FinMkt’s President and CEO, Luan Cox, anticipated the needs of modern financial services years before the market recognized them. Scaling multiple tech companies to successful exits, Luan Cox’s work has been recognized and awarded many times over, most recently at The Femmy’s as Innovator of the Year.

Cox sits down with Nicole Casperson to talk early career lessons, building for where the market is going – not where it’s been – and her work with Springboard Enterprises, including a new female fintech founder cohort designed to accelerate the next generation of category-defining leaders.

🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future.

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Fintech Meetup brings together leaders from banks, fintechs, credit unions, and investing firms for 50,000+ one-to-one meetings designed to drive real partnerships and real ROI.

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Stripe leader Sophie Sakellariadis has had a unique front row seat in modern fintech for over a decade.

From Stripe’s global expansion to building money movement systems behind how businesses store value, move funds, and operate across borders, Sakellariadis sits down with Nicole Casperson to talk about the First-Wave of Fintech, the Next Era, and even teach us about stablecoins.

🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future.

SPONSORED BY FINTECH MEETUP: https://hubs.la/Q040Bpk50

AND for the first time ever, Humans of Fintech is hosting the premier podcast booth at Fintech Meetup—where the fintech industry actually does business.

Fintech Meetup brings together leaders from banks, fintechs, credit unions, and investing firms for 50,000+ one-to-one meetings designed to drive real partnerships and real ROI.

And this year, we’re spotlighting the humans behind the headlines.

🎧 Nominate Someone to Be Featured on Humans of Fintech

In partnership with Fintech Meetup, we’re launching a special nomination contest for the Fintech Is Femme community.

Here’s how it works:

1. Nominate yourself or a colleague to be featured in a live recording of Humans of Fintech on the Fintech Meetup show floor
2. All nominees receive discounted Fintech Meetup tickets
3. Two winners — the nominator and the nominee — receive FREE VIP tickets
4. The selected nominee records a live podcast episode with Nicole Casperson, with their story and insights distributed across the Humans of Fintech network of 100,000+ fintech leaders

🎯 Ready to step into the spotlight?

👉 Nominate now and lock in your spot: https://hubs.la/Q040Bpk50

Because fintech is built by humans — and their stories deserve the mic.

Ready to join Fintech Meetup now? Secure your registration here:

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.Today, SoFi serves more than 12 million members, operates as a full-scale digital financial services platform, is the NBA's official bank, and is the namesake of SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

And their EVP, group business unit leader for Spend, Invest, Protect, and Save, Kelli Keough, sits down with Nicole to discuss how consumer behavior is changing under economic pressure, what it takes to build a winning consumer fintech brand at scale, and how the next era of fintech will belong to companies that understand people as deeply as they understand systems.

🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future.

SPONSORED BY FINTECH MEETUP: https://hubs.la/Q040Bpk50

AND for the first time ever, Humans of Fintech is hosting the premier podcast booth at Fintech Meetup—where the fintech industry actually does business.

Fintech Meetup brings together leaders from banks, fintechs, credit unions, and investing firms for 50,000+ one-to-one meetings designed to drive real partnerships and real ROI.

And this year, we’re spotlighting the humans behind the headlines.

🎧 Nominate Someone to Be Featured on Humans of Fintech

In partnership with Fintech Meetup, we’re launching a special nomination contest for the Fintech Is Femme community.

Here’s how it works:

1. Nominate yourself or a colleague to be featured in a live recording of Humans of Fintech on the Fintech Meetup show floor
2. All nominees receive discounted Fintech Meetup tickets
3. Two winners — the nominator and the nominee — receive FREE VIP tickets
4. The selected nominee records a live podcast episode with Nicole Casperson, with their story and insights distributed across the Humans of Fintech network of 100,000+ fintech leaders

🎯 Ready to step into the spotlight?

👉 Nominate now and lock in your spot: https://hubs.la/Q040Bpk50

Because fintech is built by humans — and their stories deserve the mic.

Ready to join Fintech Meetup now? Secure your registration here:

*https://register.visitcloud.com/survey/1tipmzl935flc?actioncode=000187WUF*

Recorded in the heart of Manhattan, we’re kicking off a very special Season 10: The Winner’s Circle with Fintech Meetup’s Sanjib Kalita. Host Nicole Casperson and Kalita sit down to discuss his start as an engineer building the early stages of big tech to his current role as Chairman of Fintech Meetup, the importance of relationships and storytelling in fintech, and lessons learned from his time at both large institutions and scrappy startups.

🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future.

SPONSORED BY FINTECH MEETUP: https://hubs.la/Q040Bpk50

AND for the first time ever, Humans of Fintech is hosting the premier podcast booth at Fintech Meetup—where the fintech industry actually does business.

Fintech Meetup brings together leaders from banks, fintechs, credit unions, and investing firms for 50,000+ one-to-one meetings designed to drive real partnerships and real ROI.

And this year, we’re spotlighting the humans behind the headlines.

🎧 Nominate Someone to Be Featured on Humans of Fintech

In partnership with Fintech Meetup, we’re launching a special nomination contest for the Fintech Is Femme community.

