The Fintech OG's from TWIF

In the final episode of The Fintech OGs, hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Crossett talk with Salman Syed, CEO of Astrada and Hans Morris, Managing Partner at Nyca Partners for a conversation about the highs and lows of life in Fintech. They reflect on fintech’s last decade, from the post-2008 reset in trust and brand to the cloud-driven drop in barriers to entry, and then look  at what’s c...

In this episode of The FinTech OGs, hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Crossett sit down with Sam Maule, Head of Business Development at Moov, and Will White, Partner at Bedeloes,  for a candid conversation about navigating a career in fintech. From spinning up payment cards in minutes to moving money across borders in real time, fintech has made incredible progress—but understanding what&ap...

Hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Crossett sit down with Michelle Tran and Sasha Pilch, co-founders of NYC FinTech Women, to unpack how a small New York meetup grew into a national fintech community with 16,000 members and chapters across major cities. From career transitions out of institutions like BlackRock and global banks to founder-led sales, venture capital decision-making, and the r...

Hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Crossett sit down with Neetika Bansal, Business Lead at Stripe, and Shivani Siroya, CEO & Founder of Tala, to explore what’s really changing in fintech and payments infrastructure. From alternative data underwriting and AI-powered credit models to cross-border payments, stablecoins, embedded finance, and the future of money movement, this conversation d...

Powered by Spade. On this episode of The Fintech OGs, hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Crossett sit down with Ian Lampl, co-founder and CEO of LoanStreet Inc., and Mike Taormina, co-founder and CEO of Vault, for a conversation about what it really looks like to build through multiple market cycles, from marketplace lending hype and COVID disruptions to crypto booms, AI momentum, and policy...

Powered by Spade. Even the most polished fintech apps break on one stubborn problem: messy transaction data. The same merchant can show up differently across issuers like Amex and Chase, driving broken rewards, poor insights, fraud risk, and support noise. We sit down with Oban MacTavish, CEO and Co-founder of Spade, and Alan Miller, Partner at Oak HC/FT, to unpack how raw transaction data gets tr...

Powered by Spade. Money moves faster than ever, but the hardest moments in fintech still happen when something goes wrong: a confusing transaction, a disputed charge, a fraud claim, or a control that fails when regulators come calling. We talk with Shanti Shanmugam, CEO and co-founder of Casap, and Natasha Vernier, CEO and co-founder of Cable, about what it takes to build trust in those high-stake...

Powered by Spade. Welcome back to This Week in Fintech and another episode of Fintech OGs. Season four kicks off with a look at how behavioral economics shows up in real fintech product decisions, and the gap between how fast money moves and how well users actually understand it. This episode features Angela Hung and Dan Egan, two builders and researchers whose careers span policy research, Robinh...

Fintech OGs returns for Season 4. Julie returns as host, now joined by co-host Lauren Crossett, to sit down with the pioneers who built and transformed fintech. From the early days of digital finance to the innovations redefining money today, these are the stories behind the people who changed the industry. Powered by Spade.

We trace fintech’s arc from marketplace lending to a rebundled, infrastructure-led future shaped by AI, compliance, and programmable money. Jillian Williams and Dimitri Dadiomov share how trust, ledgers, and switching costs define what sticks, and where the next real opportunities lie. • founding stories of Field Ventures and Modern Treasury • why infrastructure, ledgers and money movement now lea...

Welcome back to another episode of Fintech OGs with This Week In Fintech! Today, I’m joined by two incredible founders who have each redefined their corner of the financial world: Jack Zhang , Co-founder & CEO of Airwallex , the global payments and banking platform powering 150,000+ businesses Leif Abraham , Co-founder & Co-CEO of Public , the next-gen investing platform helping the top 20...

Welcome back to FinTech OGs ! This week, I’m joined by two leaders whose careers have shaped the evolution of modern financial technology: David Haber , General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-lead of their AI Apps Fund, and Owen Jennings , an executive officer and Block’s Business Lead. From early ventures like Bond Street and the first days of Cash App to today’s frontier of AI in finance,...

Welcome back to this week in FinTech and another episode of the FinTech OGs. This week I'm joined by two guests whose careers have helped shape. The evolution of modern wealth management. We have Charles Birnbaum partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, and Cynthia Loh, who is a senior vice president at Capital One. Charles and Cynthia first crossed paths in the early days of Betterment. This is...

You know you’ve found true fintech OGs when your guests were almost roommates before “fintech” was even a buzzword. That’s exactly the case with today’s guests, Sheel Mohnot and Amit Kumar—two longtime friends and collaborators who’ve not only seen the fintech industry evolve over the last decade-plus, but have helped shape it. In this episode, we dig into their early startup days—FeeFighters, Car...

🎙️ Welcome back to Season 3 of the Fintech OG series on This Week in Fintech! To kick things off, we’re joined by two of the most influential voices shaping the future of financial infrastructure: David Marcus , CEO of Lightspark and former head of Libra at Facebook, and Dan Kimerling , founding partner at Deciens Capital and early pioneer in banking-as-a-service. We cover everything from the rise...