Fintech Takes

B2B Marketing Sucks & Can Be Better

17 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, and today's episode is a little different. Before I wrote a newsletter for a living, I spent the b...

Facing Credit: Pessimism and Performance

10 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Dave Wasik, Partner at 2nd Order Solutions, for another episode of Facing Credi...

Fintech Recap: Charters, BaaS & the Fed

03 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We kick things off with the acceleratin...

Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Episode 4: The AI Episode

28 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Banking on Primacy, a four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by Chime. The series orbits one question that has becom...

Who Pays for Open Finance?

27 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Rafe Mazer, researcher and author of the excellent report "Who Pays for What? P...

Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Episode 6: Living Out on the Edge

26 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome back to Cash Flow Conversations, a podcast series sponsored by our friends at Nova Credit. We've spent a lot of time in this ser...

Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Episode 3: Banking at Work

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Banking on Primacy, a four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by Chime. The series orbits one question that has becom...

Losing Big

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Jonathan Cohen, Policy Lead at the American Institute for Boys and Men and auth...

Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Ep 2: The Bifurcation of Rewards

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Banking on Primacy, a four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by Chime. The series orbits one question that has becom...

The Rise of Sports Gambling

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Danny Funt, author of the book Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American...

Fintech Takes x Chime presents Banking on Primacy Ep 1: The Fight for Primacy

11 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Banking on Primacy, a four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by Chime. The series orbits one question that has becom...

Fintech Recap: PFM's AI Moment, Super Apps, and the PACE Act

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We kick things off with personal financial management, a category I've been following through three distinct generations. From Mint and Credit Karma t...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Ep 8: The AI Execution Gap

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Collections Conversations, a new miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series digs into how ...

The Historical Roots of Stablecoins

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Mike Hsu, former Acting Comptroller of the Currency. I recently crossed path...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 7: Collections Without Borders

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Collections Conversations, a miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series digs into how gene...

Facing Credit: The Credit Score After FICO

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Rich Franks (a fintech advisor and consultant with 20+ years in credit risk acr...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 6: Humans in the Fintech Loop

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Collections Conversations, a new miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series digs into how ...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: monk, MKIII, Wealth Architect, & CloutScore

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about fintech startups we're absolutely not giving in...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 5: The Missed Payment Is Not the Problem

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Collections Conversations, a new miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software – now with a fresh batch of...

The Great Bank-Fintech Partnership Reset

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Jason Henrichs, CEO of Alloy Labs and co-host of the Breaking Banks podcast. ...

Fintech Recap: Bilt Breaks, BaaS Unbundles, and NY Flexes

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We kick things off with Bilt 2.0. After...

Fintech Takes x Spinwheel presents Credit Without Constraints Episode 4: Context

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Credit Without Constraints, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, presented with our friends at Spinwheel. The series r...

Facing Credit: Credit Underwriting as a System

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Kiran Aware (Chief Consumer Credit Officer at LendingClub) and Michelle Young...

Fintech Takes x Spinwheel presents Credit Without Constraints Episode 3: Acquisition

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Credit Without Constraints, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, presented with our friends at Spinwheel. The series o...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Rhythmic, AgentCard, Rowspace, & Burst

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about fintech startups we’re absolutely not giving ...

Fintech Takes x Spinwheel presents Credit Without Constraints Episode 2: Underwriting

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Credit Without Constraints, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, presented with our friends at Spinwheel. The series o...

Celebrity Fintech, Before MrBeast

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined again by Carlos Caro (author of the Free Toaster newsletter and host of the Free Toaster podca...

Fintech Takes x Spinwheel presents Credit Without Constraints Episode 1: The "Yes And" Approach to Credit Data

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Credit Without Constraints, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, presented with our friends at Spinwheel. The series o...

Fintech Recap: Block, Crypto Cards, and Prediction Markets Split the Right

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We kick things off with Block’s move in...

