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Wharton FinTech Podcast

Wharton Fintech Podcast

Connecting you with the people, companies, and ideas revolutionizing global financial services. Our guests are the leading fintech founders, investors, and thinkers in the world. Subscribe and follow us for more FinTech content by searching @whartonfintech on your preferred platform!

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00:27:22

Empowering India's Next Generation with Rajan Bajaj,...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/30

In our latest episode of the Wharton Fintech Podcast, Anchit Gupta (WG’21) is joined by Rajan Bajaj, Co-Founder and CEO of Slice. Slice is a fintech startup that offers payment and credit solutions for people between the ages of 18 and 29. Slice is one of India's top card issuers and generated net profits within four years of its inception. Rajan graduated from IIT Kharagpur in India and built products for Flipkart Marketplace in its hatching phase. Rajan's unit was the fastest-growing business

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00:44:06

Chris McCann & Edith Yeung of Race Capital – Why Now...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/28

Miguel Armaza interviews Edith Yeung and Chris McCann, General partners of Race Capital, a Venture Capital fund looking for market-transforming companies. Edith is also an author and creator of the China Internet Report, an annual report on China technology trends as well as the writer of Silicon.news – a weekly briefing on Silicon Valley news. Chris is an entrepreneur turned investor who previously founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners. In this interview, we talked about

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00:43:18

Revolutionizing Working Capital Financing - Sandy...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/26

In this podcast, Miguel Armaza sits down with Sandy Kemper, Founder & CEO of C2FO, the world’s largest platform for working capital financing. C2FO serves over a million businesses representing over 10 trillion dollars in annual sales across more than 180 countries and their platform connects over 100 billion dollars of daily volume. Truly a global financial powerhouse! C2FO is a Series G company and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from elite investors like Temasek, Union Square

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00:29:16

Fueling Fintech's Growth - Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/25

In this episode, Miguel Armaza sits down with Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder of Better Tomorrow, a $70 million venture capital fund that invests in seed-stage Fintech companies around the world. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction firm, and he is also a General Partner of the 500 Fintech fund. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his FinTech career at Kiva, a non-profit p2p lender. In this

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00:39:06

Plaid's John Pitts on the Current Regulatory...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/23

It's no secret that FinTech has boomed during COVID as workers, companies, and everyday people were forced to digitize their lives. But by how much is FinTech changing people's lives, and are they happy with this transition? In today's episode, Ryan Zauk sits down with Plaid's John Pitts to discuss the company's inaugural report with the Harris Poll analyzing FinTech in the wake of COVID (and plenty of other topics). Plaid and the Harris Poll surveyed the nation to understand consumer behavior

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00:30:02

Rewriting the History of Banking - Stefan Möller,...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/21

In this episode, Miguel Armaza interviews Stefan Möller, Co-Founder and CEO of Klar, a Mexican challenger bank working to democratize debit and credit in Mexico. Klar is making credit accessible to all Mexicans, including those with no credit history. It helps people build credit by looking at how and where they spend their money, without having to rely on obsolete and traditional credit scores. Klar’s business has experienced rapid growth having issued over 25,000 credit lines amongst its 200,000

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00:28:03

Driving Innovation for Inclusion – Irene Arias...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/19

Miguel Armaza sits down with Irene Arias Hofman, CEO of IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the leading source of development finance for Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of IDB Lab is to drive innovation for inclusion by supporting early-stage entrepreneurial solutions capable of transforming the lives of vulnerable populations. Previously, Irene worked for 20 years at the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where she

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00:35:36

FinTech Investing with Michael Sidgmore, Partner at...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/16

In our latest episode, Hinal Shah (WG’20) is joined by Michael Sidgmore, a Partner at Broadhaven Ventures. Broadhaven is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investment opportunities at the intersection of financial services and technology. Broadhaven Ventures is a VC fund affiliated with Broadhaven Capital Partners, an independent fintech investment bank that has done over $50 billion in transaction volume. Broadhaven Ventures has investments in companies like Liveoak (acquired by

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00:46:56

Creating Pathways to Better Financial Health - Anu...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/14

In this episode, Miguel Armaza sits down with Anu Shultes, CEO of LendUp, a mission-driven fintech company focused on expanding access to credit and creating pathways to better financial health. A 25-year veteran of the financial services industry, Anu has a personal mission to lift people out of poverty and infuses her work with her passion for financial inclusion. Anu’s career spans a broad spectrum of roles across subprime credit cards, subprime loans, and prepaid cards. Her significant

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00:38:53

FinTech Goes Open Source with Rob Underwood, Chief...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/12

In today’s episode of the Wharton FinTech Podcast, Ryan Zauk sits down with Rob Underwood, Chief Development Officer of FINOS. FINOS, short for the FinTech Open Source Foundation, is a global community creating open-source solutions for financial services. As a community of people, companies, and events, FINOS’s purpose is to accelerate collaboration and innovation in financial services through the adoption of open-source software, standards, and best practices. Their 30+ member organizations

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00:39:06

Building a Banking Legend – Greg Krasnov, Founder &...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/11

