This Week in Fintech
This Week in Fintech Podcast is where the decision makers shaping the future of finance come to talk candidly about what’s working, what’s breaking, and what’s coming next in fintech. Hosted by Nik Milanović, founder of This Week in Fintech and General Partner at The Fintech Fund, the show goes beyond headlines to unpack the real stories behind product decisions, regulation, and market shifts with leading founders, C-suite execs, and ecosystem veterans. This is your front-row seat to the people and ideas moving money into the future.⭐Top 40 Best Financial News Podcasts! ⭐ according to https://blog.feedspot.com/financI...
10
Can AI Catch Invoice Fraud? Plus, How Imprint Is Rebuilding Credit Cards
<p>This week on This Week in Fintech, Sasha Pilch sits down with Daragh Murphy, co-founder and CEO of Imprint, to talk about how the company is helping major brands rethink credit cards, rewards, and customer loyalty.</p><p>Imprint is building financial experiences directly into the brands consumers already know and love, replacing outdated bank-driven credit card programs with modern technology and personalized rewards. Daragh explains how Imprint is winning enterprise customers, why major retailers are rethinking their credit card partnerships, and why investing in risk management, compliance, and infrastructure has been critical to the company's growth.</p><p>...
What Happens to Your Money When an Account Goes Dormant? With Eisen CEO Allen Osgood
<p>In this episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Nik Milanovic sits down with Allen Osgood, founder and CEO of Eisen, to unpack one of the seemingly least glamorous but most important parts of financial infrastructure: what happens when customer accounts go dormant.</p><p>Allen explains the world of escheatment, the process that can require financial institutions to hand abandoned assets over to state governments after a period of inactivity. States are currently holding around $70 billion in unclaimed property, and for banks, brokerages, crypto platforms and fintechs, navigating dozens of different state rules can quickly become a major...
Cute AI Avatars and How Arca Is Reinventing Wealth Management
<p>This week on This Week in Fintech, Sasha Pilch sits down with Rron Rexha, founder and CEO of Arca, to talk about how AI could modernize one of the most traditional corners of financial services.</p><p>Arca is using AI to take administrative work off financial advisors’ plates, from account opening and money movement to preparing for client conversations, with the goal of giving advisors more time to focus on the relationships and decisions that actually matter. The company only emerged from stealth this year, but has already raised $64 million and is managing around $1 billion in client assets.</p>...
Can Reusable Identity Fix Fintech’s Verification Problem? - With SOLO Founder Georgina Merhom
<p>In this episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Georgina Merhom, founder and CEO of SOLO, to explore why financial services still asks customers to prove who they are over and over again — and what it would take to make identity verification reusable.<br/><br/>Georgina explains how SOLO is building a verification network that allows banks and fintechs to rely on identity checks that have already been completed elsewhere, provided those checks meet their own compliance standards. Rather than acting as another KYC provider, SOLO is positioning itself more like a clearinghouse for ve...
How Warp Raised $60M in Six Days - Plus the Kalshi Controversy
<p>This Week in Fintech is back with a new look, a new host and a new weekly format.</p><p>Hosted by Sasha Pilch, each episode will dig into one of the biggest stories moving fintech before sitting down with a founder, operator or investor helping shape where the industry goes next.</p><p>For our first episode, Sasha is joined by This Week in Fintech’s Larry DiTore and Amethyst Martinez to unpack the allegations of wash trading surrounding Kalshi, what the reporting has uncovered so far, and why the story may be far from over.</p><p>Th...
Rain is Building Embedded Financial Services for Your Global Brand
<p>Host Justin Friedman sits down with Sophia Goldberg, Rain’s Head of Payments and founder of Ansa, the branded stored value platform acquired by Rain in 2026. They discuss how combining Ansa’s closed-loop, stored value infrastructure with Rain’s stablecoin-powered open-loop payment rails could change the way global brands build wallets, loyalty programs, and embedded payment experiences.</p><p>Sophia explains why branded payments can be much more than the familiar coffee-shop wallet, from marketplaces retaining seller earnings to hotel and travel rewards that work consistently anywhere you go. She argues that stablecoins can collapse much of the complexity of lau...
Circle's Arc: The Economic Operating System for the Internet
<p>Host Justin Friedman sits down with Rachel Mayer, VP of Product at Circle and one of the masterminds behind Arc, to unveil Circle’s new layer one blockchain. Drawing on Rachel’s experience trading emerging-markets currencies on Wall Street, they start with the inefficiencies still embedded in traditional cross-border money movement.</p><p>Rachel explains how Arc is designed as an “economic operating system” for on-chain finance, with stablecoins used for gas, opt-in privacy, and interoperability built into the network from the start. The conversation explores why privacy and auditability need to coexist, how a permissioned validator set including major ba...
Nico Simko on Building Clair, Embedded Earned Wage Access and the Future of Payroll
<p>Presented by Clair.<br/><br/>What if the best financial product is the one users never have to go looking for?</p><p>In this episode of This Week in Fintech, Clair founder Nico Simko joins us to explain how a personal frustration with the US credit system turned into a profitable earned wage access business serving hundreds of thousands of businesses.</p><p>Nico talks about Clair’s evolution from digital bank to embedded financial infrastructure, and why the company ultimately decided to work through payroll and workforce management platforms rather than build another standalone consumer app. The th...
Alchemy Is Building the Wallet Layer for Agentic Commerce You Can Trust
<p>Host Justin Friedman interviews Blake Duncan, Alchemy’s Lead Agent Experience Engineer, about what happens when AI agents replace humans as the economic decision-maker. They start with fundamentals: What makes a smart wallet “smart” and how the x402 protocol will enable the pay-per-use Internet as agents increasingly outnumber human visitors.</p><p>Blake argues that mainstream adoption will accelerate when wallets and applications turn on smart features and improvements in user experience, such as sponsored gas fees that enable embedded wallets to work seamlessly on-chain. Justin interrogates the potential for micropayments to reinvent the economics of the Internet, where fracti...
Sokin's Blueprint for Global Treasury
<p>Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Vroon Modgill, Founder & CEO of Sokin, to explore how modern treasury infrastructure is transforming global payments.</p><p>From slow settlement windows and fragmented banking relationships to stablecoins and real-time treasury management, Vroon breaks down why traditional treasury workflows are overdue for an upgrade. He shares how Sokin combines global bank accounts, stablecoin wallets, payment capabilities, and ERP integrations into a single platform that helps businesses move money more efficiently across borders.</p><p>The conversation covers hybrid payment routing, the role of stablecoins as a treasury tool, the challenges of on- and...