Canada Leapfrogs on Open Banking

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined in this episode by two guests, Steve Boms (Executive Director at FDATA) and Dan ...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 4: Collections at the Edge

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the finale of Collections Conversations, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. ...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Kairos, Vault, Vennre, & Buy Now Pay Maybe

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about fintech startups we’re absolutely not giving ...

Fintech Takes: Super Bowl Edition

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast, where I’m welcoming back Jane Barratt, Chief Advocacy Officer at MX, to  talk about Super Bowl commerci...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 2: When Customer Centricity Breaks

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Collections Conversations, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series d...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 3: The System Behind Collections

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Collections Conversations, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series d...

Fintech Recap: Clarity Crumbles, Charters Multiply, and Brex Gets Bought

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Recap. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. Even if we aren’t sailing to BaaS Is...

Inside Net Interest

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Marc Rubinstein, author of the fantastic Net Interest newsletter.  In thi...

Fintech Takes x C&R presents Collections Conversations Episode 1: Collections in the Age of AI

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Collections Conversations, a new four-part podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series d...

Fintech Recap (Bonus): The Rise and Fall of Kontigo

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes for a special bonus episode of Fintech Recap with Jason Mikula; Latin American sanctions evasion expert and author of a ...

Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Episode 5: Underwriting Was Just the Beginning

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome back to Cash Flow Conversations, a miniseries sponsored by our friends at Nova Credit. If you’ve followed my work, you’ll kn...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Kontigo, Givefront, Beycome, & Cash App

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about fintech startups we’re absolutely not giving ...

Fintech Recap: The 2025 Themes That Will Define 2026

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my partner in Fintech Recapping, Jason Mikula. In our first episode of the ne...

Diving Deep with Max Levchin

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. Today’s episode kicks off a new long-form interview format I’m calling Diving Deep. And in this epis...

A Very Die Hard Christmas

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Kiah Haslett, Jason Mikula, and Jason Henrichs. Four people. Two Jasons. It’...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Trudenty, Tidalwave, Kaaj, & FinReach Solutions

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about fintech startups we’re absolutely not giving ...

Facing Credit: Pressure Points

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Dave Wasik (Partner at 2nd Order Solutions) for our new series, Facing Credit...

Fintech Recap: Open Banking, Digital IDs, and Green Dot’s Split

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my Jason Mikula, my partner in recapping — who I’ve been lucky to see a l...

Fintech Takes x Fundbox presents Engineering the SMB Capital Stack Episode 4: The Role of Banks (with Jackie Reses at Lead)

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to our Engineering the SMB Capital Stack, sponsored by our friends at Fundbox. In this four-part series, we’re exploring small busin...

Facing Credit: When AI Broke the Marketing Machine

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Carlos Caro (author of the Free Toaster newsletter and host of the Free Toast...

The Future of Issuing with Marqeta’s CEO

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Mike Milotich, CEO of Marqeta (who stepped into the role after serving as CFO...

Fintech Takes x Fundbox presents Engineering the SMB Capital Stack Episode 3: Data & Underwriting with Bernardo Martinez (SoFi)

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to our Engineering the SMB Capital Stack, sponsored by our friends at Fundbox. In this four-part series, we’re exploring small busin...

The $455B Reality of Financial Health

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Jennifer Tescher, founder and CEO of the Financial Health Network (who’s sp...

Fintech Takes x Fundbox presents Engineering the SMB Capital Stack Episode 2: Distribution (with Tanay Jaeel at Stripe)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to our Engineering the SMB Capital Stack, sponsored by our friends at Fundbox. In this four-part series, we’re exploring small busin...

Fintech Recap: AI, Stablecoins, and Live Money20/20 Energy!

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my Jason Mikula, my partner in recapping, but this time we recorded live from...

Fintech Takes x Fundbox presents Engineering the SMB Capital Stack Episode 1: The State of SMB Lending

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our new miniseries, Engineering the SMB Capital Stack, sponsored by our friends at Fundbox. This four-part series digs into small busine...

