A podcast mapping out the Swiss and global FinTech ecosystem
In this episode, we talk to Paul Taylor, CEO and founder of Thought Machine, London headquartered cloud-native core banking technology company about benefits of running core banking infrastructure in the cloud, how the banks' thinking about this has shifted over last few years, Thought Machine's recent funding round ahead of the further growth phase and the importance of good coding practices in a growing software company and banks.
Read MoreIn this episode, we talk to Maxime Debure, INSEAD alumnus, former winemaker and management consultant, about investing in wine vs. investing in wine estates, either through crowdfunding or private equity type of deals. His business called Wine Funding helps winemakers to obtain equity financing to help them grow their businesses in France and around the world.
Read MoreIn this bonus episode, together with Adelle Grisaffe as a guest co-host, we interview Sarel Tal, VP EMEA from Rapyd, London based, FinTech-as-a-Service platform. Rapyd provides APIs that help integrate local payments and FinTech capabilities. Adelle is London based Australian, producer and host of RFi Group's (Retail Finance Intelligence) podcast Global Digital Banker. We talk about pivoting from B2C to B2B to accelerate scaling up, Rapyd's unfair advantage vs. competitors and the state of Open Banking in Europe. We also cover short and long term threats and opportunities coming of the current health crisis for start-ups and FinTechs in particular.
Read MoreIn this bonus episode, together with Adelle Grisaffe as a guest co-host, we interview Sarel Tal, VP EMEA from Rapyd, London based, FinTech-as-a-Service platform. Rapyd provides APIs that help integrate local payments and FinTech capabilities. Adelle is London based Australian, producer and host of RFi (Retail Finance Intelligence) podcast Global Digital Banker. We talk about pivoting from B2V to B2B to accelerate scaling up, Rapyd's unfair advantage vs. competitors and the state of Open Banking in Europe. We also cover short and long term threats and opportunities coming of the current health crisis for start-ups and FinTechs in particular.
Read MoreWe talk to Christine (Mar) Ciriani about the Wealth Management challenges and where WealthTech could provide solutions for pain points of client advisors servicing high net worth or ultra-high net worth clients. Christine (Mar) Ciriani is Chief Commercial Officer at Finantix, Board member at Barclays Switzerland and Industry Partner at Motive Partners, well-respected Wealth Management and Wealth Tech expert.
Read MoreRenu Ann Joseph, founder and CEO of Luminant Analytics, a Swiss-American InsurTech start-up, talks about the "last mile" when it comes to using data science and data analytics in the insurance industry. We also talk about the benefits of open innovation for both insurers and InsurTechs. Renu also shares some early thoughts on the impact of the COVID-19 on the start-ups and the insurance industry.
Read MoreIn this episode, we speak to Greg Palmer, VP at Finovate, based in San Francisco, a leader in FinTech conferences around the world about the Berlin edition that took place in February. Also, we talk about Finovate's concept that varies across the globe and plans for San Francisco, New York and Asian editions, updated for the current situation around the COVID-19. We then speak to Myles Stephenson, CEO of Modulr, London based, integrated payment service for businesses about Copernican Leap in banking, direct connectivity of FinTechs to Bank of England and Modulr's growth plans.
Read MoreIn this bonus episode, we are talking to: Oliver Bussmann, CEO and founder of Bussmann Advisory, jury member of the Swiss FinTech Awards, about Digital Transformation in Banking, FinTech start-up community, Blockchain and his views on the finalists this year and the winners of Swiss FinTech Awards 2020: Andy Iten, co-founder and member of the Board, F10, FinTech Influencer of the Year about the F10's expansion to Singapore, online Hackathon this year and co-operation with the corporate members, Daniel Sandmeier, CEO of Instimatch, Growth Stage Start-up of the Year, a platform for cash deposits, who explains their solution and David Bloch, CEO and co-founder of Legartis, Early Stage Start-up of the Year, an AI-powered solution for reviewing contracts, who describes how human lawyers can be freed of repetitive work!
Read MoreHow do you assess the research analyst performance in the MiFID II world? COO of UK based start-up Invisage and the member of the F10 Incubator/Accelerator Zurich current cohort, Harsh Dadhich, explains in this podcast. Are popularity rankings useful at all? Or should the returns on your portfolio, constructed based on the analyst's research drive whose research you should read? How do you find out ex-ante though?
