Fintech Layer Cake
by Lithic
Is this your podcast?Lithic is an independent podcast creator known for their expertise in financial technology. With a focus on simplifying complex fintech concepts, Lithic aims to make the intricacies of the industry more accessible to a wider audience. "Fin…
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Audience Interest
- financial technology developments
- card program innovations
Podcast Focus
- discusses fintech topics
- simplifies complex concepts
Publishing Consistency
- 72 episodes produced
- active for 4 years
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- no platforms detected
- unknown distribution channels
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- 🇰🇪KE · Technology#125500 to 3K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
250 to 1.5K🎙 ~2x weekly·72 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
500 to 3K🇰🇪100% - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
150 to 90044 real followers tracked across platforms
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From 16 epsHosts
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Recent episodes
What to Look for in Your First Hire, and Why the Perfect Candidate Is a Trap with Lithic's Shirley Zhang
Aug 25, 2026
35m 57s
Webinar: How Fundbox Launched a Loan-to-Card Program in 7 Weeks
Aug 11, 2026
20m 43s
How a $7B Bank Out-Loaned Chase, and What Fintech Policy Needs Now, with AFC’s Phil Goldfeder
Aug 11, 2026
32m 29s
Nobody Loves SWIFT: Payments Inertia and Invisible Crypto Rails with Davi Strazza from Lightspark
Jul 28, 2026
37m 48s
A Former Prosecutor on How Fintechs Become Targets, with Laurel Loomis Rimon from Jenner & Block
Jul 14, 2026
26m 15s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/25/26 |  What to Look for in Your First Hire, and Why the Perfect Candidate Is a Trap with Lithic's Shirley Zhang | Fintech Layer Cake uncovers the secret recipes and practical insights from fintech leaders and experts. Host Reggie Young, chief of staff at Lithic, talks to the people building financial infrastructure from the inside. Shirley Zhang joined the startup Order as employee number seven, at 19, and built its people ops and recruiting functions from scratch. She later trained as an executive search recruiter, placing VP-level and above hires across a portfolio of venture firms, before joining Lith... | 35m 57s | ||||||
| 8/11/26 |  Webinar: How Fundbox Launched a Loan-to-Card Program in 7 Weeks | For most of the history of lending, approval and access were two separate events. A borrower gets approved, then waits days or weeks for an ACH to clear before the money is usable. For small businesses managing tight cash flow, that gap can be the difference between catching an opportunity and missing it. Cards are changing that. When a lender issues a virtual card at the moment of approval, credit becomes spendable right away, with no ACH delay and no separate account. In this webinar,... | 20m 43s | ||||||
| 8/11/26 |  How a $7B Bank Out-Loaned Chase, and What Fintech Policy Needs Now, with AFC’s Phil Goldfeder | Phil Goldfeder runs the American Fintech Council, the trade group representing nearly 170 fintech and banking companies. Before that he advised Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg, served in elected office, and helped steer Cross River through the Paycheck Protection Program, where a bank with six or seven billion dollars in assets made as many loans as Chase and Bank of America. In this episode, Reggie Young talks with Phil about how policy actually gets made and changed. They cover the less... | 32m 29s | ||||||
| 7/28/26 |  Nobody Loves SWIFT: Payments Inertia and Invisible Crypto Rails with Davi Strazza from Lightspark | Davi Strazza spent a decade at Adyen as the company scaled from around $30 billion to over $1.3 trillion in annual payment volume, running Latin America and then North America as president. Today he is Chief Business Officer at Lightspark, the company powering over 15% of Coinbase's Bitcoin transfers. In this episode, Reggie Young talks with Davi about what actually moves enterprise payments decisions. They cover why inertia keeps trillions on legacy rails, how challengers find their wedge ag... | 37m 48s | ||||||
| 7/14/26 | fintech enforcementdigital currency+4 | Laurel Loomis Rimon | BitcoinJenner & Block+1 | — | fintechenforcement+5 | — | 26m 15s | ||
| 7/7/26 | paymentsSquare+5 | Drew Edmond | SquareEtsy+2 | — | paymentsSquare+5 | — | 46m 15s | ||
| 6/18/26 | mortgage paymentsfinancial services+3 | Suhas Reddy | Fannie MaePathward Bank+1 | — | mortgagefinancial regulation+5 | — | 25m 52s | ||
| 5/28/26 | escheatmentfinancial compliance+3 | Allen Osgood | Eisen | — | escheatmentcompliance+5 | — | 27m 01s | ||
| 5/14/26 | credit cardslending business+3 | Scott Bass | EnsemblexCapital One+1 | — | credit cardslending+5 | — | 19m 12s | ||
| 4/30/26 | paymentstokenization+3 | Colin LuceJames Armstead | Basis Theory | — | tokenizationpayments+3 | — | 40m 49s | ||
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| 4/16/26 | tax filingAI in finance+3 | Gavin Nachbar | Column TaxAiwyn | — | tax filingAI+5 | — | 23m 49s | ||
| 4/2/26 | stablecoinsagentic commerce+3 | Simon Taylor | Fintech BrainfoodTempo | — | stablecoinspayments+3 | — | 26m 11s | ||
| 3/12/26 | fintech expansionU.S. market+4 | Andy Kampf | Klaros GroupKlarna | — | fintechU.S. expansion+6 | — | 22m 50s | ||
| 2/24/26 | AIdata quality+4 | Kyle Mack | Middesk | — | AI-driven fintechdata bottleneck+3 | — | 34m 56s | ||
