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May 9, 2023

7: Exploring Payroll Connectivity: Mortgage, with Argyle

In this special, four-part series, Fintech Takes’ Alex Johnson explores payroll connectivity from a variety of perspectives. In today’s episode, John Hardesty and Kyle Green talk with Alex about how payroll connectivity streamlines the mortgage lending process, making it more straightforward than ever before for borrowers and lenders alike. As a GM of […]

May 2, 2023

6: Exploring Payroll Connectivity: Lending, with Argyle

In this special, four-part series, Fintech Takes’ Alex Johnson explores the wide-reaching implications of programmatic, consumer-permissioned access to payroll data. In this episode, Alex chats with Matt Gomes, GM of Consumer Lending and Banking at Argyle, and Jonathan Katz, VP of Client Development at Amount, about how payroll data is transforming the lending process […]

April 26, 2023

5: S3 Ep4: Fintech Recap— Apple Savings, Bunq’s U.S. expansion, and Plaid RTP

Fintech Business Weekly publisher Jason Mikula joins Alex to discuss the latest news in fintech and banking. In this week’s episode, they dissect Apple’s high-yield savings account, discuss how the Netherland-based neobank Bunq will do in the U.S., and name their big takeaways are from Plaid’s newly launched real-time payment capability. And Jason […]

April 25, 2023

4: Exploring Payroll Connectivity – How Argyle is Redefining Income & Employment Verification, with Shmulik Fishman

In this special, four-part series, Fintech Takes’ Alex Johnson explores payroll connectivity from a lending, mortgage, and emerging technology perspective. In part one, Alex sits down with Argyle founder and CEO Shmulik Fishman to dissect the evolution of the modern payroll and discover how payroll connectivity companies like Argyle are pushing the boundaries of […]

April 19, 2023

3: S3 Ep3: Fintech’s Biggest Unsolved Problems with Nina Mohanty

Co-founder of Bloom Money, Nina Mohanty, drops by the podcast to discuss just how many unsolved problems remain in fintech and financial services. She and Alex talk about a few of the most notable unsolved problems including credit invisibility, the inaccessibility (and unsexiness) of home ownership, and why the Western banking system is largely […]

April 12, 2023

2: S3 Ep2: BNC: What Makes a Bank Safe, the Federal Discount Window, and Innovation in Banking

With the benefit of some hindsight (finally), what are the big takeaways from SVB? Kiah Haslett, managing editor of Bank Director, is in the studio to chat with Alex about why the SVB collapse is redefining how we think about “safe” banking. They explain how a herd mentality and poor time management culminated […]

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