Fintech & Payments · Podcasts

Fintech & Payments podcasts worth following, and what each is good for

These are the podcasts Briefwire reads to cover Fintech & Payments, each one fetched and checked before it is listed. Where operators and investors reason out loud at length. The receipt for a line from one of these is a timestamp.

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The list

In no ranked order. The note beside each says what it is good for, which is a different thing from how big it is.

Odd Lots
Bloomberg's markets show; ships per-episode transcripts, which is rare and makes it extractable.
Fintech Layer Cake (Lithic)
Deep operator interviews on card and payments infrastructure plumbing.
Leaders In Payments
Weekly named-executive interviews spanning acquirers, processors and networks; transcripts published, giving 500+ dated exec quotes.
This Week in Fintech
The TWIF community's operator interviews; the newsletter ships no feed, so this is the only ingestible half, and it carries transcripts.
Digital Banking Podcast
Community-bank and credit-union executives on core migrations and digital strategy — the segment the national trades under-cover.
The MoneyPot (Money20/20)
Money20/20's own interview series with transcripts; a separate show from the Money20/20.tv stage videos already in the library, but same publisher — confirm the merge owner is comfortable before taking it.
Fintech Takes
Alex Johnson's analysis show on regulation and business models; the newsletter feed is long dead.
The Fintech Blueprint
Lex Sokolin on fintech and crypto convergence; strong on business-model mechanics.
Wharton FinTech Podcast
Founder and executive interviews across payments, lending and wealth.
Breaking Banks
The longest-running fintech show; founder and regulator interviews across cycles.
Fintech Business Weekly
Payments on Fire
Glenbrook's consultants interrogating payments operators on scheme economics; the most technically literate show in the vertical.
Rebank: Fintech Analysis
Will Beeson interviewing bank and fintech operators on business models; low frequency, high signal on capital and unit economics.
One Vision (Theodora Lau)
A named analyst pressing banking and AI executives on inclusion and product strategy; her own reputation is on each episode.
FinAi Podcast
Bank-automation reporters interviewing named CIOs and heads of AI at US banks; concrete on vendor selection and deployment dates.
Fintech Chatter
Dexter Cousins on APAC fintech founders and funding; the best English coverage of Australian and SE Asian payments, with transcripts.
Banking on Digital Growth
Bank marketing and digital-transformation leaders on the record; useful for how institutions describe their own roadmaps.

How the list was made, and what we do with it

Chosen by hand: Every source is here because people who work in Fintech & Payments say substantive things on it, not because it is large. Enough of them to cover the field, few enough to audit.
Checked before listing: Each feed is fetched before it goes on the list, and a feed that answers but has stopped publishing is a fail, not a warning. Every source is English-language and public.
Read, so you need not: You do not have to listen to all of them. Each new episode is read from its published transcript, or transcribed when there is none, and the claims worth keeping are pulled out with the timestamp where each was said.
Sent as a brief: The 12 lines that rank highest across the whole Fintech & Payments beat go out daily or weekly. A claim several independent sources made ranks higher — that counts agreement, not accuracy.

The podcasts are one part of the beat. Every Fintech & Payments source, all media — or just the blogs and newsletters or YouTube channels.

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