Rebank: Fintech Analysis
Business & Finance
About
Financial innovation, technology advances, and social changes are sending shockwaves through the financial services industry.In an age of increasingly rapid change, important questions, debates and developments are unfolding before our eyes. These ideas, and the choices we make in response to them, will shape our future.Technology is vastly powerful, creating new industries in response to – or sometimes in anticipation of – changing customer expectations.Rebank explores the trends, developments and challenges that define our age and shape the future role of money, banking and financial services.
Episodes
- The Evolution of Digital Asset Infrastructure with Mike Belshe of BitGo
Mike Belshe is the Co-Founder and CEO of BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company serving institutions across custody, trading, staking, and stablecoin services. A veteran technologist whose early career included engineering roles at…
- On-Chain Equities and the Evolution of Market Infrastructure with Mike Cagney of Figure
Mike Cagney is the Co-Founder of Figure and a long-time fintech entrepreneur focused on rebuilding financial infrastructure on blockchain rails. Under his leadership, Figure has evolved from a blockchain-native lending platform into a publ…
- The Intersection of Stablecoins, Crypto and Banking with Nathan McCauley of Anchorage Digital
Nathan McCauley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital, a federally chartered digital asset bank and infrastructure platform serving institutions across custody, trading, staking and stablecoin issuance. Anchorage operates at the c…
- Vault Curation and On-Chain Asset Management with Steakhouse Financial
Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic and Sébastien Derivaux are the co-founders of Steakhouse Financial, an internet-native asset manager focused on building non-custodial, on-chain investment products for stablecoins. Emerging from a deep DeFi-nat…
- Institutional Capital and the Next Phase of On-Chain Finance with Andy Kangpan of Metalayer
Andy Kangpan is a Partner at Metalayer, a crypto-native investment firm focused on backing companies building institutional-grade financial infrastructure on blockchain rails. Founded by former Two Sigma investors and operators, Metalayer…
- Bringing Traditional Venture Discipline to Crypto Markets with Steven Venino of Strobe
Steven Venino is a Partner at Strobe, an early-stage, crypto-native venture firm focused on backing founders building long-term, sustainable businesses on blockchain rails. Formerly BlockTower Venture Capital, Strobe was spun out by Steven…
- How ETFs Inform the Next Phase of Tokenized Finance with Janus Henderson
Nick Cherney is Head of Innovation at Janus Henderson Investors, a global asset manager overseeing more than $400 billion in assets. With over two decades of experience in ETFs and investment product development, Nick has been deeply invol…
- Building the Oracle Layer for Tokenized Finance with Niklas Kunkel of Chronicle Labs
Niklas Kunkel is the Founder and CEO of Chronicle Labs, a leading oracle infrastructure provider securing both decentralized finance and the rapidly growing market for tokenized real-world assets. Formerly a core contributor at MakerDAO, N…
- How the World's Largest Financial Institutions Are Approaching Tokenization with Galaxy
Thomas Cowan is the Head of Tokenization at Galaxy, a crypto-focused merchant bank bridging traditional finance and on-chain markets. Based in New York, he leads tokenization within Galaxy's investment banking arm, where his team focuses o…
- Rebuilding Cross-Border Payments with Stable Sea
Tanner Taddeo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stable Sea, a company building the infrastructure layer for stablecoin-powered cross-border payments. Stable Sea connects U.S. and emerging market businesses through stablecoin rails, enabling fas…
- Bridging Permissionless DeFi and Regulated On-Chain Finance with Predicate
Nikhil Raghuveera is the Co-Founder and CEO of Predicate, a company building on-chain policy infrastructure that enables organizations to set programmable, enforceable rules for transactions within blockchain-based financial systems. Predi…
- Stablecoin Market Dynamics post-GENIUS with Matt Homer of The Venture Dept.
