The Fintech Marketers and Leaders Podcast

Send a text In the latest episode of The Fintech Marketers and Leaders podcast, Shameer Sachdev sat down with Joost Brok, VP of Marketing at Plum, the financial well-being app for saving, spending, earning and investing. Joost is a data-led growth and marketing expert with 10 years of branding, marketing technology, B2B and B2C growth experience. He shared Plum’s inspiring journey of successfully...

Send a text In this exclusive episode of The Fintech Marketers and Leaders Podcast, we dive into the highlights from the recent live recording, where experts in fintech influencer marketing shared their insights on how fintechs can effectively leverage this powerful marketing tool. From the common misconceptions to the latest trends in TikTok and beyond, we explore the key takeaways that every fin...

Send a text In the latest episode of The Fintech Marketers and Leaders podcast, Shameer Sachdev sat down with Lissele Pratt, the co-founder of Capitalixe, a fintech consultancy that provides global payments and banking solutions to high-risk verticals such as gambling, crypto, Forex, and financial institutions.  Lissele, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and a recognised expert in foreign exchange, pay...

Send a text Welcome to a special edition of  The Fintech Marketers and Leaders podcast! Ross, our Head of Performance Marketing, Julia, our Head of Influencer Marketing, and Shanae, our Senior CRM Manager, joined Shameer in a laid-back conversation about what’s going on in the fintech marketing world. They touched on all the juicy stuff—from Rihanna’s Super Bowl marketing manoeuvre to new platform...

Send a text Recently featured in Capsule's Top 50 Innovative scale-ups to watch in 2023, BankiFi is taking the fintech world by storm. We had the pleasure of speaking with Nick Reid, Head of Strategic Growth, UK & Europe, on our latest episode of The Fintech Marketers and Leaders podcast. Tune in to hear Nick share some incredible insights into how BankiFi is helping banks become more cus...

Send a text On the latest episode, our host Shameer Sachdev sat down with Chris Michael and Huw Davies, the Co-Founders of Ozone API. Chris has 30 years of experience building high-performing technology teams across various sectors, while Huw has over 24 years of experience in payments and financial services.  Together, they led the development of the UK open banking standard and have helped many...

Send a text In this latest episode of The Fintech Marketers and Leaders podcast, we sat down with Iain Russell, MoneyHub's Head of Performance. MoneyHub won "Open Banking Product of the Year" at FS Tech Awards in 2021—among many other awards. Iain loves the fast-paced environment at MoneyHub and has a lot to share about the fintech startup world, starting from making the best out of...

Send a text In this latest episode of The Fintech Marketers and Leaders podcast, we had the privilege of sitting down with Fidelma McGuirk, the founder and CEO of Payslip.  Back in the day, Fidelma understood multinational employers needed to automate, standardize and centralize their global payroll. In 2016, she had a vision — building a solution to simplify payroll management — and that's h...

Send a text From starting out with early-stage starts-ups to working with Canada’s largest equity crowdfunding platform, John’s natural interest in the industry has helped his career stretch to almost every corner of the Fintech space. John Hills is now Head of B2B Marketing for Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. He’s now working with Crowdcube to continue to help companies...

Send a text The Fintech Marketers and Leaders Podcast is back with another exciting instalment featuring Nick Root, CEO of Intergiro.  Nick has a passion for building products that make people's lives easier and believes that Intergiro can unlock the value of the internet by providing the financial toolkit tools that innovators and change-makers need to succeed.  As technology continues to ev...

Send a text “We don’t do shit but we get shit done” Monika Liikamaa, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Nordic payment service provider Enfuce sat down with Shameer Sachdev for the latest episode The Fintech Markers and Leaders Podcast.   Monika’s visionary thinking teamed with her 20+ years of experience in the fast-paced payment industry has led her to build and grow Enfuce into one of Europe’s leading fi...

Send a text Growing up Jonathan never wanted to be a marketer… but after being offered an internship in his early career Jonathan found enjoyment in the creative side of marketing. His naivety about balancing his finances led him to the fintech industry. After making the move from B2C to B2C, Jonathan now heads up Monizze’s marketing department as their Cheif Marketing Officer, bringing his wealth...

