Crowfunding made simple with Seedrs

London
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We talk to Jeff Lynn, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Seedrs about how he and his classmate, Carlos Silva, turned their classroom project at Said Business School (University of Oxford) into a very successful business. Seedrs is one of the largest equity crowdfunding platforms in Europe. How does the platform work? For which start-ups and investors does it work best? How vital were partnerships like with Andy Murray and BVCA (among others) for the growth of the platform?

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The Financial Markets Series: Financial Information

Zurich
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An interview with Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information and Board member at SIX about the data transformation, leveraging technology to deliver data turned into financial information and insights, key trends in the data business over the years, use of alternative data (e.g., concerning ESG), and more!

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One Year Anniversary Special: Breaking banks with Brett King

New York
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Brett King is a speaker, author, founder, podcast host, pilot, gamer and a scuba diver, based in New York, NY. Founder and host of #1 FinTech podcast and radio show, Breaking Banks. Executive Chairman of a challenger bank Moven. We talk about: virtual vs. live events and their outlook in the post-COVID-19 world, Brett's hit podcast and radio show Breaking Banks, sci-fi as an inspiration for a futurist and future scenarios described in his upcoming book, The Rise of Technosocialism and much more!

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The Insurtech Series: Where to play?

Lausanne
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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?

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The Financial Markets Series: Open Banking in Switzerland

Zurich
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An interview with Sven Siat, Head Connectivity at SIX about open banking in Switzerland, comparison to the state of open banking in the EU and Switzerland, attempts to standardize connectivity between banks and FinTechs (third-party providers), SIX developed platform b.Link - user benefits, key clients and onboarding. What's in store for the connectivity efforts in Switzerland later this year? Listen in and find out more!

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Investing in enterprise technology and scaling up: a Bay Area VC perspective

San Francisco
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In this episode, we speak with Shruti Van Dyke Gandhi, partner at Array Ventures in California, focused on Enterprise Tech including FinTech about her transition from an engineer to a VC investor, Array's investment philosophy and approach, comparison between the West Coast and New York start-up scene with respect to FinTech and more.

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Emerging technology due diligence - how?

Yverdon-les-Bains
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Doing a due diligence is never an easy exercise. Especially when you want to form a view on emerging technology - is it going to work or not? Are there bugs in the code that are so hard to find they will only manifest themselves when the product will be live and overloaded by interest? Is it purely technical diligence? Is it a conversation or a tour? These are some of the topics we covered with Rodney Reis, co-founder and CEO of Avalia Systems, based in Yverdon-les-Bains, close to Lausanne, Switzerland.

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The Insurtech Series: The government & the start-ups with A. Silberschmidt

Zurich
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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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Core banking in the cloud with Thought Machine

London
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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.

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Founder story: In vino veritas - How to invest in wine businesses?

Bordeaux
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In 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.

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Founder story: Pivoting to Scale with Rapyd and guest co-host Adelle Grisaffe from RFi Group's Global Digital Banker podcast

London
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In 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.

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Tomorrow: Founder story - Pivoting to Scale with Rapyd and guest co-host Adelle Grisaffe from RFi Group's Global Digital Banker podcast

London
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In 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.

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Wealth Management vs. WealthTech

Geneva
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We 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.

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Founder story: Last mile in data analytics with Luminant Analytics

Basel
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Renu 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.

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Finovate Berlin

Berlin
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In 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.

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Swiss FinTech Awards 2020 - and the winners are...

Zurich
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In 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!

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