Fintech Layer Cake
Welcome to Fintech Layer Cake. A podcast where we slice big Financial Technology topics into bite-sized pieces for everybody to easily digest. Our goal is to make fintech a piece of cake for everyone. Fintech Layer Cake is powered by Lithic — the fastest and most flexible way to launch a card program.
Fintech Layer Cake
Latest Episodes
Webinar: How Fundbox Launched a Loan-to-Card Program in 7 Weeks
For most of the history of lending, approval and access were two separate events. A borrower gets approved, then waits days or weeks for an ACH to clear before the money is usable. For small businesses managing tight cash flow, that gap can be ...
How a $7B Bank Out-Loaned Chase, and What Fintech Policy Needs Now, with AFC’s Phil Goldfeder
Phil Goldfeder runs the American Fintech Council, the trade group representing nearly 170 fintech and banking companies. Before that he advised Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg, served in elected office, and helped steer Cross River through ...
Nobody Loves SWIFT: Payments Inertia and Invisible Crypto Rails with Davi Strazza from Lightspark
Davi Strazza spent a decade at Adyen as the company scaled from around $30 billion to over $1.3 trillion in annual payment volume, running Latin America and then North America as president. Today he is Chief Business Officer at Lightspark, the ...
A Former Prosecutor on How Fintechs Become Targets, with Laurel Loomis Rimon from Jenner & Block
Laurel Loomis Rimon has spent her career on the enforcement side of fintech. As a federal prosecutor she brought the first case against a digital currency company in the US, years before Bitcoin existed. She later served as an assistant deputy ...
Payments at Square, Etsy, and the Agentic Era, with Drew Edmond, Partner at Glenbrook Partners
Drew Edmond has spent 15 years inside payment operations, first at Square from its scrappy hardware days through IPO, then at Etsy running payments across a marketplace with sellers in 230+ countries. Today he advises merchants at Glenbrook Par...