In this episode, Miguel Armaza sits down with Greg Krasnov , Founder & CEO of tonik, a digital bank in the Philippines with a mission to revolutionize the way money works in Southeast Asia. Tonik is backed by major industry investors, including Sequoia Capital, Point72 Ventures, Insignia Ventures, and Credence Partners. Greg is a serial entrepreneur at heart and launched his first business at the age of 18. Prior to starting tonik, he invested in, co-founded and chaired four other successful

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00:25:46

Launching a Fintech PE Fund – Sean Collins & Bill...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/09

In this episode, Miguel Armaza sits down with Sean Collins and Bill McNichols, Co-Founders of Goldfinch Partners, a Private Equity firm focused on enterprise technology companies that power digital transformation, with a focus on marketing, Commerce, Payments, FinTech, Supply Chain, and Human Capital. Prior to Goldfinch, Sean was Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of BCG Digital Ventures, where he oversaw investments globally into 75+ ventures and Bill was the Senior Vice President of

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00:26:53

Investing in Transformational Technologies - Raj...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/07

In this episode, Miguel Armaza sits down with Raj Ganguly, Co-founder and Managing Partner at B Capital Group, a global growth equity firm with $1.5 billion in assets under management, focused on investing in B2B startups across four technology-enabled verticals, including Fintech and Insuretech. In this interview, we talked about the story behind B Capital, their investing approach, his outlook on fintech around the world, the road ahead, and the challenges and opportunities of fundraising and

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00:28:36

Helping Banks Build Flexible + Scalable Solutions -...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/05

In our latest episode of the Wharton Fintech Podcast, Anchit Gupta (WG’21) is joined by Elliott Limb, Chief Customer Officer of Mambu. Founded in 2011, Mambu is a cloud-native software-as-a-service provider powering banking through open API-enabled architectures. Mambu helps financial institutions of all sizes to rapidly design, launch, service, and scale their banking and lending portfolios. Mambu has been featured in the CBInsights list of 250 world’s most promising fintech companies. Prior to

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00:25:57

Driving Entrepreneurship in the Heartland – Erika...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/04

In this episode, Miguel Armaza sits down with Erika Lucas, Co-Founder of StitchCrew and VEST. StitchCrew, in partnership with the NBA team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, runs an accelerator program to connect entrepreneurs with the capital, resources and networks they need to launch and scale businesses. VEST is a curated network of highly influential women across business and civic sectors working together to dismantle the barriers precluding more women from reaching positions of power and

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00:24:20

Refinancing your Education with David Green, Chief...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/10/02

In this podcast, Miguel Armaza is joined by David Green, Chief Product Officer at Earnest, where he oversees Product Management, Product Design, User Research, Data, and Analytics. Earnest is a company tackling the $1.6 trillion student debt balance in the US by helping graduates take control of their financial wellness and empower them with the capital they need to live better lives. Earnest has raised over $120 million from investors including Maveron, Accomplice, New York Life Insurance, and many

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00:34:46

From Poker Star to Unicorn Founder – Nima Ghamsari,...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/09/30

Miguel Armaza is sits down with Nima Ghamsari, CEO and Co-Founder of Blend, a company transforming the $40+ trillion consumer lending industry, by delivering speed and efficiency to mortgage lenders to navigate a complex industry. Blend is a newly minted unicorn that has raised almost $400 million in equity from some of the top VCs in the industry, including Canapi Ventures. Temasek, General Atlantic, 8VC, Greylock, Peter Thiel, and many more! Prior to Blend, Nima was an early employee at

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00:34:35

Redesigning the Asset Management Experience – Brian...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/09/28

Miguel Armaza interviews Brian Barnes, Founder and CEO of M1 Finance, a money management platform that combines investing, borrowing, and banking into a single app. Brian launched M1 in 2015 after he felt frustrated with the tools available to manage his own money and has since grown the company into a platform that manages more than $2 billion dollars on behalf of 200k users with 75 employees. M1 has also raised over $55 million dollars in equity from backers including Clocktower Technology

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00:24:11

Pioneering Angel Investing in Africa - Tomi Davies

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/09/27

Tomi Davies. A systems Analyst turned Tech Strategy Advisor, Public Speaker and Angel Investor, Tomi Davies is Collaborator-in-Chief at TechnoVision, co-founder of the Lagos Angel Network and President of the African Business Angel Network. He has been described by Techcrunch as Africa’s Top Angel investor. As a thought leader with increasing knowledge gained from nurturing entrepreneurs in a growing portfolio of tech-enabled early-stage business ventures originating from Africa, Tomi’s personal

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00:19:03

Investing for 2 Billion Muslims with Kareem Tabbaa,...

Wharton FinTech Podcast ·

2020/09/25

We hear a lot about ESG investing, Catholicism-based investing, and more in the wealth & asset management world. But what about Earth’s 2 billion Muslims? In a religion that disallows interest and has plenty of restrictions (alcohol, etc.), finding shariah-compliant investments is not easy. Enter Wahed, a halal investment platform for everyday Muslims. We sat down with Kareem Tabbaa, Chief Product Officer of Wahed to learn more about this product and their $25M fundraise from Saudi Aramco. Wahed

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