Fintech Takes

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Fintech Recap: Risk, Standards, and Double Standards

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We open with Coastal Community Bank, which swung from a $12M

Sep 2
1 h 10 min

Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Ep 7: A Traveling Credit Score

Hello, and welcome back to Cash Flow Conversations, a podcast series sponsored by Nova Credit. If you've followed my work, you'll know that I'm obsessed with cash flow d

Sep 1
1 h 01 min

Premium Cards Get Weird

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined again by fellow fintech creator Matthew Goldman, founder and managing member of Totavi, and author of

Aug 26
1 h 01 min

The SMB Context Margin Paradox

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by David Snitkof (GM of SMB at Ocrolus) to explore one of my all-time favorite topics in financial services: small

Aug 19
56 min

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Natural, Sky Fusion, Quarters, El Dorado

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about companies we're absolutely not giving investment advice on! First

Aug 12
1 h 00 min

Fintech Recap: No-KYC Cards and Political Bank Charters Aplenty

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We open with a tangled story that you should absolutely read

Aug 5
1 h 21 min

Inside Stripe's Open Standard

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined again by James Wester (co-head of payments research at Javelin Strategy & Research), who I’ve come to think of as

Jul 29
59 min

The Rules for Self-Driving Money

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by two of my favorite repeat guests: Steve Boms (Executive Director of FDATA North America) and Dan Murphy (Founde

Jul 22
1 h 04 min

Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 3: Revenue at Stake

Welcome to Lending, Unbundled, a new series from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at TruStage. The series traces how consumer lending went from a single instituti

Jul 21
51 min

Retuning the Math of Life

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm your host, Alex Johnson, and today one of our favorite guests is back: Frank Rotman, founding partner of 37Maru and co-foun

Jul 15
1 h 10 min

Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 2: The Confidence Gap

Welcome to Lending, Unbundled, a new series from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at TruStage. The series traces how consumer lending went from a single instituti

Jul 14
56 min

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Primitive, Exponent, Prime Intellect, Coverd

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about companies we're absolutely not giving investment advice on. First

Jul 8
57 min

Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 1: Financial Accessibility and Inclusion

Welcome to Lending, Unbundled, a new series from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at TruStage. The series traces how consumer lending went from a single instituti

Jul 7
49 min

Fintech Recap: Failures, Prediction Markets, & Debanking

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We start with Parker Card, an SMB charge card startup that ab

Jul 1
1 h 16 min

The End of the Checklist Era

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Andrew DiMattina, Product Architect at Persona (and expert in all things fraud and compliance, espe

Jun 24
49 min

B2B Marketing Sucks & Can Be Better

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, and today's episode is a little different. Before I wrote a newsletter for a living, I spent the beginning of my career

Jun 17
1 h 51 min

Facing Credit: Pessimism and Performance

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Dave Wasik, Partner at 2nd Order Solutions, for another episode of Facing Credit, our series on eve

Jun 10
1 h 24 min

Fintech Recap: Charters, BaaS & the Fed

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We kick things off with the accelerating trend of fintech com

Jun 3
1 h 13 min

Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Episode 4: The AI Episode

Welcome to Banking on Primacy, a four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by Chime. The series orbits one question that has become the most contested i

May 28
45 min

Who Pays for Open Finance?

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Rafe Mazer, researcher and author of the excellent report "Who Pays for What? Pricing and Monetizat

May 27
59 min