Fintech Talks (a Georgia Fintech Academy podcast)
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Welcome to Fintech Talks, the official podcast of the Georgia Fintech Academy, where we dive into the dynamic world of financial technology. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovations, and challenges shaping the fintech landscape. Hosted by industry expert Laura Gibson-Lamothe, each episode features insightful conversations with fintech leaders, alumni, and visionaries who are driving change and fostering innovation.
Whether you're a student, professional, or enthusiast, "Fintech Talks" offers a unique platform to gain valuable insights into the intersection of finance and technology. Discover how the Georgia Fintech Academy is building a diverse and skilled talent pipeline, connecting academia with industry, and preparing the next generation of fintech leaders.
Tune in for engaging discussions on topics ranging from blockchain and AI to cybersecurity and regulatory compliance. With "Fintech Talks," you're not just listening to a podcast—you're joining a community of #FutureFintechLeaders committed to shaping the future of finance.
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Featured Replay - Fintech Talks: Bridging Digital Assets & Traditional Finance – Insights from Annelise Osborne (Kadena)
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May 12, 2026 |
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FEATURED REPLAY: Streamlining Payments with Elavon's Chief Product Officer, Pari Sawant
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May 06, 2026 |
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Fintech Meetup Prep: Real Advice on Networking, Burnout, and Making It Count with Pam Kaur
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Fintech Meetup Mashup: Michael Bugno (Fiserv) on Fintech Careers, Conferences, and Building Connections
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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🎙️Fintech Talks: Connecting Fintech Frontiers — Lithuania’s Rise as a Global Innovation Hub
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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🎙️ Fintech Talks: Larry Anderson – Cracking the Resume Code and Navigating AI in Recruiting
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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🎙️From Gimmick to Gamechanger: Why Crypto's Time Has Finally Come with Greg Johnson (Rubicon Crypto)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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🎙️ Fintech Talks: Agentic AI & the Future of Work - Fintech Talks w/ Billy Harbinson from Go Studio
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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🎙️ Fintech Talks: Atlanta Runs on Fintech
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May 29, 2025 |
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🎙️ Fintech Talks: Navigating Careers in FinTech - Insights from Chrissy Wagner (FIS)
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May 05, 2025 |
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Fintech Talks: Closing the Gap - Financial Literacy and Inclusion in the Digital Economy
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Fintech Talks: Bridging the Gap - Financial Inclusion & Access with Crystal Bryant Minter SVP at GreenDot
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Fintech Talks: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Fintech
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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AI in Fintech
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Student Chronicles
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Resilience in Fintech & Payments
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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S5: Episode 2: Job Search Success and Best Practices with Hailey Hunt
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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S5: Episode 1: Driving Growth and Innovation in Fintech with Cyrus Taheri
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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S4: Episode 8: Empowering Fintech with Terra Wallace-Hearn with U.S. Bank/Elavon
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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S4: Episode 7: Financial Literacy and Fintech - Bridging the Gap
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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S4: Episode 6: Empowering Financial Futures with Kudzu
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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S4: Episode 5: Fintech Frontiers - Deep Dive into Product Management
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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S4: Episode 4: Entrepreneurship in Fintech with Steven Nigri
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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S4: Episode 3: The Future of Embedded Payments with Momnt
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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S4: Episode 2: GFTA and KSU - a partnership fueling the future of fintech
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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S4: Episode 1: Georgia Fintech Academy with FIS and Greenwood
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Season 4 - Announcement
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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S3 - Episode 16: Kevin Lee, CEO, Kobiton with Astrid Cuellar-Benitez, Kennesaw State University
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 15 - Ade Sturley, VP FIS Global Impact Ventures and Nick Lommen, Georgia State University discuss Banking as a Service - Platform Opportunities
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 14: Rachel Hansen, CIO Payment Services U.S. Bank and Seyi Fason, Georgia State University finance grad
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 13: Rob Hanlon - Cybermoney and Kumar Shivam Georgia State University Big Data
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 12: David Berglund, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, FIS Global and Vijay Ahuja, recent grad from Indiana University
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 11: Rohin Tagra, CEO and Founder or Azimuth GRC joins Morgan Blackmon, rising senior, Georgia State Robinson College of Business
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May 27, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 10: Zoe Newman, U.S. Managing Director, CapitalOnTap with Anna Gelderman, senior, UGA
