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Fintech Takes

Alex Johnson

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, Finte

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260 episodes

  1. AI Agents, SoFi, & the OCC’s “Irrefutable” Report 1:15:35
  2. Fintech Takes x C&R presents: The Customer Isn’t the Liability 44:41
  3. Stablecoins IRL (Tempo Edition) 1:00:33
  4. Fintech Takes x C&R presents: The Business of Lending, Seen From Canada 51:36
  5. Not Fintech Investment Advice: Symphony, Spoolis, Piston, MoneyStack 1:05:17
  6. Fintech Takes x C&R presents: What Africa Can Teach the Industry About Credit & Collections 47:34
  7. Anatomy of an Agentic Transaction 1:15:43
  8. Fintech Recap: Whop, Revolut, and Chime Buys Stride 1:15:36
  9. Fintech Takes x C&R Software Presents: Fintech’s Next Test Across the U.S. and U.K. 44:36
  10. The Investor Diaries 58:25
  11. Under the Hood of Fintech Products 59:47
  12. A Crisis of Confidence: This Has Happened Before 51:06
  13. Can You Standardize Bank-Fintech Risk? 57:12
  14. Fintech Recap: Risk, Standards, and Double Standards 1:10:02
  15. Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Ep 7: A Traveling Credit Score 1:01:17
  16. Premium Cards Get Weird 1:01:36
  17. The SMB Context Margin Paradox 56:23
  18. Not Fintech Investment Advice: Natural, Sky Fusion, Quarters, El Dorado 1:00:29
  19. Fintech Recap: No-KYC Cards and Political Bank Charters Aplenty 1:21:00
  20. Inside Stripe's Open Standard 59:11
  21. The Rules for Self-Driving Money 1:04:59
  22. Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 3: Revenue at Stake 51:33
  23. Retuning the Math of Life 1:10:10
  24. Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 2: The Confidence Gap 56:26
  25. Not Fintech Investment Advice: Primitive, Exponent, Prime Intellect, Coverd 57:11
  26. Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 1: Financial Accessibility and Inclusion 49:22
  27. Fintech Recap: Failures, Prediction Markets, & Debanking 1:16:29
  28. The End of the Checklist Era 49:42
  29. B2B Marketing Sucks & Can Be Better 1:51:35
  30. Facing Credit: Pessimism and Performance 1:24:41
  31. Fintech Recap: Charters, BaaS & the Fed 1:13:23
  32. Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Episode 4: The AI Episode 45:41
  33. Who Pays for Open Finance? 59:53
  34. Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Episode 6: Living Out on the Edge 59:44
  35. Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Episode 3: Banking at Work 48:56
  36. Losing Big 1:02:24
  37. Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Ep 2: The Bifurcation of Rewards 54:51
  38. The Rise of Sports Gambling 1:08:36
  39. Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Ep 1: The Fight for Primacy 47:13
  40. Fintech Recap: PFM's AI Moment, Super Apps, and the PACE Act 1:14:42
  41. Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Ep 8: The AI Execution Gap 44:23
  42. The Historical Roots of Stablecoins 1:00:51
  43. Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 7: Collections Without Borders 45:31
  44. Facing Credit: The Credit Score After FICO 55:35
  45. Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 6: Humans in the Fintech Loop 50:48
  46. Not Fintech Investment Advice: monk, MKIII, Wealth Architect, & CloutScore 55:07
  47. Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 5: The Missed Payment Is Not the Problem 50:36
  48. The Great Bank-Fintech Partnership Reset 1:13:07
  49. Fintech Recap: Bilt Breaks, BaaS Unbundles, and NY Flexes 1:36:36
  50. Fintech Takes x Spinwheel presents Credit Without Constraints Episode 4: Context 43:23