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 Olga Feldmeier, co-founder and the CEO of Smart Valor.  Smart Valor, is a security token exchange for alternative investments.  Before Smart Valor, she was with Boston Consulting Group, Barclays, UBS and Xapo.  She has an interesting story of moving from traditional finance to crypto.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Stephen Murphy from Genesis Global Technology.   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 Ohad Samet, Co-founder and the CEO at TrueAccord.  TrueAccord is a different way of debt collection for companies that need debt collection services. Trueaccord is playing in a wide open space which hasn't been innovated in decades, the model of TrueAccord is fully different and is an example of the types of business models laid out in the books, 'Blue Ocean Strategy' and 'Zero to One'.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Olga Feldmeier from Smart Valor.   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 Ian Lampl, co-founder and CEO at LoanStreet.  LoanStreet, enables institutions like banks & credit unions to syndicate their loans to interested investors. Before Ian co-founded LoanStreet, he was the deputy chief counsel, office of financial stability — Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) at the U.S. Department of Treasury.  In the beginning Loanstreet wasn't working, It took about 1 year to pivot the model and 4 years of brutal hard work before Loanstreet found traction. Now they have hundreds of banks and credit unions as clients.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Ohad Samet from TrueAccord.   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 Vince Passione, founder and the CEO at LendKey.  Lendkey is a white label lender, specializing in student loans.  From 2003 until 2006 Vince was the President/COO at DealerTrack. DealerTrack, created connections between the auto dealerships and thousands of lenders nationwide.  Something which never existed before. Now he's building a similarly structured ecosystem that'll connect the world of student lending.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Ian Lampl from LoanStreet.   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 Anna Garcia from Runway Venture Partners.  Anna, has about 15 years experience in capital markets, where she cut her teeth on the trading floor at Merrill Lynch. In 2016 she started Runway Venture Partners with her co-founder Marc Michel where they invest in early stage, revenue-producing companies.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Vince Passione from LendKey.   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 Tony Amicangioli from HPR. 10% of all U.S. trades (billions daily) go through HPR's systems. It's connected to all U.S. stock exchanges and most others worldwide, acting as a circuit breaker by providing the ability to turn off the connection to prevent a "flash crash".     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Anna Garcia from Runway Venture Partners.   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 Cunningham from C2 Ventures. Chris is an angel with business operating experience, some of that experience was in public facing companies such as appssavvy (the first business ad platform on Facebook).  His business experience is priceless for the founders he's invested in. Some of his current portfolio companies are Petal, Little Fund and Bloom Credit.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Tony Amicangioli from HPR.   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

This is episode 200!  What a milestone! 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 Gary Beasley from Roofstock. Roofstock, is a marketplace for investors to access single family homes with tenants, adding rental investments to their portfolio. Roofstock's technology centralizes the individual homes in one place and they offer property management services making the asset class easier for investors. The company has attracted VCs such as Bain Capital, Khosla Ventures, NYCA, LightSpeed, QED and a bunch of well known angels such as Marc Benioff to tackle this opportunity.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Chris Cunningham from C2 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 Jake Benson from Libra.  Libra provides the service of tax accounting and reporting for institutional crypto investors.  A service that is vital for institutional investors, with recent announcements of JP Morgan, ICE and other projects by traditional institutions launching into the crypto space, this service will be a key component of investing.  Libra has raised $25,000,000 to date from investors such as Liberty City Ventures and XBTO Group.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Gary Beasley from Roofstock.   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 Brian Geary, president at ODX (created by Ondeck).  Brian has been with Ondeck for over 4 years.  In February 2018 he took on his current role of president at ODX.  ODX, provides software access to the Ondeck experience for top tier banks. This allows those top tier banks to provide an Ondeck-like experience for their own customers.  Brian is not the first person at Ondeck to be a guest on the show. We've also interviewed Noah Breslow, CEO and Andrea Gellert, CRO.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Jake Benson from Libra.   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