Succeeding as a solopreneur with Liz Steblay (USA)
Liz Steblay, solopreneur success author, advocate, speaker, & mentor, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about becoming a successful solopreneur.
Read MoreUpgrading the mortgage process for the 21st century with Geert Van Kerckhoven, CEO and co-founder at Oper (Belgium/Switzerland)
Geert Van Kerckhoven, CEO and co-founder at Oper, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about upgrading the mortgage process for the 21st century.
Read MoreUnemployable – How I Hired Myself with Alysia Silberg (USA)
Alysia Silberg, author, speaker, and AI Investor, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about her latest book, Unemployable – How I Hired Myself.
Read MoreDon't invest in art, invest in an artist with Marine Tanguy, CEO of MTArt Agency
Marine Tanguy, CEO of MTArt Agency, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about disrupting the way visual artists get discovered and represented so they get the best value for their efforts and talent.
Read MoreChasing unicorns in rural France & redefining amateur sports business with Dom Einhorn
Dom Einhorn, founder and CEO of UNIQORN, the world's largest rural incubator-accelerator and CXSports, a platform that helps amateur sports teams monetize their content, shared his thoughts on entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and building platform business and scaling them up with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast.
Read MoreAsia Pacific Series with Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳: Building payments infrastructure in South East Asia with Y-Combinator backed Arrow's CEO Neo Liat Beng
In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Asia Pacific Series, Chia Jeng Yang, spoke to Neo Liat Beng, founder of Arrow, building FAST / Bolt of Southeast Asia. You will learn more about the Southeast Asia startup ecosystem, the state of payments in Southeast Asia, and Neo’s experience building Arrow.
Read MoreInvesting in crypto assets with SwissBorg
Cyrus Fazel, CEO and founder of SwissBorg that raised over CHF 50m in their ICO, talks about SwissBorg's mission, bringing digital assets to the ecosystem of the clientele often overlooked by traditional private banks, recent developments in the blockchain/crypto/digital assets world and its potential going forward.
Read MoreThe secret of Silicon Valley
Our guest host, Sara Palmbush, talks to Eva Schram, a Dutch journalist based in San Francisco, about what made Silicon Valley successful, which features Europe should replicate, and which it should avoid when building a successful start-up ecosystem.
Read MoreAsia Pacific Series with Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳: B2B payments in South East Asia with Tazapay
In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Asia Pacific Series, Chia Jeng Yang, Principal of Saison Capital, speaks to Rahul Shingal, ex-Head of Stripe APAC and ex-Head of SMB Payments Int'l at PayPal and now co-founder of Tazapay, a cross-border payments platform for SMEs, based in Singapore about the pain points for SMEs when it comes to payments in the region and Rahul's team's solution.
Read MoreAsia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Entrepreneurship and innovation with Varun Mittal from EY
In this episode of Asia Pacific Series, hosted by Angela Conroy based in Singapore, Angela talks with Varun Mittal, EY Global’s Emerging Markets FinTech Leader. They cover public-private partnerships in Singapore, FinTech revolution in emerging markets, early days of Singapore FinTech association and his new book, Singapore: The FinTech Nation.
Read MoreAsia Pacific Series with Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳: P2P FinTech in Indonesia: Koinworks and AC Ventures
In the second episode of Asia Pacific Series, hosted by Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳 based in Singapore, we speak to Benedicto Haryono, CEO of Koinworks.ID, the largest socially responsible digital lender and the first super financial app in Indonesia, and Adrian Li, Managing Partner of AC Ventures, a top VC firm in Indonesia and South East Asia. You will learn more about the scale of opportunity for lending in Indonesia, how FinTechs compete in Indonesia and investment opportunities and trends within the Indonesian FinTech scene.
Read MoreDigital Transformation with David M. Brear from 11:FS
In this bonus episode, we talk to David M. Brear, Group CEO of 11:FS, about the acceleration of digitalization trends due to the current pandemic, potential opportunities for FinTech even in trying times and David's advice for FinTechs attempting B2B sales and partnerships with banks.
Read MorePlug and Play, a VC and corporate innovation program, whose CEO is an early backer of PayPal, explained
Arianna Elena Maschietto, Corporate Partnerships & Program Manager at Plug and Play Tech Center in Milan, Italy and Gabrielle Inzirillo, Director, Fintech (EMEA) at Plug And Play Ventures in Paris, France explain how Plug and Play, a VC and corporate innovation program that started with its CEO as an early backer of PayPal works!
Read MoreAsia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Neal Cross - PictureWealth, orangutans and sense of it all
In the first episode of Asia Pacific Series, hosted by Angela Conroy based in Singapore, we talk with Neal Cross, co-founder and Chairman of PictureWealth, one of the world’s fastest-growing wealth FinTech companies, based in Perth, Australia. Why is personal wealth management so important? What are the big mistakes corporates make when trying to innovate? How can start-ups pick the right partners to help them succeed? How do orangutans and coral reefs fit into all of this?
Read MoreCan you teach entrepreneurship? Bocconi PhD and INSEAD Professor explains
We talk to Chiara Spina, Ph.D., Bocconi, and from September, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD in Singapore. Is there a way to teach entrepreneurship? Are entrepreneurs born or made? How can you make strategic decisions in your early-stage venture intelligently to maximize your chances of survival, and even better, success?
Read MoreNomisma & SCX: Europe's first licensed, blockchain-based MTF for digital asset derivatives
A rare opportunity to gain a behind the scenes look into the mindset and plans of two senior Goldman Sachs alumni, Dimitrios Kavvathas and Francesco Adiliberti, CEOs of Nomisma and the Swiss Crypto Exchange, respectively, joining forces building Europe's first MIFID II licensed MTF for trading tokenized assets, in particular derivatives, on a blockchain.
Read MoreThe InsurTech Series: Corp-Up approach with Generali and IMBurse
A discussion with Stefano Bison, Group Group Head of Business Development & Partnerships at Generali and a Board Member of HITS and Oliver Werneyer, CEO and co-founder of IMBurse, a B2B instant payment platform and one of the participants in Generali Innovation Garage (now HITS) about corp-up (corporate + start-up collaboration) in the insurance sector.
Read MoreDiscussion with Janine Haendel, CEO of Roger Federer Foundation
We talk to Janine Haendel, CEO of Roger Federation Foundation, about the foundation's origins and its mission, entrepreneurship, increased focus on performance in the NGO sector, leveraging technology and financial innovation when delivering on foundation's goals in Africa.
Read MoreThe Insurtech Series: Where to play?
We talk to Marc Gruber, Vice President Innovation at EPFL and Professor of Entrepreneurship, about innovation, entrepreneurship, implications for FinTech, InsurTech and incumbents. In their book Where to play, Marc Gruber, together with Sharon Tal, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, address the issue of the need of start-ups to get to the target market first vs. the reality that more than 70% of them end up pivoting anyway. How to pick the right arena/domain early on to make pivoting less costly and increase the chances of success? How does entrepreneurship differ in Europe vs. the US or Asia?
Read MoreThe Insurtech Series: The government & the start-ups with A. Silberschmidt
In this episode, we speak to Andri Silberschmidt, entrepreneur and the youngest member of the Swiss Parliament about his entrepreneurial journey, what drawn him to politics, views on Switzerland as a home for start-ups, Swiss government's measures to help start-ups to deal with the COVID-19 pandemics and the early thoughts on the world after the lockdown.
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