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Fintech Business Podcast

Jason Mikula
Fintech
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Buy Now, Pay Later
Banking As a Service
Open Banking
Stable Coins
Compliance
Stablecoins
Visa
Evolve
CFPB
Moov
Evolve Bank
Regulatory Environment
Credit Cards
Embedded Finance
Pipe
Customer Experience
Bank Charters
Consumer Credit

A monthly(ish) podcast featuring fintech news recaps, with Alex Johnson of Fintech Takes, and interviews with leaders in fintech, banking & crypto. fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com

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In this episode, I had the exclusive chance to chat with Current’s CEO Stuart Sopp and CTO Trevor Marshall on the company’s $80 million Series E, led by Springcoast Partners, announced earlier today. We also discussed:

* Current’s expanded product s... more

In this episode, Alex and I had the chance to discuss:

* Why seemingly every bank, crypto, and stablecoin company wants to become a bank (and what it could mean for their valuations)

* A return to BaaS Island: CFSB’s consent order, and how it compa... more

In this episode, I had the chance to chat with Edward Woodford, the founder and CEO of crypto, stablecoin, and tokenization infrastructure platform zerohash. Edward and I had the chance to talk about:

* Why zerohash is applying for a national trust ... more

In this episode, I had the chance to chat with merchant connectivity platform Knot’s cofounder and CEO Rory O’Reilly. Rory and I had the chance to discuss:

* Rory dropping out of Harvard to start his first company

* How Knot became the industry’s g... more

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Stuart Sopp
CEO of Current
Current
Episode: Exclusive: Neobank Current Raises $80M Series E
Edward Woodford
Founder and CEO of ZeroHash
ZeroHash
Episode: Interview: zerohash's Founder & CEO Edward Woodford
Rory O'Reilly
CEO and co-founder of Knot (Not)
Knot
Episode: Interview: Knot CEO Rory O'Reilly
Tyler Allen
COO of Unit21, former founding software engineer
Unit21
Episode: Interview: Tyler Allen, Unit21's Chief Operating Officer
Wije Wijegoonaratna
Co-founder and CEO of Aliya Financial Technologies
Aliya Financial Technologies
Episode: Interview: Aliya’s CEO and Co-Founder, SP “Wije” Wijegoonaratna
Matt Marcus
Co-founder and CEO of Modern Treasury
Modern Treasury
Episode: Interview: Modern Treasury's Matt Marcus & Matt Janiga
Matt Janiga
Lead Counsel at Modern Treasury with experience in financial services.
Modern Treasury
Episode: Interview: Modern Treasury's Matt Marcus & Matt Janiga
Peter Piatetsky
Co-founder and CEO of Castellum AI
Castellum AI
Episode: Interview: Castellum.AI's Peter Piatetsky
Neha Narkhede
Co-founder and CEO of Oscilar, co-creator of Apache Kafka and co-founder of Confluent.
Oscilar
Episode: Interview: Oscilar's Neha Narkhede on Building Real-Time Risk Systems for Financial Institutions (Live from Money20/20)

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Alex Johnson
Host across multiple fintech-focused programs, including Fintech Business Weekly, Fintech Takes, and Fintech Recap.
Jason Mikula
Co-host and long-time host, frequently discussing fintech trends and industry developments.

Reviews

4.2 out of 5 stars from 9 ratings
  • Excellent Source of Fintech News

    These guys are on the ball! Very informative podcast for all things fintech.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    jski94
    United States5 months ago
  • Amazing podcast

    Must listen!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    fintech guy 007
    United States4 years ago

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Interview: Knot CEO Rory O'Reilly
Q: What is the strategic rationale for Knot positioning as a merchant-connectivity layer, and how does that relate to other rails like Plaid or Finicity?
Knot is complementary to bank-account connections and payment rails. It occupies the merchant-connection side, enabling richer data flows and use cases that unlock a broader ecosystem. By sitting atop networks and account rails, Knot makes merchant relationships more valuable and onboarding more efficient, without directly competing with existing data connectors or network rails.
Interview: Knot CEO Rory O'Reilly
Q: Can you describe the behind-the-scenes engineering approach that enables rapid merchant integrations at scale?
The core is the Atlantis system, which uses AI tooling to understand merchant APIs and automatically generate integrations. This dramatically reduces engineering hours and time to test, shrinking the timeline from days to hours for onboarding a new merchant, while maintaining reliability and governance.
Interview: Knot CEO Rory O'Reilly
Q: How did Knot go from initial pilot programs with smaller issuers to working with Amex and other top-tier enterprises?
Early partnerships with smaller issuers built credibility and learning. With a strong, scalable infrastructure offering and a proven value case—faster onboarding, higher wallet share, and demonstrable lift—larger enterprises began adopting Knot as a trusted layer that enabled them to move customers' primary card and manage up-to-date merchant connections.
Interview: Knot CEO Rory O'Reilly
Q: And what led to the pivot from Millions to Card Switcher and then to the broader Knot product set?
The pivot happened after realizing the internal tooling built for Millions was more valuable than the neo-bank itself. That tooling solved the problem of getting users to actually move to a new card by enabling a robust merchant connectivity layer, which became Card Switcher and then expanded into a broader platform with additional capabilities like subscription management and skew-level data.
Interview: Tyler Allen, Unit21's Chief Operating Officer
Q: How do you see the balance between speed and accuracy in AI-enabled reviews?
AI agents drastically increase speed and coverage, but must operate within governance and regulatory constraints, with humans retained for QA/QC and policy adherence.

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