Matt Homer is the Founder and General Partner of The Venture Dept., a venture capital firm investing at the intersection of fintech, digital assets, and regulation, with a particular focus on stablecoins and stablecoin infrastructure. Befo…
- From ETFs to Tokenized Assets: Building the Next Trillion-Dollar Market with WisdomTree
Will Peck is the Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree, a $130 billion asset manager and ETF sponsor and a pioneer in tokenized assets. Over his 11-year tenure at WisdomTree, Will has helped the firm navigate the evolution from ETFs to toke…
- $1T Per Year: Building the Leading Crypto Prime Broker with FalconX
Raghu Yarlagadda is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, the leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage. In the last year, FalconX has done $1 trillion in trading volume across spot and derivatives. FalconX is an incredible success…
- Scaling Tokenized Real World Assets with Centrifuge
Today we're joined by Bhaji Illuminati and Jürgen Blumberg. Bhaji is CEO of Centrifuge, one of the original players in the RWA space. Jürgen is a former Goldman ETF exec and, as of recently, COO of Centrifuge and CIO of Anemoy, it's asset…
- Building a Crypto-Native RWA Ecosystem with Chris Yin of Plume
Chris Yin is the co-founder and CEO of Plume, a crypto-native RWA blockchain. Real-world assets, RWAs for short, are financial assets implemented in token form. Alongside stablecoins, these assets are at the heart of the transition of fina…
- From Stablecoins to Tokenized Markets: Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul on the Future of Money
Sandy Kaul is the Executive Vice President and Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton, the OG global asset manager when it comes to tokenization and digital assets. In this conversation, we dive into the newly passed GENIUS Act and what…
- The Current and Future State of Stablecoin Payments with Conduit
Kirill Gertman is the founder and CEO of Conduit, a leading B2B cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins. Conduit leverages stablecoins to allow businesses to move money faster, cheaper and more transparently than legacy platf…
- Lessons Learned from 10 Years in Embedded Finance with Luke Voiles
In this episode, we're joined by Luke Voiles, the CEO of Pipe — an embedded finance platform offering credit, cards, and other financial products to a range of B2B2B partners. Founded as a revenue-based financing business, Pipe pivoted int…
- How the Largest Asset Managers Think About Digital Assets with Mark Garabedian
Mark Garabedian is the Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization at Wellington, a leading US-based, global asset manager with approximately $1.3 trillion in AUM. Mark has wide ranging experience in trading and financial markets and bring…
- Conceptualizing the Future of Financial Infrastructure with ZKsync
Alex Gluchowski is the co-inventor of ZKsync and co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs . ZKsync is an advanced Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain network offering privacy and scalability using zk proofs. In this conversation, Alex and Will Beeson dis…
- Lessons Learned Building and Running a $1.9 Billion On-Chain Credit Fund
Kevin Miao is one of the most insightful practitioners at the intersection of traditional and on-chain finance. Until recently, Kevin was General Partner of BlockTower Credit, a $1.9 billion AUM private credit fund that leveraged public bl…
- Bridging DeFi and Traditional Finance with Arbitrum
Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, the company behind Arbitrum, one of the leading blockchains. Arbitrum's flagship blockchain, Arbitrum One, is a leading Ethereum L2 in terms of TVL and liquidity and supports app…
- Staking Infrastructure to Supercharge Crypto Finance with Kiln
Laszlo Szabo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kiln , a staking infrastructure provider backed by 1kx, Crypto.com, Wintermute, GSR, Kraken Ventures, Consensys and others. Diana Biggs is a partner at 1kx, a crypto VC that has led rounds in compa…
- Institutional Product/Market Fit for Stablecoins with M^0
Luca Prosperi is the founder and CEO of M^0, a stablecoin issuance protocol reimagining how money is created. We first connected with Luca in May 2023, shortly after M^0's seed round. Fast forward a year, and the company has now raised $60…
- A New Approach to Stablecoins with Nick van Eck
Nick van Eck is the co-founder and CEO of Agora , a US-based stablecoin issuer backed by Dragonfly, General Catalyst, Galaxy, Consensys, Wintermute, Flowdesk, Kraken Ventures and more. Agora's strategy is to build distribution through B2B…
- Investing to Build the Machine Economy with Generative Ventures
Lex Sokolin is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Generative Ventures, a crypto and AI focused venture firm. Lex also publishes research and analysis at Fintech Blueprint, one of the best fintech, crypto and emerging tech newsletters o…
- How Crossborder Stablecoin Payments Have Quietly Become a Multi-Billion Dollar Market
Bhanu Kohli is the co-founder and CEO of Layer2 Financial, a B2B payments company leveraging stablecoins for faster, cheaper payment processing. Mike Giampapa is General Partner of Galaxy Ventures, focusing on the intersection of crypto an…
- Building the Bridge to the Onchain Economy with Zero Hash
Edward Woodford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Hash, a B2B technology and compliance platform that allows companies to embed crypto and stablecoins with a few lines of code and no regulatory overhead. Zero Hash has raised $170 million f…
- Memecoins, Airdrops and Current Retail Crypto Dynamics with Regan Bozman
Regan Bozman is co-founder of Lattice Capital, a crypto-focused VC firm, and an expert in token launches and secondary trading dynamics. Lattice manages $80m across two funds, with a focus on early-stage crypto projects. Prior to founding…
