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🎧 The Fintech and AI Series: Small Business Lending

In this episode, we sit down with Lukas Haffer, CEO and Co-founder of Casca, and Ryan Hildebrand, Chief Innovation Officer at Bankwell, to explore how AI is transforming small business lending—starting with SBA loans. They discuss the challenges of building on top of legacy banking systems, the stress-test of the COVID-19 PPP era, and how a human-in-the-loop approach is key to deploying AI responsibly in financial services.

You’ll hear how their partnership evolved from a small pilot into a full-stack platform that slashes loan processing times from 90 days to 3. We also dive into fraud prevention, the reality of deploying AI agents in banking, and why trust—not hype—is the foundation of true innovation.

Thanks to Fundbox⁠ for sponsoring this week's episode. With over a decade of experience, ⁠Fundbox⁠ delivers customizable credit solutions including invoice financing, lines of credit, term loans, payroll protection, and more.

🎧 The Fintech and AI Series: KYB

KYB might not be the buzziest acronym in fintech—but maybe it should be. In this episode, we’re joined by Will Lawrence, CEO of Greenlite, and Kurt Ruppel, CTO and Co-founder of Middesk, two leaders rethinking how financial institutions identify and monitor business customers. We cover the evolution from

🎧BaaS and Compliance, a Conversation with Synctera CEO Peter Hazlehurst and Wolf & Company's Matt MacDonald

Welcome back to our weekly fintech podcast! This week, I had the chance to sit down with Peter Hazlehurst, Co-Founder and CEO of Synctera, and Matt MacDonald Financial Technology Service Leader & IT Assurance Senior Manager at Wolf & Company. The conversation was wide-ranging, starting with Wolf & Synctera'

Stableminded S3.6 | Triple-A ft Eric Barbier

In this episode of Stableminded, This Week in Fintech's stablecoin-focused series, Drew Rogers sits down with Eric Barbier, Founder and CEO of Triple-A, a regulated crypto payment infrastructure company that enables businesses to accept, process, and manage cryptocurrency payments without ever holding digital assets on their balance sheets.

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