Every financial institution on the planet needs to have a digital identity solution. Consumers want to open accounts online or on their phone and they want it to be a quick and efficient process. At the same time, banks want the process to be secure with as little fraud as possible. These two approaches are often at odds with one another.

The next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Mike Tuchen, the CEO of Onfido. They have dedicated themselves to solving this conundrum and in doing so have become a world leader in helping financial institutions verify the identity of their customers.

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The use of AI underwriting models has become widespread in recent years as lenders look to expand their credit boxes without taking on additional risk. But there has been a lot of talk, particularly in the last year or so, about bias in these lending models. There is a real need to address this bias problem head-on.

My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One Podcast is Kareem Saleh, the CEO and Founder of Fairplay. Their mission is to bring fairness to automated decisioning models in something they call Fairness-as-a-Service.

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On the Fintech Nexus (formerly LendIt Fintech) news show we discussed big stories from FTX, Plaid, Klarna, Nubank, Robinhood, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Keep Financial, Xendit, Chime and more.

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It is that time of year again, time for the LendIt Fintech USA Preview Show. The first big fintech show of the year is happening in New York City next week, on May 25 and 26.

My guests on the preview show are none other than Bo Brustkern, CEO and Co-Founder and Todd Anderson, Chief Content Officer. We take you through the different components of the event so attendees can get the most out of the show.

We are in the process of a rebrand, so our big LendIt Fintech USA show will be known as Fintech Nexus USA going forward.

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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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