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Clear-eyed fintech strategy, told through operators.
Fintech Files treats fintech as a practical systems story, not a buzzword parade. Through structured interviews, it connects AI agents, neobanks, embedded lending, cloud infrastructure, and financial inclusion to the daily decisions banks and fintech teams have to make.
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Fintech Files is a structured, business-minded series about the technology and operating choices changing financial services. Its center of gravity is fintech, but the show treats fintech broadly: AI inside banks, digital investing, embedded lending, financial inclusion, cloud infrastructure, neobanks, and the design of more representative financial products. The format is built around long guest answers, with narration stepping in to frame the issue and sharpen the lesson. It is not a chatty news show. It behaves more like an audio briefing with room for personal experience and strategic detail. Recent episodes return often to the question of access. One thread asks how AI could make financial advice available to more people while still preserving a human bridge between automated decisions and customers. Another looks at the credit gap faced by individuals and businesses without traditional credit histories, and how alternative data can help create a path into financial products. The show also studies incumbents under pressure. Its ABN Emeril episode considers how a major bank can launch new digital offerings quickly without losing the advantages of scale, trust, and existing infrastructure. The inclusion episodes broaden the definition of performance, arguing that representation, power, product design, and mental health all shape financial outcomes. Other conversations move into Brazil, African fintech, mobile payments, and cloud-based interoperability. The result is a serious but accessible survey of fintech as lived infrastructure. It spends less time celebrating disruption and more time asking what has to change inside banks, platforms, and markets for new tools to matter. The best moments come when a guest turns a broad trend into an everyday banking scenario: a mortgage decision, a small business loan, a teenager opening a digital account, or an investor trying to get affordable advice. The show is most useful for listeners who want clean context around fintech strategy, with enough operational texture to understand the tradeoffs behind the trend.
Made for: Built for fintech professionals, banking leaders, consultants, product teams, and business listeners who want accessible context on financial technology without a hype-first tone.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by linking executive-level fintech themes to concrete operating details: APIs, lending data, bank architecture, advisor workflows, and inclusion metrics. Its editorial framing keeps complex guest interviews organized and useful.
In Season 5 of Fintech Files, our three hosts are traveling across the global fintech landscape, uncovering the most exciting stories from the world’s leading innovation hubs. From embedded payments to crypto, from financial inclusion to the future of millennial finance, they’re diving into the breakthroughs, bold ideas, and unexpected questions defining what comes next. We’ll be talking to founders and experts behind some of the brightest minds in the industry, exploring how financial technology is becoming ever more invisible, intelligent, and impactful. As financial services touch every aspect of our lives, the opportunity to transform the way the wo...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Fintech Files makes fintech strategy feel concrete, especially around credit, banking infrastructure, AI advice, and financial access.
Fintech Files: Insights on TECH by BCG Platinion belongs on the Business & Finance beat because it treats fintech as work, not slogan. The sampled episodes stay close to people building and running financial products: Susie Ferreira and Genie on embedded lending for Brazilian…
The bank mothership has to explain its APIs before you clap for the innovation deck.
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AI in finance gets a useful middle ground between speed, caution, and human judgment.
It frames AI in financial services as a shift from headline buzz to operating reality, and stays anchored in what banks are already doing. From ChatGPT's November 2022 launch to AI agents in banks and Morgan Stanley's AI assistant, it keeps returning to the same pressure points:…
A major bank's startup experiment feels sharpest when separation does the heavy lifting.
FinTech Files treats ABN Emeril's recent moves as a live test of how a major bank can move quickly without losing control of its own architecture.
A finance-first case for inclusion that keeps returning to access, power, and measurable results.
This episode makes a clear business case for representation and inclusion in fintech, tying visibility to power and access to money. It starts with the claim that every third person in the world is unbanked, then moves through women entering the workforce, leadership in Saudi,…
AI, regulation, and retail investing meet the advice gap.
FinTech Files tracks the future of financial advice through retail investing, generative AI, and the advice gap. Akin Soysal, described as a global expert on digital investing and part of the BCGX leadership team in Europe and the Middle East, gives the discussion its center of…
A grounded look at embedded lending inside Brazil's SME credit bottleneck.
The reshare centers on Susie Ferreira, founder of Genie, and the stubborn SME credit problem in Brazil. It shows how Genie ties lending into e-commerce hubs and payment processors, using platform data to approve and adjust credit lines, watch cash flows, and support paperless…
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
ChatGPT made AI impossible to ignore.
Annarie Vrodingdil puts ABN Emeril's recent moves into one frame.
The episode opens on a blunt distinction.
Anika opens with a direct question about how money will be managed in the future.
Bianca interviews Susie Ferreira.
This episode explores the role of interoperability and cloud technology in advancing Africa's fintech ecosystem, featuring insights from Alfred Mokudu of Amazon Web Services on challenges and innovations in financial services across diverse markets.
This episode features an interview with Vera Futorjanski discussing financial inclusion, its importance in reducing poverty, and her career journey in entrepreneurship and innovation.
This episode explores how Yabx uses alternative data like mobile wallet activity to create credit histories for 1.5 billion unbanked individuals and businesses in emerging markets, addressing financial inclusion challenges.
This episode explores the role of interoperability and cloud technology in addressing Africa's diverse financial landscape, featuring insights from AWS's Alfred Mukudu on challenges and solutions for digital innovation.
This episode features an interview with Emir Isik from Tarabut Gateway discussing how open banking is transforming finance in the Middle East through secure digital platforms connecting banks and fintechs.