Fintech Beat

Famed venture capitalist Matt Harris joins Amias Gerety to discuss how important it is to understand fintech’s past if one wishes to invest in its future — and how another pandemic first ignited digital payments nearly two decades before COVID-19.

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Hong Kong University professor Douglas Arner joins the Fintech Beat podcast to talk about the origins of Ant Group, its regulatory shortcomings in the Chinese financial system, and when he expects to see an IPO.

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Amias Gerety co-hosts Fintech Beat to interview Tricia Kemp, one of the country's most successful venture capitalists, to unbundle just what digital "infrastructure" is and what the answer means in the race for the perfect payment.

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Adeyemi Ajao talks about how he started a $100 million company from a dorm room in Spain, and shares his views on Silicon Valley, being a Black venture capitalist, and the immigrant experience in tech.

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Jenny Xia Spradling, the co-founder of Free Will, recounts her journey, why she walked away from her first startup, and how her new big venture has enabled over $1 billion of donations to nonprofits

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This week Fintech Beat teams up with FRT to cover October’s whirlwind of fintech discussions taking place at the Institute of International Finance, DC Fintech Week, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

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Henrique DuBugras, the founder and co-CEO of Brex, the multibillion dollar payments company, jumps on the show as Fintech Beat’s first co-host and interviews Chris about fintech—and his research on Black financial regulators.

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Mark Branson, the top regulator in Switzerland, explains how Libra came to be based in the country, and how he intends to regulate the cryptocurrency.

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Patrick Njoroge, the Governor of the Central Bank at Kenya, speaks with Chris Brummer at DC Fintech Week 2020 to discuss how Mpesa, one of the world's most successful mobile money transfer services, impacted Kenya’s economic development, and what central bank digital currencies and the rise of crypto mean for Mpesa, and vice versa.

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Chris White, the CEO of Bondcliq, explains why the Fed's attempts to save the economy through corporate debt purchases needs an upgrade, starting with the bond market itself.

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