About this podcast
Fintech moves fast. But here at Fintech Takes, Alex Johnson and his rotating panel of guests move faster so that you can stay on top of the latest and greatest news in the industry without breaking a sweat.
Welcome to Fintech Takes—the place where fintech’s biggest nerds come to sit back, relax, and completely geek out.
Join Alex and a lineup of fintech’s brightest minds as they dissect what’s happening in fintech and banking.
Each week, Alex and his guests recap the most interesting developments in fintech and explore the industry’s most pressing questions, diving headfirst into the intricate workings of some of the industry’s most ground-breaking business models and unpacking the emerging players that promise to shape fintech’s future.
From riveting conversations with fintech’s most relevant operators to comprehensive recaps of the month's most compelling news stories and in-depth analyses of the latest regulatory developments, Fintech Takes is your one-stop-shop for navigating the fintech universe.
Subscribe now to join fintech’s nerdiest podcast around!
Episodes
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- Stablecoins IRL (Tempo Edition) · 1 h 0 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m Alex Johnson, joined by Dan Romero, who leads GTM at Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain co-created by Stripe and Paradigm, for a deep dive…
- Fintech Takes x C&R presents: The Business of Lending, Seen From Canada · 52 minWelcome to Season 2 of Collections Conversations, a new miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series digs into how generative AI is…
- Not Fintech Investment Advice: Symphony, Spoolis, Piston, MoneyStack · 1 h 5 minWelcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I offer up fintech startups that caught our eye and offer absolutely no investment advice. First up is…
- Fintech Takes x C&R presents: What Africa Can Teach the Industry About Credit & Collections · 48 minWelcome to Season 2 of Collections Conversations, a new miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series digs into how generative AI is…
- Anatomy of an Agentic Transaction · 1 h 15 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes! I’m Alex Johnson, joined once again by Dan Murphy (partner at Allon Advisors and former CFPB official who worked on the Section 1033 open banking…
- Fintech Recap: Whop, Revolut, and Chime Buys Stride · 1 h 15 minWelcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We kick things off with Whop, a creator marketplace that announced…
- Fintech Takes x C&R Software Presents: Fintech’s Next Test Across the U.S. and U.K. · 45 minWelcome to Season 2 of Collections Conversations, a new miniseries from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at C&R Software. The series digs into how generative AI is…
- The Investor Diaries · 58 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Tim Flacke (Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth) to unpack The Investor Diaries, their 15-month research project on how…
- Under the Hood of Fintech Products · 60 minWelcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Jas Shah, fintech product consultant and author of one of my favorite newsletters, Fintech: Under the Hood…
- A Crisis of Confidence: This Has Happened Before · 51 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes. Diehard listeners may remember my first and second audiobook experiments. By popular demand, here's a third. I’m turning my recent deep dive, “A…
- Can You Standardize Bank-Fintech Risk? · 57 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by two of my favorite Jasons (Jason Mikula of Fintech Business Weekly and Jason Henrichs of Alloy Labs) to go deep on the…
- Fintech Recap: Risk, Standards, and Double Standards · 1 h 10 minWelcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We open with Coastal Community Bank, which swung from a $12M in…
- Fintech Takes x Nova Credit Presents Cash Flow Conversations Ep 7: A Traveling Credit Score · 1 h 1 minHello, and welcome back to Cash Flow Conversations, a podcast series sponsored by Nova Credit. If you've followed my work, you'll know that I'm obsessed with cash flow data…
- Premium Cards Get Weird · 1 h 1 minWelcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m Alex Johnson, joined again by fellow fintech creator Matthew Goldman, founder and managing member of Totavi, and author of one of…
- The SMB Context Margin Paradox · 56 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by David Snitkof (GM of SMB at Ocrolus) to explore one of my all-time favorite topics in financial services: small…
- Not Fintech Investment Advice: Natural, Sky Fusion, Quarters, El Dorado · 1 h 0 minWelcome back to Not Fintech Investment Advice, where Simon Taylor and I do what we do best: talk about companies we're absolutely not giving investment advice on! First up is…
- Fintech Recap: No-KYC Cards and Political Bank Charters Aplenty · 1 h 21 minWelcome back to Fintech Recap. I'm Alex Johnson, joined as always by my partner in recapping, Jason Mikula. We open with a tangled story that you should absolutely read Jason’s…
- Inside Stripe's Open Standard · 59 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined again by James Wester (co-head of payments research at Javelin Strategy & Research), who I’ve come to think of as our…
- The Rules for Self-Driving Money · 1 h 4 minWelcome back to Fintech Takes. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by two of my favorite repeat guests: Steve Boms (Executive Director of FDATA North America) and Dan Murphy (Founder of…
- Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 3: Revenue at Stake · 52 minWelcome to Lending, Unbundled, a new series from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at TruStage. The series traces how consumer lending went from a single institution that…
