Curiosity Code Podcast
by Alex Khomyakov
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About this podcast
Discover the fintech podcast "Curiosity Code", featuring exclusive interviews on fintech innovation and financial technology. Hosted by Alex, founder of the digital agency Productera, with a background in B2B and SaaS companies, the podcast brings together founders, CEOs, visionaries, and fintech leaders driving financial innovation, AI, open banking, and digital transformation.Each episode offers success stories, challenges, and groundbreaking ideas about the future of blockchain, AI agents, digital payments, wealth management, and other related financial technologies.
Episodes
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- How Do We Make Financial Advice Independent of the Advisor? | Abhishek Taneja · 45 min · Season 4 Episode 11Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! The most important data in wealth management is not in a database. It lives in advisors' heads and in their notebooks. Abhishek…
- AI Coding Agents in Finance: What to Hand Over, What to Keep · 9 minLovely listener, share with us your thoughts! 9 out of 10 professional developers now use AI coding agents every week. This year, the best agent in a benchmark built to look like…
- Who's Liable When AI Agents Make Payments? | Abril Benhumea · 33 min · Season 4 Episode 10Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! An AI agent books your flight, stays inside the budget you gave it, and pays for the wrong date. Who is responsible? Abril Benhumea…
- Your Team Doesn't Need to Understand RAG. It Needs These 3 Things · 9 minLovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Prudential in Singapore built an AI assistant for its insurance representatives. Six of its own experts graded the answers, and 59%…
- Programmable Self-Custody for Crypto | Frank Hepworth · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 9Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Frank Hepworth breaks down programmable self-custody, an onchain model where clients own their crypto accounts and a manager can…
- Wise Owns Its Rails. Remitly Rents Them. Who's Winning? · 9 minLovely listener, share with us your thoughts! One remittance company owns its payment rails and keeps 52 cents of every $100. Another rents them, keeps about $2, and grew faster…
- AI Agents: Who's Accountable for Mistakes? | Erich Barlow · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 8Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! AI governance for AI agents in financial services: when an agent makes a mistake at computer speed, who is accountable? Erich Barlow…
- Crypto-Backed Lending Explained | Himanshu Sahay · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 7Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Himanshu Sahay, Co-Founder of Arch Lending and a former engineering leader at Snapchat, Tinder, and Bird, breaks down how…
- AI Agents in Fintech: Are They Out of Control? · 10 minLovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Are AI agents out of control, or are most companies just governing them with suggestions? A solo episode on agentic AI in banking…
- Crypto Won. So Where Did the Money Go? | Colin Butler · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 6Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Colin Butler spent 2022 to 2025 as Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Labs, where his team ran every major…
- Will Open Finance Democratize Banking? | Jose Luis Navarro · 28 min · Season 4 Episode 5Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Open banking is evolving faster than most traditional banks can keep up with — so where should they even start? In this episode…
- Tokenization in Banking: Stablecoins & Digital Assets | Parag Monteiro · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 4Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Tokenization is transforming banking. Parag Monteiro, Global Head of Digital Asset Platforms at Standard Chartered, reveals how…
- Open Banking APIs Transform Fintech | Christie Kristensen · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 3Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Open banking APIs revolutionized how banks and fintechs collaborate. Christie H. Kristensen from Danske Bank shares insider…
- AI Fraud Detection in Payments | Srishti Andreasen · 35 min · Season 4 Episode 2Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! AI-powered fraud is reshaping payment security. Srishti Jain Andreasen, Global Business Development Executive at RS Software…
- Blockchain Bonds & On-Chain Assets | Steve Wallace · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 1Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Which asset class gets fully tokenized first? Steve Wallace breaks down blockchain tokenization, on-chain bonds, regulatory gaps…
- Blockchain in Banking: Threat or Opportunity | Artur Kartshikyan · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 20Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Digital banking transformation in Armenia and Central Asia: ACBA Bank's Head of Digital Banking reveals how banks are navigating…
- Fintech M&A Strategy: Exit Timing | Mayerlin Garcia · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 19Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Investment banking expert Mayerlin Garcia reveals when fintech founders should pursue M&A, why scaling companies need external…
- UX Design in Fintech: Banking Innovation | Patrik Borgatai · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 18Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Discover the major differences between investment banking and consumer fintech UX design, and why legacy financial systems make…
- Digital Banking Strategy: Launching 7 Banks | Al Southall · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 16Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Learn digital banking best practices from someone who's launched 7 banks across 25 years. Al Southall shares the real playbook for…
- ATM Technology & Future of Cash Payments | Paul Gardiner · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 17Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! ATM technology expert Paul Gardiner reveals why cash payments continue rising globally despite digital transformation, the hidden…