| 1/29/26 | AI in compliancefintech growth+3 | Gokul Dhingra | Narrative | — | fintechcompliance+5 | — | 26m 51s | ||
| 12/4/25 | crypto credit cardsfintech partnerships+3 | Matthew Goldman | CoinbaseAmex+1 | — | crypto credit cardsCoinbase+5 | — | 28m 09s | ||
| 11/20/25 | stablecoinsdigital assets+4 | Sarah Wilson | CircleGENIUS Act | — | Circlestablecoins+5 | — | 19m 57s | ||
| 11/6/25 | AI adoptionfintech trends+4 | Jas Randhawa | Strategy Brix | — | AIfintech+5 | — | 34m 53s | ||
| 10/23/25 | money transmission licensesfintech+3 | Evan Minsberg | Morrison Foerster | — | MTLsmoney transmission+3 | — | 28m 37s | ||
| 10/9/25 | fintechengineering strategy+4 | Will Larson | ImprintStripe+3 | — | fintechengineering+5 | — | 42m 26s | ||
| 9/25/25 | Fixing SMB Cash Flow with Ariel Blum, Founder of Receive | In this episode of FinTech Layer Cake, Reggie Young sits down with Ariel Blum, Founder of Receive, to unpack the challenges of small business cash flow and why “earned revenue access” could transform how SMBs operate. Ariel shares his journey from watching his parents struggle with delayed payments, to working at Amex, Green Dot, and Melio, to ultimately founding Receive. They explore the future of embedded finance, fintech’s shift from “hot or not” to “essential,” and how solving cash... | 34m 51s | ||||||
| 9/11/25 | The Future of Agentic Financial Crime Work with Greenlite Cofounder Will Lawrence | In this episode of Fintech Layer Cake, host Reggie Young sits down with Will Lawrence, Co-Founder and CEO of Greenlite AI, to explore how AI is transforming background checks and employment verification. Will shares how his team is building a platform that makes identity verification faster, smarter, and more reliable, from parsing unstructured data to detecting fraud in real time. Along the way, they discuss the challenges of scaling AI in high-stakes industries, the balance between automat... | 35m 31s | ||||||
| 7/10/25 | Bank Data Crash Course with Lee Easton of iDENTIFY | In this episode of Fintech Layer Cake, host Reggie Young sits down with Lee Easton, founder and president of iDENTIFY, to unpack one of fintech’s least understood layers: bank transaction data. Lee breaks down why raw bank data is so unreliable out of the box, and what it actually takes to clean, enrich, and classify it so that it's usable for real-time fraud detection, underwriting, and customer engagement. From manual tagging nightmares to building classification models across 1.2 billion t... | 33m 27s | ||||||
| 6/26/25 | Taktile Cofounder Max Eber on LLMs and Risk Infrastructure | In this episode of Fintech Layer Cake, Reggie Young sits down with Max Eber, Co-Founder of Taktile, to explore how modern fintechs are rethinking risk infrastructure. Max shares insights from building a flexible decision engine used by leading lenders and fintechs around the world. They dive into what it really takes to customize underwriting, how Taktile is approaching AI and LLMs in production, and why success often hinges on enabling teams, not just engineers, to iterate faster. Whether yo... | 35m 05s | ||||||
| 6/18/25 | Taktile’s Journey with CEO Maik Wehmeyer | In this episode of Fintech Layer Cake, host Reggie Young speaks with Maik Wehmeyer, co-founder and CEO of Taktile, an AI-powered risk decisioning platform redefining how fintechs, banks, and even telcos approach mission-critical decisions. Maik shares the multi-year journey from MLOps tooling to a hyper-flexible decisioning platform, and how Taktile now powers over 150 institutions. They discuss the evolution of embedded finance, overlooked AI opportunities, and why enterprise deals are where... | 28m 38s | ||||||
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Lithic is an independent podcast creator known for their expertise in financial technology. With a focus on simplifying complex fintech concepts, Lithic aims to make the intricacies of the industry more accessible to a wider audience. "Fintech Layer Cake" stands out for its unique format, breaking down significant financial technology topics into easily digestible segments. The podcast covers various aspects of fintech, catering to both enthusiasts and newcomers, and strives to demystify the industry with its approachable style. The show's audience primarily consists of fintech professionals, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in understanding modern financial systems. Listeners gain valuable insights into the evolving landscape of fintech, making it easier to grasp essential topics and trends in the sector.
By the numbers
- Total followers: 44
- Total plays: 353
- Total reviews: 22
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Castbox
- Followers: 16
- Plays: 353
Podcast App
- Followers: 22
- Reviews: 22
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- Followers: 6
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What the show covers
- discusses fintech topics
- simplifies complex concepts
- provides industry analysis
- features expert interviews
Audience interests
- financial technology developments
- card program innovations
- fintech industry insights
- technology trends in finance
Platform reach
- no platforms detected
- unknown distribution channels
- potential for broad reach
- limited audience visibility
Publishing consistency
- 72 episodes produced
- active for 4 years
- weekly episode cadence
- consistent content delivery
Chart history for Fintech Layer Cake
Peaked at #125 in KE, currently #125 in KE.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE | — | #125 | #125 | — |
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.