Risk, Rules, and the Gaps in Open Banking

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined in this episode by three guests — Steve Smith (Co-founder and CEO of Invela; f...

Fintech Takes x Pipe Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts Episode 6: Scaling Up

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the finale of our new miniseries, Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts (sponsored by our friends at Pipe), we confront the biggest ...

The Launch of Facing Credit

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Kevin Moss (Senior Advisor at Baselayer, former CRO) to help launch Facing Cr...

Fintech Takes x Pipe presents Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts Episode 5: Go To Market

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to our new miniseries Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts, sponsored by our friends at Pipe. In episode 5, hosts Alex...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: EtherFi, Lunos AI, Circuit & Chisel, & Figure

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about fintech startups we’re absolutely not giving ...

Fintech Takes x Pipe presents Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts Episode 4: Build, Buy, or Partner?

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to our new miniseries Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts, sponsored by our friends at Pipe. In episode 4, we attempt...

Fintech Takes: Gambling is the Biggest Threat to Consumers’ Financial Health

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. Listeners may remember my first audiobook experiment…well, we’re back, by popular demand!  In our second ever F...

Fintech Takes x Pipe presents Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts Episode 3: Fintech Strategy

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to our new miniseries Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts, sponsored by our friends at Pipe. In episode 3,  we dig ...

Fintech Recap: Plaid Pays Chase, FBI Circles BaaS, and FICO Tries AI

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my partner-in-recapping, Jason Mikula.  First up: the uneasy détente in ...

FT x Nova Credit Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Episode 4: The Cash Flow Bureau of the Future

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and thanks for joining us for the fourth and final episode of Cash Flow Conversations, a new miniseries sponsored by Nova Credit. In episode...

Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Episode 3: Saying “Yes” to More Underserved Consumers

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome back to Cash Flow Conversations, a new miniseries sponsored by Nova Credit. Episode 3 is my conversation with Matt Zalubowski, C...

Fintech Takes x Pipe presents Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts Episode 2: Customer Centricity

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to our new miniseries, Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts, sponsored by our friends at Pipe. Vertical SaaS platforms...

Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Episode 2: Experimenting With (and Scaling Up the Use of) Cash Flow Data

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome back to Cash Flow Conversations, a new podcast miniseries sponsored by Nova Credit. We’re exploring how cash flow data moves f...

Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Episode 1: How Do Credit Risk Executives Think About Cash Flow Data?

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome to Cash Flow Conversations, a new podcast miniseries sponsored by Nova Credit. If you’ve followed my work, you’ll know that ...

Startup Truths and Reality Checks

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by David Roos, Partner at Core Innovation Capital — an early-stage fintech inv...

Fintech Takes x Pipe presents Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts Episode 1: A Crash Course in vSaaS

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our new miniseries, Vertical SaaS: Fintech Disruption by a Thousand Cuts, sponsored by our friends at Pipe. This six-part miniseries exp...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Welcome Tech, Bumper, Scalar Field, & Structify

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I riff about fintech companies we’re absolutely not giving investment advice o...

Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth Episode 4: Wave a Magic Wand

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re at the finish line of Source of Truth, the new podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at SOLO. And much like in a ...

Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth Episode 3: Hard Lessons Learned from the Trenches

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome back to Source of Truth, a new miniseries sponsored by our friends at SOLO. This series is about information asymmetry; the enemy o...

Bank Nerd Corner: OCC vs. States, NBA Moneyball, and Tokenized Deposits

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Bank Nerd Corner featuring Kiah Haslett (whose inaugural Fintech Takes Banking newsletter is officially live – subscribe here to sta...

Fintech Recap: Open Banking, BaaS Island, and GENIUS Act Updates

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my partner-in-recapping, Jason Mikula.  First up, the open banking saga c...

Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth Episode 2: Context is King

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome back to Source of Truth, the new podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at SOLO. This series is about i...

Fintech Takes x SOLO Presents Source of Truth. Ep 1: Is Truth Enough to Unlock Trust?

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, and welcome to Source of Truth, a new podcast miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at SOLO. This series is about informat...

Bank Nerd Corner: CFPB’s Flip, Crypto’s Endgame, and The Erebor Backdoor

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bank Nerd Corner is back with Kiah Haslett returning … not just as co-host, but as an official member of Fintech Takes!  That’s right, big new...

Inside Open Banking’s Rule, Reversal, and Reset

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Dan Murphy — Founder of Sunset Park Advisors and former CFPB official who h...

Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders E6: Crystal Ball – The Future of Financial Regulation

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the finale of Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders (a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with...

Why Is This Happening? The CFPB’s 14-Year Culture War

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes.  I’m Alex Johnson, and today we’re trying something different: a little audiobook experiment.  I’m turnin...

Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders Title: Episode 5: AI Agents in Financial Services: What Happens When Robots Make the Calls?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with ...

Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: Ep 4: Customer Acquisition in the Age of AI

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with ...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Alix, Narrative, Ogment AI, & SOLO

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I riff about fintech companies we're absolutely not giving investment advice on ...

Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens Ep 3: Compliance Officers in the Age of AI: Creating Second Line 2.0

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with ...

Fintech Recap: Chase vs. Data, Congress vs. Crypto

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) by my partner-in-recapping, Jason Mikula. Usually, we sift through a grab bag...

Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens Ep 2: Credit Risk Analytics in the Age of AI

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with ...

Fintech Takes x FairPlay Presents Model Citizens: Into the CFPB Void: Regulatory Free-for-All in Financial Services

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Model Citizens: AI Compliance for Banks and Fintech Lenders, a six-part miniseries from the Fintech Takes podcast in partnership with Fair...

Fintech Takes: Chase Leads, the CFPB Retreats, and There’s Still No Throughline

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Evan Weinberger, Bloomberg Law reporter and bank regulation whisperer (and th...

Fintech Takes: Cards, Rent, and Crypto

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Matthew Goldman — Totavi founder, serial fintech builder (Wallaby, Vertical...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Polar,  Multiply Mortgage, OpenTrade, & Spinwheel

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I talk about fintech companies that we're definitely not giving investment advic...

Fintech Recap: BNPL’s Black Box, Synapse’s Maybe-Bailout, and Crypto Dreams

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined (as always) with my partner-in-fintech-recapping, Jason Mikula. Let’s get into it. Firs...

Fintech Takes: Credit Scores, Cash Flow, and the Coming Trust Collapse

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m your host, Alex Johnson, joined by Martin Kleinbard; advisor at Granular, ex-CFPB, and author of the ...

Fintech Takes: Are Stablecoins a Threat…or Just Better Infrastructure?

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, and today we’re lucky enough to dig into stablecoins (again!) with James Wester, co-head of payme...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Nekuda, Vontive, Atticus, & Affiniti

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I talk about fintech companies that we're definitely not giving investment advic...

Fintech Recap: Chime’s Rorschach Test, Fintech vs. Sand, and Crypto’s Legislative Makeover

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode of Fintech Recap, Jason Mikula and I break down a surprisingly busy run of headlines. The IPO window is open after all: eToro...

Fintech Takes: Gambling, Finance, and the Fallout

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m your host, Alex Johnson, and today we’re digging into one of the most urgent (and underdiscussed) f...

Not Fintech Investment Advice: Cardamon, Sprive, Figg, & Glide

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, the podcast where Simon Taylor and I (Alex Johnson) talk through fintech companies we’re intrigued by...

Fintech Takes: What the Hell’s Going On (Bank Regulation, Stablecoins, and Credit)

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m your host, Alex Johnson, and joining me for his second spin on the podcast merry-go-round is Rob Blackwell (Chief...