FintechTalks
FintechTalks
Podcast Description
FintechTalks with Sanjib Kalita is the official podcast of Fintech Meetup, the fintech industry’s most results-driven event and always-on community. Each weekly episode brings you inside the conversations shaping the future of finance, featuring candid discussions with top executives, investors, and innovators from across payments, lending, banking, and beyond. As the Chairman of Fintech Meetup, Sanjib Kalita is at the center of the fintech ecosystem and brings a rare blend of enterprise expertise and entrepreneurial insight. He’s led strategy at global brands like Citi and Google, helped scale startups to nine-figure exits, and now guides every episode with curiosity, energy, and a sharp eye for what matters most FintechTalks reflects the ethos of Fintech Meetup: smart, curated, and community powered. Much like our event's meetings program and ROI-first design, the podcast delivers high-value insights in a highly efficient format. Whether it's a founder rethinking credit, a bank executive driving digital transformation, or an investor backing the next wave of innovation, you’ll hear directly from the people building what's next.Episodes drop weekly. Whether you’re driving strategy at a financial institution, growing a fintech startup, or shaping the next stage of your investment thesis, FintechTalks delivers the conversations and context you need to stay informed and ahead.
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The podcast focuses on various aspects of fintech including payments, banking, lending, and digital transformation. Episodes explore topics such as the evolution of AI in underwriting, the consumer finance landscape, regulatory impacts on fintech, and the importance of empathy in banking innovation. Examples include discussions with industry figures on building unified payment systems and the transformative potential of embedded finance.
FintechTalks with Sanjib Kalita is the official podcast of Fintech Meetup, the fintech industry’s most results-driven event and always-on community. Each weekly episode brings you inside the conversations shaping the future of finance, featuring candid discussions with top executives, investors, and innovators from across payments, lending, banking, and beyond.
As the Chairman of Fintech Meetup, Sanjib Kalita is at the center of the fintech ecosystem and brings a rare blend of enterprise expertise and entrepreneurial insight. He’s led strategy at global brands like Citi and Google, helped scale startups to nine-figure exits, and now guides every episode with curiosity, energy, and a sharp eye for what matters most
FintechTalks reflects the ethos of Fintech Meetup: smart, curated, and community powered. Much like our event’s meetings program and ROI-first design, the podcast delivers high-value insights in a highly efficient format. Whether it’s a founder rethinking credit, a bank executive driving digital transformation, or an investor backing the next wave of innovation, you’ll hear directly from the people building what’s next.
Episodes drop weekly. Whether you’re driving strategy at a financial institution, growing a fintech startup, or shaping the next stage of your investment thesis, FintechTalks delivers the conversations and context you need to stay informed and ahead.
In this episode of FintechTalks, Sanjib sits down with Maik Wehmeyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Taktile, to talk about reimagining credit and fraud decisioning, the rise of AI in risk management, and why agility is the biggest challenge for today’s lenders.
Maik shares his journey from building credit models to founding Taktile. He explains how Taktile helps institutions harness AI and LLMs for smarter, faster decisions, why SMB underwriting is a prime use case, and what makes B2B adoption so compelling.
They also discuss balancing AI with business rules, scaling across markets with very different credit cultures, and why preparation is essential for getting the most out of Fintech Meetup.
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