Deciphered: The Fintech Podcast

In this episode of Deciphered, Jeff Tijssen, partner and global head of Fintech, Bain & Company and Mike Cashman, partner, Bain & Company are joined by Mike Edmonds, VP of Agentic Commerce, Commercial Growth, PayPal and Pahal Patangia, Head of Payments Strategy, NVIDIA to discuss the future of AI in financial services. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 04:50 Personalization and friction reduction thr...

In this episode of Deciphered, Mike Cashman, partner, Bain & Company is joined by Alex Robinson, CEO, Juniper Square to discuss AI’s growing impact on fund services. Timestamps: 03:52 Digital interfaces for investor experience in private markets 13:54 Automation in repetitive fund administration tasks 18:58 Probabilistic vs deterministic models in AI applications 27:19 Future industry structure of...

In this episode of Deciphered, Mike Cashman, partner, Bain & Company is joined by Ricardo Correia, partner, Bain & Company, Dante Disparte, CSO and Head of Global Policy and Operations, Circle, Jane McEvoy, SVP Fintech, BVNK and Cindy Turner, Chief Product Officer, WorldPay to discuss the state of stablecoins in 2025. Timestamps: 03:22 Stablecoin infrastructure providers and enterprise integration...

In this episode of Deciphered, Jeff Tijssen, partner and global head of Fintech, Bain & Company is joined by Georgios Kolovos, EMEA Payments & Fintech Leader, NVIDIA and Phoebe Wallis, Chief Revenue Officer, Griffin to discuss what’s next for Fintech. Timestamps: 5:51 What's next for Fintech? 8:50 Evolution of Fintech landscape post-funding boom 11:26 Emerging trends: AI, stablecoins, and data cha...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, expert associate partner at Bain & Company and Jeff Tijssen, partner and global head of Fintech, Bain & Company are joined by an all-Bain lineup, Karim Ahmad, expert partner, Mike Smith, expert partner, and Tevia Segovia, partner to discuss what will be the top Fintech trends of 2025. Timestamps: 03:13 Looking Ahead: What Are the Top Trends for Fintech in...

In this episode of Deciphered, Jeff Tijssen, partner and global head of Fintech, Bain & Company, is joined by Kelvin Tan, chief executive officer, Audax and Rishi Sethi, head of Fintech, Torch Partners to discuss Fintech investment trends in Asia. Timestamps: 03:30 Why is Asia such an exciting Fintech market? 07:13 Upcoming Fintech trends 11:57 What does the current Fintech investment landscape lo...

In this episode of Deciphered, host Jeff Tijssen, partner and global head of Fintech, Bain & Company, is joined by Mike Cashman, partner at Bain & Company, Nik Milanović, founder of This Week in Fintech and general partner at The Fintech Fund and Clara Jackson, director of investments at TA Associates, to discuss if we're about to witness the great Fintech rebound. Timestamps: 04:36 From Turbulenc...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, expert associate partner at Bain & Company, is joined by Chris Kuiper, Director of Research at Fidelity Digital Assets, Edward Woodford, CEO at Zero Hash and Jeremy Fox-Geen, CFO at Circle to discuss whether crypto has crossed the institutional and consumer chasm. Timestamps: 06:22 Has crypto crossed the institutional and consumer chasm? 09:41 What's unde...

In this episode of Deciphered, recorded live from Money20/20 Europe, host Adam Davis, Bain associate partner, is joined by Jeff Tijssen, Bain partner and global head of fintech, Ronit Ghose, Citi Future of Finance global head of banks research and cohead of fintech and Anthony Craufurd, Visa Europe director of ventures and startup engagement, to discuss which transformative technologies will shape...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, expert associate partner at Bain & Company, is joined by Erin McCune, expert partner at Bain & Company, Ed McLaughlin, President and Chief Technology Officer at MasterCard, Sladjana Jovanovic, Chief Information Officer for the Canadian Personal Business Banking at BMO Financial Group, and Daragh Morrissey, director of AI at Microsoft Worldwide Financial S...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, expert associate partner at Bain & Company, is joined by Wendy Redshaw, Chief Digital Information Officer at NatWest, and Jason Maude, chief technology advocate of Starling Bank, to discuss if there is still a technology gap between incumbents vs challengers. Timestamps: 04:15 Incumbents vs Challengers – is there still a technology gap? 05:24 How would yo...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, expert associate partner at Bain & Company, is joined by Erin McCune, expert partner at Bain & Company, Manish Kohli, head of global payments solutions at HSBC, and Thierry Chilosi, chief strategy officer at Swift, to discuss what’s at stake in the world of Wholesale Payments. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 04:07 What’s at stake in the world of Wholesale...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Co, is joined by Aman Narain, Global Head of Platforms and Embedded Banking, HSBC, to discuss the topic of embedded finance. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:42 Embedded finance use cases 05:08 Maturity of integrated, insightful & instant in embedded finance 06:09 Integrated definition & use cases 07:06 Building a proposition...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Co, is joined by Jeff Tijssen, Expert Partner and Global Head of FinTech, Bain & Co, Christina Riechers, General Manager, Square Banking and Richard Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Allica Bank, to discuss SMB: Is there still a growth opportunity, or are they now over-served? Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 07:37 SMB: Still a gr...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Co, is joined by Jeff Tijssen, Expert Partner and Global Head of FinTech, Bain & Co, Mike Cashman, Partner at Bain & Co, Mariagiovanna Di Feo, Partner at Bain & Co and Mike Smith, Partner at Bain & Co, to discuss what trends will arise and what changes to the industry we will see in 2024. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:38 Wh...

