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Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Hans Morris, partner at Nyca Partners.   Hans is the founding and managing partner of Nyca Partners, a fintech VC in New York and San Francisco founded in 2014, He is the chairman of the board of Lending Club, and a board member of AvidXchange, Boomtown, Payoneer, and SigFig. From 2010 to 2014 he was managing director at General Atlantic, From 2007 until 2010 he served as president of Visa Inc., and from 1980 until 2007, he worked at Citigroup, Before that he was at Salomon Smith Barney.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode wi

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Matt Burton, partner at QED investors.  Matt has spent his career creating technologies and businesses that have transformed industries.  He helped build the Internet’s top advertising exchanges at Google, which was Admeld (acquired by google in 2011) and LiveRail (acquired by Facebook in 2014), which collectively handled trillions of transactions.In 2013 he co founded Orchard which was sold to Kabbage in April 2018.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Next Tuesday's episode with Hans Morris from Nyca Partners.   About the host:   John is the h

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Rhian Horgan, founder and the CEO of Kindur.   Kindur, is a financial company that helps baby boomers embrace modern retirement in a holistic way (wealth + health).   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday’s episode with Matt Burton from QED Investors.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He’s a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector.

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Don Mal, co-founder and the CEO of Vena Solutions.   Vena Solutions, is a portfolio company of Centana Growth Partners. Vena, has about 300 employees, over 600 customers and has raised approximately $120 million to date. During the interview we talked about Don’s interesting story in creating Vena.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday’s episode with Rhian Horgan from Kindur   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused o

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Erkin Adylov, co-founder and the CEO of Behavox.   Behavox, is an enterprise platform that unifies all types of data into a single data lake, allowing users to query the data and apply machine learning to identify capital markets misconduct and insider threats.  Behavox is listed on the CB Insights, The Fintech 250, and Forbes fintech 50, and has attracted over $21 million in funding to date from investors such as Citigroup, Hoxton Ventures and Promus Ventures.        Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday’s episode with Don Mal from Vena

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Chris Bruno, co-founder and the CEO of Rally Rd. Rally Rd. designs and develops an application that lets members invest in individual blue-chip collector automobiles. Breaking vintage cars into securitized assets.  They’ve attracted investors such as Anthemis Group and Social Leverage to fund this opportunity.      Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday’s episode with Erkin Adylov from Behavox   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Cliff Sirlin, Managing Director at LaunchCapital.  Before joining LaunchCapital, Cliff created marketplaces and disrupted supply chains across industries. His businesses have spanned energy (MDEnergy, sold to EnerNOC), dry-cleaning (Cleaner Options, sold to Zoots), real estate, and publishing (Domino Media Group). As an active investor, Cliff’s investments include Seamless, InVision, Pond5, Living Social, Atlas Obscura, Greatist, Transactis, Big Fuel, and many others.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Chris Bruno fro

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with John Buttrick, partner at Union Square Ventures.  USV is recognized as one of the top VCs worldwide.   Current partners are Brad Burnham, John Buttrick, Rebecca Kaden, Albert Wenger, Andy Weissman and Fred Wilson.  John has been with USV since 2010.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Cliff Sirlin from LaunchCapital.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He’

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Nicky Goulimis, co-founder and COO of Nova Credit.  Nova Credit is a cross-border credit reporting agency that is helping provide immigrants access to credit.   Their saying is "Build bridges, not walls."   When someone comes to the USA for an extended period of time they need banking services among other things, such as safe shelter. But in order to access these things, they need a credit history with Transunion, Equifax and/or Experian. Most of which don’t have any history at all. So they end up limiting themselves to cash transactions just to get by.  Nova Credit is changing this by combining world wide c

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Antonio Tomarchio, co-founder and the CEO of Cuebiq.  Cuebiq, provides location based data & analytics for marketers and investors. Cuebiq’s value proposition for marketers is an offline way to measure advertising effectiveness.  For investors, it can help predict future performance of retail based assets. Those use cases are so valuable that it allowed the company to receive $33 million to date from DRW Venture Capital, Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments, NASDAQ and Tribeca Venture Partners   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Lindsay Holden, co-founder and the CEO of Long Game.  Long game, is a personal finance app that allows its users to play games and win cash or crypto prizes up to $1 million.  Helping consumers save money while adding gamification, mixing FDIC insurance and fun.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday’s episode with Antonio Tomarchio from Cuebiq.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry.

