Fintech One-On-One

Peter Renton

Booking Overview

This is a weekly fintech leadership interview show focused on the transformation of financial services, with external guests typically serving as CEOs or senior executives at fintechs, banks, and financial technology companies. Credible pitches include fintech founders, banking executives, lending and payments innovators, and senior financial-services technology leaders with substantial operating experience; booking difficulty is high.

Metrics

Episodes: 647

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 4.0k subscribers

Instagram: 2.1k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Peter Renton - Peter Renton is the co-founder of Fintech Nexus and an independent fintech media and events consultant who has covered financial technology and financial services for many years.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Fintech founders and CEOs, bank presidents and senior executives, payments and lending technology leaders, or other established financial-services executives with significant operating, regulatory, or entrepreneurial experience.

Required Achievements:

Built or led a fintech, bank, payments company, or lending platform, Completed major acquisitions or driven significant business growth, Held senior executive roles at established financial institutions or financial technology companies, Developed notable financial products, underwriting models, or banking infrastructure

Recent Guest Discussions

Ren Sal - Regulated Fintech, B2b Banking, Electronic Invoicing As An Underwriting Advantage, Bank Acquisitions, Cross-border Payments, And Ai-native Lending.

Steve Cunningham - Nonprime Consumer And Small-business Underwriting, Digital Lending, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Bank Charters, And Banking-as-a-service.

Amanda Swoverland - Sponsor Banking, Bank-fintech Partnerships, Compliance, Bsa/aml, Liquidity, Credit Oversight, Regulatory Accountability, And AI In Compliance.

Mike de Vere - AI Lending, Machine-learning Underwriting, Generative AI, Fraud Detection, Portfolio Management, Community Financial Institutions, And Shared Intelligence.

Nandan Sheth - Card-linked Installments, Buy Now Pay Later, Merchant Payments, B2b Commerce, Agentic Commerce, Embedded Finance, And Payment Economics.

Recent Topics

Fintech, Banking, Lending, Payments, Financial Services

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Fintech One-On-One

Why Upstart Is Building a Bank From Scratch Instead of Buying One With CEO Paul Gu

September 10, 2026

Paul Gu dropped out of Yale in 2010 to join the first class of Thiel Fellows, spent time at the quant fund D.E. Shaw, and then co-founded Upstart on a simple premise: the techniques Wall Street uses to price corporate risk should work at least as well on consumer credit. Fourteen years later, he took over as CEO from co-founder Dave Girouard, and six weeks after that, the OCC granted conditional approval for Upstart Bank. This conversation covers what has actually changed at the top of the co...

What is Missing From Instant Bank Payments With Arpit Goel, CEO of Root

September 03, 2026

Arpit Goel built his first company, Gamma, on a simple pitch: legacy data-loss-prevention tools took nine months to show value, and Gamma got customers there in two weeks. Palo Alto Networks acquired Gamma in 2021. Now Goel is running the same play in a completely different industry. Root is a payments orchestration layer that lets enterprises move money bank-to-bank in about five seconds, with no intermediary ever holding the cash. In this conversation, Arpit explains why he thinks the US is...

Acquiring Banks and Creating an Underwriting Moat in Mexico With René Saúl, CEO of Kapital

August 27, 2026

René Saúl spent seven years running an offline agricultural lending business in Mexico before selling it and pouring the proceeds into Kapital, a bet that the future of B2B fintech in Latin America belonged to companies willing to become regulated banks. Today Kapital is the largest B2B fintech in the region, and René is the only founder in the space who has bought not one but two banks, one of the deals agreed to on a napkin.What We CoveredWhy the future of fintech is regulated, and why that...

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