Many fintech companies need significant amounts of debt capital, and I am not just talking about lenders. For young companies, this can be a real problem because they don't have a track record that could bring in a warehouse line at a bank. This is where i80 Group comes in.

Today, my guests on the Fintech One-on-One podcast are Asher Hochberg and Peter Frank of i80 Group. Their company operates in a niche where they provide massive amounts of debt capital to VC-backed companies, up to 50 times the amount of equity capital.

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On the news show this week we discuss the crypto meltdown, stablecoins, Janet Yellen's comments, Coinbase, Tiger Global Management, Chainalysis Inc., CFPB, Terry Angelos, DriveWealth, Robinhood and more.

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TRON is the fastest-growing public blockchain in the world with almost 92 million accounts. It was founded by Justin Sun in 2017 and is a layer 1 decentralized blockchain with an entire ecosystem built around it. It recently switched to become a DAO and they have just launched the USDD decentralized stablecoin. 

My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Dave Uhryniak, the Director of Blockchain Strategy at TRON. He introduces us to the different parts of the TRON ecosystem and explains why decentralized finance is so important.

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The rise of Ethereum and decentralized finance has resulted in a huge amount of press coverage in both mainstream and fintech press. Some people like to focus on the prices of the various tokens and others prefer to talk about the technology piece. But very little has been written about the origin story of Ethereum and why decentralization has been so important.

My guest today on the Fintech One-on-One Podcast is Laura Shin. She was one of the first journalists in the world to cover crypto full time and has had a front-row seat to all the developments over the last several years. She is the host of the popular podcast, Unchained and has recently published a book called The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.

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On this week's show we discuss big fintech stories about Stripe, Plaid, Yuga Labs, Robinhood, Fiserv. Affirm. California, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, nfts and more.

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The global supply chain is extraordinarily complex and, as we have seen recently, prone to disruption. But technology has made vast improvements for both buyers and sellers which means these disruptions can be mitigated to some extent.

The next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Christian Lanng, the CEO and Co-Founder of Tradeshift. With 1.5 million companies in 190 countries connected on their platform Tradeshift is the world's largest trade technology platform. Many, if not most, of the largest manufacturers, distributors and retailers use Tradeshift to maintain the efficiency of their supply chain.

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A large number of fintech lenders launched in the early 2010s and some are reaching a significant scale today. It is interesting to see those that have stayed focused on lending and those that have expanded into adjacent areas of finance, offering a more full suite of banking services.

Our next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Eyal Lifshitz, the CEO and Founder of BlueVine. They began life as a lender but Eyal's vision was always bigger than that. He sees BlueVine as providing the primary financial relationship for their small business customers, meeting all their needs in one platform.

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On today's show we discussed the Rohit Chopra's (CFPB Director) testimony to both the House and Senate, Fidelity Investments, Robinhood, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, stablecoins, Starling Bank, LendingClub, Lendistry and more.

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Today is a good time to be an investor in alternative assets. Whether it is art, crypto, private equity, real estate, venture capital, or private credit there are many good options, particularly for accredited investors. And at the forefront of this alternatives boom is Yieldstreet.

Our next guest on the Fintech One-on-One Podcast is Milind Mehere, the CEO and Co-Founder of Yieldstreet. He was last on the show back in 2017 and since then they have grown to be the market leader in alternative investments for individuals with around $3 billion invested.

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The tokenization of digital assets is still in its infancy. There are some innovative companies that have created the technology to put a variety of assets onto the blockchain. But no one had done anything with venture capital and limited partners until SPiCE VC, the world's first tokenized VC fund.

My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One Podcast is Carlos Domingo, the CEO and Founder of Securitize. Carlos and his co-founder spun out the technology for SPiCE VC and formed Securitize in 2017. Since then, the company has achieved a number of breakthroughs, not least of which was becoming the first SEC Registered Transfer Agent operating on the blockchain in 2019.

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