In this episode of the Voice of Fintech podcast, Wani Baumgartner sits down with Stevan Bajic, the innovative Founder-CEO behind Manigo, to delve into the intricacies of FinTech orchestration. Discover how Manigo streamlines financial services by seamlessly connecting users to their preferred fintech infrastructure providers via a single API.

Nelson Chu, founder and CEO at Percent, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the booming Private Credit market and how he built a three-sided platform in this space.

In this engaging episode of the Voice of FinTech, MENA Series hosted by Dorra Mahbouli, we delve into the heart of Tunisia's burgeoning startup scene with Amin Ben Abderrahman, a pioneering force in the FinTech industry in Tunisia and beyond.

Tess Bloch, co-founder of Spade, a provider of merchant intelligence solutions, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about enriching payment transaction data to facilitate better anti-fraud solutions and more.

Deniz A. Johnson, COO at Stratyfy, an ethical artificial intelligence (AI) company that offers predictive analytics software for credit and risk teams spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about transparency solutions for AI, biases, diversitz and more.

Daniel Yubi, CEO of Payable, headquartered in London, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about improving Treasury operations through their software. 

Colin Levy, Chief Lawyer @ Malbek, Legal Tech Author and Commentator, Fastcase 50 2022 Honoree, and Legal Tech Start-up Advisor and Investor, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how technology drives the legal profession to be more efficient and benefit its clients, start-ups and incumbents and individuals.

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.

Marcus New, CEO at InvestX Capital, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about providing access to growth companies (later stage PE / pre-IPO) to a wider range of investors and investing in growth companies.

Sherry Jiang, a co-founder of Bluejay Finance, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about bringing private asset investment opportunities to more investors, leveraging technology to transform investment management.

Lisa Nestor, Chief Strategy Officer at Airtm, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how her company leverages stablecoin  USDC (AirUSD)  - digital dollar in Airtm wallet to facilitate small cross-border payments faster and cheaper, supporting online workers everywhere.

Darshita Mehta Gillies, founder and CEO of Maanch, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about helping asset managers to engage better with their clients and follow through on their ESG promises.

Paul Resch, co-founder, and CEO of Valutico,  spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about leveraging technology to make the valuation process more efficient.

Rosalia Gitau, co-founder and CEO of Bixie, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about why women don't invest enough and how her platform helps to change that.

Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO and Board member at BlueSnap spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about providing various businesses with efficient payment capabilities so they can focus on growing their businesses.

Gustaf Hult, Head of Banking as a Service at Intergiro, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about building banking platforms to support the rise of embedded finance.

Xavier Bellekens, CEO of Lupovis, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about his company's unique way of managing cybersecurity threats by using decoys and alert noise detection online.

In another episode of the MENA (the Middle East & North Africa) Series, Dorra Mahbouli, VP of Corporate Strategy at Zitouna Finance, spoke to Dhia Zitouni, co-founder of Petsigo, the first reimbursement-based digital insurance for pets in Tunisia. It is accessible via a user-friendly mobile application that offers services, including locating nearby vets, submitting a claim to receive reimbursement, blog articles, and posts related to pets.

Uku Tomikas, CEO of Messente, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about expanding your business abroad and leveraging the power of business messaging.

Chirag Shah, founder and CEO of Nucleus Commercial Finance, a UK FinTech, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about providing credit to businesses quickly, easily, and thoughtfully, leveraging technology.

Nadine Jürgensen, co-Founder and COO elleXX, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about gender gaps, especially in personal finance, investing, legal assistance and more and how to tackle them.

Nadine Chakar, CEO of Securrency, US FinTech/RegTech building digital asset marketplaces and backed by State Street, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about tokenization in financial services with an understanding for the regulatory needs of its clients.

Rohini Gupta, Lead Regulatory Advisor at FinregE, London-based, AI-driven RegTech, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about helping compliance officers, auditors and management to stay on top of ever-changing rules and regulations using AI.

Nigel Cannings, CTO at Intelligent Voice, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about leveraging AI to ensure banks and others trade responsibly and in line with regulations.

Martin Ondas, founder and CEO at Bizmachine, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about using AI to provide better insights and prospecting for B2B sales. 

Salama Belghali, Global Head of Business Development and Partnerships at BitMEX, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about trading crypto and its derivatives and the outlook for the crypto markets.

Ryan George, CMO of Docupace, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the digitalization of wealth management, wealth management and WealthTech trends and implications for wealth advisors. 

Chase Harmer, Director at Wishes Inc., spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about digital transformation in charitable donations.

