Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring financial services together

For the season finale of the Acquire Podcast, I’m speaking to the CMO of Square, Lauren Weinberg. We’ll be talking about the thirteen year evolution of Square’s growth, creating a unified brand ecosystem across totally different markets (from farmers markets stands to all of SoFi stadium), on exporting Square’s familiar at-home brand across oceans by going to market in new cultures and geographies...

Join us at Tearsheet's Power of Payments Conference, on September 15th at Current, Chelsea Piers, NYC. Apply for tickets here: https://bit.ly/3R6oENt When we talk about lending nowadays, it's no longer just about big banks with large underwriting teams. Advancements in technology are completely changing the lending and loan management practices. It's all about AI these days - a cost-effective way...

Welcome back to the Power of Payments podcast. I’m your host Ismail Umar, and in today’s episode, we discuss what financial firms need to know about payments in the metaverse, and why building a sonic brand is becoming increasingly important as consumers become more reliant on contactless payments and voice technology. We also talk about crypto payment adoption patterns among consumers and merchan...

The following was produced by Tearsheet Studios. We worked with payments provider Fiserv to create a podcast series about open finance and the work of empowering fintechs, brands, and FIs to collaborate and innovate together. In our third conversation in the series we’re speaking to Jamie DelMedico, General Manager of Fiserv’s Aggregation and Information Services Unit. As we continue talking about...

The following was produced by Tearsheet Studios. We worked with payments provider Fiserv to create a podcast series about open finance and the work of empowering fintechs, brands, and FIs to collaborate and innovate together. In our second conversation in the series, we’re speaking with Frank Sanchez, vice chairman of Fiserv, and co-founder of Finxact. We talk about the promise and challenges with...

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m your host, Tearsheet’s editor in chief, Zack Miller. There’s a reason B2B payments hasn’t been solved. It’s so complicated – the need for different terms, payment forms, approvals and workflows makes it damn hard to automate and digitize. So to really get at the heart of B2B payments, you have to first start with the quoting and invoicing process – payments co...

Last week we wrapped our first Banking on the Planet conference, we had a great lineup and it was really a lot of fun. If you missed it, all the session videos are available to watch for free here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHAcPK-SOiNXjjUtN4qmQmfcL1XWApQdK. And now we’re on to our next event, this time finally in person! We are holding Tearsheet's Power of Payments Conference on Sept...

This week is episode 15 of the Acquire Podcast, where I’m speaking with a company who managed to make the impossible possible, and by that I mean – make taxes fun and dare we say, sexy. I have with me Matthieu Silberstein, VP of creative marketing at Lili -- a banking provider for freelancers, from side hustlers to small businesses. I invited Matthieu to speak to us about launching the campaign fo...

Happy to introduce Tearsheet's Power of Payments Conference on September 15th, 2022 at Current, Chelsea Piers, NYC. We will bring together the top professionals and brands in the payments space to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by an undeniable need to stay ahead of the curve of a rapidly changing landscape. To be among those few special decision makers, click here to apply for...

For today's episode, I’m speaking with Matt Oppenheimer, co-founder and CEO of Remitly, an online remittance service based in Seattle that offers international money transfers to over 135 countries. He talks about the evolution of the remittance industry over the last decade, the changing needs of Remitly's customers, the potential role of crypto in remittances, and the future of global money move...

The following was produced by Tearsheet Studios. We worked with payments provider Fiserv to create a podcast series about open finance and the work of empowering fintechs, brands, and FIs to collaborate and innovate together. In our first conversation in the series, we’re speaking with Sunil Sachdev, SVP and head of fintech at Fiserv, about where we are on the open finance journey, the technologie...

This week on the Acquire Podcast, we’re joined by Erika White, VP of marketing and communications at Affirm. We spoke about building out a cheeky millennial-esque ad campaign, creating the flywheel effect through strong partner marketing, and some of the challenges and opportunities that come with marketing BNPL. Oh, and after two long years of pandemic, isolation, and general social weirdness –-...

