This Week in Fintech

In this episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Sid Malladi, co-founder and CEO of Nuvo, to talk about the technology behind the massive network of businesses buying and selling physical goods from one another. Sid explains why so much B2B commerce still runs on paperwork, phone calls, emails and manual approvals, and how Nuvo is trying to bring buyers and sellers ont...

Mercury has grown into one of the biggest names in business banking, with more than 450,000 customers and over $1 billion in revenue. Now, the company is expanding well beyond its original startup banking product. This week, Sasha Pilch sits down with Mercury co-founder and CEO Immad Akhund to talk about the company’s next phase of growth. They discuss Mercury Books and Payroll, why the company is...

This week on This Week in Fintech, Sasha Pilch starts with the fallout from the Binance hack, which has seen around $6.3 billion in assets stolen from the world’s largest crypto exchange. Larry DiTore and Amethyst Martinez break down what happened, where the recovery effort stands, and why an attack of this scale raises much bigger questions about security, trust and coordination across the crypto...

What happens when the AI agent shopping for you gets blocked by the world’s biggest online marketplace? This week, Sasha Pilch is joined by This Week in Fintech reporter Amethyst Martinez to unpack Amazon’s decision to block Meta’s Muse shopping agent, and what it could mean for the future of agentic commerce. They discuss the tension between security, commercial interests and open access, and whe...

In this sponsored episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Krishna Bhagavathula, Chief Product Officer at Clover, to talk about how the platform is evolving far beyond payments. Krishna explains why small business owners need something very different from enterprise software. They are often acting as the CFO, CMO, COO and HR team all at once, which means the best techn...

This week on This Week in Fintech, Sasha Pilch is joined by reporter Mary Ann Azevedo to unpack the latest twist at Better. Just two months after being removed as CEO, Vishal Garg has regained control of the company’s board, helped remove the directors who ousted him, and now says he does not actually want the CEO job back. Mary Ann explains how the power struggle unfolded, what Garg says he learn...

In this sponsored episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Doug Ricket, founder and CEO of PayJoy, to talk about how the company is expanding access to credit for people who have historically been left out of the formal financial system. PayJoy began with a simple idea: use the smartphone itself as collateral. Customers can finance a device, build a repayment history,...

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. 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 person...

In this episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Nik Milanovic sits down with Allan 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. Allan explains the world of escheatment, the process that can require financial institutions to hand abandoned assets over to state...

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. 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 foc...

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. Georgina explains how SOLO is building a verification network that allows banks and fintechs to rely on identity check...

This Week in Fintech is back with a new look, a new host and a new weekly format. 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. For our first episode, Sasha is joined by This Week in Fintech’s Larry DiTore and Amethyst Martinez to unpack the allegations...

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. Sophia exp...

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. Rachel explains how Arc is designed as an “economic operating sys...

Presented by Clair. What if the best financial product is the one users never have to go looking for? 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. Nico talks about Clair’s evolution from digital bank to embe...

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. Blake argues that mainstream adoption will accelerate w...

Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Vroon Modgill, Founder & CEO of Sokin, to explore how modern treasury infrastructure is transforming global payments. 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...

Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Gaston Irigoyen, co-founder and CEO of Pomelo, to unpack why waiting a full year to launch a card program became the startup thesis behind one of Latin America’s fastest-growing fintech infrastructure companies. Drawing from his experience scaling fintech in LATAM, Gaston shares how infrastructure bottlenecks around issuing, processing, and credit card management pu...

Presented by Rain. Host Justin Friedman sits down with Larry Wade to unpack how PayPal brought PYUSD from concept to real-world payments while balancing innovation, regulation, and consumer trust. The conversation explores PayPal’s early move into crypto, why on-chain transfers became critical for interoperability, and what changes when a global payments company shifts from supporting digital asse...

Powered by Spade. Money moves faster than ever, but the hardest moments in fintech still happen when something goes wrong: a confusing transaction, a disputed charge, a fraud claim, or a control that fails when regulators come calling. Hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Crossett talk with Shanti Shanmugam, CEO and co-founder of Casap, and Natasha Vernier, CEO and co-founder of Cable, about w...

Host Justin Friedman sits dow with Luke Tuttle, Chief Product and Technology Officer at MoneyGram to talk about the realities of building global payments infrastructure at scale. The conversation explores how stablecoins are changing cross-border settlement, why trust and compliance remain critical in remittances, and what it takes to deliver instant cash pickup across more than 200 countries. Luk...

This Week in Fintech’s Nik Milanovic sat down with Coinbase Chief Business Officer Shan Aggarwal to discuss Coinbase’s Q1 2026 earnings following the company’s latest earnings release. • Q1 highlights, including all-time high crypto trading volume market share  • USDC growth on-platform and why stablecoin economics matter  • How institutional and developer products reinforce retail liquidity  • Wh...

Presented by Rain. This episode of Crossing the Chasm, host Chiara Munaretto is joined by Malcolm Clarke to discuss how Western Union is bringing stablecoins into the real world with the launch of USDPT. Malcolm explains why Western Union believes the future of digital dollars is not about making consumers learn crypto, but about using blockchain behind the scenes to make cross-border payments fas...

Presented by Rain. In this special series  Crossing the Chasm , we explore when stablecoins stop being “crypto” and start functioning like real money, becoming familiar, fast, and cost-efficient. Justin Friedman is joined by Farooq Malik, founder and CEO of Rain, joins us to break down what true adoption looks like across payments, on-chain settlement, and card programs that integrate seamlessly i...

Powered by Spade. Julie VerHage-Greenberg is back for Season 4 of The Fintech OGs, now joined by co-host Lauren Crossett, to sit down with the pioneers who built and transformed fintech. From the early days of digital finance to the innovations redefining money today, these are the stories behind the people who changed the industry. In episode one we sit down with Angela Hung and Dan Egan, two bui...