Shameer Sachdev, founder and MD at Growth Gorilla, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about helping FinTechs grow, leveraging all modern Marketing techniques.

Itamar Novick, Solo Venture Capitalist at Recursive Ventures spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about lessons learned from his years of investing in FinTech, especially in challenging times.

David Yang, Partner at Activant Capital, a NY-based VC firm, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about e-commerce, FinTech, marketplaces trends and related investments. 

Karl Alomar, the Managing Partner at M13, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the value add that serial entrepreneurs turned investors provide to their portfolio companies.

In the second episode of the MENA (the Middle East & North Africa) Series, Dorra Mahbouli, VP of Corporate Strategy at Zitouna Finance, spoke to Firas Rhaeim, CEO and co-founder of Relatic, Tunisian Venture Builder, Fundraiser & Tech Enthusiast, about crowdfunding enabling the Tunisian and African economy and scaling start-ups in the region through Diaspora investments.

Rajeev Dham, Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about investing in enterprise software companies with a positive impact on communities such as Wise, formerly TransferWise.

Drew Glover, GP of Fiat Ventures and Founding Partner of Fiat Growth, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about what it takes to grow start-ups, especially FinTechs, and how insights from growth consultancy can lead to a unique edge as a VC investor.

In this episode of the Africa Series, Patrick Awori speaks to Lavanya Anand, Principal at Vested World, a leading early-stage VC with a diversified portfolio covering East and West Africa about VC perspectives on the opportunities in Africa and zooming on the hottest one of all, FinTech!

Sabah al-Binali, Partner of OurCrowd Arabia shared his perspectives on the benefits in investing in start-ups alongside VC and the background on the first Israeli VC expanding to the Middle East with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast.

In this episode of the Africa Series, Joke Adekunle spoke to Odun Eweniyi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Piggyvest - an online saving and investment platform founded in 2016 to help Nigerians achieve their financial goals. Today, the startup has over 3 million customers and has recently acquired companies like Abeg - popularly known as the Cashapp for Africa.

Marc Penkala, a VC angel investor, entrepreneur, and fund advisor, discussed his highly successful investment journey leading to his current investment vehicle, Minimal VC, with Wani Baumgartner, Finance and Life Sciences recruiter and the Voice of FinTech's guest host.

Alokik Advani, the Managing Partner of Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, discussed best practices in corporate venturing with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech. Also covered Fidelity's focus on embedded finance, sustainability, and more!

Olga Shikhantsova, Principal at Speedinvest, focused on FinTech and Forbes 30 under 30, explains why she and Speedinvest believe in European FinTech while thinking globally and what is VC redefined when it comes to operational knowledge transfer.

Qué son los NFTs, por qué el criptoarte es una tendencia global y cómo se relaciona con la industria FinTech? What are NFTs, why is crypto art a global trend, and how does it relate to the FinTech industry?

In this episode, Adejoke Adekunle discusses capital access and technology investments for start-ups in Africa, what it takes to raise funds in today’s tech ecosystem and the intersection of FinTech across sectors and more with Tobi Oke, Managing Partner at V8 Capital Partners, both based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Miroslav Boublik, Managing Partner at Financial Services Capital, explains why financial services need a radical overhaul and how it could be achieved

Ulli Spankowski, Chief Digital Officer at Boerse Stuttgart, explains how Boerse Stuttgart makes innovation in financial markets accessible also to retail investors.

Not many VCs in Europe have been in business since 2000 like HV Capital, backers of Zalando, HelloFresh, Delivery Hero, Penta, Scalable Capital, SumUp, Upvest, BUX, Yapily or Solaris Bank and many others who dare. What's their investment philosophy, success stories and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs?

Learn more about corporate venturing with Head of DB1 Ventures (Deutsche Boerse) Eric Leupold and VP Rebecca Qian Gong. How to be agile when considering investing in start-ups from a large corporate perspective?

Sara Palmbush talks to Radboud Vlaar, co-founder and partner at Finch Capital, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands about how and why Finch Capital backs companies developing great new tech for the financial services sector.

Ed Lascelles and Jessica Bartos from Albion VC, based in London, UK, early backers of Booking.com, explain their investment philosophy, especially when it comes to FinTech and Tech, success stories, assessment of the British and European start-up scene, and views on the FinTechs' prospects of taking on big banks or partnering up with them.

Frederic Hofmann, Managing Director at ING Ventures, based in London, UK, explains ING's approach to working with start-ups from partnering to investing and in particular, how ING corporate venture team works, their success stores and lessons learned.

