Join us on Friday, August 22nd, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerhouse episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Mary Ann Miller, VP, Evangelist & Fraud Executive Advisor at Prove. Identity fraud is one of the fastest-growing threats in FinTech, costing billions each year and eroding customer trust. Mary Ann shares proven strategies for staying ahead—using mobile signals, device intelligence, and behavioral analytics to stop fraudsters before they strike. In this conversation, we dig into the real-world tactics, tech stack, and risk models that help leading financial institutions onboard legitimate customers seamlessly while keeping bad actors out. From synthetic identities to account takeovers, Mary Ann breaks down what it takes to stay ahead in an era of increasingly sophisticated fraud. —

What You’ll Learn:
• How to detect and prevent fraud before it impacts customers
• Strategies to balance security with frictionless onboarding
• The latest tactics fraudsters are using—and how to counter them
• Why identity trust is the foundation for long-term FinTech success
• Lessons from protecting billions of transactions across industries

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Join us on Friday, August 15th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerhouse episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Elizabeth Gore, Co-Founder and President of Hello Alice. Small businesses fuel the global economy, but too often they’re shut out from the capital, credit, and connections they need to scale. Elizabeth shares how Hello Alice is using AI to change that—providing over 1.5 million entrepreneurs with access to financing, personalized resources, and a “Business Health Engine” that helps banks and corporations better serve small business customers. In this conversation, we explore the next-generation small business tech stack—one built to close funding gaps, boost financial literacy, and drive measurable outcomes for Main Street entrepreneurs. From grant programs to AI-powered recommendations, Elizabeth breaks down the tools, partnerships, and strategies redefining small business success.
What You’ll Learn:
• How AI can hyper-personalize support for small businesses at scale
• Why banks and enterprise partners are key to the small biz ecosystem
• The real barriers entrepreneurs face when seeking capital—and how to remove them
• Lessons from leading Hello Alice to 1.5M+ entrepreneurs served
• How personalization, automation, and financial inclusion intersect in FinTech

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Join us on Friday, August 8th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a hard-hitting episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Sergio Barbosa, CIO of Global Kinetic and CEO of FutureBank. Legacy systems are suffocating innovation—but AI might be the escape hatch. In this episode, Sergio breaks down how banks can sidestep the traditional modernization grind and leap into becoming AI-native institutions. From radically personalizing customer experiences to rethinking money itself, he unpacks the future-facing tech that’s redefining the rules of engagement. We explore why the next generation of banking isn't about rebuilding from scratch—it's about rethinking from intelligence. If you’re in FinTech, core banking, or digital transformation, this is the episode you can’t afford to miss.

What You’ll Learn:
• How banks can become AI-native without boiling the ocean
• What “Segments of One” means and why personalization is the new default
• How programmable money and agentic AI will reshape financial services
• Whether there’s a shortcut to modernization—or just smarter paths
• What it takes to build AI-first products without losing compliance or control 

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Join us on Friday, July 25th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for an insider-focused episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Alex Curtis, Americas Managing Director at Hanover Search. In this episode of Tech Behind FinTech, we sit down with Alex Curtis to explore the evolving talent landscape shaping the future of FinTech, InsurTech, and WealthTech. From Chief Data Officers to CTOs, Alex has spent over a decade placing mission-critical leaders at the helm of disruption. He brings rare insight into what today’s most innovative companies are really looking for — and why the battle for top-tier talent is more competitive than ever. Whether you’re hiring, being recruited, or planning to scale your next venture, this conversation breaks down who’s in demand, where the talent gaps are, and what it takes to build a winning FinTech team in today’s fast-changing environment.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
✅ The most in-demand leadership roles across FinTech, InsurTech, and WealthTech
✅ Why top-tier talent is getting harder to find (and keep)
✅ How PE- and VC-backed firms approach executive hiring differently
✅ What candidates need to stand out in today’s high-growth FinTech landscape
✅ How talent strategy impacts growth, compliance, and culture

📅 Join us on Friday, July 18th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a sharp-edged episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Gary Dmitriev, Founder and Chief Technology Advisor at CrestPoint Strategic Advisors. AI isn’t just for Big Tech anymore—it’s rapidly redefining the playbook in private equity, hedge funds, and alternative investments. With 17 years of experience leading enterprise data strategies and automation at top asset managers, Gary has seen firsthand how alternative investment firms are integrating AI to optimize operations, generate alpha, and stay competitive in increasingly complex markets. In this episode, we cut through the hype to explore what’s actually working in AI, what’s flopping, and how specialized models are quietly becoming a cornerstone of competitive advantage in the alt investment space.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
✅ Where AI is creating real value in private markets—and where it’s not
✅ The difference between general-purpose vs. specialized AI in alt investing
✅ How automation is reshaping back-office infrastructure and analytics
✅ What firms need to consider before diving into AI projects
✅ Trends shaping the next wave of innovation in the alternative investment sector

