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Tech Behind Fintech

Tech Behind Fintech

Written by: Nnamdi Osuagwu
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 The “Tech Behind FinTech” show is dedicated to expanding the knowledge base of development teams within the Financial Services industry while celebrating and highlighting disruptive FinTech businesses and exploring the full technology spectrum utilized within the industry. Nnamdi Osuagwu is the host of the “Tech Behind FinTech” show and the CEO and Founder of Strategic Generation, an Information Technology solutions firm specializing in Cybersecurity, Security Performance Management, Security Assessments and Application Security serving FinTech and Insurance firms.2021-2023 Strategic Generation, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Economics Personal Finance Politics & Government
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  • The SaaS Breach Epidemic: Why Financial Data Has Never Been More Exposed

    The SaaS Breach Epidemic: Why Financial Data Has Never Been More Exposed
    Dec 13 2025
    Join us on Friday, December 5th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a critical episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Brian Soby, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at AppOmni — a 20-year cybersecurity veteran with deep experience across fintech, SaaS, defense, and enterprise security. Brian has held leadership roles at Salesforce, MITRE, Raytheon, and Taulia, giving him a rare 360-degree perspective on the evolution of modern cyber risk. In The SaaS Breach Epidemic: Why Financial Data Has Never Been More Exposed, Brian unpacks one of the fastest-growing and least-understood cybersecurity threats facing financial services today: the explosion of SaaS applications across the enterprise. From Zoom to Salesforce, M365 to Workday, financial institutions rely on over 150+ SaaS applications every day — each with constantly changing configurations, expanding data access, and user permissions that shift by the hour. This convenience has created a massive, tangled, and largely invisible attack surface. Misconfigurations, data sprawl, unmanaged integrations, and limited visibility across cloud apps have made SaaS one of the most actively targeted layers of the financial services threat landscape — yet it remains one of the least proactively defended. Whether you’re a CISO, security engineer, SaaS administrator, fintech founder, or risk leader, this conversation provides a rare, behind-the-scenes analysis of the SaaS security gaps affecting financial services — and practical guidance to address them before they become breaches.

    ⭐ What You’ll Learn
    • Why SaaS applications have become one of the biggest cyber risks in financial services
    • How misconfigurations and SaaS data sprawl lead to massive breaches
    • Why financial institutions struggle to secure 150+ cloud apps at scale
    • The most exploited gaps across Salesforce, M365, Google Workspace, Workday & more
    • How attackers target SaaS environments — and what they look for
    • Compliance pressure from SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR, DORA, ISO 27001, NIST, APRA CPS 234
    • Practical steps financial institutions can take to secure their SaaS estate today

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • The Hidden Economy of Points: How 1.4 Billion Points Were Redeemed

    The Hidden Economy of Points: How 1.4 Billion Points Were Redeemed
    Nov 22 2025
    Join us on Friday, November 21st, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a high-impact episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Len Covello, CTO at Engage People — a lifelong entrepreneur and payments innovator reshaping how loyalty, rewards, and points function as real currency. In The Hidden Economy of Points: How 1.4 Billion Points Were Redeemed, Len reveals one of the most overlooked engines in modern payments — the loyalty economy driving consumer behavior, merchant strategy, and financial institution growth. From AI-powered personalization to real-time Pay with Points, Len explains how loyalty evolved from punch cards to a digital currency powering 13% of North American e-commerce. With multiple successful startups behind him — including AI company Atomic Reach — and now leading Engage People’s global tech vision, Len has helped build platforms serving 10M+ members and working with 4 of Canada’s top 6 banks. Engage People’s patented tech converts points to currency at checkout, letting customers redeem points anywhere — transforming the economics of payments for merchants and financial institutions. Whether you’re in payments, retail, loyalty, or fintech, this episode breaks down the mechanics, market forces, and trends shaping the next generation of loyalty ecosystems.

    ** What You’ll Learn
    • How 1.4B points were redeemed — and what that says about consumers
    • Why emotional connection drives loyalty innovation
    • Loyalty’s shift from punch cards to AI-powered personalization
    • Why embedding loyalty at checkout is critical
    • The true economics of Pay with Points
    • How AI is reshaping loyalty through personalization and fraud detection
    • Why QSRs rely heavily on loyalty
    • Key loyalty trends heading into 2026

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • The Bitcoin Treasury Playbook: Corporate Finance Meets Crypto

    The Bitcoin Treasury Playbook: Corporate Finance Meets Crypto
    Nov 19 2025
    Join us on Friday, November 14th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a groundbreaking episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Wilfred Daye, Chief Strategy Officer of Mercurity Fintech — a 25-year Wall Street veteran turned digital asset strategist who’s helping redefine how global companies manage capital in the age of Bitcoin. In The Bitcoin Treasury Playbook: Corporate Finance Meets Crypto, Wilfred breaks down one of the most fascinating shifts in modern finance — the rise of the Bitcoin Treasury Company, where corporations hold BTC as a strategic reserve asset. We’ll explore how balance sheets are being rebuilt on blockchain rails, how volatility can become income, and what “tokenized cash” means for the next generation of capital markets. With experience spanning UBS, Barclays, Securitize Capital, OKCoin, and now MFH, Wilfred has lived through every wave of financial transformation — from structured credit to tokenized equity. In this conversation, he reveals what happens when traditional finance meets decentralized liquidity — and how those who understand both worlds are quietly creating asymmetric advantages. Whether you’re a fintech innovator, institutional investor, or crypto skeptic, this episode unpacks the mechanics, metrics, and mindset behind the companies leading the next phase of financial evolution.

    ** What You’ll Learn **
    • Why public companies are adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets — and what defines a “Bitcoin Treasury Company”
    • How BTC’s volatility can be monetized through structured instruments
    • The meaning behind new metrics like Bitcoin Per Share (BPS) and Bitcoin Return Rate (BRR)
    • The difference between tokenized cash and traditional stablecoins — and why it matters
    • How tokenized real-world assets will reshape corporate finance, investor access, and capital formation

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    1 hr
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