In this episode we talk with Daniel Gorfine, co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, about Central Bank Digital Currencies - how they will work, the challenges needed to be overcome and when they might arrive.
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Peter Renton is the chairman and co-founder of Fintech Nexus, the world’s largest digital media company focused on fintech. Peter has been writing about fintech since 2010 and he is the author and creator of the Fintech One-on-One Podcast, the first and longest-running fintech interview series.
In this episode we talk with the CTO of Marqeta, Randy Kern, about credit card technology, tokenization, embedded finance, open APIs, digital wallets and more.
There was a spate of negative fintech news this week. We had significant layoffs from two of the largest fintechs in the country, Stripe and Chime and Coinbase reported miserable Q3 results.
In this episode we talk with John Wu, the President of Ava Labs, as he discusses tokenization, permissionless blockchains, programmable money, the intersection of DeFi and TradFi and more.
Nowhere in the world has fintech had more impact than in China. Now, the first definitive book on the history of fintech in China has been written and it is a must-read. In this episode, we interview the author, Martin Chorzempa.
In this episode we talk with Pete Lord, the CEO and Co-Founder of Codat about small business data. How can disparate data sources be connected to give a complete view of a small business.
The news was led by Goldman Sachs again this week as we learned the details of their restructuring. Mastercard is getting deeper into crypto, the CFPB is in turmoil, Voyager Digital customers may get 72% of their assets back and Chase is looking to move into small business payments.
Listen to Christine Kenna, a partner at Mexican venture capital firm IGNIA, as she discusses the state of Latin American fintech, what has changed, the challenges today and hear why she is so bullish about the industry’s future.
Goldman Sachs leads off the news this week with some bad news and some good news. Step raised a huge debt round (eschewing equity), BNY Mellon is getting into crypto, which makes Custodia Bank very unhappy. And of course, there were plenty of crypto stories to round out the news.
In this episode the CEO and Co-Founder of SigFig, Mike Sha, talks financial advice, how to scale good advice and why a new holistic approach is needed