INV Unfiltered

The new podcast covering current trends and intriguing topics in fintech and beyond courtesy of Bank Innovation, the fintech blog, and INV Fintech, a leading fintech accelerator.

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Episodes

Why Use Scala Script to Build a Digital Platform

The key benefit of using programming language Scala to build a digital platform is a feature called Type Safety, which allows for better and faster testing because it allows detecting "errors while writing the code," before running it, according to Jason Brown, CEO and co-founder of fintech Tally. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast, Brown explained that Scala is an important, but underrated, layer to develop a cloud-based platform for financial services because of its ability t...

Feb 15, 2019•13 min

Pagaya CEO Looks at the Market in 2019

The volatile markets in 2018 were hard for many investors to grasp. Gal Krubiner, CEO of Pagaya, discusses how his algorithms looked at the year that was and the year ahead on behalf of the company's institutional clients. Krubiner still spends much of his time evangelizing how AI is a better way for managing fixed income assets. How will the wealth management space handle the disruption heading its ways? And where will the smart money be in 2019? Listen to Krubiner's take here.

Jan 17, 2019•24 min

Interview with Financial Data Exchange

In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, the podcast from Bank Innovation and its sister accelerator INV Fintech, newly appointment Financial Data Exchange managing director Don Cardinal talks about the group’s mission to set standards for data sharing and where it’s going to focus its attention, which includes the areas of data semantics and secure authentication.

Dec 28, 2018•6 min

Braintree's Innovation Plans For 2019

In the five years since payments company PayPal acquired Braintree, a comprehensive payment platform, it has seen a 54% YOY growth, according to Juan Benitez, general manager at Braintree. In 2019, Braintree wants to maintain that momentum but will also be undertaking three key innovation initiatives. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Benitez explains those three areas of focus and much more.

Dec 20, 2018•33 min

Inside HSBC Bank USA's Innovation Strategy

In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Jeremy to Balkin, the head of innovation at HSBC Bank USA talks to Bank Innovation about HSBC’s lofty innovation strategy for 2018, including everything from system upgrades to installing a real robot in the bank branch. Listen to Balkin talk about all this as well as HSBC’s other innovation milestones in 2018, what’s on the roadmap for 2019 as well as what the future of banking will look like, in his opinion.

Dec 13, 2018•27 min

Why JPMorgan Chase Built Finn, an Entirely New Digital Bank

JPMorgan Chase leads the U.S. in mobile banking with 32 million mobile banking users, the most for any U.S. bank. So why build Finn, an entirely new digital bank? Melissa Feldsher, managing director at JPMorgan Chase and head of Finn, discusses why (and how) the new bank was built, in this episode of Fintech Unfiltered.

Jul 27, 2018•13 min

Fintech Unfiltered: N26 USA CEO Nick Kopp talks Challenger Banks in the U.S.

In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, N26 USA CEO Nicolas Kopp talks about what goes into setting up a challenger bank in the U.S., why he thinks the U.S. market is ready for a mobile-first bank and why N26 USA decided against a banking license in the U.S.A., the opposite decision it made in Europe.

Jun 18, 2018•13 min

Fintech Unfiltered: Dwolla's Jordan Lampe on Monetizing Realtime Payments

Payment platform Dwolla's head of strategic projects, Jordan Lampe, talks about realtime payments in this episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast. Lampe explains how banks can use this transactional data to tailor exiting products and services, but also create new ones based on the realtime information exchange taking place during the transaction.

Jun 07, 2018•17 min

Chris Skinner on Ant Financial and the Global Payments Landscape

This month's edition of INV Unfiltered features fintech expert Chris Skinner, who is speaking about the global impact of Chinese digital payment companies like Alipay.

May 14, 2018•15 min

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