Alex Johnson

1 week ago | fintechtakes.com | Alex Johnson

I was delighted to get the opportunity this week to attend and speak at Stablecon, a stablecoin-focused conference put on by Nik Milanović and the team at This Week in Fintech in New York. I moderated a session — The Shifting Regulatory Sands of Stablecoins — featuring an all-star group of panelists: Flavia Naves, Chris Brummer, Jelena McWilliams, and Mark Wetjen. I also (somewhat unusually) managed to attend a few other sessions at the event, so my notebook is full of random stablecoin musings.

1 week ago | fintechtakes.com | Alex Johnson

Editor’s Note — This article is sponsored by Prism Data. As with all sponsored content in Fintech Takes, this article was written, edited, and published by me, Alex Johnson. I hope you enjoy it!“Lending money isn’t like playing tennis against a wall. There’s always someone on the other side of the net. Often there are multiple someones.”I can’t remember who told me this, early in my career, but it stuck. And it has been on my mind since the French Open kicked off earlier this month.

1 week ago | fintechtakes.com | Alex Johnson

Editor’s Note — This article is sponsored by JUDI.AI. As with all sponsored content in Fintech Takes, this article was written, edited, and published by me, Alex Johnson. I hope you enjoy it!Let’s work backwards. According to Cornerstone Advisors’ annual What’s Going On in Banking? Report, a growing percentage of community banks are making loans to small businesses (microloans under $75,000 and loans to sole proprietorships) a growth priority.  This is a logical decision.

1 week ago | fintechtakes.com | Alex Johnson

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I’m your host, Alex Johnson, and today we’re digging into one of the most urgent (and underdiscussed) financial issues in America: gambling. My guest is Alex DeMarco, founder and CEO of MoneyStack, who’s helping reframe gambling addiction not just as a behavioral health issue, but as a financial systems crisis.

1 week ago | fintechtakes.com | Alex Johnson

The big banks are discussing the possibility of jointly issuing a stablecoin:The nation’s biggest banks are exploring whether to team up to issue a joint stablecoin, a step intended to fend off escalating competition from the cryptocurrency industry. The conversations have so far involved companies co-owned by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and other large commercial banks, according to people familiar with the matter.