Laurel Road’s Alyssa Schaefer on launching a new online lending brand with deep banking roots

Partner Content, Payments, Podcasts

The post-purchase space is a land opportunity, where partnerships push FIs and merchants further into profitability, feat. Gaurav Mittal, EVP of Ethoca

• Gaurav Mittal, Executive Vice President of Ethoca, a Mastercard company, shares that customers want to more tools when it comes to post-purchase tasks like cancellation and budgeting, but the industry has so far struggled to meet this need.
• Mittal's experience shows that merchants and banks build deeper relationships with their customers and save on operating costs, when they strategically leverage the banking app to help customers stay on top of their money through tools like digital receipts and subscription management.

Banking, Making better partnerships, Path to growth, Podcasts

How are emerging community banks building effective tech partnerships? 

• This episode builds on the de novo community banking theme, exploring the origin, growth, and technology paths of two community banks: RockPointBank in Tennessee and Moultrie Bank in Georgia. 
• Both banks are young, having been founded during the pandemic, and while they share some commonalities like limited budgets and staffing, they each have unique markets and growth strategies. The variety of perspectives on the same challenges is what makes their story interesting.

Podcasts

Reshaping embedded finance with KeyBank’s Jon Briggs and Qolo’s CEO Patricia Montesi

• Discover how KeyBank and Qolo are changing embedded finance with their fintech partnership.
• Learn about their creative virtual account solution that's streamlining treasury management for businesses.

Podcasts

Modernizing the finance tech stack: A conversation with Mercury’s VP of Finance, Dan Kang

• Mercury is thoughtful in how it is impacting corporate finance for tech founders by rethinking the CFO tech stack.
• Explore the future of startup banking from Dan Kang, VP of Finance at Mercury.

Compound Influence, Podcasts

Compound Influence #2: Ron “The Analyst’s Analyst” Shevlin

• The Compound Influence Podcast explores the mechanics of influence and influencers in financial services.
• In this episode, we look at Cornerstone Advisors' Ron Shevlin and the impact he has on the industry through data-informed research and opinion.