Season 5

April 8, 2022

177: What’s the Scenario? | Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator Cla…

What a week! Techstars kicked off the Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator this week in Dublin and they’re already moving at a breakneck pace. With that, we’re taking the opportunity to introduce our MoneyNeverSleeps community to the ten amazing founding teams …

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March 25, 2022

176: Money Talks #49 | Ramp Goes Up | JPM Go West | Going Ape with Yu…

This week, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend return from a 2-week hiatus and look at what’s driving Ramp forward so quickly with their $8bn valuation, the JP Morgan deal for western Ireland-based fintech Global Shares, and the latest with ApeCoin, …

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March 4, 2022

175: My Philosophy | Nik Milanović, This Week in Fintech and The Fint…

Nik Milanović is the founder of This Week in Fintech, a global digest of fintech news, and General Partner at The Fintech Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund. In this episode, Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald talk to Nik about …

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Feb. 25, 2022

174: Money Talks #48 | SoFi So Far | Circle and Stablecoins | Crypto …

Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend riff on what started out as a student lending platform in SoFi now becoming a full-service digital finance player, Circle’s new SPAC deal in the context of stablecoins, advertising and naming rights in crypto and …

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Feb. 18, 2022

173: Mainstream | Adam Bialy, Fiat Republic and Bridging Banks and Cr…

Adam Bialy is the founder and CEO of Fiat Republic, the compliance-first, API-driven and highly secure and scalable bridge between banks and crypto. In this episode, Adam and Pete Townsend talk through the Fiat Republic vision, the current state of …

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Feb. 11, 2022

172: Step Into the Realm | Matthew Larby and Realm

Matthew Larby is the founder and CEO of Realm, a blockchain metaverse ecosystem where you can create and explore your own play to earn microverse. In this episode, Matthew and I talk through how the Realm experience works, how to …

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Feb. 4, 2022

171: Money Talks #47 | Crypto Visa | Ireland's Latest Unicorn: Wayfly…

Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend are back with the first Money Talks segment of 2022 with a big bump in consumers spending crypto on Visa cards, the story of Ireland’s latest unicorn, Wayflyer, the UBS deal for Wealthfront, Walmart doubling …

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Jan. 20, 2022

170: The Finsight Series | Beyond WealthTech

This episode is from the second edition of the Finsight Series virtual event that Pete Townsend moderated recently hosted by Navirum and Salesforce. In this conversation, we’ve got an all-star cast with Rory Galvin from Navirum, Kerry Ryan from Salesforce, …

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Jan. 14, 2022

169: Tim Bos | ShareRing, Building in Web3 and the Sharing Economy

Joining the show this week is Tim Bos, founder and CEO of ShareRing, a blockchain-based company that's focused on changing the landscape of the fragmented sharing economy. In this chat, Tim and Pete Townsend talk through Tim’s crystal ball-like experiences …

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