Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring Financial Services Together

Hi everyone - this is Where Credit’s Due - Tearsheet’s podcast covering the latest trends in lending. I’m your host Iulia Ciutina, senior reporter at Tearsheet, welcoming you to our very first episode. Today we’ll be discussing how fintechs are helping immigrant communities to get access to credit, speaking with the chief executives of Nova Credit and Tomo Credit, Misha Esipov and Kristy Kim. As credit history typically stops at the border, many people who move to the US from abroad have to build consumer credit from scratch. Nova Credit wanted to address this problem and created an alternative score to assess foreign residents’ creditworthiness based on their home country credit data. At Tomo Credit, founder and CEO Kristy Kim created a technical underwriting solution that would allow immigrants and others without a credit history to build a credit score. Unlike other major credit cards, Tomo doesn’t require a credit score and works independently of FICO.

Welcome back to Power of Payments. I’m your host Ismail Umar, and in today’s episode, I’m joined by Brian Dammeir, president of North America at Adyen. Adyen is an Amsterdam-based firm that allows businesses to globally accept, process, and settle ecommerce, mobile, and point-of-sale payments. It acts as a payment processor for some of the biggest brands across tech, retail, travel, restaurants, and more, including Spotify, Uber, Facebook, LinkedIn, McDonald’s, eBay, and L’Oréal. Brian has been with Adyen for the past seven years, and prior to that, he held a variety of product roles at Google and Airbnb. Brian and I discuss a number of topics, including his experiences at Adyen, how he’s seeing a shift in consumer culture and expectations across generations, the potential long-term effects of Covid on consumer behavior, and the role that Adyen wants to play in the future of payments.

Today’s episode is about Oxygen’s campaign for mobile banking provider Elements. Elements is Oxygen’s multi-tier debit card loyalty program, and its campaign brought about a new face to Oxygen at large. To delve into the thinking and execution behind Elements, I have with me today Oxygen’s SVP, head of business development and strategic partnerships Ryan Conway, and creative director Sani Gad.

In our latest case study, we spoke with Intuit Mint and ApexEdge about their enabling better money decisions, and financial wellness. Listen to our conversation with Steven McKean, co-founder and CEO at ApexEdge, and Varun Krisha, SVP and head of consumer finance at Intuit Mint about building and launching a partnership that takes PFM further.

Welcome to episode 18 of Tearsheet’s Banking Podcast). Zack Miller, Tearsheet’s editor in chief, and Josh Liggett, investment team principal at OurCrowd, are your hosts. In this episode, we’ll discuss: How a bad market might impact fintechs: Stock prices are down massively, for both newly minted public fintechs and for those operating in the market for years. Zack posits that the rebundling trend – that had monoline operators expand into adjacent markets and products – would end and companies would return to their roots.  Revenue potential for banks moving into BaaS: BaaS platforms are increasingly working with multiple banking partners. Fintechs continue to look for licensed banks as partners to launch banking products and services. A recent report looks at the business model and revenue potential for banks to move into fintech partnerships. Josh is suspect that the market can support a sizable number of new partner banks.  Regulation is coming for BNPL: As consumer debt grows, the various agencies active in consumer finance are interested in providing new rules and regulations for BNPL companies. Josh feels this is necessary light shone on shadow debt markets that aren’t connected to the traditional credit reporting system. Crypto-backed mortgages are here and more options are on the way:  Crypto mortgages can be useful for those who are crypto-rich and cash-poor and have a lot of their wealth invested in cryptocurrency. These types of loans are still very new and Bitcoin's fluctuating value makes crypto mortgages a risky option for homebuyers. Zack can’t see himself leveraging up to buy land in the metaverse. Josh thinks mortgages tied to volatile currencies is just a bad idea.

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet’s editor in chief, Zack Miller. As the industry looks at what’s happening in crypto, there’s emerged an idea that the way the financial industry bridges the old world with the new one is via stablecoins – crypto tied to the US dollar, for example. Is that true? To explore this idea i sat with Mike Coscetta, head of revenue at Paxos. As an infrastructure player, his firm works with many of the top brands with crypto offerings, like PayPal, for example. I wanted to know more about stablecoins and some of the trends at play. The following is my conversation with head of revenue at Paxos, Mike Coscetta.

In today's episode, I'm joined by Flexbase’s Zaid Rahman, founder and CEO, and Joey Randazzo, head of growth. Flexbase is a payments platform for construction companies. We’ll be diving into their standout approach to brand awareness – from blanketing one city at a time, putting up billboards off highways, and shipping mysterious donut boxes to roll out the Flexbase card, a credit card that meets the unique needs of the construction industry.

Welcome back to Power of Payments. I’m your host Ismail Umar, and in today’s episode, we discuss why Quontic Bank decided to launch a contactless payment ring, what Visa’s Creator Program tells us about its interest in NFTs, and what Block offers merchants with its upgraded Square Stand point of sale system.

The following was produced by Tearsheet Studios. We worked with consulting firm Ulysses Partners to create a four-part series on identity proofing and the importance of user experience in its emerging landscape. The series is based on our co-created guide, The Identity Proofing Guide: A practical hands-on review of user experience in leading solutions (https://bit.ly/3EUU3NR). In this fourth and final session we’re joined by David Milligan, managing partner at Ulysses Partners. We’ll be talking about why we need identity proofing the Metaverse and Web3 and the future of identity and doing business online. Read it on our site: https://bit.ly/3xXmwBe

In today's episode, I'm speaking with Kirill Gertman, co-founder and CEO of Conduit -- a B2B fintech providing infrastructure for DeFi payments -- about building one API for DeFi, going to market in unlikely geographies, crafting a reliable, trustworthy brand that stands out in the sci-fi aesthetic of the crypto world, and much more.