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I'm always interested in the back stories of the people I speak with in FinTech.  What drives them, how did they get into the industry, who motivates them, etc.?  I walked away from my interview with ...

1 Helmi 20175min

It’s ‘Nicols’, not ‘Nichols’.  This is about the only thing most folks in the FinTech and banking space get wrong about JP Nicols, one of the co-founders of the FinTech Forge.  JP is one of the most r...

1 Helmi 20178min

Financial Services has become a convoluted space full of both well established players and new startups fighting for market share and customers.  The difficulty is finding the signal through the noise...

1 Helmi 20178min

The term "influencer" is a hotly contested identifier in the fintech world these days.  Not a day goes by that a new "influencer" list is published for a given corner of the fintech ecosystem and the ...

26 Tammi 20177min

Sylvie Boucheron, the Head of Financial Institutions for ACI Payments, recently moved to Naples, Florida for her company.  Just a little different from her native Marseille.  The biggest cultural chan...

26 Tammi 20176min

You know those individuals you meet for the first time but it seems as if you've been friends forever?  That describes Megan Caywood, the Chief Platform Officer for Starling Bank.  We hit it off immed...

16 Tammi 201711min

Sometimes your name is prophetic.  This is exactly the situation with John Hope Bryant.  He has exemplified the concept of 'hope' throughout his life and specifically with Operation Hope, his organiza...

15 Tammi 201712min

Brian Roemmele has a natural affinity for the audio realm - whether this be through his love of music or through his belief that voice would become the next operating system way before this was the "i...

13 Tammi 20179min