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Fintech One-on-One: Liza Landsman, CEO of Stash
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04/19/24 • 33 min
One of the many challenges for low and middle income (LMI) consumers is building wealth. If you are living paycheck to paycheck with no savings you are more focused on financial survival and likely don't feel you have the capacity to build wealth. This is where Stash comes in.
My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One Podcast is Liza Landsman, the CEO of Stash, a position she has held for around a year now. They are laser-focused on the LMI consumer and have built a suite of tools to help these people save and build wealth. Their Stock-Back Card is truly innovative and is often the first time their customers have ever owned public equities.
In this podcast you will learn:
- What drew her to the CEO role at Stash.
- How Liza describes Stash and its mission.
- Who the typical Stash customer is and how they are using the app.
- Some of the changes she has made at Stash since becoming CEO.
- How their Stock-Back technology works and why it has been groundbreaking.
- The Stash 100 and their approach to financial education.
- What their customer base is focused on when it comes to learning.
- Why they created Stash Core, their back-end infrastructure platform.
- The thinking behind launching a B2B platform.
- What they learned in their Hardworking Americans Survey.
- The scale they are at today.
- How sticky their customers are and what they are doing to reduce churn.
- Liza's vision for the future of Stash.
Connect with Liza on LinkedIn
Connect with Stash on LinkedIn
Connect with Fintech One-on-One:
- Tweet me @PeterRenton
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
Fintech Nexus News Show - November 17, 2022
Fintech Nexus
11/21/22 • 31 min
On the show this week we discussed big fintech news from FTX (of course), U.S. Department of the Treasury, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Custodia Bank, Walmart, One Inc, Shopify, BALANCE and more.
01/28/23 • 45 min
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Dani Pensack, Co-Founder & CEO of Rightfoot.
Rightfoot enables developers to add debt repayment to any application.
Founding stories are always unique, but Dani and Rightfoot are thus far the most interesting to date. They moved into a retirement home to test out their initial idea. Yup, a retirement home, and only one out of 150 said yes.
The idea was that high school kids could make good money by helping retirees with technical tasks like coding; the money would then go into a 529 education account.
While the initial idea didn’t pan out, it helped them to figure out their current business and gave them a life experience like no other. Dani is one of the most resourceful founders I’ve met thus far; just wait until you hear the vacation van story.
Dani and I also discussed the core problems associated with debt repayment, how debt impacts households, her time in Southeast Asia, raising capital, and much more.
If you want to sponsor an episode, come on as a guest, or sponsor one of our many digital or in-person offerings, please reach out anytime at [email protected].
Without further ado, Dani Pensack, Co-Founder & CEO of Rightfoot. I hope you enjoy the show.
Episode highlights include
- Dani’s journey to Rightfoot
- Rightfoot’s founding story
- Dani’s time at IBM in SE Asia
- How Rightfoot’s API works
- Embedded finance
- Financial Inclusion
- The barriers women-led startups face raising capital
- Tips on raising capital
- Recommended reading - The Messenger by Markus Zusak
- And much more...
Connect with Danielle on LinkedIn
Connect with PitchIt:
- Tweet me @ToddFintech
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous PitchIt episodes
- Email me at [email protected]
Until next time.
Fintech One-on-One: Jacob Haar, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Community Investment Management (CIM)
Fintech Nexus
11/14/23 • 37 min
There has been endless talk in fintech over the past year and a half about the pullback from equity investors and how difficult it is to raise money in this environment. Less is being talked about the debt investment landscape.
So, I wanted to bring Jacob Haar, Founder and Managing Partner of Community Investment Management (CIM), back on the show (he was previously a guest in 2015 and 2020). He has been a debt investor in fintech for almost a decade now and he has deep experience with fintech lending not just in the United States but increasingly around the world.
In this podcast you will learn:
- How he describes CIM today.
- How the pandemic played out for them.
- What areas of fintech he finds most interesting today.
- What countries he is focused on.
- Examples of some recent deals CIM has closed.
- The size of the typical debt facilities they provide.
- The factors CIM considers today when making an investment decision.
- Why they decided to move outside small business lending.
- How their investors view impact versus a financial return.
- How the deal between Camino Financial (podcast here) and Fundation (podcast here) came together.
- Jacob's thoughts on transparency in small business lending and the regulatory movement there.
- Some of the key milestones that fintech lending has reached in the past 10 years.
