
00:55:52 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
S6 E4: The Nuances in Credit Underwriting that Most People Miss with Frank Rotman
Frank Rotman, Chief Investment Officer at QED Investors, makes his triumphant return to the podcast to share his wisdom on all things lending. As the first Chief Credit Officer at Capital One (before…
01:31:18 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
S6 Ep3: Banks Gaming the Fed, The Fight Over ILCs Ramps Back Up, and Frequent Flyer Mile Madness
We’ve all barely recovered from the frosty Arctic blast this past week, but that balmy -37-degree Montana weather isn’t slowing down our favorite fintech obsessive one bit. Alex joins banking and fin…
01:35:18 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
S6 Ep2: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Foyer, Claim, Crew, and Brico AI
In this episode of Not Fintech Investment Advice, Alex is joined by the man, the myth, the legend, Simon Taylor, to discuss some of the latest, greatest fintech companies you should definitely not, b…
00:55:37 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
S6 Ep1: Fintech Recap: Revolut Cries Wolf, Tomo Boost’s Continued Craziness, and Tales from BaaS Island
Alex and Jason are back at it again for the first time this year, and can we just say that it’s way too early for fintech to be doing so many crazy things already?
On the bright side, the UK is crac…
00:58:32 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Fintech Predictions for the Not-So-Distant Future, with Frank Rotman
We know, we know… Prediction episodes are so cliché. And somehow, experts have an incredible way of dramatically overestimating what we, as an industry, can accomplish in the next year while also dra…
00:31:55 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
S5 Ep12: 2023’s Most Compelling Fintech Stories
With the New Year quickly approaching, we’re finding it next to impossible to recall the sheer insanity that’s happened in the wild world of fintech over the past year… and trust us when we say, ther…
00:57:58 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
S5 Ep11: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Wellahead, Increase, Ribbon, Conduiit
Simon’s out on paternity leave (don’t worry—it’s not like he’s catching up on any lost sleep), but thankfully, we’ve found an awesome substitute — the man, the myth, the early-stage investor extraord…
00:51:51 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
S5 Ep10: BNC: If SoFi Looks Like a Bank and Quacks Like a Bank…, the CFPB’s New Oversight Rules, Fintech’s Savior Complex Problem
Alex is joined by the one and only, Kiah Haslett to break down another month of bank and fintech news.
They discuss when, if ever, SoFi will finally be forced to report their earnings like a bank and…
01:15:30 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
S5 Ep9: Fintech Recap: Fintech’s Reckoning, the Predatory Nature of Credit Building Products, and the Fyre Festival of NFTs
Thanksgiving’s over and Christmas is almost here… so you know what that means! We’re checking our credit account once, checking it twice, and we’re gonna find out if Alex can stand to talk about cred…
00:58:10 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
S5 Ep8: Dadonomics: Mastering the Art of Fintech with Tom and Alex Johnson
With the smell of turkey, thanks, and pumpkin spice filling the air, what better way to celebrate the holiday season than having a candid sit-down conversation with the one man responsible for sparki…
00:52:31 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
S5 Ep7: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Spreadsheets Never Say Die, HiFi Unifies Music’s Fractured Income Stream, and Subscription-Based Climate Tech
Sure Clippy may have died over a decade ago (RIP, little buddy), but some things in Microsoft Office just can’t seem to be killed off, no matter how hard fintech tries (*cough* Excel *cough*). Are sp…
00:55:28 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
S5 Ep6: BNC: The Debit Interchange Cap is Being Lowered Because … Reasons, Check Fraud, and the Implications of 1033
This week we’re back with the fabulous Kiah Haslett for another round of Bank Nerd Corner.
Alex and Kiah catch up on their recent conference experiences (pickup basketball! Bank nerd celebrity sighti…
01:16:42 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
S5 Ep5: Live From Money 20/20
Live from Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, Alex is joined by co-host Jason Mikula for a special episode of Fintech Recap. They discuss the latest trends and developments in the fintech industry, including c…
00:26:28 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
S5 Ep4: Unpacking the Post-Pandemic Era’s Most Interesting Financial Health Trends, with Scott Sanborn
This week, Alex chats with Scott Sanborn, the CEO of Lending Club, to discuss the ever-evolving relationship between banks and consumers.
Why are over half of Americans still paying off credit card d…
00:44:36 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
S5 Ep3: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Layup Gamifies Savings, Series Set to Compete with Major ERPs, Can We Please Stop Focusing on LLMs
It’s time for another episode of “Not Fintech Advice” with the inestimable, Simon Taylor! Or errr…. Whatever, that word actually means.
Alex and Simon break down the latest in fintech news starting …
00:51:34 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
S5 Ep2: The Role of Supervisors/Adverse Action Notices/Building a Better PFM
Conference season is here and Kiah Haslett is here to break down all the latest news and events in banking and fintech, including all the hot conference goss and Alex’s big plans for coming out of an…
01:17:43 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
S5 Ep1: Fintech Recap: The Challenges of BaaS/The Drama of Interchange/The Final Death of NFTs
Matthew Goldman (founder of Totavi and author of CardsFTW) joins Alex and Jason to talk through the never-ending challenges of banking-as-a-service, why Evolve hasn’t managed to earn itself a consent…
00:51:57 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
S4 Ep12: Breaking Down the Five Waves of Fintech, with Charles Birnbaum
You can’t disrupt fintech unless you fully understand its storied history. So what are the biggest lessons we can take away from the past?
Join Alex for a fascinating conversation with Charles Birnb…
00:51:56 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
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