Tech Behind Fintech

Tech Behind Fintech

The “Tech Behind FinTech” show is dedicated to expanding the knowledge base of development teams within the Financial Services industry while celebrating and highlighting disruptive FinTech businesses and exploring the full technology spectrum utilized within the industry. Nnamdi Osuagwu is the host of the “Tech Behind FinTech” show and the CEO and Founder of Strategic Generation, an Information Technology solutions firm specializing in Cybersecurity, Security Performance Management, Security Assessments and Application Security serving FinTech and Insurance firms.

Episodes

AI-Powered Finance: The New Small Biz Stack

August 17, 2025 • 55 mins
Join us on Friday, August 15th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerhouse episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Elizabeth Gore, Co-Founder and President of Hello Alice. Small businesses fuel the global economy, but too often they’re shut out from the capital, credit, and connections they need to scale. Elizabeth shares how Hello Alice is using AI to change that—providing over 1.5 million entrepreneurs with access to financing, persona...
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Bank Modernization in the Age of AI: Adapt or Collapse

August 15, 2025 • 64 mins
Join us on Friday, August 8th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a hard-hitting episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Sergio Barbosa, CIO of Global Kinetic and CEO of FutureBank. Legacy systems are suffocating innovation—but AI might be the escape hatch. In this episode, Sergio breaks down how banks can sidestep the traditional modernization grind and leap into becoming AI-native institutions. From radically personalizing customer experien...
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You Can't Build a FinTech Without These People

August 6, 2025 • 61 mins
Join us on Friday, July 25th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for an insider-focused episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Alex Curtis, Americas Managing Director at Hanover Search. In this episode of Tech Behind FinTech, we sit down with Alex Curtis to explore the evolving talent landscape shaping the future of FinTech, InsurTech, and WealthTech. From Chief Data Officers to CTOs, Alex has spent over a decade placing mission-critical leaders...
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The Alt Investment AI Gold Rush

July 23, 2025 • 59 mins
📅 Join us on Friday, July 18th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a sharp-edged episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Gary Dmitriev, Founder and Chief Technology Advisor at CrestPoint Strategic Advisors. AI isn’t just for Big Tech anymore—it’s rapidly redefining the playbook in private equity, hedge funds, and alternative investments. With 17 years of experience leading enterprise data strategies and automation at top asset managers, Gary...
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Why Embedded Finance Is Exploding: Every Business Is Becoming a Bank

July 12, 2025 • 55 mins
What do Starbucks, Uber, and Shopify have in common? They're not banks — but they act like it. Welcome to the invisible FinTech revolution, where embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) are quietly transforming everyday businesses into financial powerhouses. In this episode, we sit down with Tom Mallon, Data Partner Manager at Fintech Sandbox, to unpack how APIs, partnerships, and data access are fueling a $7 trillion shif...
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AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Finance: Are You Ready?

July 6, 2025 • 59 mins
In this Tech Behind FinTech exclusive airing Friday, June 27th, 2025, we sit down with Dr. Adnan Masood, Chief AI Architect at UST and one of the most sought-after minds in artificial intelligence. From advising Fortune 500 CEOs to shaping billion-dollar AI deployments, Dr. Masood doesn’t just predict the future—he builds it. This conversation goes deeper than buzzwords. We explore how machine learning is already transforming fraud...
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What Fake News and Media Manipulation Mean for FinTech?

June 16, 2025 • 57 mins
In this episode of Tech Behind FinTech, airing Friday, June 13 at 12PM EST, we explore how fake news, deceptive content, and bot-driven amplification are being used to exploit public trust and disrupt financial ecosystems. Our guest, Molly Dwyer, Director of Insights at PeakMetrics, brings deep expertise from years in open-source intelligence and narrative risk analysis. Together, we unpack:
  • How deceptive media and synthetic con...
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America's Most Legal Yet Unbanked Industry

June 9, 2025 • 30 mins
In this eye-opening episode of Tech Behind FinTech, airing Friday, June 13, 2025, at 12PM EST, we dive into the fast-moving world of misinformation and narrative warfare, where financial brands are being targeted, manipulated, and sometimes destroyed in the court of public opinion before they even realize it. Our guest, Molly Dwyer, Director of Insights at PeakMetrics, pulls back the curtain on the emerging threat that no FinTech c...
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The $150 Billion Insurance Blind Spot

June 4, 2025 • 54 mins
Join us on Friday, May 30th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a high-stakes episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Mike Gulla, CEO & Co-Founder of Adaptive Insurance—a startup rewriting the rules of climate risk coverage in the age of AI. With climate-driven power outages on the rise and traditional insurers lagging behind, a $150 billion blind spot has emerged in the small business insurance market. Mike, a veteran of Hippo, Allstate,...
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The AI Gold Rush: Why GPUs Are the New Financial Frontier

