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.
Sanjib sits down with Michelle Beyo, Founder & CEO of Finavator, for a wide-ranging conversation spanning open banking and digital identity to AI, data portability, stablecoins, agentic finance, and human data rights. Michelle shares why onboarding is no longer just a one-time KYC check, and why trust, continuous validation, and smarter data practices are becoming critical for fintech growth.
Michelle also discusses her upcoming book, Mastering the Future of Finance, her work helping companies expand into North America, and her experience at Fintech Meetup, where intentional networking and real ecosystem connections continue to drive innovation forward.

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