Leaders in Lending

Barry Roach

Booking Overview

This is a weekly interview show focused on consumer lending, banking innovation, compliance, and the future of financial services, typically featuring senior executives and regulatory or industry leaders from banks, credit unions, fintechs, and lending organizations. Credible pitches include bank and credit union executives, fintech founders or senior operators, lending-technology specialists, compliance leaders, and consumer-credit experts with substantial institutional experience; booking is likely high difficulty because guests generally hold senior leadership or prominent industry roles.

Metrics

Episodes: 198

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

leadersinlending@gmail.com

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Host

Barry Roach - Host focused on consumer lending, financial services, and the leaders shaping the future of lending.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior executives and established leaders at banks, credit unions, fintechs, lending companies, or financial-services organizations, particularly in lending, strategy, capital markets, risk, compliance, operations, or customer experience.

Required Achievements:

Executive leadership at a bank, credit union, fintech, or lending organization, Leadership of consumer-lending, compliance, risk, strategy, or financial-services initiatives, Participation in recognized banking or regulatory industry committees

Recent Guest Discussions

Sanjay Dutta - Ai-powered Prediction Models, Credit Decisions, Capital Markets, Economic Conditions, And The Future Of Consumer Lending

Queanne Smith - Community Banking, Customer Retention, Growth Strategy, Community Investment, Client Readiness, And Profitability

Aaron Rakowski - CFPB Engagement, Compliance Programs, State Regulation, AI Oversight, Documentation, And Regulatory Durability

Mike Reynolds - CFPB Engagement, Compliance Programs, State Regulation, AI Oversight, Documentation, And Regulatory Durability

Recent Topics

Consumer Lending, Banking, Fintech, Compliance, Credit Unions

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Leaders in Lending

Software as a Worker: Agentic AI Comes to Collections

September 09, 2026

An adverse action notice can't say "because the bot told me so." That's the constraint on every AI risk model in lending, and it's where part two of our conversation lands. Jay Mossman of AKUVO and Dave Wasik of Second Order Solutions join host Barry Roach to work through where AI agents actually earn their place across the collections lifecycle, and where they don't. Dave maps the easy wins to the extremes: payment reminder nudges at one end, long defaulted accounts nobody could profitably d...

Nobody Answers the Phone: How Default Management Moved Upstream

August 26, 2026

Only 13% of collections calls get answered. So what replaced the phone?Ten years ago, default management was almost entirely a phone-based process. Today, the phone gets answered 13% of the time, and the industry has rebuilt itself around digital-first outreach, behavioral data at a scale no single lender can reach, and models that predict on day one of delinquency how long an account will take to cure.Jay Mossman of AKUVO and Dave Wasik of 2nd Order Solutions join host Barry Roach to trace h...

The Future of Home Equity Is Frictionless

August 13, 2026

How are leading banks and fintechs evolving to meet the needs of today’s homeowners?In this episode of Leaders in Lending, we sit down with Sam Garcia (CEO of HELN News), Ivan Ahmed (Senior Director at Experian), and Andy Walden (Head of Mortgage and Housing Market Research at ICE) to explore why the future of HELOCs depends on reducing friction and leveraging data.In this video, we discuss: The Rise of the "HELOC Credit Card": How digital-first lenders are reimagining home equity as a fricti...

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