April recap!
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Another a month in a lockdown! Keep safe! In case you missed out on April episodes of Voice of FinTech podcast, here is the monthly recap. You can listen to all the episodes on the Episodes pages of this website or when you subscribe to your favorite podcast apps under Subscribe.
Wealth Management vs. WealthTech
with Christine (Mar) Ciriani in Zurich at the Swiss Wealth Management Awards in 2019
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.
Founder story: Pivoting to Scale with Rapyd and guest co-host Adelle Grisaffe from RFi Group's Global Digital Banker podcast
with Adelle Grisaffe and Sarel Tal
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.
Founder story: In vino veritas - How to invest in wine businesses?
with Maxime Debure from Bordeaux
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.
Core banking in the cloud with Thought Machine
with Paul Taylor from London
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.
The Insurtech Series brought to you by HITS
I am glad that HITS - House of InsurTech Switzerland, a Generali company, will sponsor the Insurtech Series of the Voice of FinTech podcast🎙, see the statement below by Gabriela Trujillo from HITS 👇🏻
The Insurtech Series: The government & the start-ups with A. Silberschmidt
with Andri Silberschmidt from Zurich
In the first episode of the Insurtech Series brought you by HITS, 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.
Andri explains how all his activities came together and what he as a Co-President of the Start-up Committee in the Swiss Parliament has been doing to help the start-ups in Switzerland succeed, and these days to overcome the COVID-19 health crisis. We compare the measures taken in Switzerland to others and the pros and cons of those as well. We then touch on the vision of the world post-crisis.
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