In this special episode of Deciphered, recorded LIVE from Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas, Jeff Tijssen, Expert Partner and Global Head of FinTech, Bain & Co, Mike Cashman Partner, Bain & Co, are joined by Sophia Bantanidis, Future of Finance, Citi Global Insights, Citi and Peter Hazlehurst, Co-founder and CEO, Synctera, to discuss disequilibrium across the banking industry in 2023, restoring balance,...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Co, Bhavi Mehta Partner, Bain & Co, are joined by Sarah Hinkfuss, Partner, Bain Capital Ventures and CJ Przybyl, Co-founder and CEO, Reserv, to discuss how AI will impact fintech, whether or not it will level the competitive advantages of larger financial institutions, and just what this technology means the Financial Services...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Co, and Maureen Burns, Partner, Bain & Co, are joined by Ather Williams III, Head of Strategy, Digital, Innovation & Enterprise Payments, Wells Fargo to discuss how Wells Fargo continue to innovate, and embrace new technologies, despite a myriad of different influences, as well as being a ‘systemically important financial insti...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Company, is joined by Jeff Tijssen, Partner, Bain & Company, Janine Hirt, CEO, Innovate Finance and Shannee Braun, Director, EQT, to discuss the decisions behind fintech acquisitions in 2023. The fintech investment landscape has changed dramatically, what are the reasons behind this, and are the tides slowly changing...? Timest...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Company, is joined by an all-Bain line up; Partners Joe Fielding, Maria Teresa Tejada and Guilio Naso to discuss whether or not there is a current crisis when it comes to banking liquidity.   The unfolding liquidity issue across banking has been benchmarked in some quarters against the great financial crisis of 2008…the questio...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Company, is joined by Karim Ahmad, Partner, Bain & Company, Kelly Devine, President, UK & Ireland, Mastercard, and Colin O’Flaherty, Head of SME for Barclaycard Payments, to discuss the future of retail transactions. Retail payments is both a rich and growing industry, with Bain & Company estimating the total revenue value at $...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Company, is joined by Henrik Naujoks, Partner, Bain & Company, Prashant Agarwal, Head of Digital, Customer & Ecosystem Marketing, AIA, and Ben Luckett, Chief Innovation Officer, Aviva, to discuss what customers want from their insurer. What's the most exciting area of insurance to build on right now, and will a significant shar...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Company, and Jeff Tijssen, Expert Partner and Global Head of Fintech at Bain & Company are joined by Charlotte Crosswell OBE, Chair of the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT), Keith Grose, COO at Sequence, and Alex Johnson, Creator of Fintech Takes to discuss everything Open Finance. What does the future state...

In this episode of Deciphered, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Company, and Jeff Tijssen, Expert Partner and Global Head of Fintech at Bain & Company are joined by Bain & Company partners Karim Ahmad, Michael Smith and Mike Cashman to discuss what they think the hottest trends in Fintech will be in 2023. After a turbulent 2022, what are some of the areas that will drive growth? Timestamps:...

In this special episode of Deciphered, live from Money 20/20 Vegas, Adam Davis, Associate Partner at Bain & Company, and Jeff Tijssen, Expert Partner and Global Head of Fintech at Bain & Company are joined by Laura Spiekerman, Co-Founder of Alloy, and Simon Taylor, Head of Strategy & Content at Sardine, to delve into the effects that macroeconomic trends such as rising inflation and CPI have on fi...