Hear from FinTech Founders, CEOs and Product leaders on how to build FinTechs with commercial and customer impact!

Season 1

April 16, 2024

Decoding Embedded Finance for SMBs | Regina Lau, CFO at Weavr.io

In Today’s episode we speak with Regina Lau, CFO at Weavr.io . Regina is a proponent of merging purpose and profit by not thinking of business as a zero sum game, but as an endeavor to growing the pie together. …

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April 9, 2024

Solving for Debt Management for Peace of Mind | Yaseen Rostom, Found…

For the first time ever in history, consumer borrowing in the UK has racked up to £2 trillion pounds. We've never seen that before. Pandemic ripple effects, high interest rates, and the raising cost of living have led people ...

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April 2, 2024

Is It the End of Card Payments or Are They the Key to Financial Inclu…

Today we have the honour to speak with Jeff Parker, CEO at Paymentology. He takes us back to the core. We explore what is Purpose, how Paymentology is having direct impact in customers’ lives - even though they are a …

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March 19, 2024

Accelerating Financial Wellbeing impact with Trust, Investing in Wome…

In today’s episode Tina Fisher, Chief Marketing Officer at Intix, shares with us the how we can 10x the impact we have as FinTechers and go deep on the role of trust. Tina has an impressive trajectory, she was named …

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March 13, 2024

Only 200 Million adults in India have credit history, Credit Fair is …

In today’s episode Aditya Damani, Founder at Credit Fair, shares with us his vision on having impact in over one million adults in India who currently don’t have access to credit, and the one thing we can do as FinTechers …

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March 4, 2024

Shameer Unveils FinTech Growth Strategies For Budget Constrained Time…

In today’s episode Shameer Sachdev, Founder & MD at Growth Gorilla, shares with us his hypothesis on why he thought he could win by adding value no else did at the time, the power of diversity when building Purposeful FinTech...

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Feb. 24, 2024

Masterclass. What is purpose in FinTech? Financial Wellbeing? And how…

In today’s episode I step back to have deep thinking time. I went through key Purpose Driven FinTech episodes and found common threads and insights that allow us to answer the research question — How can FinTechs have better ...

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Feb. 19, 2024

Regenerating Banking with AI | Paolo Sironi, IBM Institute for Busi…

In today’s episode Paolo Sironi shares with us in plain English the findings of his most recent research paper “Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets Regenerate Banking with AI” where he surveyed 600 banking execut...

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Feb. 12, 2024

How to stop fraud with AI and Machine Learning| Amanda Lieu, Directo…

In today’s episode, Amanda Lieu, Director Brand, Product Marketing & Growth at SEON, shares with us the fundamentals of fraud. Why fraud is on the rise? Different types of fraud - we can’t prevent nor manage if we don’t under...

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Feb. 5, 2024

AI, The Coreless Banking Revolution, and The Bank of the Future | N…

In today’s episode, Norris Koppel, Founder and CEO at Monese, shares his vision of hyper personalization and customer-centric financial services enabled by AI, and becoming 'the bank of the future.' We discuss the impact of A...

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Jan. 29, 2024

The Secret to Building Trust in FinTech | Kimberley Waldron, Founder…

We can not talk about Money without talking about Trust. Since the begining of time customers have trusted financial institutions to look after their hard earned money - or have they not? This is a critical topic for FinTechs...

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Jan. 15, 2024

11 tips to make your FinTech better to move the needle | 2023 Compi…

Today, we have a compilation episode with my favorite question. I always ask this question at the end of the episode, which is, Hey, if you were to change one thing in fintech that could have the most impact to …

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Jan. 8, 2024

Dealing with Failure | 2023 Compilation Pod

We can't talk about FinTech, startups, and entrepreneurship without talking about failure, the tough times, mistakes and all the difficult things in life. Today's episode is a compilation episode for one of my favourite minds...

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Jan. 8, 2024

Bonus. Monica Millares on The Fintech Marketers and Leaders Podcast

Shameer, host of “The FinTech Marketers and Leaders Podcast”, goes extensively through my career journey, my trajectory within BigPay, my thoughts and advice on Product leadership and growth, improving communication between ...

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Jan. 6, 2024

Bonus. Monica Millares on The All Immigrant Podcast

This is raw and personal. Vivek Ishwar and Abin Shetty, host of “All Immigrant Podcast”, interview me on my over 15 year journey living away from home. We go back in time on the why I decided to move out …

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Dec. 13, 2023

Bonus. Monica Millares on A Girl in the Product World Podcast

Aamna Hussain, host of “A girl in the product world”, interviews me with her somewhat tricksy questions…. We worked together in Tandem Bank, while she worked with one of our Tech Partners back then, so she brings this perspe...

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Dec. 11, 2023

Bonus. Monica Millares on the Digital Transformation & Leadership Pod…

This week I'm on the hot seat! Danny Levy, Managing Director Asia & ANZ at Money20/20 invited me to his pod "Digital Transformation and Leadership". We start with a quick intro and icebreaker questions, the work we are doing ...

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Nov. 27, 2023

The Truth Behind Empowering The 44 Million Immigrants In The US contr…

Being an immigrant in the US comes with financial challenges, starting with struggles to open a bank account. This is a 44 Million problem with 13% of US population classified as immigrants, and contributing to 22% of US GDP ...

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Nov. 20, 2023

Bringing Banking Access to the 60% Unbanked Mexicans

Financial Inclusion means reaching out to customers who are by definition not very digital savvy, so how do we do it in the age of digital banks? … A hybrid partnership approach seems to work as a solution! In today’s …

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Nov. 13, 2023

Deconstructing AI and Digital Transformation in Financial Services

Incorporating AI in your tech stack is a digital transformation project among both big banks and FinTechs. To do it well it’s important first we understand the challenges of both digital transformation and AI. In today’s epis...

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Nov. 6, 2023

Loqbox shares shocking stats! and the path to helping 1,000,000 peopl…

11.5 million people in the UK have less than a hundred pounds in savings 9 million people are in serious debt 81% of young people in the UK feel anxious about money 73% of adults say that money worries impact …

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Oct. 31, 2023

Why Angel Investing is for everyone when you back businesses you beli…

I bet you are not an angel investor because you think you need a ton of money to be part of the club, or you have no idea even where to start because you don’t have a network of entrepreneurs …

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Oct. 24, 2023

Jas Shah Reveals How to Build a Killer FinTech Value Proposition

A differentiated FinTech value proposition that resonates with customers is what differentiates the great from the average - nice UI/UX is not enough anymore! It is easier said than done. But it’s not an impossible mission. I...

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Oct. 17, 2023

Solving the £2 Billion Annual Lost Payments in Subscriptions

Did you know that in the UK consumers lose £2 Billion per year on unwanted subscriptions? Yes the ones that you join a trial and then forget about and boom! You get charged by surprise. This in turn creates financial …

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