- Why he is optimistic about the next decade.
Connect with Jacob on LinkedIn
Connect with Community Investment Management on LinkedIn
Connect with Fintech One-on-One:
- Tweet me @PeterRenton
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
01/19/23 • 10 min
11/24/23 • 34 min
The use of machine learning models in underwriting for consumer loans has been around for more than a decade. While fintech clearly took the lead here it has really only been the last couple of years where traditional lenders are engaging with this technology. While these AI/ML models are different from the Generative AI craze that has embraced the business world in the past year, this phenomenon has certainly helped with awareness.
My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Laura Kornhauser, the CEO and Co-Founder of Stratyfy. Her company is on a mission to enable greater financial inclusion for people while also helping financial institutions better manage and mitigate risk. They do that by implementing their advanced AI models and, of course, through the dedication of their people.
In this podcast you will learn:
- The founding story of Stratyfy.
- The company's mission and how it has evolved?
- The different types of financial institutions they work with today.
- How they differentiate themselves from others in the space.
- How their UnBias product works.
- What being transparent means for adverse action notices.
- What is top of mind for most banks and fintechs today.
- The types of data their clients are using that are most important.
- What is involved in implementing Stratyfy into a lender's system.
- How their AI models have improved over time.
- How the popularity of AI through ChatGPT has impacted Stratyfy.
- What it was like raising an equity round in 2023.
- The biggest challenge Stratyfy is facing today.
- How AI will continue to improve when it comes to credit and risk decisions.
Connect with Laura Kornhauser on LinkedIn
Connect with Stratyfy on LinkedIn
Connect with Fintech One-on-One:
- Tweet me @PeterRenton
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
06/10/22 • 43 min
This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA (formerly known as LendIt Fintech USA) held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 25-26, 2022.
It is from the track: Fintech in 2027 - Sponsored by Mastercard and is titled: Social Investing, Meme Stocks and the Future of the Retail Investor.
Speaking at this session are David McDonough, Commonstock, Jay Woods, DriveWealth, Rishi Khanna, Stocktwits, David Dindi, AtomicVest inc. with Moderator: Andrew Dix, Crowdfund Insider.
04/05/24 • 31 min
I don't think any fintech company has done more for small business than Square. They started with payment acceptance and have since expanded into many different areas of fintech. In fact, their lending business is now the largest in all of fintech. But it was the addition of Square Banking that has allowed this fintech pioneer to bring it all together.
My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Christina Riechers, the General Manager of Square Banking. She has been at Square nine years and was one of the architects of Square's push into banking. This is the second podcast in the series that I recorded live at Fintech Meetup in early March.
In this podcast you will learn:
- What first attracted Christina to Square.
- Block's mission and how that resonated with her.
- The origins of Square Banking and Christina's role in it.
- How they built out their banking capabilities.
- The different starting points for small businesses in joining their ecosystem.
- Why established small business switch to Square Banking.
- The scale they are at today for Square Lending.
- How they are underwriting these loans.
- How they are able to see a holistic view of the small business's finances.
- How their customers are using the proceeds from their Square loans.
- The astounding percentage of women-owned business they are serving.
- What is top of mind for Square sellers today.
- How their payroll service works.
- What integration opportunities there are between Cash App, Afterpay and Square Banking.
- What they doing around Generative AI.
- The fintech trends that Christina is paying closest attention to right now.
Connect with Christina on LinkedIn
Connect with Square on LinkedIn
Connect with Fintech One-on-One:
- Tweet me @PeterRenton
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
Fintech Nexus News Show: March 30, 2023
Fintech Nexus
03/31/23 • 30 min
On this week's show with special guest Ron Shevlin we discussed big fintech news from First Citizens Bank, Early Warning (Paze), Apple, big banks vs small banks, the FDIC, venture capital, Binance, HM Treasury and more.
06/13/22 • 18 min
This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA (formerly known as LendIt Fintech USA) held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 25-26, 2022.
It is from the track: Consumer Lending: BNPL, Cards and Personal Loans - Sponsored by FICO and is titled: The State of Consumer Lending Today Post Pandemic.
Speaking at this session are Lindsay Burkhalter, Curinos, Rosemary Kelley, KBRA, with Moderator: John Wirth, TransUnion.
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The first episode of Fintech Nexus was released on Jun 7, 2022.
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