Humans of Fintech
Humans of Fintech is all about getting into the raw, unfiltered stories behind the most innovative leaders—why they built their companies, what drives them, and how they’re smashing the status quo. Join your host, author and award-winning journalist, Nicole Casperson, as she dives deep into the human side of fintech, unpacking the real motivations, struggles, and triumphs behind the empires these leaders are building—no jargon, just straight-up inspiration, business insights, and power moves.
10
Building at the Intersection of Healthcare and Fintech with Danny Friday
<p>Danny Friday isn’t your traditional fintech founder. Originally a software engineer, Sail was born out of necessity to create accessibility in our healthcare system’s reimbursement process.</p><p>Filmed at the Fintech Penthouse in Las Vegas during Fintech Meetup, Nicole Casperson sits down with Sail’s Founder and CEO to unpack one of the most complex, high-stakes, and misunderstood systems in our economy — and how Sail is building the infrastructure to fix it.</p><p>🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future. </p><p>SPONSORED BY FINTECH ME...
Emerald 360° Powered by FIS
<p>Everyone is talking about AI in banking. But the real question isn't whether the technology works.</p><p>It's whether we can trust it to make decisions about money.</p><p>That's a harder question. And this year, it moved from theoretical to operational.</p><p>Filmed live at FIS Emerald in Orlando, Nicole Casperson goes inside the conversations, announcements, and leaders defining what AI actually looks like inside the financial system — including a backstage exclusive with FIS CEO & President Stephanie Ferris on what this moment really means for banks, for fintech, and for the infrastructure layer being built un...
Brex’s Erica Dorfman is Leading from the CFO Seat
<p>Brex CFO Erica Dorfman has built her career in product, capital markets, and the core of how the business actually runs. From banking to private equity to operating roles at SoFi — she’s consistently moved closer to the decision.</p><p>Filmed live at FTW:NYC The Official New York Fintech Week Conference, Nicole Casperson sits down with Erica to unpack what it means to lead from the CFO seat in fintech today, how major decisions like this actually get made, and what the future of finance — and the future of work — really looks like from the inside.</p><p>🎧 Hit...
Prove’s Alyse Belavic is Shaping the Role of Identity in Payments
<p>Alyse Belavic has worked with some major players in our industry. American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Citi, Synchrony, and now Prove — operating at the intersection of identity, payments, and fraud prevention. </p><p>Filmed at the Fintech Penthouse in Las Vegas during Fintech Meetup, Nicole Casperson sits down with Alyse to unpack how payments, fraud, and consumer behavior are evolving in real time — and how building the right relationships helped shape her career.</p><p>🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future. </p><p>SPONSORED BY FINTECH MEETUP</p...
Casap's Shanthi Shanmugam Wants to Eliminate Fraud for Good
<p>When Shanthi Shanmugam led customer support infrastructure at Robinhood, she saw firsthand what happens when trust breaks. Now CEO and Founder of Casap, Shanthi has been making big moves, leading in agentic AI to transform how fraud and disputes are handled and, in turn, how trust is built at scale.</p><p>Filmed at the Humans of Fintech Podcast Booth on Fintech Meetup’s Showroom Floor, Nicole Casperson sits down with Shanthi to discuss rebuilding consumers’ trust, using AI as a thought partner, and how Casap is trying to eliminate fraud for good.</p><p>🎧 Hit play to learn how tod...
FinMkt’s Luan Cox is Building for Where the Market is Going
<p>FinMkt’s President and CEO, Luan Cox, anticipated the needs of modern financial services years before the market recognized them. Scaling multiple tech companies to successful exits, Luan Cox’s work has been recognized and awarded many times over, most recently at The Femmy’s as Innovator of the Year.</p><p>Cox sits down with Nicole Casperson to talk early career lessons, building for where the market is going – not where it’s been – and her work with Springboard Enterprises, including a new female fintech founder cohort designed to accelerate the next generation of category-defining leaders.</p><p>🎧 Hit play to lea...
Stripe’s Sophie Sakellariadis is Teaching us About Stablecoins
<p>Stripe leader Sophie Sakellariadis has had a unique front row seat in modern fintech for over a decade. </p><p>From Stripe’s global expansion to building money movement systems behind how businesses store value, move funds, and operate across borders, Sakellariadis sits down with Nicole Casperson to talk about the First-Wave of Fintech, the Next Era, and even teach us about stablecoins. </p><p>🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future. </p><p>SPONSORED BY FINTECH MEETUP: https://hubs.la/Q040Bpk50</p><p>AND for the fir...
SoFi’s Kelli Keough is Helping us Spend, Invest, Protect, and Save.
<p>.Today, SoFi serves more than 12 million members, operates as a full-scale digital financial services platform, is the NBA's official bank, and is the namesake of SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. </p><p>And their EVP, group business unit leader for Spend, Invest, Protect, and Save, Kelli Keough, sits down with Nicole to discuss how consumer behavior is changing under economic pressure, what it takes to build a winning consumer fintech brand at scale, and how the next era of fintech will belong to companies that understand people as deeply as they understand systems. </p><p>🎧 Hit play to learn how...
Engineer to Storyteller: Sanjib Kalita, Chairman of Fintech Meetup on Building Relationships, Startups, and the Future of Fintech
<p>Recorded in the heart of Manhattan, we’re kicking off a very special Season 10: The Winner’s Circle with Fintech Meetup’s Sanjib Kalita. Host Nicole Casperson and Kalita sit down to discuss his start as an engineer building the early stages of big tech to his current role as Chairman of Fintech Meetup, the importance of relationships and storytelling in fintech, and lessons learned from his time at both large institutions and scrappy startups.</p><p>🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future. </p><p>SPONSORED BY FINTECH...
The Fairness Playbook: How Consumer Reports Is Redefining Digital Finance
<p>Recorded live from the Money20/20 show floor in Las Vegas, this special Humans of Fintech episode explores what it really takes to design a fair digital economy in a moment when financial systems are shifting faster than ever. Host Nicole Casperson sits down with Consumer Reports leaders Delicia Hand, Johnny Mathias, and Evan Feeney to break down the six principles of the Fair Digital Finance framework that help fintechs embed transparency, inclusion, and user protection from day one.</p><p>Across the episode, one truth becomes clear. Fair design isn’t just good for consumers — it’s good for busine...
