BANK ON IT

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 George Anderson CEO & Founder from Enterprise Engineering inc and Ninth Wave. Enterprise Engineering impressively has a clientele base that spans the base of many major financial institutions.  Within his career of 25 years, he’s worked with most of Wall Street and he knows these firms inside and out. With his engineering prowess he created a company called Ninth Wave, building it to be a go-to partner for universal financial data integration, delivering a secure, seamless and standardized information supply chain at massive scale.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spo

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 with Gilles Gade, founder & CEO, of Cross River Bank. Just a few days before this episode aired – Cross River announced a $100 million investment, led by private equity firm KKR & Co Inc. Chinese fintech conglomerate CreditEase, LionTree Partners, in addition to Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures and Ribbit Capital, who returned to join the equity round after a $28 million dollar investment in 2016. At the heart of it all Cross River Bank partners with a number of leading marketplace lending platforms including Affirm and RocketLoans to help people get access to credit. Their payments products are the rails that C

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 McEvoy, Managing Director of Tribeca Angels.  Tribeca Angels is a collection of current and former finance professionals, entrepreneurs, and technologists focused on assisting and investing in seed or early stage companies in the FinTech space.  John McEvoy is a successful entrepreneur exiting 3 companies, CrediteX, being one that sold to ICE (NYSE parent) for $625,000,000 in June, 2008.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Next Tuesday’s episode with Gilles Gade from Cross River Bank.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly

This is a special release and extended episode.  The host John Siracusa recorded on site during Coindesk, Consensus Invest 2018 in NYC and interviewed speakers from the event.     Some of the speakers at the event were Jeff Sprecher founder and chairman of Intercontinental Exchange/ ICE, Jay Clayton, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  There were many Crypto/investment strategies shared and you can watch the videos from the event here.      In this podcast episode we’re releasing our interviews with the following event speakers.   Nolan Bauerle - Coindesk Jacob Donnelly - Coindesk Demetrios Skalkotos - Ledger Jeremy Drane - Libra Caitlin Long   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursdays episode with John McEvoy from Tribeca Angels.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services industry. He's

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 Zac Prince, CO-Founder and CEO of BlockFI.  BlockFi is a non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto assets.  As a company they have raised over 50 million from such investors as Galaxy Investment Partners and SOFI.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear a special episode tomorrow where John interviewed onsite during CoinDesk’s Consensus: Invest   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services in

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 iHeartRadioIn this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Milind Mehere co-founder and CEO of Yieldstreet.  YieldStreet, is a company which connects investors to asset-based alternative investments.  It has raised over $100 million to date and has investors such as Saturn Ventures, Raine Ventures, Greycroft, FJ Labs and Expansion Venture Capital.    Before Yieldstreet, Milind was a co-founder of Yodle which was acquired by web.com for $342 million in February 2016.   Tune in and Listen.Subscribe now to hear next Tuesdays interview with Zac Prince from BlockFi.About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group office

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 Jared Hecht,  Co-Founder and CEO of Fundera.  Jared was one of the creators of Groupme which was acquired by Skype in 2011 for around 80 million.  Then he went and created Fundera,  a marketplace for small business financial solutions such as loans, credit cards, and banking.  Fundera has investors such as First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures and QED Investors and has raised over $18 Million to date. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Thursdays interview with Milind Mehere from Yieldstreet.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group o

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 Atish Davda,  Co-Founder and CEO of EquityZen.  EquityZen is a marketplace for investing in private tech companies backed by top-tier venture capital firms. Shareholders in private companies now have a way to get cash in exchange for their illiquid equity. To date, EquityZen has completed 4800+ transactions in over 100 pre-IPO companies.  EquityZen has investors such as Draper Associates, ZenStone Venture Capital, WorldQuant Ventures, Vaidya Capital Partners and raised over $11 Million to date.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesdays interview with Jared Hecht from Fundera.   About the host:  

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Luvleen Sidhu,  Co-Founder and President of BankMobile.  She started her banking career at Lehman Brothers and on her first day after 6 weeks of training was the beginning of it’s collapse.  Now she’s a co-founder at BankMobile, a company that provides a mobile first banking experience which has 1.6 million accounts and is the offspring of Customers Bank in Pennsylvania.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday’s interview with Atish Davda from EquityZen.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic brandin