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Joe Wald, co-founder and the CEO of Clearpool Group.  Today’s capital markets play on 13 stock exchanges and 40+ off-exchange venues like dark pools.  Which makes markets opaque.  Bringing transparency in this example is a difficult technical feat.  The effect dark pools have on the market is massive yet not commonly known.  Sometimes stock values drop even when a company's current public performance and profile is in strong standings.  How could that happen? Sometimes, this is what dark pools do. Millions of shares are bought and sold in these pools and those trades aren’t recorded in public forums until th

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Stephen Murphy, co-founder and the CEO of Genesis Global Technology.  Genesis, provides a global capital markets software with front to back capabilities across multiple asset classes and business lines.  As a fintech, POCs with a bulge bracket bank can be costly due to the amount of customizations they require. For an early stage fintech, POC’s can be a dangerous double-edged sword since founders need to properly balance revenues to customizations.  Too much customization and the startup can’t sell the product to anyone else, no revenue and the startup will fail. Genesis, turned the model on it’s head and ma

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Olga Feldmeier, co-founder and the CEO of Smart Valor.  Smart Valor, is a security token exchange for alternative investments.  Before Smart Valor, she was with Boston Consulting Group, Barclays, UBS and Xapo.  She has an interesting story of moving from traditional finance to crypto.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday’s episode with Stephen Murphy from Genesis Global Technology.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency f

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Ohad Samet, Co-founder and the CEO at TrueAccord.  TrueAccord is a different way of debt collection for companies that need debt collection services. Trueaccord is playing in a wide open space which hasn’t been innovated in decades, the model of TrueAccord is fully different and is an example of the types of business models laid out in the books, ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’ and ‘Zero to One’.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday’s episode with Olga Feldmeier from Smart Valor.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Ian Lampl, co-founder and CEO at LoanStreet.  LoanStreet, enables institutions like banks & credit unions to syndicate their loans to interested investors. Before Ian co-founded LoanStreet, he was the deputy chief counsel, office of financial stability — Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) at the U.S. Department of Treasury.  In the beginning Loanstreet wasn’t working, It took about 1 year to pivot the model and 4 years of brutal hard work before Loanstreet found traction. Now they have hundreds of banks and credit unions as clients.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, S

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Vince Passione, founder and the CEO at LendKey.  Lendkey is a white label lender, specializing in student loans.  From 2003 until 2006 Vince was the President/COO at DealerTrack. DealerTrack, created connections between the auto dealerships and thousands of lenders nationwide.  Something which never existed before. Now he’s building a similarly structured ecosystem that’ll connect the world of student lending.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday’s episode with Ian Lampl from LoanStreet.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Anna Garcia from Runway Venture Partners.  Anna, has about 15 years experience in capital markets, where she cut her teeth on the trading floor at Merrill Lynch. In 2016 she started Runway Venture Partners with her co-founder Marc Michel where they invest in early stage, revenue-producing companies.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday’s episode with Vince Passione from LendKey.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focu

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Tony Amicangioli from HPR. 10% of all U.S. trades (billions daily) go through HPR’s systems. It’s connected to all U.S. stock exchanges and most others worldwide, acting as a circuit breaker by providing the ability to turn off the connection to prevent a “flash crash”.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday’s episode with Anna Garcia from Runway Venture Partners.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financi

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Chris Cunningham from C2 Ventures. Chris is an angel with business operating experience, some of that experience was in public facing companies such as appssavvy (the first business ad platform on Facebook).  His business experience is priceless for the founders he’s invested in. Some of his current portfolio companies are Petal, Little Fund and Bloom Credit.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday’s episode with Tony Amicangioli from HPR.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite