ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗

Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
23 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
Video podcast
English
United States
57 episodes
since Dec. 11, 2024
episodic

LATEST EPISODE 🔗

In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) sits down with Utsav, founder and CEO of Kaaj, to talk about how AI is helping banks, credit unions, and independent finance companies underwrite small business and equipment loans in minutes instead of days. Utsav spent a decade in data science and m…

SEARCH PAST EPISODES

Search past episodes of LendAPI Podcast.

PREVIOUS EPISODES

In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) talks with Ty Wittman of Pulse about why banks still read documents by hand, why template-based OCR was never going to solve it, and what it takes to extract data from a commercial loan packet with confidence a credit committee can actually trust. Ty …
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) talks with Amr, founder and CEO of Neumetria, about why a three-digit credit score is a fundamentally broken way to represent a person's financial life — and why every dollar you earn deserves better context than "restaurant" or "travel." Amr's path …
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) catches up with Jackie of MOOV — a single-API payment processor connected directly to the Fed, Visa, and Mastercard — live from FinTech DevCon in Denver, a developer-only conference with no sales pitches allowed. Jackie walks through what MOOV actual…
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) talks with Simon of FinWise Bank Corp about what actually happens behind the scenes of a bank-fintech sponsorship — why some fintechs get onboarded and others get turned away, why high-interest short-term loans aren't always the villain they're made o…
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) talks with Trevor Barran, CEO of FNCR, about the strange, underserved middle of small business lending — too big for a local bank or an online lending platform, too small for a commercial bank's credit desk — and why FNCR built an entire company to cl…
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) welcomes back Carlos Caro — consumer lending founder, creator of The Free Toaster newsletter, and now the organizer of a new invite-curated event bringing lenders and publishers together in San Francisco. Carlos spent seven years at Capital One befor…
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) talks with Jeeda Salloum , Partner at Block Equity Group, about small business lending, the real stories behind the numbers, and how a psychology degree turned out to be the perfect training for finance. Jeeda's a partner, closing deals and helping b…
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) talks with John Gordon, CEO of ValidiFI, about how lenders and fintechs validate bank accounts, stop ACH fraud, and make better credit decisions using bank behavior data most lenders never see. John breaks down NACHA's Web Debit Rule (why every ACH p…
In this episode, host Timothy Li (CEO, LendAPI) talks with Jay Shah of CRS Credit API — a licensed Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) built to make regulated financial data easy for fintechs and lenders to access. Jay breaks down what "regulated data" actually means, why the FCRA (Fair Credit Reportin…
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Timothy Li, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.