The What the FinTech? podcast | Season three’s jailed buzzwords
A host of new buzzwords have been locked away in our jail this year
Listeners of our flagship podcast What the FinTech? will be all too familiar with our game, “Fintech Jail”, where guests submit an industry buzzword to be banished from the sector for a set amount of time.
Below is a list of all of our third season’s fintech buzzwords locked away in our financial Folsom, or set free by the benevolence of a guest.
For a list of season two’s jailed terms, click here.
Episode 1: John Natalizia, co-founder and CEO of Snoop
Buzzword: Playbook
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 2: Tony Coleman, chief technology officer at Temenos
Buzzword: NFT
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 3: Bill Verhelle, CEO and founder of QuickFi
Buzzword: Digital transformation
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 4: Wayne Scott, regulatory compliance solutions lead at NCC Group
Buzzword: Multi-tenanted
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 5: Kevin Levitt, head of financial services and global industry business development at Nvidia
Buzzword: AI
Verdict: RELEASED
Episode 6: David Vergara, senior director of product marketing at OneSpan
Buzzword: Strong passwords
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 7: Claire Gates, chief commercial officer at PPRO
Buzzword: Alternative payment methods
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 8: Aaron Davis, director of product marketing at OneSpan
Buzzword: Robo-advice
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 9: Jethro MacDonald, product manager, artificial intelligence and machine learning at SmartStream
Buzzword: Crypto
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 10: Jay Swanston, chief platform officer at Moneybox
Buzzword: No-brainer
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 11: Dave Wallace, NMD+ founder and FinTech Futures columnist
Buzzword: Off-setting
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 12: Kim Symmons, head of design at Mettle
Buzzword: Minimum viable product (MVP)
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 13: Greg Palmer, vice president and host of Finovate
Buzzword: “We’re the Uber of…”
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 14: Gabriele Columbro, founder and executive director of FINOS
Buzzword: Open washing
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 15: Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking (WWB)
Buzzword: Customer-centric
Verdict: CONDITIONAL RELEASE
Episode 16: Louise Hill, co-founder and chief operating officer at GoHenry
Buzzword: Wealth management
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 17: Gaurav Sethi, chief product and strategy officer at Citizens Pay
Buzzword: Customer-centric
Verdict: FULL RELEASE
Episode 18: Kirsty Morris, managing director at Barclaycard Payments
Buzzword: Orchestration layer
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 19: Amreen Sodhi, head of digital product, payments and loyalty at Scotiabank
Buzzword: ESG
Verdict: HOLDING CELL
Episode 20: Season finale with Paul Hindle, editor at FinTech Futures, and Alex Pugh, reporter at FinTech Futures
Buzzwords: Crypto and open banking
Verdict: BOTH RELEASED
