Griffin Uncut
Casual conversations with our partners, customers, fintech founders, operators, and builders shaping the future of banking and financial services.
From embedded finance and API-first banking infrastructure to regulatory challenges and growth strategies, we talk to the people building financial products about what works (and what doesn't).
Featured episodes
Matt Ford032: How wealthtech ignores affluent millenials
Matt Ford, founder and CEO of Sidekick Money, joins us to discuss the massive gap in wealth management for affluent millennials earning six figures with £250K-£500K in assets.
David Jarvis031: Griffin's 2026 outlook - cards, stablecoins, and agentic finance
In our first episode of 2026, our CEO David Jarvis shares the outlook for the year and reflects on a wild 2025 that saw Griffin 5x revenue and sign tier-1 names like Uber and Marqeta.
Jarvey Moss030: Fixing the payments problem in the construction industry
Construction has the highest insolvency rate of any sector. Jarvey, CEO of Saible, joins us to discuss one of the most overlooked crises in the UK economy: the construction industry's broken payment system.
Chris Green029: Building AI-powered due diligence before the hype
Chris Green, CEO of Xapien, joins us to discuss building AI-powered due diligence long before the current AI hype cycle.
Allen Rohner, James Trunk028: How we build software - engineering culture, small teams, and why our engineering managers still code
David (Co-founder & CEO) sits down with Allen Rohner (Co-founder & CTO) and James Trunk (VP, Engineering) to discuss how Griffin's engineering culture actually works.
Kriss Collison, Paul Dale027: Financial crime prevention
From social engineering scams to the psychology of fraud, Kriss and Paul explain how financial crime has evolved and how to stay ahead of the sophisticated tactics criminals use today.
Nick Perrett026: Reinventing wealth management
Nick Perrett, founder and CEO of Prosper, joins us to discuss why he left video games to fix wealth management, how to hack trust as a startup, and why AI represents the biggest platform shift since mobile.
Marieke Flament025: Stablecoins, the new stack of money, and why Europe should wake up
Marieke Flament, ex-ceo Mettle joins us to discuss why we're living through a new Bretton Woods moment - except this time, it's happening behind keyboards instead of in meeting rooms.
Rebecca Gee024: Operational resilience for fintechs
Griffin's Operational Resilience Manager, joins us to discuss what it really takes to keep a bank running when things go wrong.
Nick Murphy023: Stablecoins vs. banks
Nick Murphy, CEO & Co-founder of Kutana, joins us to reveal how stablecoins are solving Africa's $100+ billion cross-border payment crisis.
Stephen Millard022: Why only 1% of startups reach $100M ARR
Stephen Millard from Notion Capital shares the harsh realities of startup scaling. Based on analysis of 14,000 companies over 20 years, Stephen reveals why only 1% achieve significant outcomes and just 1 in 125 reach $100M ARR in under 10 years.
Tim Chong021: Debit with credit benefits
Tim Chong, Co-founder and CEO of Yonder, joins David Jarvis to discuss the realities of building a consumer fintech that's redefining rewards cards in the UK.
Yuval Ellenbogen020: The wild ride of building a start-up bank
Yuval lets us in on what it means to be an early employee at a start-up bank. From a 375-page regulatory business plan to designing financial stress tests and so much more.
Lars Markull019: Why banks are terrible at being banks
Lars breaks down exactly why non-financial brands have a massive advantage over banks because they actually understand their customers' workflows and pain points.
Steve Lemon018: Building and scaling a fintech unicorn
From a dark, dank, windowless basement in 2009 to selling to Visa at $1B+ in 2021, Steve shares all the truth about startup life, including the "deafening silence" after you quit your job and nearly shut down multiple times.
Georgia Hanias017: Why we are backing stablecoins next
Founder of Ecology Media and one of the original architects of PR in UK fintech sits down to chat about her early work in Fintech PR and Web3 + why she thinks stablecoins are the next big bet.
Emily Lee016: WTH is banking operations?
Get into the nitty gritty of onboarding, payments operations, billing, compliance and scaling processes at a bank.
Allen Rohner015: AI agents opening bank accounts? MCP in banking
When AI has an API key that can move money, how do we ensure every payment was actually intended? Our CTO, Allen Rohner chats about this and all things AI in banking
Dora Grant014: Is AI in banking a compliance dream or nightmare?
Our CRO, Dora Grant brings a practical perspective to the AI debate. Her take? "AI is going to happen whether you like it or not, so you might as well get ahead of the game."
Ed Stephens013: How to build compliance products for fintechs and banks
Ed Stephens, one of Griffin's first product managers, talks to us about his journey of building Griffin's compliance products
- William Lorenz
012: Evolution of banking and payments
Former founder and fractional consultant to multiple fintechs William shares his view on how banking and payments have evolved in the UK
- Joe Jordan
011: Changing financial promotions compliance with AI
Joe from Adclear takes us on his personal journey of co-founding the AI product helping Fintechs automate a vital part of their marketing and compliance workflows.
Ola Oyetayo010: Building a remittance business in the UK
Ola Oyetayo, Co-founder and CEO of Verto, shares insights on enterprise sales, technology applications in remittance, and why Swift remains "one of the wonders of the modern world."
Greg Moseley009: Embedded finance and remittance
Our Client Solutions Lead Greg Moseley shares how we help remittance companies solve one of their biggest challenges: keeping customers engaged after they complete a transaction.
Karan Shanmugarajah008: APIs in wealth management
CEO and co-founder of WealthKernel chats about the need for modern APIs in wealth management and why they are partnering with Griffin to offer embedded savings.
Ed Carter007: The future of banking operations
Our COO, Ed shares how military leadership principles translate to banking operations, why simplicity matters in complex environments, and how Griffin's operations team stays ahead of customer needs.
Daniel Cronin006: Building for fintechs
Co-founder of Integrated Finance Daniel joins us to talk about why banking integrations never get easier at scale.
Allen Rohner005: Building a bank with Clojure
Our CTO Allen Rohner (who also co-founded CircleCI) speaks on building a bank from scratch, prioritisation and choosing Clojure.
Phoebe Wallis004: Designing lending solutions for fintechs
Our Chief Revenue Officer takes us on the journey of joining Griffin and how we're designing solutions for clients in the lending industry.
Jorge Zaccaro, Howard Rees003: How we built interest
Building interest at a bank sounds simple, right? Multiply balance by rate... done? Not quite! We spent 6 months crafting this very fundamental banking feature. Here's what it takes to calculate the money you earn on your savings.
Adam Moulson002: Selling a startup's first product
Adam Moulson, Griffin's Chief Commercial Officer on selling a startup's first product, scaling the commercial team and creating value for your customers.
David Jarvis001: What does it take to build a bank?
What does it take to build a bank? In the pilot episode of Griffin Uncut, our CEO goes deep on the foundations. You'll hear a bit about how he met co-founder Allen, why they chose to build Griffin, the highs, lows and some spicy takes.
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