Ahead of LendIt FinTech USA, we talk to representatives of companies participating in this virtual event: Keith Grose, Head of UK and International at Plaid, Jillian Cohn, Partner at Mouro Capital (formerly Santander Innoventures), and Sean Hunter, CIO of OakNorth, about Plaid's international expansion plans, the rationale for spin-off Santander Innoventures and re-branding as Mouro Capital, why OakNorth licenses its proprietary technology to other banks, respectively, and much more! The link to register and discount code for Voice of FinTech listeners inside the notes on the next page.

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.

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?

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.

In this episode, we talk to Mark Beeston, founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Financial, London headquartered VC firm with a global mandate, about their investment approach, success stories and views on the Capital Markets FinTech as well as WealthTech and Asset Management Tech companies scene in Europe and globally.

Astorre Modena is General Partner at Terra Venture Partners, based in Israel. We talked on the side of Startup Funding - VC Talks event in Zurich, organized by the FinTech Connector. He explains the Terra Venture Partners investment approach, the Israeli government's support of innovation, his views on the art of startup valuation and fundraising and Israeli-Swiss VC and start-up connectivity.

An interview with Jatin Rajput, former Head of Strategy / Corporate M&A APAC at Deutsche Bank Singapore and now Partner at Union Park Ventures in New York, about how he became interested in investing in B2B and financial inclusion focused FinTechs and his views on digital transformation and FinTech buzz words and megatrends.

An interview with Marwan El-Hakim, Partner at London based Veridian Ventures and INSEAD alumnus, about he started angel investing, how business angel syndicates like Veridian Ventures work and his crucial advice for the founders.

An interview with Harald Nieder, Partner at Redalpine, leading VC firm based in Zurich, investing in Technology (including FinTech) and Health Tech businesses in Europe. Harald explains how he started investing in start-ups and what the VC firms like his are looking for when investing in start-ups.

Brigitta Gyoerfi, Innovation Strategist and CEO of Creablin´ spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about innovation strategies for banking incumbents, e.g. design thinking, metaverse, DeFi or sustainability and more.

Ian Lynch, Chief Commercial Officer at Intertrust Group, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about using technology (in-house or through partnering with start-ups) to serve private capital (PE and VC) and corporate, capital markets or wealth managers.

In this live event, co-hosted and supported by Emeritus, leading global EdTech, making world-class education accessible globally, represented by Marie Mize, Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, spoke live to Pahal Patangia, Head of Developer Relations, FinTech at Nvidia about the latest trends in leveraging AI in FinTech, explainable AI, metaverse and FinTech and Nvidia's activities, products, and services supporting FinTechs.

In this episode, we speak to John Januszczak, President & CEO of UBX, a FinTech venture studio created by the Unionbank of the Philippines. You will learn more about the scale of opportunity for crypto, FinTech and Venture Building in the Philippines, their partnership with the Cardano Foundation and FinTech in the Philippines.

In this episode of the Africa Series, Stacey Japhta spoke to Aneesa Ameer, Head of Innovation at ABSA Life in South Africa. Aneesa discussed all things FinTech, personalizing customer service and encouraging your kids to think outside the box.

Neha Wattas, Executive Director, Innovation & FinTech Partnerships at J.P. Morgan in New York explains why and how J.P. Morgan likes to partner with FinTechs or invest in them globally.

How to manage climate change impacts when you are an asset manager? You need data to assess various scenarios of how climate change may impact various industries and their players. Oliver Marchand, Global Head of ESG Research & Models at MSCI and founder of Carbon Delta (now part of MSCI), explains.

We talk to Dennis Gada, SVP and Head for Financial Services, North America at Infosys, about making the loan process for lenders and borrowers worldwide easier, smarter, and more efficient - in other words, finally ready for the 21st century!

A great discussion with Andrea Melville, MD Commercialisation & Propositions at Lloyds in London, how a bank with a huge heritage and multiple brands engages with FinTech to foster innovation and better serve its customers.

Ahead of FinovateWest Digital, we chat with Jeremy Balkin, Head of Innovation at HSBC Bank in the United States, about the changes HSBC has seen in their clients' behavior this year (acceleration of e-commerce and digitalization overall) and how that affects HSBC's thinking about their new products, services or way of working.

We talk to Kevin Levitt, who leads Global Business Development for Financial Services at Nvidia about Nvidia works with start-ups, resources, products and services enabling AI and accelerated computing for Financial Services firms and FinTechs.