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What do Starbucks, Uber, and Shopify have in common? They're not banks — but they act like it. Welcome to the invisible FinTech revolution, where embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) are quietly transforming everyday businesses into financial powerhouses. In this episode, we sit down with Tom Mallon, Data Partner Manager at Fintech Sandbox, to unpack how APIs, partnerships, and data access are fueling a $7 trillion shift in the way financial services are delivered. From startups to legacy brands, companies are embedding payments, lending, insurance, and investment tools directly into their customer experience — creating new revenue streams and redefining what it means to be a “tech company.” We go beyond the headlines to explore: • Why embedded finance is more than a buzzword — it’s a business model • The infrastructure making this revolution possible • What founders and executives need to know now to avoid being left behind 📧

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In this Tech Behind FinTech exclusive airing Friday, June 27th, 2025, we sit down with Dr. Adnan Masood, Chief AI Architect at UST and one of the most sought-after minds in artificial intelligence. From advising Fortune 500 CEOs to shaping billion-dollar AI deployments, Dr. Masood doesn’t just predict the future—he builds it. This conversation goes deeper than buzzwords. We explore how machine learning is already transforming fraud detection, risk modeling, and customer experience in financial services. But the implications go further: Can AI anticipate market meltdowns? Is trust programmable? And what does it mean when algorithms know your financial behavior better than you do? Whether you're a fintech founder, data scientist, or investor tracking the next AI wave, this episode gives you the inside track on how artificial intelligence is not just enhancing finance—it's redefining the game.

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In this episode of Tech Behind FinTech, airing Friday, June 13 at 12PM EST, we explore how fake news, deceptive content, and bot-driven amplification are being used to exploit public trust and disrupt financial ecosystems. Our guest, Molly Dwyer, Director of Insights at PeakMetrics, brings deep expertise from years in open-source intelligence and narrative risk analysis. Together, we unpack:

• How deceptive media and synthetic content are already affecting FinTechs

• Why narrative intelligence is becoming essential in modern risk management

• The hidden dangers of deepfakes, spoofed releases, and online impersonation

• What to do in the first 60 minutes of a media-driven crisis

• How to build a resilient FinTech brand in the era of algorithmic manipulation

Whether you're in compliance, comms, cybersecurity, or the C-suite — this episode will shift how you think about brand protection, digital trust, and reputation defense in financial technology. 🎧 Listen in — before your brand becomes the next headline.

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In this eye-opening episode of Tech Behind FinTech, airing Friday, June 13, 2025, at 12PM EST, we dive into the fast-moving world of misinformation and narrative warfare, where financial brands are being targeted, manipulated, and sometimes destroyed in the court of public opinion before they even realize it. Our guest, Molly Dwyer, Director of Insights at PeakMetrics, pulls back the curtain on the emerging threat that no FinTech can afford to ignore. With a background in open-source intelligence and disinformation analysis — and years spent studying propaganda in Russia and Central Asia — Molly reveals:
- How misinformation is already hitting FinTechs (and why you're next)
- What “narrative intelligence” is — and how it can protect your business
- Why deepfakes, spoofed press releases, and fake reviews are more than PR issues
- The first 60 minutes: What to do when false information goes viral
- How to build a FinTech brand that’s resilient in the era of algorithmic chaos.

Whether you're a founder, marketer, security lead, or investor, this episode will change how you think about brand safety, consumer trust, and the invisible threats shaping your business.

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Join us on Friday, May 30th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a high-stakes episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Mike Gulla, CEO & Co-Founder of Adaptive Insurance—a startup rewriting the rules of climate risk coverage in the age of AI. With climate-driven power outages on the rise and traditional insurers lagging behind, a $150 billion blind spot has emerged in the small business insurance market. Mike, a veteran of Hippo, Allstate, and Esurance, breaks down how Adaptive is using AI, real-time data, and embedded fintech infrastructure to fill that gap—fast. From instant payouts without adjusters to API-driven parametric coverage, this episode explores how Adaptive is building the fintech stack for climate resilience. You’ll hear how Mike’s journey from legacy carriers to InsurTech innovation is powering a bold new vision for climate coverage—designed for speed, scale, and the small business economy.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
• Why climate risk is the insurance industry’s next great reckoning
• How Adaptive’s GridProtect pays SMBs instantly after power outages
• Why VCs are betting big on climate-insurance-as-a-platform
• What embedded parametric coverage means for the future of fintech
• How Adaptive’s automation-first model cuts claims time to zero

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