Fintech Impact

In this 134th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host, welcomes Jennifer Leger and Venky Kulkarni, co-Founders of Quber. They discuss common barriers to saving money, how Quber works to help its users overcome those barriers, and how they’re planning to grow the company.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:41 – Quber is a mo...

In this 133th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Hayden James, Co-Founder and CEO of Fraction. Fraction is a company that is enabling a new method for getting equity out of your home or providing equity to purchase a home.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:50 – Hayden James explains Fraction.  ● 01:12...

In this 132th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Shrad Rao, CEO of Wagepoint. Wagepoint is an easy to use payroll provider that seeks to compete both on ease of use and friendliness.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:38 – Shrad Rao explains Wagepoint.  ● 04:37 – How did Wagepoint get started?  ● 0...

In this 131th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Shuli Mantsur, Director of Partnerships at Become. Become is an aggregation company that provides a single-stop source for business owners to go to one website and potentially apply for multiple lines of business with multiple lenders.  Episode Highlights:&...

In this 130th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews F. Alexander Sklar, Head of Development at Payability. Payability is a company that offers financing to online merchants as a means of shortening their collection cycles.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:48 – F. Alexander Sklar explains Payability.  ● 0...

In this 129th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Roland Chan, CEO of Find Bob, Find Bob is an online transition platform that enables advisors and firms that employ them to better facilitate their succession planning and better transition their practice to another advisor in order to ensure continuity for them...

In this 128th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Sean Brown, President and CEO of YCharts. YCharts is an online next generation platform for charting and displaying various forms of data in easy-to-use and digestible user-friendly ways.    Episode Highlights:   ●     00:...

In this 127th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Andrew D'Souza, Co-Founder and CEO of Clearbanc. Clearbanc is an online lender to businesses that helps them gain access to capital through royalty models that serve as alternatives to lending and venture capital.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:42 – Andrew...

In this 126th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Rob Koyfman, Founder and CEO at Koyfin. Koyfin is an online financial data terminal that aggregates data from various data sources like indexes and funds into an easy-to-use interface.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:50 – Rob Koyfman explains Koyfin. ...

In this 125th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Alisha Mawji and Zakir Kanji the founders of AltruWisdom, a light financial planning platform for individuals to understand more about how to better improve their financial lives and also find out back other financial benefits they may be entitled to. Zakir Kanj...

In this 124th episode of ​Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Edmond Walters, CEO and Founder of Apprise Labs, and the original Founder of eMoney. Edmond Walters talks about building both services, how Apprise Labs can be a fun tool for clients and advisors to gage financial plans and how spending impacts them, and integr...

In this 123rd episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Dr. Daniel Crosby, Founder of Tulip, Chief Behavioral Officer at Brinker Capital, and Best-Selling Author. He is known for figuring out ways to take behavioral finance theory and implement in real life. Dr. Daniel Crosby speaks about his new platform, Tulip whic...

In this 122nd episode of Fintech Impact , Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Lisha Davis, Founder of Arable Ventures LLC, an innovation and startup consulting/advisory practice in NYC. Davis is also an investor at 37 Angels, Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners, and Former Head of Innovation at Vanguard.   Episode Highlights: &nb...

In this 121st episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Daniel P. Simon, Author of the book The Money Hackers. Daniel P. Simon talks about the different founders and companies that have changed the finance world in the last 10 years.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:55 – Daniel P. Simon introduces himself. ...

In this 120th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Melika Hope, Head of Product for Small Business and Self-Employed Group at Intuit. Intuit is the world’s largest provider of accounting software. Melika Hope talks about how Intuit has managed to, through customer focus, continuously innovate up it’s product.&nb...

In this 119th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Alex Lazarow, Venture Capitalist and Investment Director at Cathay Innovation and Author of the book Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs--from Delhi to Detroit--Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley. Alex Lazarow talks about how entrepreneurs around the w...

Summary: In this 118th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Matt Alston, COO & Co-Founder at Surex, an online digital insurance broker that caters to home, auto, and various forms of casualty, seeking to digitize the entire consumer experience. Matt Alston explains the origin of Surex, the solutions that it...

Summary: In this 117th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Dan Doney, CEO of Securrency, a blockchain-enabled tokenization platform that bakes compliance into the actual token. This enables the token to represent the actual asset and simultaneously has rules set around who can participate, what the issuance pol...

Summary: In this 116th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Giles Sutherland, Managing Director for Growth Markets at Carta. Carta is a provider of underlining payment infrastructure for various players in the market, including many well-known fintechs.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:37 – Giles Sutherland...

Summary: In this 115th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews J. Gaston Siri, Chief Executive Officer at SideDrawer and Jamie R. Wolkove, Vice President Sales & Marketing at SideDrawer. SideDrawer is an app and platform based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that allows you to store all the stuff in your life in on...

Summary: In this 114th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Neil Sheehan and Awaad Amir who both work in the roles of Research & Advisory at Celent. Celent is a consultant to large financial and Fortune 500 institutions that deals with how they can better adapt to technological challenges that they are facin...

Summary: In this 113th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Zack Brown, Vice President of Sales at Dialogue in Montreal. Dialogue is a telehealth service that enables you to access healthcare right from your smart phone in a fast, user-friendly, and convenient manner. Zack Brown discusses how Dialogue began, how...

Summary: In this 112th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host welcomes Natalie Sunderland, Chief Marketing Officer of Addepar, to talk about embracing risk, the benefits of technology, and the importance of advancing data reporting in wealth management.  Episode Highlights:  ● 01:03: – Addepar is a wealth managemen...

Summary: In this 111th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host welcomes J. Paul Haynes, President and COO of eSentire, to talk about evolving cybersecurity threats, the challenges of the mid-size market, and more.  Episode Highlights:  ● 00:58: – eSentire is disrupting the way cybersecurity is managed.  ● 03:28...

Summary: In this 110th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host welcomes Ohad Samet, Co-founder and CEO of True Accord, to talk about leading with empathy even in debt collection, how True Accord’s debt collection model has impacted both creditors and debtors, and more. Episode Highlights: 00:37: – True Accord is a machine lea...