Lex Sokolin

The Fintech Blueprint

Technology EN ↓ 203 episodes

Finance is being pulled apart by the forces of frontier technology. From AI, to blockchain and DeFi, mixed reality, chatbots, neobanks, and roboadvisors — the industry will never be the same. Here is the blueprint for navigating the shift.

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Lex Sokolin

Episodes

The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi 29.01.2021 45:58

Hi Fintech Futurists, Thinking about how to connect these worlds and different available journeys? Or the timeless risks developing in tranched DeFi that look like mortgage-backed securities? We even touch on hegelian dialectics! Check out our great conversation. For premium subscribers, a full transcript is provided along with the recording. Hope you enjoy, and do not hesitate to reach out here...

Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance 22.01.2021 37:37

Hi Fintech Futurists, There’s an enormous gap between the financial needs of humanity and what the financial sector is able to deliver there. This gap is being filled by tech-savvy solutions and embedded finance plays which are putting into question the role of a bank in this new ecosystem. Simon’s recent analysis suggests that Embedded Finance is merely a decade out from offering a new, very larg...

Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Bakkt and SoFi) 18.01.2021 38:53

Hi Fintech Futurists, Welcome to our podcast series! SoFi is going public with a SPAC deal worth over $8 billion. A few things we touch on in detail: (1) this is still largely a lender, (2) there is a gem of an embedded finance play called Galileo that SoFi owns, and (3) the multiple is a little over 10x T12 revenues, which is not crazy expensive, but not cheap. Speaking of Galileo and finance API...