Bank On It

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Don Mal, co-founder and the CEO of Vena Solutions.   Vena Solutions, is a portfolio company of Centana Growth Partners. Vena, has about 300 employees, over 600 customers and has raised approximately $120 million to date. During the interview we talked about Don's interesting story in creating Vena.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Rhian Horgan from Kindur   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Erkin Adylov, co-founder and the CEO of Behavox.   Behavox, is an enterprise platform that unifies all types of data into a single data lake, allowing users to query the data and apply machine learning to identify capital markets misconduct and insider threats.  Behavox is listed on the CB Insights, The Fintech 250, and Forbes fintech 50, and has attracted over $21 million in funding to date from investors such as Citigroup, Hoxton Ventures and Promus Ventures.        Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Don Mal from Vena Solutions   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Chris Bruno, co-founder and the CEO of Rally Rd. Rally Rd. designs and develops an application that lets members invest in individual blue-chip collector automobiles. Breaking vintage cars into securitized assets.  They've attracted investors such as Anthemis Group and Social Leverage to fund this opportunity.      Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Erkin Adylov from Behavox   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Cliff Sirlin, Managing Director at LaunchCapital.  Before joining LaunchCapital, Cliff created marketplaces and disrupted supply chains across industries. His businesses have spanned energy (MDEnergy, sold to EnerNOC), dry-cleaning (Cleaner Options, sold to Zoots), real estate, and publishing (Domino Media Group). As an active investor, Cliff's investments include Seamless, InVision, Pond5, Living Social, Atlas Obscura, Greatist, Transactis, Big Fuel, and many others.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Chris Bruno from Rally Rd..   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with John Buttrick, partner at Union Square Ventures.  USV is recognized as one of the top VCs worldwide.   Current partners are Brad Burnham, John Buttrick, Rebecca Kaden, Albert Wenger, Andy Weissman and Fred Wilson.  John has been with USV since 2010.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Cliff Sirlin from LaunchCapital.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Nicky Goulimis, co-founder and COO of Nova Credit.  Nova Credit is a cross-border credit reporting agency that is helping provide immigrants access to credit.   Their saying is "Build bridges, not walls."   When someone comes to the USA for an extended period of time they need banking services among other things, such as safe shelter. But in order to access these things, they need a credit history with Transunion, Equifax and/or Experian. Most of which don't have any history at all. So they end up limiting themselves to cash transactions just to get by.  Nova Credit is changing this by combining world wide credit data and providing insights into immigrants to USA businesses that didn't exist before.  Nova Credit was recently included in the Forbes fintech 50 list.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with John Buttrick from Union Square Ventures.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Antonio Tomarchio, co-founder and the CEO of Cuebiq.  Cuebiq, provides location based data & analytics for marketers and investors. Cuebiq's value proposition for marketers is an offline way to measure advertising effectiveness.  For investors, it can help predict future performance of retail based assets. Those use cases are so valuable that it allowed the company to receive $33 million to date from DRW Venture Capital, Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments, NASDAQ and Tribeca Venture Partners   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Nicky Goulimis from Nova Credit.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Lindsay Holden, co-founder and the CEO of Long Game.  Long game, is a personal finance app that allows its users to play games and win cash or crypto prizes up to $1 million.  Helping consumers save money while adding gamification, mixing FDIC insurance and fun.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Antonio Tomarchio from Cuebiq.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Joe Wald, co-founder and the CEO of Clearpool Group.  Today's capital markets play on 13 stock exchanges and 40+ off-exchange venues like dark pools.  Which makes markets opaque.  Bringing transparency in this example is a difficult technical feat.  The effect dark pools have on the market is massive yet not commonly known.  Sometimes stock values drop even when a company's current public performance and profile is in strong standings.  How could that happen? Sometimes, this is what dark pools do. Millions of shares are bought and sold in these pools and those trades aren't recorded in public forums until the institution who manages the dark pool releases that information.  Clearpool gives traders complete control and total transparency into the nuances of these complex trading strategies. They even give traders the ability to customize their own algorithms and design them to deliver best execution quality to investors around the world.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Lindsay Holden from Long Game.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Stephen Murphy, co-founder and the CEO of Genesis Global Technology.  Genesis, provides a global capital markets software with front to back capabilities across multiple asset classes and business lines.  As a fintech, POCs with a bulge bracket bank can be costly due to the amount of customizations they require. For an early stage fintech, POC's can be a dangerous double-edged sword since founders need to properly balance revenues to customizations.  Too much customization and the startup can't sell the product to anyone else, no revenue and the startup will fail. Genesis, turned the model on it's head and made the custom POC a part of their product. They've attracted investors such as Illuminate Financial and Tribeca Early Stage Partners.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Joe Wald from Clearpool Group.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium