A podcast mapping out the Swiss and global FinTech ecosystem
In this episode, we talk to David Birch, a fantastic British author, Forbes contributor, speaker, commentator and consultant on digital finance, digital currency and digital identity about his views on e-currencies, crypto and blockchain and digital identity. What's ahead of us and why?
Read MoreIn 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 MoreWe 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 MoreA 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 MoreA discussion with Neil Thomas, SIX Group's representative in Asia - Head of Sales and Country Head Singapore and Japan and Jonas Thuerig, Head of F10 in Singapore about SIX's objectives in the region, reasons to support the expansion of F10 in Singapore, thoughts on the economy, innovation and the start-up scene in the region and connectivity to Switzerland.
Read MoreWe 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?
Read MoreHusayn Kassai is CEO and co-founder of Onfido and Oxford University alumnus. Onfido is a market-leading digital identity verification provider, based in London and San Francisco. We talk about how to verify the official documents remotely using Artificial Intelligence and the vision of digital identity in the future.
Read MoreA 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 MoreAn 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!
Read MoreBrett 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!
Read MoreWe 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 MoreIn this episode, we speak to Ute Koenig-Stemmler, Head of Business Development & Sales Non-Traditional Financial Institutions, Central Europe at VISA about VISA's activities regarding Open Innovation in the region that comprises Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Read MoreWe 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 MoreAn 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!
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreDoing 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
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