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.
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Latest Episodes
The Future of Payments is Agentic and Tokenized, with Basis Theory CEO Colin Luce and CTO James Armstead
The payments industry spent years turning tokenization into a business tool for lock-in. So what does it mean that the same technology might now hold the key to making agentic payments actually work?Reggie Young sits down with Basis Theo...
Building the Modern Tax Engine with Gavin Nachbar, Column Tax co-founder and Aiwyn CPO
If AI is about to transform tax filing, why do 55% of Americans still trust a human to do it for them?In this episode, host Reggie Young sits down with Gavin Nachbar, founder of Column Tax and Chief Product Officer at Aiwyn, to unpack wh...
Simon Taylor on Where Agentic Spend is Going
Will stablecoins replace cards — or is that narrative missing how payments actually work?In this episode, Reggie Young sits down with Simon Taylor, founder of Fintech Brainfood and Head of Market Development at Tempo, to unpack one of th...
A Primer on US Fintech Expansion with Klaros' Andy Kampf
What actually breaks when a fintech expands to the U.S. — product, licensing, hiring, or assumptions?In this episode, host Reggie Young sits down with Andy Kampf, Partner at Klaros Group and former Klarna US legal lead, to unpack the rea...
Middesk CEO Kyle Mack on AI, Good Data, and Business Onboarding in 2026
What happens when you try to build AI-driven fintech products on top of messy, incomplete, or unreliable data?In this episode of Fintech Layer Cake, host Reggie Young sits down with Kyle Mack, CEO of Middesk, to unpack why data—not AI—is...