This week we’re sharing six interviews from the Finovate Podcast that includes the businesses that gained Better of Present at FinovateFall final month.
From the newest improvements within the struggle towards fraud to leveraging AI to make it simpler for small companies to safe the financing they should develop, FinovateFall 2025’s Better of Present winners assist us see precisely the place fintech is making essentially the most affect for corporations and communities.
In his most up-to-date podcast interview, Greg Palmer talks with LemonadeLXP CEO John Findlay.
Findlay explains how the corporate developed right into a complete all-in-one studying and data platform for monetary establishments. Findlay and Palmer talk about the shortcomings of conventional studying administration techniques that target compliance coaching reasonably than talent growth that results in enterprise progress and more practical customer support.
EP 277: John Findlay, LemonadeLXP
Finovate Podcast host Greg Palmer catches up with Shivangi Khanna (CEO) and Sophie Jewsbury (COO) of Krida.
The three discuss how Krida leverages AI and workflow automation to rework the business lending course of. Khanna and Jewsbury talk about the common ache level of doc assortment and processing and clarify how Krida’s expertise automates the suggestions loops between debtors and mortgage officers to shorten the time between lead technology and a accomplished mortgage software.
EP 276: Shivangi Khanna and Sophie Jewsbury, Krida
Greg Palmer interviews Mart Vos, CEO of Eko Investments.
Palmer and Vos talk about how Eko makes it doable for early-stage traders to get began constructing their wealth via the credit score union or financial institution they already know and belief. Vos explains how enabling monetary establishments—particularly smaller ones—to supply funding providers might help them compete with third-party investing apps, lots of that are embarking upon providing banking providers of their very own.
EP 275: Mart Vos, Eko Investments
Mitch Rutledge, CEO of Vertice AI, joins Greg Palmer on the Finovate Podcast.
On this dialog, Palmer and Rutledge discuss how Vertice AI allows smaller monetary establishments to “punch above their weight” with AI-powered options that assist them remodel institutional knowledge into actionable insights. Vertice AI helps group FIs ship personalised buyer engagement and measurable progress outcomes.
EP 274: Mitch Rutledge, Vertice AI
Greg Palmer chats with Tim Li, Co-founder and CEO of LendAPI.
Li explains how LendAPI serves as a “tremendous orchestration platform” that permits customers to construct their very own monetary merchandise through an intuitive browser interface. The platform features a product studio by which FIs can construct private loans, mortgages, and different merchandise with built-in rule studios, fashions studios, pricing engines, and third-party plugins.
EP 273: Tim Li, LendAPI
Finovate Podcast host Greg Palmer interviews Casap Co-founder and CEO Shanthi Shanmugam.
Palmer and Shanmugam discuss in regards to the challenges of first-party fraud and the way this type of fraud—by which prospects falsely declare they didn’t make purchases they really did make—has turn into the main fraud assault vector world wide, much more than account takeovers and scams. Shanmugam explains how Casap leverages AI brokers that operate like professional investigators to find out when disputes are legit.
EP 272: Shanthi Shanmugam, Casap
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