Read MoreIn this podcast, we talk to Matej Ftacnik, co-founder and CXO of Vacuum Labs based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Vacuumlabs is a FinTech focused software engineering powerhouse with over 200 employees, taking innovations to the market around the world, building neobanks for incumbents in Asia for example.
Read MoreWe talk to Ghassen Benhadjsalah, CEO and co-founder of direct (P2P) lending platform for SMEs in Switzerland called Acredius, about why this market is an excellent opportunity for both SMEs needing financing and lenders/investors and how it all works!
Read MoreYves Guillaume A. Messy is Blockchain architect and ecosystem builder at R3, an enterprise blockchain company behind Corda, open-source blockchain platform for business. We talk to Yves about what enterprise blockchain means, its relevance for the Financial Services and R3's co-operation with the F10 Incubator & Accelerator. We discuss the suitability of blockchain for enterprise, including privacy, regulation and scalability aspects. Yves explains what is Blockchain 3.0 and outlines growth plans of R3 globally and for DACH in particular.
Read MoreWe talk to Christian Meisser, CEO of LEXR about how to set up your venture from the get-go to minimize potential legal troubles and keep your hard-earned unicorn for yourself! LEXR is an innovative legal services firm based in Zurich, Switzerland, providing legal services and products to start-ups, especially FinTechs.
Read MoreWe spoke with Thomas Duebendorfer, President of SICTIC, largest Swiss business angels club, about SICTIC's mission, activities and events like Swiss FinTech Investor Day. We also talked to Theo Lau, founder of Unconventional Ventures from the US about how to make banking better for underrepresented groups. Lastly, we spoke to co-founder of eQTiq, Justyna Rydzewska about her venture's mission to get rid of paper receipts!
Read MoreAn interview with Johan Pieter ("JP") Verwey, CEO of Check6, based in Amsterdam and London and with offices in Zurich, New York, Dubai and Breda. JP explains how experienced Family Office professionals struggled with holistic investment reporting and decided to start their own company.
JP Verwey is CEO of Check6, a well-established FinTech company that provides data consolidation for wealth management reporting for high net worth individuals, wealth managers and banks. The goal is to provide clients with a total overview of their wealth.
UPDATE AS OF MARCH 2021: Please note that Check6 was acquired by Private Client Resources (PCR) in December 2020. See the press release here.
We spoke to Eric Sarasin, Chairman of the Singularity Group, on the side of the Exponential Finance Summit that took place in Zurich on November 14-15 about the Singularity theme and the startup scene in Switzerland and Europe.
Read MoreAn interview with Guido Buehler, CEO and founder of SEBA, a fully licensed Swiss bank for your digital assets, based in Zug, Switzerland. SEBA is a universal bank for your digital assets, i.e. digital twins of financial or real assets.
Read MoreOn the side of Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series in Zurich, we caught up with Claudia Bolliger-Winkler, CEO and co-founder of Lionstep. At the event, we talked about how to find the best candidates for your company, cost-effectively. Also, as a candidate, can one beat the algorithms through networking? In this soundbite, we talked about the role of AI and a human in recruitment and the outlook for the balance between the two.
Read MoreAn interview with Christina Kehl, co-founder & Managing Director at Swiss Finance Startups Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Pixpolitico. We talk about the efforts of Swiss Finance Startups to foster cooperation with the government and incumbents and their flagship event, Swiss FinTech Fair. Followed by short, one-question segments with participants of the Swiss FinTech Fair: Julia Holzgreve, Director, Innovation Scouting & Strategic Partnerships at Keen Innovation, then Matthias Kribbel, Chief Product Officer at Tradeplus24 and Christina Reuther, Regional Head Switzerland, Fintechnews.ch & Business Development Middle East, Fintechnews.ae.
Read MoreAn interview with Stefan Muehlemann, founder and CEO of Loanboox, serial entrepreneur about why he believes in the power of platforms, why raising debt should not hurt and how he got started with his latest venture, Loanboox.
Loanboox is a leading big-ticket debt capital market platform, based in Zurich, Switzerland, active in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands.
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