The Financial Experience Podcast for Banks, Credit Unions, and Fintech

If you've tried to buy a house in the past year (or just browsed a real estate marketplace for fun), you may have noticed that housing prices and the demand for real estate soared at a record-breaking pace. Hunter's latest guest, Alex Leduc, founded Canadian-based proptech Perch with the goal of empowering people throughout the entire home buying process.

Michelle Toll, the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Digital First, LLC joins the podcast. Prior to her new venture, Michelle had over 20 years of experience in community banking. Over the past decade, she nurtured an interest in fintech, disruption, and digital innovation. When she connected with a former colleague (turned co-founder), the idea of a community-focused, digital bank emerged and she decided it was the perfect fit for what the market needed.

On the latest episode, Hunter hosts Nancy Giordano, a strategic futurist whose accomplished career began in the advertising and branding space. Throughout this work, Nancy experienced each notable technology revolution - from the Internet to mobile to social media. Nancy brought her forward-looking mindset to the podcast to give us a peek into what's to come.

Small businesses everywhere have struggled long enough with disjointed data streams that come from multiple different systems. To make the data "talk back" and tell the story of your business, the accounting data needs to be normalized via modern APIs. Sohaib Zahid joins the podcast to talk about how his company plans to unlock this new era of data for small business accounting.

There seems to be a "moving target" for how to define a digital bank strategy. As more banks and fintechs increase the diversity of their offerings and the size of their digital marketing investment, it's time to step your game up if you're thinking about launching a digital bank.

Customer service, and most importantly digital customer service, continues to battle tension between its legacy tools (e.g. IVR phone systems) and the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI), modularization, and on-screen voice. But customers of all ages expect their financial services partners to be there when, where, and how they want.

If you've felt uncomfortable while asking a friend to split the dinner bill, reminding a roommate to reimburse you for utilities or hearing an unfulfilled promise of, "I'll pay you back," you're not alone. Our recent podcast guests, Haafiz Abdurrahim and Adoba Yua, co-founded their fintech RiftPay to solve this timeless problem.

Margaret Hartigan created Marstone, a digital wealth management platform, to humanize and demystify finance. The company was founded on solid pillars, including the desire to address a lack of financial literacy. As a former financial advisor of ten years, she noticed a substantial number of people who weren't financially literate or knowledgeable about their own investments.

Trent Sorbe, founder and president of Central Payments, joins the Financial Experience Podcast to discuss innovation in the fintech space, payment partnerships, and why banks should act like a toaster. Yes, a toaster.

In the latest episode, Hunter talks with the co-founders of a revolutionary app geared toward Gen Z. Katrin Kaurov and Aleksandra Medina, two young entrepreneurs who have traveled across the world and now settled in New York City, noticed a pattern of poor spending habits while building and maintaining a social life in each new place. The price of coffee dates, dinners, and cocktail hours adds up, and they wanted to break the cycle of financial stress for social generations like Gen Z and millennials. So, they started building Frich.