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May 13, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 9: Somesh Chablani, Global Head, Go-to-Market, FIS Global and Jonathan Laurent, senior, Georgia State
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May 06, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 8: Akita Somani, SVP, BNPL/POS - U.S. Bank - Elavon with Divij Sharma, fintech senior at UGA
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May 04, 2022 |
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S3-Episode 7: Strategic Partnerships with Oliver Burns, Head of Strategic Partnerships, FIS Global and Astrid Cuellar Benitez, Junior, Kennesaw State University
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 6: Greg Cunningham, Chief Diversity Officer, U.S. Bank and Bri'Asia Acklin, Senior finance major, Georgia State University
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 5: Danny McDowell, Sr. Director, Global Transformation Delivery, FIS Global joins Charles Gibson, UGA Fintech Senior
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 4: Steve Ledford, SVP, Products and Strategy at The Clearing House with Lilly Sharples, Senior, UGA Terry Fintech Society
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 3: Jamie Walker, CEO Elavon Inc. with Miracle Golden of University of West Georgia
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 2: Hassan Thalji, SVP, Freddie Mac and Naomi Chen, UGA junior studying MIS
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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S3 - Episode 1: Exploring digital assets with Darin Carter and Nick Carden from Coinbase along with Keshav Laul of UGA
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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S2 - Episode 31: Innovation at Synovus Bank - Matt Maxey, Head of Innovation, Synovus and Yesha Shah, senior, Valdosta State University
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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S2-Episode 30: Tony Evans, Americas Business Lead, Microsoft Financial Services and Andy Su, University of North Georgia
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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S2-Episode 29: Buy Now Pay Later with Mike Smith, US Head of Risk, OpenPay and Tony Erwin, Georiga State Robinson College of Business
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 28: Regulation in Fintech - David Katz, Adams & Reese; Sagar Badve, Georgia State
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 27: Innovative prepaid approaches to early wage access - FinTwist - Don Ault, VP Prepaid Product Mangement, COMDATA with Ansley Israel, University of North Georgia
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 26: OB Rawls, former CEO of Paysafe Payment Processing and independent director discusses merchant payment acquiring
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 25: Designing Digital Financial Advisory Tools for Low/Moderate Income Older Adults with Heidi Johnson of Financial Health Network
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 17 - Alumni return to share wisdom - Jonathan Pinder, Blackrock and Minas Yohannes, Salesforce
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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S2-Episode 24 - The world is outpacing the USA in payments - Matt Collicoat, VP Strategy, B2B Payments, FIS Global and Ansley Israel, University of North Georgia
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 23 - Jagruti Solanki, CFO, BitPay with Tariq Waseem, Georgia State University Blockchain Group
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 22 - Steve Logue, Google Pay and Faeez Juneja, University of Georgia
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 21: Banyan Hills Technologies, CEO Steve Latham and Cam Holmes from Georgia Tech discuss iOT and Fintech
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 20: Featurespace, fraud prevention, and the ARIC Risk Hub with David Excell, founder of Featurespace and Andy Su from the University of North Georgia
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 19: ParkMobile -- the journey towards powering smart mobility for every driver, everywhere - John Brown, COO of ParkMobile and Daniel Hadgu, Georgia State
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 18: Digital Transformation in Payments with Bob Howe, VP of Business Development, Opus Consulting Solutions and Anna Gelderman of UGA Terry College of Business
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 16: Legal considersations of Fintech and Bank partnerships with James Stevens of Troutman Pepper and Thomas Long of TripActions
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 15 - Fintech South 2021 - June 22-24 - a preview with Glen Sarvady, Kristin Slink, and Qazi Haq
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 14: Inside the Wallets of Working Americans with Anita Ward, Chief Development and Diversity Officer, Salary Finance and Lilly Sharples of UGA
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May 28, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 13: The role of data analytics in fraud prevention - Chief Seer, Adwait Joshi along with Ansley Israel, University of North Georgia
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May 14, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 12 - Capital Markets and Crypto - John Avery, Senior Strategy Director, FIS Global and Tariq Waseem, BlockchainGSU
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May 07, 2021 |
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S2-Episode 11: Transformative effects of Gen-Z on financial services - Julia Carreon, GenZ expert and Daniel Hadgu, Georgia State alum
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 10: Fintech Data Analytics with John Wittenbrook, Global Data Analytics & Strategic Insights, FIS Global with Vinitha Ramani, Georgia State University, Masters in Big Data
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 9: Medxoom COO, Shankha Basu and Nikhil Malani, Georgia Tech
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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S2-Episode 8: Suneel Tummala, LEAN IT - FIS Global and Dennis Williams, Georgia State
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 7: Community Banking and Fintech - John McNair, President, Community Bankers Association of Georgia and Anindya Majumdar, MS-Information Systems, Georgia State
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 6: Sudheer Chava, Professor of Finance and Executive Director of the Financial Services Innovation Lab
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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S2-Episode 5: Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) - Fintech Vertical - Kristin Slink
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 4: FintechU from Georgia Tech Professional Education - Amy Corn, Academic Program Director and Daniel Hadgu, Georgia State Robinson alum