- Did We Just Witness Crypto's Inflection Point in the U.S.? with Rob Hadick of Dragonfly
Rob Hadick is a General Partner at Dragonfly, a $2.5bn crypto venture fund. Dragonfly's portfolio is a who's who of leading crypto projects including Anchorage, Ava Labs, Blur, DYDX, Lido, MakerDAO, Matter Labs, NEAR, Polygon, Starkware an…
- Three Cycles of Payments Innovation with Anil Hansjee
Anil Hansjee is a General Partner at Fabric, a UK-based blockchain VC. Prior to joining Fabric, Anil ran Corporate Development EMEA at Google and then led PayPal Ventures in the region. He has tremendous experience investing in fintech and…
- Early-Stage Crypto & Web3 Investing with Reflexive
Sunny Parikh is co-founder and Partner at Reflexive Capital, a fundamentals-driven investment firm focused on digital assets across two core strategies: Liquid Trading and Venture Investing. Sunny was previously with Point72, and his partn…
- Building Social Investing with Public
Jannick Malling is the co-founder and Co-CEO of the investing platform Public.com. Public has raised more than $300M from investors including Accel, Greycroft, Lakestar, and Tiger Global, as well as celebrities like Will Smith, The Chainsm…
- Building the Optimal U.S. Fintech Lender
Christian Faes is the founder of Faes & Co, a lending business builder and F2 Finance, a US bridging lender writing loans since 2023. Prior to starting Faes & Co, Christian founded, ran and ultimately IPOed LendInvest, a UK mortgage lendin…
- A Differentiated Approach to Venture Investing with Deciens
Dan Kimerling is Founder and Managing Partner at Deciens , an early-stage fintech VC and investor in Chipper Cash , Treasury Prime and many others. Prior to starting Deciens, Dan co-founded Standard Treasury and served as its CEO until its…
- Fintech Opportunties in the Current Macro Context with Amias Gerety
Amias Gerety is a partner at QED with a specific focus on infrastructure, insurtech and payments. Prior to QED, Amias served as the President's nominee and as Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of…
- Building a Distributed Backend for the Global Banking System with Luca Prosperi
Luca Prosperi is the co-founder and CEO of M^ZERO LABS_ , a team building a new backend for the banking system. Luca is a deep thinking analyst, economist and builder, with a background in institutional finance, alternative and credit inve…
- How to Differentiate in Early-Stage Fintech VC with Sheel Mohnot
Sheel Mohnot is Co-Founder and General Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early-stage fintech VC currently investing out of its $225m second fund. Sheel is a former founder, having built a tech-first card processor way back in 2010 wh…
- What VCs and Founders Get Wrong About the Credit Business
Matt Harris is an entrepreneur and investor and the founder of Bloom Credit, an API platform for credit data access and analysis. Currently, Matt is focused on investing and advising, working with VC-backed founders and advising companies…
- Rebuilding Checking & Cash Management with Jiko
Stephane Lintner is Co-Founder & CEO of Jiko, a new take on the money storage and transaction layer in banking, a.k.a. checking accounts and cash management. Jiko was founded in 2016 with the mission of providing consumers and businesses w…
- Payments, Credit and Vertical SaaS with Matt Brown of Matrix Partners
Matt Brown is a venture capitalist and Partner at Matrix Partners. Matt is a founder and operator turned investor, having started two software companies, both backed by Matrix, and then led product for AfterPay in the US in the lead-up to…
- The Inner Workings of Banking-as-a-Service with Treasury Prime
Chris Dean is the co-founder & CEO of Treasury Prime, a leading US banking-as-a-service platform fresh off a $40m Series C raise. Treasury Prime is a software company that connects sponsor banks to customer facing fintechs and by doing so…
- Fintech & Crypto Seed Investing with Jared Franklin of Costanoa
Jared Franklin is an investor at Costanoa Ventures. Costanoa is a seed-stage VC focused on fintech, data and developer infrastructure, applied AI and security, specifically B2B. The firm has $1.5b under management across seed and growth fu…
- Examining the Embedded Finance Value Chain in a Moment of Market Dislocation
I'm joined by fintech and web3 luminary Lex Sokolin , Head Economist at ConsenSys and author of the Fintech Blueprint , for a discussion about the embedded finance value chain. As listeners know, this is a topic of great interested to me,…
- The BaaS Value Chain is Broken
Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) has been the subject of much excitement in fintech over the past few years, together with the related but more general concept of embedded finance . It powers companies like Chime, Robinhood and Coinbase and can…
- Raising a $20m VC Fund as a Solo GP with Rex Salisbury
Rex Salisbury is the Founder of Cambrian and GP of Cambrian Ventures . Rex is a key figure in the Fintech ecosystem, having started Cambrian as a product meetup in 2015 and ultimately growing it into a community of 15,000 newsletter subscr…
- Competing to Win as an Emerging L1 Blockchain with NEAR
Marieke Flament is CEO of the NEAR Foundation. NEAR is an emerging layer 1 blockchain specifically optimized for usability, along with speed and security. NEAR was founded in 2018 to improve on aspects of layer 1s then in existence. In its…
- Seed Investing in a Bear Market with 186 Ventures
Giuseppe Stuto is Managing Partner of 186 Ventures, a $37m seed fund launched in late-2021. 186 has made 10 investments since inception, following on from over two dozen angel investments Giuseppe and his partner Julian made over the past…
- Purpose Driven Investing for Financial Return with Flourish Ventures
It's great to be back after taking nearly a year off from regular content to build and launch BELLA . The break wasn't really planned, but between launching the business, having a son and moving to LA all while dodging COVID, it was unavoi…