Meet The Female Leaders Of Finance With Tyler Gallagher: “I believe that there are macro trends towards embracing diversity” with Luvleen Sidhu and Tyler Gallagher Tyler GallagherAug 12 · 11 min read I believe that there is a macro trend towards embracing diversity. I also think the #MeToo movement is bringing awareness to issues faced by women; however, much more attention needs to be brought to the topics of women’s equality and women’s rights. Overall, we are becoming more cognizant and sensitive. There has been progress, but it is far from a reasonable or fair outcome. A large gender income gap still exists. A lot of women are also missing on board seats. I had the pleasure of interviewing Luvleen Sidhu, founder of...

BankMobile looks to stand out in a field of digital banking giants Aaron Elstein Growing up in Reading, Pa., Luvleen Sidhu wasn't interested in banking, even though her father owned the local bank—or, perhaps, because he did. "It was dad's job," she said. Her father, Jay Sidhu, an immigrant from New Delhi, turned around the nearly bust Penn Savings Bank and built Sovereign Bancorp. Sovereign had branches from Maryland to Massachusetts, including more than 100 in New York after swallowing up Brooklyn's Independence Community Bank. Then, during the last decade, it was acquired by Spain's Banco Santander for a cool $5 billion. Eventually the industry began to appeal to the banker's daughter. "I learned in business school that it's important to find a problem that...

Millennial Businesswoman Empowering the Underbanked Through Digital Banking Experience Millennial businesswoman Luvleen Sidhu is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at BankMobile, America’s largest and fastest growing mobile-first bank. BankMobile empowers low-to-middle- income Americans, the underbanked, and millennials with a digital, effortless and financially empowering banking experience. Luvleen launched BankMobile in January 2015 – when she was only 28-years-old – with the understanding that everyone needs financial services, yet it is one of the least customer-centric industries that exists today.  We had a chance to interview Luvleen and asked about her story, how she started her financial business and the future of BankMobile. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business? Shortly after I graduated from Harvard in 2008, I started my...

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Luvleen Sidhu,  Co-Founder and President of BankMobile.  She started her banking career at Lehman Brothers and on her first day after 6 weeks of training was the beginning of it’s collapse.  Now she’s a co-founder at BankMobile, a company that provides a mobile first banking experience which has 1.6 million accounts and is the offspring of Customers Bank in Pennsylvania. About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which...