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Chris Britt Co-Founder and CEO of Chime.  Chime is a  U.S. challenger bank and technology company. Chime has received well over $100,000,000 funding to date from investors such as Omidyar, Forerunner Ventures, Cathay Innovation and Menlo Ventures.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Thursday’s interview with Luvleen Sidhu from BankMobile.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services i

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Ali Hamed Co-Founder and managing partner of CoVenture. Coventure is an asset management firm that manages funds across Venture Capital, Credit, and Crypto.  Coventure has a unique model of investing it’s engineering know-how into interesting companies that don’t have the technical resources needed, in return those companies provide equity to CoVenture.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday’s interview with Chris Britt from Chime. About the host:  John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Stuart Sopp Founder and CEO of Current. Current is a financial technology company that provides collaborative banking solutions, starting with a smart debit card and app for parents to provide better financial education for their kids.  Stuart’s journey from Forex (foreign exchange) to Current is a unique and interesting one.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear Thursday’s interview with Ali Hamed from CoVenture.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services ind

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Sohail Prasad Co-founder and President of Equidate. Equidate is a stock market for private companies and Sohail’s journey from past companies to creating Equidate is fascinating.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday’s interview with Stuart Sopp from Current.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech eco

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Dan Vene Co-founder and managing partner of iCapital network.  iCapital Network is a powerful financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices and other sophisticated investors.  Dan was the founder and CEO of Earnings.com a company acquired by Thomson Financial (Thomson Reuters).   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Thursday’s interview with Sohail Prasad from Equidate.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, w

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Emily Steele,President, North America at Temenos.   Emily has worked at startups and joined Temenos through an acquisition.  Temenos is a large global banking core which had the foresight 25 years ago to develop an open API ecosystem in a time and place where other cores didn’t.  Emily is a well respected leader and understands banking as it sits today and where it’ll be tomorrow.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday’s interview with Dan Vene from iCapital Network.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a str

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Bill Capuzzi from Apex Clearing.   Peak6 Investments and Penson Worldwide Inc. announced the creation of Apex in June of 2012. Prior to joining Apex as CEO, Bill initially tried to acquire it.   Today Apex is growing with hundreds of employees and during the interview Bill shared his view on developing the company culture.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear Thursday’s interview with Emily Steele from Temenos.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Dee Choubey , co-founder & CEO at MoneyLion.  MoneyLion was built on the hypothesis that consumers would pay in (personal) data and social capital to save on their banking fees and lower loan rates.   That hypothesis bundled with the question “how can we lend to customers that banks won’t”? Is what MoneyLion was built for. MoneyLion now has well over 100 employees and 3 million users.     Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Tuesday’s interview with William Capuzzi from Apex Clearing. About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Phill Rosen, co-founder & CEO at Even Financial.   Phill was previously a co-founder at Orchard Platform, which was acquired by Kabbage in April 2017.  John & Phill discussed raising money for new ventures, company culture, increasing employee interaction and how banking customers won’t use a banking app like BOFA’s (as an example) to find the financial service products that they want.  Instead he feels that financial services products are a transactional thing that people engage with in order to get the things that they want to when and where they want to get it. That ecosystem is the transactional transportati

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio   This is an extended interview.   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Brett Crosby from PeerStreet and co-founder of Google Analytics. Brett co-founded a company called Urchin software which was acquired in April 2005 by Google and morphed into Google Analytics.   He was on his honeymoon during his first day at google and he talked about how everything in his life changed during the 15 minutes he was about to walk the aisle to do his wedding vows. He talked about google a bit and he discussed in detail how after creating a business case for a two sided mortgage investment platform (soon to be PeerStreet) they went to Michael Burry (Christian Bale’s charact

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing 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 and iHeartRadio These interviews took place during Boston fintech week, in this episode we share highlights from a group of speakers from the event.  In this episode are Anders Brownworth from Circle, Devon Sherman from MassChallenge,  Jean Donnelly from Fintech Sandbox, Meredith Moss from Finomial, Monda Webb from Earnup, Chris Albrecht from Openfin, Greg Woolf from Coalesce.ai and Chris Lustrino from KingsCrowd.     Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Thursday’s interview with Brett Crosby from Peerstreet and co founder of Google Analytics.     About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after finte