This Week in Fintech

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Alchemy Is Building the Wallet Layer for Agentic Commerce You Can Trust

Host Justin Friedman interviews Blake Duncan, Alchemy’s Lead Agent Experience Engineer, about what happens when AI agents replace humans as the economic decision-maker. They start with fundamentals: What makes a smart wallet “smart” and how the x402 protocol will enable the pay-p ... Show more

. 50min 13sec

Sokin's Blueprint for Global Treasury

Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Vroon Modgill, Founder & CEO of Sokin, to explore how modern treasury infrastructure is transforming global payments.From slow settlement windows and fragmented banking relationships to stablecoins and real-time treasury management, Vroon breaks do ... Show more

. 32min 3sec

How Pomelo Is Rebuilding Fintech Infrastructure in LATAM

Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Gaston Irigoyen, co-founder and CEO of Pomelo, to unpack why waiting a full year to launch a card program became the startup thesis behind one of Latin America’s fastest-growing fintech infrastructure companies. Drawing from his experience scaling ... Show more

. 33min 20sec

PayPal’s Stablecoin Playbook

Presented by Rain.Host Justin Friedman sits down with Larry Wade to unpack how PayPal brought PYUSD from concept to real-world payments while balancing innovation, regulation, and consumer trust. The conversation explores PayPal’s early move into crypto, why on-chain transfers be ... Show more

. 35min 42sec

The Fintech OG Series: Shanthi Shanmugam and Natasha Vernier

Powered by Spade.Money moves faster than ever, but the hardest moments in fintech still happen when something goes wrong: a confusing transaction, a disputed charge, a fraud claim, or a control that fails when regulators come calling. Hosts Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Lauren Cros ... Show more

. 51min 31sec