Today is International Women’s Day, and we’re honoring it with a very special bonus episode of Barefoot Innovation, on Women in Fintech...and with Women in Fintech. My four guests are Laura Spiekerman, the CRO of Alloy, Melissa van Kluyve, Associate at Clocktower Technology Ventures, Zoe Chaves, the Product Manager of Splitwise, and Lyn Farrell, the Regulatory Strategy Advisor of Hummingbird Regtech. We had also planned to speak with Reetika Grewal, the Head of Payments Strategy and Solutions of Silicon Valley Bank, but she had travel complications and couldn’t join us.
The seed for doing this show was planted at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas last fall. This group of women organized a reception there for women in fintech -- an idea that they, in turn, originally came up with at Money 20/20 the year before -- they’ll tell that story in our conversation. At the reception, I was chatting with Ana Hernandez of Affirm (whom we had also hoped to include in this show but had schedule conflicts), and I realized that our audience would love to hear the perspective of these fascinating women.
One note on Lyn Farrell being with Hummingbird Regtech. As regular listeners know, I’m a cofounder of Hummingbird and as I mention in today’s discussion, we are recruiting now for our growing tech team in the Bay Area.
Listeners often tell me that what they love most about Barefoot Innovation is the feeling of being a fly on the wall for a conversation that they never otherwise would have heard. That’s sometimes about hearing from someone you might never meet, or hearing people thinking in depth about important problems, or hearing candor -- truth -- that might never have been expressed in another setting. Today’s show is a great example.
Alloy offers Identity verification APIs that make KYC/AML effective and simple. It works with many sources of data, any custom workflow, one API.
Clocktower partners with entrepreneurs to reinvent financial services, investing from the earliest seeds of startup life to businesses scaling for growth. It supports leading companies across all sectors of financial services, including lending, payments, insurance, asset management, personal finance, and capital markets.
Hummingbird is a modern platform for anti-money laundering, aiming to make AML investigations agile, lightweight, and intelligent.
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We have some amazing episodes coming up. One is with Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, which we recorded at the roundtable he hosted in Vaduz on envisioning the financial services world of 2030. We’ll talk with MIT’s David Shrier. We’ll have a terrific discussion with the fascinating community bank, NBKC. We’ll have a show with Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, Craig Phillips and one with the Chairman of the CFTC, Chris Giancarlo. We’ll have Brian Brooks of Coinbase. We have a show coming up with the great Brett King on his new book, Bank 4.0, for which I co-wrote the regulatory chapter. And we have a fascinating conversation with Gary Shiffman of Giant Oak.
