The What the FinTech? podcast | Season four’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 locked away and banished from the sector.
Below is a list of all of the fintech buzzwords cast into our financial Folsom in season four of the show, as well as those set free by the benevolence of our guests.
For a list of season three’s jailed terms, click here.
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Guest: Leda Glyptis, NED, author and FinTech Futures columnist
Buzzword: Channels
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 2: Space Bank and financial inclusion
Guest: Nika Kurdiani, deputy CEO at TBC Bank and CEO of Space International
Buzzword: Phygital
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 3: Generative AI in banking
Guest: Miguel Navarro, patented inventor and AI/AR specialist
Buzzword: Meta (as shorthand for metaverse)
Verdict: JAILED
Guest: Nicholas Soo, regional head of payments products Asia at HSBC
Buzzword: NFT
Verdict: RELEASED
Episode 5: Levelling up UK fintech
Guest: Charlotte Crosswell, chair of the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT)
Buzzword: Fintech
Verdict: REPRIMANDED
Episode 6: Fintech funding trends and the VC investment landscape
Guest: Sarah Hinkfuss, partner at Bain Capital Ventures
Buzzword: Embedded finance
Verdict: JAIL TERM EXTENDED
Episode 7: Banking Tech Awards USA 2023 special
Guest: Keith Costello, co-founder, president and CEO of Locality Bank
Buzzword: Machine learning
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 8: The future of open banking in the UK
Guest: Marion King, chair and trustee of the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) and non-executive director at Cashflows
Buzzword: Unicorn
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 9: The rise of bank payments
Guest: Ben Morfoot, director of product management at GoCardless
Buzzword: Alternative payment methods
Verdict: JAIL TERM EXTENDED
Episode 10: Collaboration and transformation
Guest: Simon Boonen, fintech partnership lead at ING
Buzzword: ESG
Verdict: RELEASED
Episode 11: Blockchain and the future of corporate actions processing
Guest: Whikie Liu, strategy director, capital markets at Swift
Buzzword: Frictionless
Verdict: RELEASED
Episode 12: Business banking and the UK’s ‘missing middle’
Guest: Rajesh Gupta, CFO at OakNorth
Buzzword: Transformation
Verdict: JAIL TERM EXTENDED
Episode 13: AI simulation training in financial services
Guest: Casey Denby, VP of sales at Zenarate
Buzzword: Machine learning
Verdict: JAIL TERM EXTENDED
Episode 14: Financial vulnerability and the Consumer Duty
Guest: Helene Panzarino, director of the Centre of Digital Banking and Finance at the London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF)
Buzzword: Disruptive
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 15: How Scotland is aiming to become a global fintech hub
Guest: Nicola Anderson, CEO of FinTech Scotland
Buzzword: Collaboration
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 16: Meeting customer needs in a cost-of-living crisis
Guest: Andrea De Gottardo, CEO of Kroo
Buzzword: Teaser deal
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 17: Open banking innovation
Guest: Arthur Ribakovs, director of financial partnerships at Ecommpay
Buzzword: Stablecoin
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 18: Powering the future of cross-border payments
Guest: Teresa Cameron, finance director at Clear Junction
Buzzword: Crypto
Verdict: JAIL TERM EXTENDED
Episode 19: Adapting to regulatory modernisation
Guest: Scot Lenoir, chairman of Evolve Bank & Trust
Buzzword: N/A
Verdict: N/A
Episode 20: SPAC to the future
Guests: Betsy and Daniel Cohen, co-founders of Cohen Circle
Buzzword: Embedded finance
Verdict: JAIL TERM EXTENDED
Episode 21: Managing chargebacks and payment disputes
Guest: Monica Eaton, founder and CEO of Chargebacks911
Buzzword: Chargeback compliance
Verdict: JAILED
Episode 22: Personalisation in digital banking
Guest: Olivier Berthier, CEO of Moneythor
Buzzword: Hyper-growth
Verdict: JAILED
Guest: Dharmesh Mistry, writer, podcaster and banking technology consultant
Buzzword: Wallets
Verdict: JAILED
Featuring a special end-of-year amnesty for the final episode of the season
Buzzwords: Funding and crypto
Verdict: BOTH RELEASED
