Bank On It

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Ali Hamed Co-Founder and managing partner of CoVenture. Coventure is an asset management firm that manages funds across Venture Capital, Credit, and Crypto.  Coventure has a unique model of investing it's engineering know-how into interesting companies that don't have the technical resources needed, in return those companies provide equity to CoVenture.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday's interview with Chris Britt from Chime. About the host:  John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Stuart Sopp Founder and CEO of Current. Current is a financial technology company that provides collaborative banking solutions, starting with a smart debit card and app for parents to provide better financial education for their kids.  Stuart's journey from Forex (foreign exchange) to Current is a unique and interesting one.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear Thursday's interview with Ali Hamed from CoVenture.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Sohail Prasad Co-founder and President of Equidate. Equidate is a stock market for private companies and Sohail's journey from past companies to creating Equidate is fascinating.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday's interview with Stuart Sopp from Current.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in 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 Medium  

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Dan Vene Co-founder and managing partner of iCapital network.  iCapital Network is a powerful financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices and other sophisticated investors.  Dan was the founder and CEO of Earnings.com a company acquired by Thomson Financial (Thomson Reuters).   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Thursday's interview with Sohail Prasad from Equidate.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Emily Steele,President, North America at Temenos.   Emily has worked at startups and joined Temenos through an acquisition.  Temenos is a large global banking core which had the foresight 25 years ago to develop an open API ecosystem in a time and place where other cores didn't.  Emily is a well respected leader and understands banking as it sits today and where it'll be tomorrow.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday's interview with Dan Vene from iCapital Network.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Bill Capuzzi from Apex Clearing.   Peak6 Investments and Penson Worldwide Inc. announced the creation of Apex in June of 2012. Prior to joining Apex as CEO, Bill initially tried to acquire it.   Today Apex is growing with hundreds of employees and during the interview Bill shared his view on developing the company culture.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear Thursday's interview with Emily Steele from Temenos.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Dee Choubey , co-founder & CEO at MoneyLion.  MoneyLion was built on the hypothesis that consumers would pay in (personal) data and social capital to save on their banking fees and lower loan rates.   That hypothesis bundled with the question "how can we lend to customers that banks won't"? Is what MoneyLion was built for. MoneyLion now has well over 100 employees and 3 million users.     Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Tuesday's interview with William Capuzzi from Apex Clearing. About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Phill Rosen, co-founder & CEO at Even Financial.   Phill was previously a co-founder at Orchard Platform, which was acquired by Kabbage in April 2017.  John & Phill discussed raising money for new ventures, company culture, increasing employee interaction and how banking customers won't use a banking app like BOFA's (as an example) to find the financial service products that they want.  Instead he feels that financial services products are a transactional thing that people engage with in order to get the things that they want to when and where they want to get it. That ecosystem is the transactional transportation money hub and Even Financial is helping banks plug into that ecosystem to continue to play a role in consumer transactions.   Listen in if you want to learn about an omnichannel banking experience and some funny stories on culture.   Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Tuesday's interview with Dee Choubey from MoneyLion.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   This is an extended interview.   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Brett Crosby from PeerStreet and co-founder of Google Analytics. Brett co-founded a company called Urchin software which was acquired in April 2005 by Google and morphed into Google Analytics.   He was on his honeymoon during his first day at google and he talked about how everything in his life changed during the 15 minutes he was about to walk the aisle to do his wedding vows. He talked about google a bit and he discussed in detail how after creating a business case for a two sided mortgage investment platform (soon to be PeerStreet) they went to Michael Burry (Christian Bale's character from "The Big Short") who predicted the crash of the subprime mortgage market, what he said during that meeting reinforced the notion that if Brew and Brett can do this at scale can prevent the next housing crash.  Astonishingly they asked Michael to be an adviser and he said "no" I want to invest in your company. The reason Michael wanted to invest was because he felt PeerStreet was solving a systemic problem in the mortgage industry. Similar to the scale in how Urchin (now Google Analytics) solved a massive problem companies with websites.     But the road to get there started from the acquisition of Urchin by Google, and then transformed into Google Analytics, that road wasn't so smooth.  Urchin almost died on the vine early on when it failed to secure their series A. The deal was nearly done and the investor was flying up from Boston to bring the check and sign the final documents in person which was supposed to take place on 9/11/2001, the investor had to pull out of the deal.  There were dark and difficult times ahead for Urchin, ironically, not getting that series A helped Brett and the other co-founders make the Google opportunity a reality but it happened out of necessity. What took place to make the deal come together with Google was fascinating.   Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Tuesday's interview with Phillip Rosen from Even Financial.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and 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 Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio These interviews took place during Boston fintech week, in this episode we share highlights from a group of speakers from the event.  In this episode are Anders Brownworth from Circle, Devon Sherman from MassChallenge,  Jean Donnelly from Fintech Sandbox, Meredith Moss from Finomial, Monda Webb from Earnup, Chris Albrecht from Openfin, Greg Woolf from Coalesce.ai and Chris Lustrino from KingsCrowd.     Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Thursday's interview with Brett Crosby from Peerstreet and co founder of Google Analytics.     About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and 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 Medium