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News Pod #26 - The Fintech Bank Charter Gold Rush

July 10, 2026 4:00pm 18 min

Klarna just filed to become a bank. They're the ninth major fintech since December, joining Affirm, PayPal, Upstart, Revolut, Bunq, Mission Lane, and OppFi. The OCC saw 18 de novo applications in 2025, nearly matching th...

News Pod #25 - Happen Bank Is Running Chime's Playbook In Reverse

July 03, 2026 11:43am 15 min

In this solo News Pod episode, Carlos unpacks the story underneath Lending Club’s recent rebrand to Happen Bank. The story was covered in this week’s Newsletter: https://www.thefreetoaster.com/p/happen-bank-is-running-...

E052 - Affiliate Marketing, Poker [Reposted from the "What's Your Wheelhouse" Video Podcast]

June 30, 2026 1:59pm 37 min

Carlos sits with Megan Bauer, Head Of Customer Success at Spinwheel, to discuss affiliate marketing & business lessons learned playing poker. ****** This episode is reposted from Spinwheel's Video Podcast - "What's You...

News Pod #24 - How Lenders Win When AI Calls the Shots

June 26, 2026 4:04pm 35 min

Nick and Carlos discuss an Editorial piece recently published in The Free Toaster Newsletter https://www.thefreetoaster.com/p/how-lenders-win-when-ai-calls-the   The premise of the conversation -- an LLM-based personal ...

E051 - Real Talk On How Long It Takes To Get Into Big Affiliate Platforms

June 24, 2026 3:40pm 15 min

Most lenders underestimate how long it takes to get onto a major affiliate platform. The honest answer is 6 to 12 months. Sometimes 18. If one of these channels is on your 2027 roadmap, you need to start now.   In this s...

News Pod #23 - Pagaya Sues Klarna for (Allegedly) Stealing Its Underwriting Model

June 19, 2026 1:46pm 14 min

Pagaya filed a lawsuit against Klarna for (allegedly) stealing is underwriting. Carlos & Nick discuss the implications for fintech marketers that share their underwriting policies with affiliate marketing platforms. Tod...

News Pod #22 - JD Power Sues Chime + A Preview of Our Sept 23rd Event In SF

June 12, 2026 5:27pm 16 min

JD Power sued Chime in the Southern District of New York over its "America's #1 choice for banking" campaign, alleging breach of contract, trademark infringement, and false advertising. Carlos and Nick discuss, expanding...

News Pod #21 - Cash Flow Underwriting Distribution - Carlos and Nick Continue The Convo...

June 05, 2026 5:03pm 14 min

We've been writing about Cash Flow Underwriting lately. This week we continue the conversation. We expand on what we wrote this week in The Free Toaster Newsletter: https://www.thefreetoaster.com/p/will-llms-solve-distr...

News Pod #20 - What Would It Take To Scale Cash Flow Based Lending?

May 29, 2026 11:24am 39 min

In an October 2024 article in The Free Toaster, Carlos laid out 3 things that would unlock distribution for Cash Flow Based Lenders. In today's episode, he shares the progress we've made on all 3 fronts over the last 18 ...

News Pod #19 - With the New Plaid Integration, ChatGPT is Now a Distribution Channel for Personal Finance

May 22, 2026 5:05pm 20 min

ChatGPT just integrated Plaid, giving 200 million monthly users a personalized finance experience built on real account data. Carlos and Nick break down what that means for affiliate marketing. Credit Karma's approval od...

E050 - Jeff Keltner on AI for Business Development, NerdWallet's Drop, and the Future of Affiliate Channels

May 22, 2026 9:09am 49 min

Jeff Keltner was the first non-founder employee at Upstart. He spent over a decade there running consumer acquisition, building the bank partnership business from zero to ten banks, and managing both sides of the affilia...

News Pod #18 - NerdWallet's Q1 '26 Earnings: Why Is The Stock Down 30%?

May 15, 2026 12:43pm 19 min

Carlos and Nick break down NerdWallet's Q1 2026 earnings, the first full read on the company since the stock dropped 32% post-print. Headline numbers look fine on the surface. $222M in revenue, 6% YoY growth, $34M in non...

News Pod #17 - SoFi's Q1 2026 Earnings Report - With Special Guest Rachel Lauren, Co-Founder and COO at Debbie

May 08, 2026 3:47pm 15 min

Wall St. sold off what seemed to us like a killer performance from SoFi in Q1 2026. Carlos, Nick, and special guests Rachel Lauren react to the earnings report. This news Pod expands on our reporting from this week's New...

E049 - Deep Dive With Zak Ali, General Manager of Finder's US Business

May 06, 2026 5:15pm 1:31

Zak Ali runs the US business at Finder, the financial comparison site that started in Australia in 2006 and launched stateside in 2015. Lending now drives roughly 40–50% of Finder US revenue across personal loans, busine...

E048 - Q&A on Application Friction - Nick interviews Carlos

May 04, 2026 2:43pm 12 min

Nick Madrid interviews Carlos Caro live at the Fintech Summit in NYC on April 28th.   On the heels of a Curated Table Event on April 27th (sponsored by Spinwheel), Nick bumped into Carlos at the Fintech Summit and did a ...

News Pod #16 - OnePay, Credit One x Bright Money, and Aven's BTC Play

May 01, 2026 4:36pm 10 min

Carlos flies solo this week (Nick is wheels-up from NYC to SF after FinTech Week) to break down three stories from this week's newsletter: OnePay's no-deposit credit builder card, Credit One Bank's embedded integration w...

News Pod #15 - OpenAI Acquires Hiro Finance

April 24, 2026 3:32pm 19 min

Carlos and Nick expand on the headline story from this week’s Newsletter. And they speculate on what this might mean for consumer lending distribution platforms. https://open.substack.com/pub/thefreetoaster/p/openai-do...

News Pod #14 - Wells Fargo Books 631,000 New Credit Card Accounts in Q1 2026 - How Did They Do It?

April 17, 2026 3:59pm 11 min

Carlos and Nick try to make sense of Wells Fargo's 60% YOY increase in new credit card customer bookings. They covered this story in Wednesday's Newsletter and they dig deeper into potential sources of their growth: h...

E047 - Eliminating Friction in the Lending Funnel, with Rachael Olson, Former Head Of Product Strategy at Discover

April 15, 2026 3:27pm 1:08

Rachael Olson spent years running product strategy on Discover's $6 billion personal loan business, and she joins the show to walk through a real lender's application from marketplace click all the way to the hard pull, ...

News Pod #13 - Experian No Ding Decline, American + Citi CoBrand, and Cash App P2P News

April 10, 2026 7:10pm 18 min

Carlos and Nick welcome Amanda Braslow to the show as the newest partner in the business and GM of events. Amanda brings fifteen years from Capital One, most of it in the co-brand trenches. Her first big project putting ...

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