The following was produced by Tearsheet Studios in partnership with embedded finance platform Helix by Q2. In our conversation with Ahon Sarkar, GM of Helix, we talk about what it takes for companies to succeed in offering Banking as a Service today. We break down all the important questions they must ask themselves, like: How to make sure your company should even be thinking about doing banking;...

Today we’re talking about crypto lending – many crypto holders out there don’t plan on spending it or cashing out, and now they can earn pretty high yields on their crypto assets, which baffle many folks in traditional finance. My guests today are Matt Ballensweig, managing director and co-head of trading and lending at Genesis, and Shannon Allmon, General Manager of Retail at BlockFi. Genesis and...

Today’s episode is about building financial literacy, both as a solution to a financially stressed America, and as a medium for branding and marketing. A few fintechs do this well, and Stash is one of them. Stash is a personal finance app that aims to make investing accessible to the 99% (of Americans). And to get people investing, they need to first understand the basics of their financial pictur...

Welcome back to the Power of Payments podcast. I’m your host Ismail Umar, and in today’s episode, we discuss how digital payments are making it easier for young consumers to overspend, and how the global microchip shortage is affecting the payments industry. We also talk about Revolut’s first venture into in-store payments with the Revolut Reader, as well as recent research from Marqeta that shows...

My guest today is Mathias Wikstrom, CEO of Doconomy. Doconomy provides data services that help businesses monitor and assess their environmental footprint based on transactional and financial data. Consumers can find out the footprint of their lifestyle choices, brands can calculate their product’s footprint. And they’re also working to develop a tool that enables banks to aggregate the informatio...

Today we’re talking about how banks are digitizing their commercial lending operations. If consumer lines took the front seat when it comes to innovation and digitization, commercial lines have been waiting quietly in the backseat but are now next to be brought forward with the latest technologies and underwriting efficiencies. My guests today are Dan O’Malley, CEO of Numerated, a SaaS digital loa...

Welcome to the Power of Payments podcast. I’m your host Ismail Umar, and as you’ve probably noticed by now, we decided to do a rebrand! We think this new title for the podcast is shorter and snappier, and it also matches the name of our upcoming Power of Payments conference, which will be Tearsheet’s first conference on payments, as well as our first-ever in-person event. It’ll be held in New York...

On today’s episode I’ve got the pleasure of speaking to a company I’ve been fangirling over for quite a while (who even fangirls over a company in the financial space? but it’s true). When I first heard of Earnin, a simple Google search led me to their many Facebook groups featuring a huge community of everyday people sharing their financial struggles and supporting one another in ways big and sma...

Banks and fintechs are looking to improve their lending operations - and increasingly, this means focusing on their customer relationship, while leaving the math to external partners. These partners offer lending software-as-a-service, and that's what we'll be talking about this episode. Joining our conversation we have Adam Huges, who’s the CEO of Amount and Rohit Mittal, the chief executive of S...

Welcome back to Power of Payments. I’m your host Ismail Umar, and in today’s episode, we talk about Klarna and the future of BNPL, PayZen’s ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ solution, and Mastercard’s recently announced ‘Smile to Pay’ system.

On today’s episode, I’m speaking with Scott Goodson, founder and CEO of StrawberryFrog, a marketing agency that works with some of the largest financial brands in the industry. I invited Scott to talk to us about his recent book: Activate Brand Purpose: How to Harness the Power of Movements to Transform Your Company. Ultimately, though, our conversation ended up covering much more: doing marketing...

Green finance is not just about investing in clean energy or carbon sequestration. The core of the problem is sustainability - how to create financial systems that enable people to thrive over the long term. A lot of the focus today goes to the E in ESG investing, which represents the environmental factor, and the latter two parts - Social and Governance - are often overlooked. Today I’d like to e...

Today we’ll be talking about the small and medium sized business sector and how it’s becoming increasingly supported by digital lenders. Securing loans from traditional banks is very tough for SMBs – it’s a long and complicated process and it’s not that likely they’ll get the cash they need – only 15% of small business applications get approved at big banks, for example. This is another reason why...