
Fintech Nexus News Show: March 30, 2023
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.
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.
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Fintech One-on-One #422: Shmulik Fishman of Argyle
The most important type of financial data in our lives is our income data. This one factor can determine whether we get approved for a loan or to rent an apartment. And yet the majority of people today do not have a traditional salary providing 100% of their income. They often have disparate sources of income that until now has made it very difficult for financial institutions to process.
My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Shmulik Fishman, the CEO and Co-Founder of Argyle. Argyle is all about solving this problem by working with a huge number of sources to provide a complete and accurate picture of income. This process is embedded into a loan or rental application to help make more informed decisions.
In this podcast you will learn:
- The founding story of Argyle.
- How Shmulik describes Argyle today.
- Their core competency and how they embed their experience.
- How they customize their offering depending on the use case.
- How they handle people with disparate income sources.
- The challenge of connecting to tens of thousands of payroll systems.
- The percentage of the workforce they cover.
- How they work with payroll-linked lending.
- Why mortgage lending is the holy grail for income verification.
- How their direct deposit switching offering works.
- How they work with the gig economy vertical.
- How traditional banks are learning from new digital banks.
- What it means today to be a modern lender.
- The best practices when it comes to automated underwriting.
- What the movement towards instant payouts means for funding of loans.
- What is coming down the pipe at Argyle.
Connect with Shmulik on LinkedIn
Connect with Argyle on LinkedIn
Connect with Fintech One-on-One:
- Tweet me @PeterRenton
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
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PitchIt Podcast 87: Lamine Zarrad of StellarFi
On today's episode, I'm joined by Lamine Zarrad, CEO and Founder of StellarFi.
Lamine and I discuss his unique journey to the US and fintech, the inequities in the credit system, rebuilding your credit, why he chose to be a public benefit corporation, the health of the US consumer, banking regulation and failures, raising capital, and much more.
A couple of short PSAs:
We are still accepting applications for PitchIt at Fintech Nexus USA 2023, head to (https://www.fintechnexus.com/usa/2023/startups/) Fintech Nexus dot com for details. The link will be in the show notes.
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, Lamine Zarrad, CEO and Founder of StellarFi. Enjoy the show.
Episode highlights include:
- Lamine's unique journey to the US and StellarFi
- The importance of being a public benefit corporation
- The current credit health of the US consumer
- Why credit building and repairing are so complicated
- Is the credit score outdated?
- Lessons from his time in public service
- Thoughts on the current bank crisis
- Bank failures and financial inclusion
- Recommended reading -
- The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic by Robert L. O'Connell
- Raising capital
- And much more...
Connect with Lamine on LinkedIn
Connect with StellerFi 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.
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