EP931: How platforms are moving beyond core services to become financial partners

EP931: How platforms are moving beyond core services to become financial partners

Author: IBS Intelligence Podcasts | A Cedar Consulting Unit October 20, 2025 Duration: 13:07
Max Schertel, Co-Founder & CEO, finmid What’s next for embedded financing? Business platforms are already emerging as critical providers of capital for their SME clientele – customers who have been traditionally underserved when it comes to funding options. Now, the fastest growing platforms may well be making more money from embedded financial services than from their core business! Max Schertel of embedded finance provider finmid speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about the busin...

Tune in for direct conversations with the people actively shaping the future of money. IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews sits down with founders, executives, and visionaries from across the financial technology landscape, offering a rare, unfiltered look at their journeys. Each episode moves beyond the press release to explore the real-world strategies being deployed, the unexpected hurdles encountered, and the genuine insights gained from building in this fast-paced sector. You’ll hear firsthand accounts from leaders who are not just analyzing trends but are on the ground implementing new systems, forging partnerships, and navigating regulatory shifts. This podcast, presented by IBS Intelligence Podcasts, part of Cedar Consulting, serves as an audio companion to their deep industry analysis, providing context and personality to the forces driving global change. Whether you're in banking, payments, investment tech, or simply fascinated by the intersection of finance and innovation, these discussions deliver substance and perspective, connecting the dots between today's decisions and tomorrow's financial ecosystem. It’s a chance to listen in on the candid stories behind the headlines, straight from the source.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews
Podcast Episodes
EP886: How FinTechs fail and how we can prevent it [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:06
Elliott Limb, CEO, Cubed Over the past decade, we have seen many FinTechs rise and fall – entering the market to great fanfare only to exit extremely quietly. Why do so many FinTechs fail and what needs to happen in orde…
EP883: The pain points in insurance and how AI is addressing them. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:02
Ritesh Varma, VP Business Solutions Consulting, Newgen Software Investigating the opportunities and challenges involved in the implementation of artificial intelligence in the insurance sector – from ensuring fairness an…
EP882: How AI agents are changing financial research and analysis [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:55
Chandini Jain, Founder & CEO, Auquan Auquan offers AI agents for institutional finance and provides a glimpse into the future of work in investment banking. Agentic AI is already rewriting the role of humans in financial…
EP880: Deriving actionable business insights through analytics and AI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:43
Jorge Lluch, Co-Founder & COO, Abacum Abacum is a financial planning and analysis platform which recently raised $60 million in a Series B funding round. Businesses are under increasing pressure to forecast accurately, a…