Send a text For the latest episode of The FML Podcast, host Shameer Sachdev sits down with Pranav Sood to dive into his experience in the industry. Since the start of his career, Pranav has worked with some of the biggest names in fintech. In the past, he tackled a number of critical roles for GoCardless, from Director of Business Operations and Strategy to the VP of International Expansion. Now P...

Send a text From being part of one of the first influencer agencies to work with TikTok, to heading up entire influencer teams managing huge accounts such as H&M, Aleks experience in the influencer realm is extremely unique. Now he’s taking on a new challenge of taking on the fintech and making a step from agency to client side, joining Shares as the first Influencer Marketing hire to head up...

Send a text Influencer marketing seems to be what everyone talks about these days.  While more and more B2C brands are jumping on the influencer marketing bandwagon, fintech is slow to join in. However, using a human element to build trust is one of the most powerful techniques to promoting intangible products.  Luckily, our Head of Influencer Marketing and Creative Strategy, Julia Lucas, has been...

Send a text As a leading digital wealth management platform, WealthKernel has been harnessing technology to disrupt and democratise the investing space. The company provides investment, savings and wealth infrastructure to help businesses build, launch and get to the market faster and empowers underserved communities to build better futures. In this episode of the FML podcast, Karan Shanmugarajah,...

Send a text If you’re in the fintech industry, it’s likely that you’ve heard the name Eric Fulwiler. He’s a well-known speaker and thought leader when it comes to marketing, management and innovation and over the last 15 years, he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world. Armed with his years of experience from VaynerMedia and 11:FS Eric has now branched out into building his own marketing...

Send a text Piotr Pisarz Founder and CEO of Uncapped, noticed a space for Uncapped during his time working as a VC, which led him to (reluctantly) pitch his proposition to fellow VC’s.  With the support of his colleagues, Piotr was able to start on his fintech founder journey. What followed was the creation of a fintech aiming to accelerate online business with no-interest, no-equity flexible loan...

Send a text In the UK 70% of housing wealth is owned by less than 20% of the population.  Tembo, a 'family lending platform,' enables first-time buyers to get on the housing ladder by brokering a small interest-only mortgage on their parents' - or another family member or friend's - home. They’re on a mission to destigmatise utilising the so-called “bank of mum and dad” to demo...

Send a text Ambitious crypto platform Nebeus has been on a massive growth path. Founded in 2014, Nebeus started out as one of the first cryptocurrency platforms in the world to focus on P2P crypto lending. Over the years they developed their business model from P2P to centralised, crypto-backed lending on a mission to help people bring crypto to traditional finance. From partnering with Modular to...

Send a text The perceived value of your product or service can make or break your business. “You live and die by your service proposition,” says Ian Henderson, CEO at Kyckr. From former CEO at Shawbrook Bank, one of the first UK Challenger banks, to COO of Barclays Wealth Private Banking, it’s no secret Ian is a fintech legend. We sat down with Ian to talk about how Kyckr helps organisations verif...

Send a text InvestEngine helps investors control, automate and optimise their long-term investments by building better portfolios.  For an investing platform in its early days that started with $17 million in assets under management, InvetsEngine just reached $100 million—a clear example of fintech exponential growth. Join host Shammer and Andrey Dobrynin, co-founder of InvestEngine, to learn abou...

Send a text It’s no secret that banks partnering with Fintechs are beneficial for both parties. With the rise of fintech adoption amongst users, the “us against them” mentality is one that can only damage your fintechs growth. By partnering with a bank fintechs are able to provide better products and services, customer experience, and adapt and deploy innovations at a faster rate than non-partnere...

Send a text If you’re anything like Andy Bromberg, CEO of Eco, you have multiple banks, cards and wallets carrying varying amounts of your personal finances.  That’s why Andy has helped to build Eco, a digital wallet provider that replaces checking accounts, credit cards, and more with a single balance that rewards you each time you make a transaction. For the latest episode of The FML Podcast, Sh...

Send a text The UK business lending marketplace is a large, complex beast. FinTech company Sprive knows how to separate from the giants by helping UK homeowners become mortgage-free, faster.  With mortgage rates just making the biggest jump this century, Jinesh Vohra decided to pay off his own mortgage, which inspired him to build a smart product to help other homeowners do the same. Prior to star...