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 3: Artificial Intelligence Unpacked with David Berglund, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, FIS Global and Patricia Whitley, graduate student at Kennesaw State
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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S2 - Episode 2: Capital Markets Explained with Scott Marean, CTO, FIS Global Capital Markets and John Butler of University of North Georgia
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Season 2 - Episode 1: Defynance - founder, Farrukh Siddiqui and Cameron Vanderwiele
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Episode 31: Inclusion and Diversity - Jennifer Frasier, Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity, FIS Global and Alisa Wilson, Valdosta State
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Episode 30: Advancements in Merchant Onboarding Experience - Dave Pritchett, Senior Product Management, Partner Experience, FIS Global with Fang Zhou of Georgia Tech
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Episode 29: Early Stage Fintech Enablement - The Venture Center - Daniel Schutte, Managing Director Accelerator Programs and Jake Bulim of Kennesaw State
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Episode 28: Kim Goodman, President, Merchant Joint Ventures & Acquiring Processing, Fiserv joins Ayesha Munnaza, graduate student Georgia State
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Episode 27: Atlantic Capital as a fintech enabler, Chris Stanley, SVP Fintech Atlantic Capital and Zach Schneiderman, UGA
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Episode 26: Fintech Foundations, an overview of a Georgia Fintech Academy course with Dr. Jonathan Godbey and student Enrique Pujals
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Episode 25: Innovation approaches at FIS Global and Beyond with Ernie Buday, VP of Market Engagement and Ideation, FIS Global and Stephen Montague, Kennesaw State
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Episode 24: Oliver POS - Acquiring Payments, Canada, and more..Mathias Nelson of OliverPOS and AJ Al-Bawab from Georgia State
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Episode 23: Venture capital in fintech with Luke Timberlake of Fintech Ventures and Arinze Akomas of Georgia State
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Episode 22: Government relations and fintech and the role of the American Transaction Processing Coalition - West Richards, Executive Director ATPC and Enrique Pujals, Georgia State
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Episode 21: The upcoming virtual conference - Fintech South is discussed with Glen Sarvady, Reese Porter, and Jamila Maria Velez-Khader
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Episode 20: Finastra Cloud Platform, Fintech, and Payments - Stephanie Foster, Finastra and Laine Kehoe, UGA
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Episode 19: The Digital Evolution of Merchant Onboarding for Payments. William Tong and Rich Hill of FIS Global, Ayesha Munnaza, Georgia State
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Episode 18: Digital Assets, DeFi and the story of Verady's Success - Kell Canty, Verady and Tariq Waseem, Georgia State
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Episode 17: Fintech cybersecurity with DefenseStorm - DJ Landreneau/DefenseStorm and Michael Olajide, Georgia State Robinson College of Business
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Episode 16: Community bank innovation acceleration -- Charles Potts, ICBA and Faeez Juneja, UGA rising junior and author
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Episode 15: Global Payments from Africa to LATAM - Elizabeth McQuerry of Glenbrook Partners and Michael Olajide of Georgia State
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Episode 14: Mortgage industry, Maxex exchange, and B2B Marketing - Andy Payment, CMO of Maxex and Angie Korol, UGA recent fintech grad
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Episode 13: Fleetcor's remarkable B2B payments business with Charles Freund, Head of Corporate Marketing and Tyler Acree, University of Georgia
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Episode 12: Core Banking Technology and Open Banking - Don Free, Gartner and Kai Currie, Georgia State Robinson
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May 28, 2020 |
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Episode 11: Payments - gift cards, general purpose reloadable, Incomm and financial inclusion - Bob Skiba, EVP Incomm and Qazi Haq, recent GSU Robinson College grad
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May 21, 2020 |
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Episode 10: Real Estate and Fintech - Return to Work Strategies, Jason Jones, Cresa and Tiffany Din, Georgia State Robinson School of Business
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May 08, 2020 |
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Episode 9: We are all learning new fintech behaviors. Andrew Morris, former Chief Content Officer of Money2020 with Diana Conde, Kennesaw State University senior
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Episode 8: Fintech Response to Paycheck Protection Program - Terry Ammons, Fintech Leader, Wipfli and Michael Okwilagwe, Georgia State Robinson School of Business
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Episode 7: Blockchain Technology in Fintech Today - Daniel Cage, Speedchain and Cameron Vandewiele, Georgia State Robinson College of Business
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Episode 6: Cybersecurity in Fintech - Jude Fils-Aime of Verizon, Sabrina Netters and Amiralca Johnson, Albany State
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Episode 5: Phillip Naples, founder/CEO of Layr and Ayesha Munnaza, Georgia State Robinson College of Business - Risk Management
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Episode 4: The Role of Fintech Venture Studios and The Biggest Fiscal Stimulus Ever - Manoj Govindan of Kashat Venture Studios and Jael Ortiz of Georgia State Robinson College of Business
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Episode 3: The Coronavirus Crisis - Impacts on the Financial System and the role of Fintech - Jeff Gapusan, Primerevenue and Qazi Haq of Georgia State Robinson College of Business
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Episode 2: Rodrigo Dantas e Silva - Americas Payments Leader at EY joins Daniel Hadgu and Minas Yohannes students from Georgia State Robinson College of Business
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Episode 1: The Georgia Fintech Academy overview with guest Glen Sarvady and Jonthan Pinder
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Jan 23, 2020 |