Here’s how it works:

1. Nominate yourself or a colleague to be featured in a live recording of Humans of Fintech on the Fintech Meetup show floor
2. All nominees receive discounted Fintech Meetup tickets
3. Two winners — the nominator and the nominee — receive FREE VIP tickets
4. The selected nominee records a live podcast episode with Nicole Casperson, with their story and insights distributed across the Humans of Fintech network of 100,000+ fintech leaders

🎯 Ready to step into the spotlight?

👉 Nominate now and lock in your spot: https://hubs.la/Q040Bpk50

Because fintech is built by humans — and their stories deserve the mic.

Ready to join Fintech Meetup now? Secure your registration here:

*https://register.visitcloud.com/survey/1tipmzl935flc?actioncode=000187WUF*

Recorded live from the Money20/20 show floor in Las Vegas, this special Humans of Fintech episode explores what it really takes to design a fair digital economy in a moment when financial systems are shifting faster than ever. Host Nicole Casperson sits down with Consumer Reports leaders Delicia Hand, Johnny Mathias, and Evan Feeney to break down the six principles of the Fair Digital Finance framework that help fintechs embed transparency, inclusion, and user protection from day one.

Across the episode, one truth becomes clear. Fair design isn’t just good for consumers — it’s good for business. The companies that measure fairness, communicate clearly, and give users real control are the ones that earn trust, loyalty, and long-term growth.

🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future.

Recorded live from the Fintech Penthouse at Money 2020 in Las Vegas, this two-part 'Humans of Fintech' special explores what it really takes to grow globally in a moment when financial systems are being rewritten in real-time. Host Nicole Casperson gathers leaders shaping the future of cross-border fintech to share the mindsets, tactics, and human stories behind global expansion.

Part 1 features Mary Murcko, Head of Growth at Fintech Meetup, who has scaled some of the world’s most iconic media brands and is now leading Fintech Meetup’s international expansion. Mary breaks down how to know when a company is ready to go global, the signals that pointed her team to Lisbon, and why clarity, culture, and storytelling matter more than ever when entering new regions. She shares tactical lessons from decades of building brands across borders and explains how connection and trust outweigh everything else when it comes to global scale.

Part 2 brings forward Jessica Johnson, CEO of Rosy Finch Method and Co., and Remy Sirls, Executive Director of the Joblio Foundation. Together, they unpack the human, operational, and strategic layers of expanding across markets. Jessica reveals her framework for localizing messaging, understanding cultural nuance, and knowing whether a product is truly ready for another region. Remy offers a rare glimpse into the global labor migration ecosystem and shares how Joblio is utilizing technology to create ethical pathways for talent worldwide.

Across both conversations, the morning centers on a powerful truth. Growing Global is not just about moving money. It is about moving people, ideas, and opportunity with intention and responsibility.

These live sessions capture the clarity, grit, and global perspective needed to build the next era of fintech.

🎧 Hit play to learn how today’s leaders are scaling across borders and shaping a more connected financial future.

Recorded live from the Fintech Penthouse at Money 2020 in Las Vegas, this special edition of Humans of Fintech honors the past, confronts the present, and reimagines the future of financial systems. Host Nicole Casperson opens the night by grounding the room in a powerful truth. Women have been shaping fintech long before fintech had a name, from Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper to Maggie Lena Walker. And today’s builders are continuing that legacy with intention, grit, and a vision for real financial inclusion.

Nicole is joined by industry leaders moving the world forward in meaningful ways:

• Alexander Matjanec, Founder and CEO, Wysh

• Edwin Endlich, President and Chair of the Board, NAFLI

• Kseniya Zaslavskaya, Business Development Operations, Wysh

• Erica Woods, Head of US State and Local Public Policy, Stripe

• Shanthi Shanmugam, Co-founder and CEO, Casap

• Shilpi Nayak, Co-founder and CTO, Goodfin

Together, they deliver a candid, energetic, and deeply insightful conversation about what it means to build in this historic in-between era: a moment when the old financial systems are breaking and the new ones are being written in real time.

These live sessions capture the urgency, hope, and fire of a community committed to designing a financial system that works for all of us. It is fintech for good in action.

🎧 Hit play to hear the leaders rewriting the rules and building what comes next.

Live from a buzzing room in NYC, this special Humans of Fintech episode brings two dynamic leaders to the stage: Nicole Mitchell, Partner at Aprio, and Tiffany Haynes, investor, advisor, and former COO of Fingercheck.

Nicole shares how she’s spent nearly 30 years as a connector, guiding founders to see the bigger picture and helping businesses grow beyond the numbers. From her bold beginnings to becoming a trusted advisor across industries, she unpacks the value of foresight and why she calls herself a “travel guide” for entrepreneurs.

Tiffany reflects on her move from corporate to fintech, where she scaled a bootstrapped company to a $150M exit. She discusses the strategies that kept her teams engaged, why timing matters more than speed, and how to make growth sustainable.

Together, they unpack how to “connect the dots” in leadership, scale, culture, and why the future of fintech belongs to leaders who see people first.

🎧 Hit play to hear Nicole and Tiffany’s playbooks for building businesses that last.