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Welcome to the Embedded Finance Review Podcast, hosted by Lars Markull. Join us biweekly as we delve into the transformative world of embedded finance.Each episode features in-depth conversations with the builders and shapers of embedded finance, who are integrating financial services into everyday products and experiences. We go beyond the surface to explore the relevant details, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of how embedded finance is reshaping vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and more. Perfect for professionals, enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the evolving financial landscape.
Lars Markull hosts Embedded Finance Review, a business show with 49 episodes published.
Most platforms in Germany are still defaulting to a grey-label setup with their payment provider, where their merchants see and interact with the PSP directly. According to Julius Danek, product lead for Stripe in DACH a
Embedded finance typically involves payments, banking, lending, investments, and insurance. But there are adjacent areas evolving with the same logic, and embedded accounting is one of them. In this episode, I speak with
Tom Sellin has a way of explaining how Airwallex's embedded finance offering works. He uses a Lego set. You have all the pieces: wallets, cards, payouts, and FX. The platform or fintech on the other side decides what to
Jane Podbelskaya does in North America what I do in Europe. She advises software companies and investors on embedded finance, runs a media platform called Charge Forward, and spends most of her time translating the world
Three years ago, a Moroccan e-commerce startup approached every bank in the country to request Banking-as-a-Service. None of them understood what APIs were. So the founders went to the central bank, obtained a payment in
Most platforms building embedded finance start with payments. Lending often comes next. What happens when invoices don't get paid is almost always the last thing on the roadmap — and for many SMEs, one of the most painfu
"At a certain scale, payments isn't a cost factor anymore. It becomes a strategic capability." In this episode, I speak with Christin Burmeister, Head of Product at Otto Payments. Otto is Germany's second-largest e-comme
Intergiro was a bootstrapped Swedish BaaS provider with €20M in revenue, nearly 100 employees, and 40,000 clients. They had just hit profitability. Then, overnight, the Swedish regulator revoked their license. A month la
Most startups building embedded banking follow a familiar path: pick a Banking-as-a-Service provider, integrate their APIs, and build a custom front end. But NoCFO, an AI-powered accounting platform, took a different app
What happens when embedded lending evolves from a nice-to-have experiment to a must-have competitive advantage? In this episode, I speak with Jens Roehrborn, co-founder of Banxware, a German embedded lending provider. Ov
Hope is not a strategy. That's a line from today's episode that stuck with me. Because in embedded finance, too many partnerships are built on hope: hope that customers will come or hope that the product will fit. But th
Embedded payments sounds simple: integrate a provider, monetize transactions, watch revenue grow. But the reality is far more nuanced. In this episode, I sit down with Alex Schoonkind, Cofounder and CEO of Embed, to unpa
You've decided to build a Fintech product. Now comes the hard part: hiring the right team. Should your first hire be a product manager or a compliance expert? Do you need dedicated Fintech developers, or can your existin
In this episode, Lars explores embedded insurance through an unusual but fascinating lens: horses. Finlay Dargan (COO, Equine MediRecord), Paul Prendergast (Kayna), and Anthony Borgman (WTW) share how they partnered to b
What if property managers across Europe are spending hours every day just trying to figure out which tenants have paid their rent? In this episode, I speak with Marcel Meitza, founder and CEO of GetMomo, a Berlin-based v
What if jewellery retailers could access thousands of dollars in inventory with just a few clicks and no upfront cash? In this episode, we sit down with Stefan Scherpenborg, Head of Nivoda Capital, to explore how they're
How do you take a document-first SaaS and scale it into a global quote-to-cash platform? In this episode, Philipp Pohlmann shares his journey from fintech founder to scaling embedded payments into one of PandaDoc’s most
🎯 Think embedded finance only happens in the US and Western Europe? Think again In this episode, Lars dives deep into the thriving embedded finance ecosystem of Central & Eastern Europe with Danuta Czapeczko, an industr
Discover how Procounter, Finland's largest accounting software company, is revolutionising small business banking through embedded finance. Guest Juho Putkonen sits down with host Lars Markull to discuss how they're maki
The partnership landscape between financial institutions and tech companies is rapidly evolving. What started as Fintech startups challenging banks has transformed into a collaborative ecosystem where embedded finance is
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