What does it actually take for a Fintech brand to stand out when everyone is competing for the same attention? In this episode of Fintech Talks, Laura Gibson-Lamothe sits down with Mike Neumeier and Erica England of Arketi Group for a candid conversation about trust, visibility, storytelling, thought leadership, and what changes when AI makes content easier than ever to create. They get into what companies often get wrong, why original thinking still matters, how earned media shapes credibili...
Sep 1
37 min
Atlanta has long been one of the most important fintech and payments ecosystems in the world. Atlanta Fintech Week is about bringing that ecosystem together and opening the doors for others to experience it. In this special edition of Fintech Talks, we sit down with the team behind Atlanta Fintech Week to talk about why the week was created, what makes it different from a traditional conference, and how fintech professionals, companies, founders, students and partners from Atlanta and beyond ...
Aug 27
36 min
NXTMOVES co-founders Steve Nigri and Walt Hoffmann spent a year talking to nearly 100 banks before building their unified program management platform. What they found: sponsor banks were drowning in fragmented visibility across card programs, and the fintechs launching those programs were quietly managing 9 or 10 vendor relationships they never signed up for. In this episode of Fintech Talks, we get into: -What actually goes into launching a compliant card program -Why banks want to hear ab...
Aug 27
38 min
Fintech Talks: Money20/20 Europe | Hugo Horton: Modernizing Cross-Border Payments & Global Expansion Recorded live at Money20/20 Europe, Laura Gibson-Lamothe sits down with Hugo Horton, Enterprise Partnerships Manager at Sokin, to discuss how fintech companies are modernizing cross-border payments, simplifying global banking infrastructure, and expanding into new markets. Hugo shares how Sokin helps businesses consolidate international payments, banking, FX, treasury capabilities, and eme...
Jul 1
8 min
Recorded live at Money20/20 Europe, Laura Gibson-Lamothe sits down with Reshmi Suresh, Head of Agentic Commerce, and Nabil Manji, Executive Lead, Enterprise Growth & Partnerships at Global Payments, to discuss how AI, agentic commerce, stablecoins, and real time payments are reshaping financial services. The conversation explores the rise of agentic AI, the growing role of stablecoins in cross border payments and treasury, the future of real time payments, fraud prevention, AI governance,...
Jun 29
15 min
In this episode of Fintech Talks, Laura Gibson-Lamothe sits down with West Richards, with The Fintech Accord at Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, to discuss stablecoins, fintech regulation, digital assets, and the future of global payments. The conversation explores Georgia's leadership in stablecoin legislation, the growing importance of the UK-US fintech corridor, the role of industry advocacy in shaping regulation, and how AI and blockchain technologies are transforming financial services. ...
Jun 23
31 min
In this episode of Fintech Talks, we explore how digital assets are converging with traditional finance through the lens of Annelise Osborne, Chief Business Officer at Kadena and author of From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets for Traditional Finance. Co-hosted by Laura Gibson-Lamothe, Executive Director of the Georgia Fintech Academy, and Christian Samuel, a recent Georgia State University graduate and former leader of GSU’s Fintech Student Organization, the episode covers: Anneli...
May 12
55 min
In this engaging episode of the Georgia Fintech Academy podcast, Executive Director Laura Gibson-Lamothe is joined by Kenny Kim, a senior finance major at Georgia State University Robinson College of Business, to co-host an insightful conversation with Pari Sawant, Chief Product Officer at Elavon. The discussion dives into Elavon’s innovative new payment gateway and explores how it is revolutionizing the payments landscape by streamlining processes and enhancing user experience. Listeners wil...
May 6
22 min
With Fintech Meetup just days away, this episode of Fintech Meetup Mashup focuses on one question: How do you actually make the most of a major industry conference? Georgia Fintech Academy alum & Truist IT Business Analyst, Astrid Cuellar Benitez joins Pam Kaur, Head of Platform at Alloy Labs, to share practical, real-world advice on navigating large fintech events. From managing your schedule and avoiding burnout to building meaningful connections, this conversation offers a candid ...
Mar 26
34 min
In this episode of Fintech Meetup Mashup, Georgia Fintech Academy brings together emerging fintech talent and industry leaders for a candid conversation about careers in financial technology. Georgia Fintech Academy student Benjamin Willhite-Mettler sits down with Michael Bugno, Vice President of Enterprise Experiential Marketing at Fiserv, to talk about how professionals find their way into fintech, what skills matter most early in a career, and how to make the most of large industry events....
Mar 13
28 min
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