Cristina Vila Vives, Chief Executive Officer at Cledara

Our guest for this episode is Cristina Vila Vives, CEO and Co-founder of Cledara, which recently launched in the US from Europe using Bond's Embedded Credit platform. Cledara is the first Software Intelligence Platform designed for growing companies.

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Christian Zimmerman, Chief Executive Officer at Qoins

The average American carries $37,693 in student loan debt and $6,194 in credit card debt. In many ways, debt is in our DNA as a nation; it’s built the United States historically into what it is but, today, it’s crushing average Americans. We need help as a country and someone to help us help ourselves. Qoins is exactly that hero.

Kurtis Lin, Chief Executive Officer at Pinwheel

Our guest this week is Kurtis Lin, CEO at Pinwheel.

Marcus Lobendahn, VP Strategic Partnerships at Bond

Our guest this week is Marcus Lobendahn, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Bond.

Unlocking behavioral data with Jack Alton

🎙 Behavioral data is a keystone to the future of financial inclusion and financial services in general. 💸

Building On-ramps to Finance with Atomic's Lindsay Davis

Our guest on this episode of Interchange is Lindsay Davis, Head of Markets at Atomic. Bond and Atomic recently inked a partnership to bring the world of embedded finance and payroll together and Lindsay helps us unpack the what and why of Bond and Atomic’s recently inked partnership.

Gig Wage Is Giving 1099 Payments A Glow Up

The gig economy's payments infrastructure was in need of some improvement. So, Gig Wage stepped in to build better, more resilient infrastructure.

Dave Salvant & Songe LaRon, Co-Founders at SQUIRE

SQUIRE founders, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon, talk about giving barbershops the technology they need to thrive in a fast-paced market. SQUIRE lets barbershops manage appointments, set prices, run point-of-sale, collect payment from barbers, and pay barbers all on one platform. Now, they have the SQUIRE Card, a debit card built for barbers and barbershops, and launched on Bond's embedded fintech platform.

Lessons In Leadership from Ex-Facebook Executive and Bond Investor, Dan Rose

Dan Rose looks back on a moment at Facebook where he had to rethink the way he approached his career and reconsider what it means to be a leader.

From Casting to Recruiting with Brittney Lee Harvey, Recruiter at Bond

Casting calls and recruiting for a tech company have a lot more in common than you might think. We talked with our own proverbial casting director, Brittney Lee Harvey, Recruiter at Bond, about recruiting, life, and why money matters to her.

Managing the SaaS Madness

Our guest this week is Cristina Vila Vives, Chief Executive Officer @ Cledara. Cledara helps companies manage, control and automate their SaaS so that they can scale operational processes, comply with regulations and save money.

Data is the New Oil So Who Is Protecting It?

Our guest this week is Riddhiman Das, Chief Executive Officer at TripleBlind. We cover the advent of Enterprise Data Privacy as a Service, Riddhiman's experience at Ant Financial uncovering the problem that TripleBlind solves today, and what the future holds for privacy in financial services.

Move Fast and Try Not To Break Anything

Our guest this week is Flori Marquez, Co-Founder & SVP of Operations at BlockFi. We cover the importance of perseverance, the importance of engaging with regulators early, and how to move fast while knowing what you can and cannot break.

Build the Legos

Our guest this week is Amir Wain, CEO @ i2c, a leading Issuer Processor partnered with many of the leading financial technology companies. We cover Amir’s journey as an immigrant entrepreneur in the US, what i2c does and where processors fit in the puzzle of fintech, and how i2c has grown into the processing behemoth it is today.

Making Taxes More Freelance-Friendly Using APIs

We recently sat down with one of the fintech world’s foremost experts on the subject, Trent Bigelow, CEO at Abound, who is also a former freelancer. Throughout Trent's journey over the last six years at Abound, he's worked to solve the recurring challenges that freelancers face. One of those big challenges pops its head up fairly regularly — taxes.

Chief Compliance Officer Arlene Dzurnak's Three Rules For Fintech

“I don’t work in compliance because I love laws and regs. The reason that I'm in compliance is the true spirit of why compliance exists. It's for consumer protection. (I’m in it) so that we're not taking advantage of people and we're treating them fairly. I’m in it to extend products and services to those that are underbanked or unbanked. That's the reason I got into compliance.“

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Executives from Rapyd, PayPal and Goldman Sachs join Bond

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Cristina Vila Vives, Chief Executive Officer at Cledara

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Christian Zimmerman, Chief Executive Officer at Qoins

Kurtis Lin, Chief Executive Officer at Pinwheel

Marcus Lobendahn, VP Strategic Partnerships at Bond

Unlocking behavioral data with Jack Alton

Building On-ramps to Finance with Atomic's Lindsay Davis

Gig Wage Is Giving 1099 Payments A Glow Up

Dave Salvant & Songe LaRon, Co-Founders at SQUIRE

Lessons In Leadership from Ex-Facebook Executive and Bond Investor, Dan Rose

From Casting to Recruiting with Brittney Lee Harvey, Recruiter at Bond

Managing the SaaS Madness

Data is the New Oil So Who Is Protecting It?

Move Fast and Try Not To Break Anything

Build the Legos

Making Taxes More Freelance-Friendly Using APIs

Chief Compliance Officer Arlene Dzurnak's Three Rules For Fintech

Generate 2x the interchange of a debit card by offering your customers a credit builder card

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