Jas Shah

Fintech: Under the Hood

Technology EN ↓ 6 episodes

Fintech: Under the Hood is the podcast that unpacks the real mechanics of modern financial innovation. Hosted by fintech strategist and author Jas Shah, each episode goes beyond the headlines to reveal how digital banking, payments, open finance, lending, embedded finance and everything else in fintech really works, and what the future holds,. Hear candid conversations with operators, founders, CEOs, and product leaders, shaping the future of financial services and get your backstage pass to the insights, frameworks, and strategies that really work.

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Jas Shah

Episodes

Allica Bank CEO, Richard Davies: Relationship banking, AI powered efficiencies, success metrics, and global expansion 22.05.2026 46:11

Richard Davies is the CEO of Allica Bank , ranked the fastest growing UK Fintech by Deloitte in successive years, and it’s a bank built specifically to serve established SMEs, a segment that has long been underserved by both traditional banks and many fintech challengers. In a market where much of fintech focused on consumers, Allica took a different path combining modern technology with relations...

Plaid CTO, Will Robinson: Shaping the future of financial infrastructure, Plaid’s north star metrics, efficient innovation flywheels, and AI 10.04.2026 53:34

If you’ve used a fintech app in the last decade, whether it’s for payments, investing, lending, budgeting, or embedded finance, there’s a good chance Plaid was working quietly in the background. It’s the connective tissue between banks, fintechs, and consumers, powering account connectivity, identity, risk, payments, and the broader open finance ecosystem. Will Robinson , the CTO of Plaid , has be...

BVNK Co-founder & CBO, Chris Harmse: Banking to blockchain, stablecoin utility, the stable spending gap, and the future of money 13.03.2026 48:06

Stablecoins are often talked about as the future of money, but very few companies are actually building the infrastructure that makes them usable, scalable, and relevant for real businesses today. BVNK is one of those companies. In a world where cross-border payments are slow, expensive, and stitched together by legacy rails, BVNK is building the stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure that co...

Lean Technologies CPO, Tewfik Cassis: Innovating in the Middle East, AI in the product-dev lifecycle, and the importance of full-stack infrastructure 27.02.2026 54:11

Over the past few years the Middle East has been a hotbed of innovation with fintech at the heart of strategy in the UAE and Saudi. Lean Technologies is a key player in the enablement of innovation in the region and in this episode, I get to speak to someone who has firsthand experience of innovating in the region. In this episode, I speak with Tewfik Cassis, CPO at Lean who spearheads product inn...

Checkout.com CPO, Meron Colbeci: Invisible Payments, Agentic Commerce, and Globalising Products 23.01.2026 50:58

Payment Services Providers are the invisible force that allow us to safely purchase goods & services online and in-person. Checkout.com who process 10s of billions of these payments monthly has embraced this ‘invisible force’ tag head on. In this episode, I speak to Meron Colbeci, CPO at Checkout.com, former PayPal’er, and a supremely experienced fintech product leader where we cover: Meron’s...

Introducing the Fintech: Under the Hood Podcast 19.01.2026 1:16

Hey Fintechers and FIntech Newbies 👋🏽 I’m Jas Shah and I’m really excited to introduce the Fintech: Under the Hood podcast, where I sit down with the people actually building financial services to talk honestly about how fintech really works. Over the next few months I’m releasing one on one interviews with leaders from five major fintechs that power payments, enable stablecoin growth, facilita...