May 25, 2025 • 54 mins
Join us on Friday, May 23rd, 2025 at 12 PM EST for a visionary episode of Tech Behind FinTech as we sit down with Kony Kwong, CEO and Co-Founder of GAIB—the platform reshaping how we invest in AI infrastructure. In a world where GPUs are becoming as valuable as real estate, Kony breaks down why compute power is no longer just a tech resource—it’s a financial asset. We’ll dive into the tokenization of AI infrastructure, the rise of ...
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Faked Voice, Real Damage: Social Engineering in the Age of AI

May 17, 2025 • 55 mins
Join us on Friday, May 16th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a chilling yet essential episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring James Edgar, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at Corpay (NYSE: CPAY). With a career spanning top roles at Elavon, U.S. Bank, and Cox Communications, James brings a deep, real-world understanding of the threats financial institutions face today. In this episode, we explore how artificial intelligence is tur...
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The 17-Year-Old Behind a FinTech Giant: Powering Global Investing

May 11, 2025 • 60 mins
https://techbehindfintech.com/subscribeJoin us on Friday, May 9th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerhouse episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring John Shammas, Chief Growth Officer at DriveWealth—a firm revolutionizing how people around the world invest. At just 17, John helped build the core API infrastructure that now powers investing features for over 100 partners globally—including brands like Revolut, Cash App, and Stake. A deve...
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No Bank No Problem: The New Age of Small Business Loans

May 11, 2025 • 62 mins
📅 Join us on Friday, May 2nd, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a game-changing episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Ryan Rosett, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Credibly—a company on a mission to rewrite the rules of small business financing. Born out of the 2008 financial crisis, Credibly is now a leading force in modernizing how capital reaches small and medium-sized businesses. Under Ryan's leadership, the company has harnessed machine lear...
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The BNPL Takeover Affirm & Shopify's Global Power Play

April 23, 2025 • 28 mins
Join us on Friday, April 18th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerful episode of Tech Behind FinTech with your host, Nnamdi Osuagwu. What happens when one of the world’s fastest-growing commerce platforms partners with a leading Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) giant? You get a global shift in how people pay—and how merchants convert. This week, I’m diving deep into a headline pulled from our Tech Behind FinTech newsletter: the newly expanded ...
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Confessions of a FinTech Marketer: The Good, The Bad and The AI

April 23, 2025 • 64 mins
Join us on Friday, April 11th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a thought-provoking episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Clemens Rychlik, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of BCN FinTech, Catalonia’s largest—and Europe’s fastest-growing—FinTech community. From community building to AI-driven content strategies, Clemens has seen it all. As a FinTech-focused marketer and operator at Hello Operator, he’s worked with high-growth startups across the glob...
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The FinTech Exit: Why This Exec Retired at the Top of His Game

April 5, 2025 • 58 mins
Join us on Friday, April 4th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a compelling episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Daniel Faltyn Jr., a seasoned tech executive whose career journey spans global banks, innovative startups, and a recent role in Risk & Compliance at Google. After more than 8,000 workdays, patents in cybersecurity, and decades of leadership in engineering and compliance, Dan made a bold move: he walked away at the top of h...
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The Death of Legacy Lending: How Modern Platforms Are Changing the Game

April 1, 2025 • 57 mins
Join us on Friday, March 28th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for an eye-opening episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Svitlanka Sergiichuk, CEO & Co-Founder of Neofin—a no-code lending automation platform helping financial institutions build and launch loan products in weeks, not years.
💥 Lending is being redefined. Traditional loan infrastructure has long been slow, expensive, and rigid—but a wave of digital lending innovation is flip...
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The FinTech Education Boom: Can Academia Keep Up with Industry Disruption

April 1, 2025 • 55 mins
Join us on Friday, March 21st, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a must-watch episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Laura Gibson-Lamothe, Executive Director of the Georgia Fintech Academy. FinTech is evolving at lightning speed, but are universities and traditional education models keeping pace? As financial technology disrupts traditional banking, payments, and lending, the demand for skilled talent has never been higher. But are we prepa...
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The $10.5 Trillion Backdoor: Why Poor API Security Is a Goldmine for Hackers

April 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Join us on Friday, March 14th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for an eye-opening episode of Tech Behind FinTech. APIs are the backbone of modern FinTech, connecting apps, processing transactions, and managing sensitive financial data. But with 75% of applications containing security flaws and cybercrime costs expected to surpass $10.5 trillion annually, weak API security is leaving the door wide open for hackers.
In this episode, we will break ...
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Secrets of a Serial Acquirer: What Makes a Company Worth Buying

March 19, 2025 • 54 mins
Join us on Friday, February 28th, 2025, at 12 PM EST, for an exclusive episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Denis Brosnan, Portfolio CEO at CORA GROUP. With a track record of successfully acquiring and scaling companies across financial services, insurance, and real estate, Denis brings deep insights into what makes a company an attractive acquisition target—and what separates the winners from the rest.
🔍 M&A in FinTech and...
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