The Changing Credit Union from the CFO Chair
Steve Arbaugh, CFO and EVP of Finance at SECU, shares key developments in the financial industry, including technology that is bringing some of the biggest changes for credit unions.
Steve Arbaugh, CFO and EVP of Finance at SECU, shares key developments in the financial industry, including technology that is bringing some of the biggest changes for credit unions.
Amanda Cohen, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance Products at Resolver, sought to innovate and revolutionize how businesses view compliance teams. In the past, compliance has been viewed as a tiresome and tedious aspect of projects, but Amanda knew it didn’t have to be this way.
Kim Snyder, CEO and founder of KlariVis, has always sought ways to make data as accessible and transparent as possible. After years of working in numbers as an accountant and as a CFO at a community bank, she recognized that a simple, clear solution for data visibility in banking didn't exist. So, she decided to do something about it.
Henrik Aasted Sørensen co-founded e-Money to bridge traditional bank accounts to blockchain and simplify how we use money.
Brian Harstine created Acquire Invest, powered by blockchain, to bring private equities to every investor and make investing more inclusive and accessible.
Billy Roberts, CEO of Wedge, created a smart debit card to simplify banking for users and stand out as a sustainable financial option.
Andy Witherbee, CEO and founder of Engage Partners Group, shares insight from his experience in the financial services industry and discusses building future-ready financial organizations.
Ben Soppitt, co-founder and CEO of Unifimoney, shares his goal of simplifying investing by cutting out third-party applications. His company’s vision is to ensure everyone is able to manage their money in one simple and easily accessible place.
Tyler Griffin, co-founder and managing partner of Financial Venture Studio, knows the ins and outs of what it takes for a founder to succeed. Griffin, who has decades of experience in the fintech and banking space, shared his first-hand experience in the fintech community and provided insight into how new founders can connect themselves to the broader fintech network.
Matt Kopko, VP of Public Policy at DailyPay, handles the company’s regulatory interaction, lobbying activity, and research on its financial wellness impact. Matt and Hunter discuss the future of payments and on-demand payroll.
If you’ve tried to buy a house in the past year (or just browsed a real estate marketplace for fun), you may have noticed that housing prices and the demand for real estate soared at a record-breaking pace. Hunter’s latest guest, Alex Leduc, founded Canadian-based proptech Perch with the goal of empowering people throughout the entire home buying process.
Michelle Toll, the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Digital First, LLC joins the podcast. Prior to her new venture, Michelle had over 20 years of experience in community banking. Over the past decade, she nurtured an interest in fintech, disruption, and digital innovation. When she connected with a former colleague (turned co-founder), the idea of a community-focused, digital bank emerged and she decided it was the perfect fit for what the market needed.
On the latest episode, Hunter hosts Nancy Giordano, a strategic futurist whose accomplished career began in the advertising and branding space. Throughout this work, Nancy experienced each notable technology revolution - from the Internet to mobile to social media. Nancy brought her forward-looking mindset to the podcast to give us a peek into what’s to come.
Small businesses everywhere have struggled long enough with disjointed data streams that come from multiple different systems. To make the data “talk back” and tell the story of your business, the accounting data needs to be normalized via modern APIs. Sohaib Zahid joins the podcast to talk about how his company plans to unlock this new era of data for small business accounting.
There seems to be a “moving target” for how to define a digital bank strategy. As more banks and fintechs increase the diversity of their offerings and the size of their digital marketing investment, it’s time to step your game up if you’re thinking about launching a digital bank.
Customer service, and most importantly digital customer service, continues to battle tension between its legacy tools (e.g. IVR phone systems) and the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI), modularization, and on-screen voice. But customers of all ages expect their financial services partners to be there when, where, and how they want.
If you’ve felt uncomfortable while asking a friend to split the dinner bill, reminding a roommate to reimburse you for utilities or hearing an unfulfilled promise of, “I’ll pay you back,” you’re not alone. Our recent podcast guests, Haafiz Abdurrahim and Adoba Yua, co-founded their fintech RiftPay to solve this timeless problem.
Margaret Hartigan created Marstone, a digital wealth management platform, to humanize and demystify finance. The company was founded on solid pillars, including the desire to address a lack of financial literacy. As a former financial advisor of ten years, she noticed a substantial number of people who weren’t financially literate or knowledgeable about their own investments.
Trent Sorbe, founder and president of Central Payments, joins the Financial Experience Podcast to discuss innovation in the fintech space, payment partnerships, and why banks should act like a toaster. Yes, a toaster.
In the latest episode, Hunter talks with the co-founders of a revolutionary app geared toward Gen Z. Katrin Kaurov and Aleksandra Medina, two young entrepreneurs who have traveled across the world and now settled in New York City, noticed a pattern of poor spending habits while building and maintaining a social life in each new place. The price of coffee dates, dinners, and cocktail hours adds up, and they wanted to break the cycle of financial stress for social generations like Gen Z and millennials. So, they started building Frich.
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