A discussion with Gerrit Sindermann, recently appointed new head of F10 Zurich, a FinTech, RegTech, InsurTech, DeepTech incubator and accelerator in Zurich, Singapore and across Spain. We talk with Gerrit about what's new at F10 Zurich, and current start-up participants of their program, Andreas Bezner from Stableton and Els Van Eyndhoven and Sabrina Bogaert from GOUD, a Baloise corp-up about their ventures and support they are getting from F10.

A 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.

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.

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!

In 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.

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!

Short interviews from Paris FinTech Forum with - Clara Durodie, Chair of Cognitive Finance Group, London about Artificial Intelligence for Financial Services and her book - Ian O'Sullivan, European Lead of Mastercard Start Path, who explains how Mastercard works with start-ups, helping them to get to market and gain scale, providing services to Mastercard customers and their support of female entrepreneurship - Susanne Chishti CEO of FINTECH Circle & FINTECH Circle Institute, London that explains their business angel, education and digital transformation acceleration programs - Emmalyn Shaw, Managing Partner from Flourish Ventures, San Francisco talks about global scalability and financial inclusiveness.

We talk to Anders Christensen, Head of Ecosystem at Avaloq.one about the origins of Avaloq as a FinTech startup, now providing software solutions to the banks worldwide, and Avaloq's efforts to foster innovation ecosystem through its avaloq.one's platform, enabling B2B Fintechs easier access to Avaloq's banking clients.

An interview with Alexander Verbeck, Head of Cash Ecosystem at SIX Group in Zurich, Switzerland. We talk about the white paper that Alex and his team wrote called the Future of money. Will we give up on cash and go all-digital in the new decade?

We caught up with Etienne Delhaye, Executive Director of Sophia Club Enterprises and organizer of Soph.IA Summit and Michele Bezzi, Research Manager at SAP Security Research in Sophia Antipolis on the side of Soph.IA Summit to learn more about Sophia Antipolis and SAP AI-related research, respectively.

An interview with Anne-Katrin Maser, Lead Partnerships and Ecosystems at Generali Switzerland. We talk about how Generali cooperates with startups, through their innovation garage, partnerships or participation in the F10 Incubator/Accelerator.

An 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.

An interview with Pascal Allot, IBM Innovation Ecosystem Director. We talk about what IBM offers startups in Switzerland to support them on their journey. We also discuss Big Tech's interest in Financial Services and most likely areas of innovation focus related to FinTech.

Janay Eyo, Director of Financial Policy at the Chamber of Progress spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the need for regulatory clarity for crypto and FinTech to achieve a fair playing field internationally and financial inclusion

Aicha Zerrouky, UK Corporate Partnerships Director at Headspring Executive Development, a joint venture of the Financial Times and IE Business School, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about diversity and inclusion in leadership education and training.

Founder of the Swiss FinTech Ladies (SFTL) association, Karen Wendt and board member Carolina Newton, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how to bring ladies to invest more in FinTechs and be better represented in start-up boards. They also talked about many activities and initiatives of the SFTL to get there.

In the second episode of the MENA (the Middle East & North Africa) Series, Dorra Mahbouli, VP of Corporate Strategy at Zitouna Finance, spoke to Firas Rhaeim, CEO and co-founder of Relatic, Tunisian Venture Builder, Fundraiser & Tech Enthusiast, about crowdfunding enabling the Tunisian and African economy and scaling start-ups in the region through Diaspora investments.

Patrick Awori, Founder and CEO at Imaginarium, a Kenyan-based FinTech behind the Circle, a virtual savings platform, hosted another episode of Voice of FinTech: Africa Series. Patrick spoke to Andrew Barden, Director of Insights at Dedalus Global | Lead Organizer and Content Director at Africa Fintech Summit about the state of play on the African FinTech scene and the upcoming Africa Fintech Summit in South Africa.

In the first episode of the MENA (the Middle East & North Africa) Series, Dorra Mahbouli, VP of Corporate Strategy at Zitouna Finance, spoke to Amel Saidane, CEO and co-founder of BetaCube, Tunisian Tech venture builder, about FinTechs enabling the economy and scaling start-ups in the region.

Marc Hauser, Head F10 Incubator and Accelerator Europe and Stefan Kaemper, co-founder of Cow Level, a FinTech for gaming company spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about latest push by F10 into gaming and metaverse and Cow Level's efforts to build a marketplace for gaming assets.

Lars Sommerer, Managing Director of the Swiss PropTech, and Julien Schillewaert, CEO of PriceHubble, spoke to Rudolf Falat, the Voice of FinTech podcast founder, about the current state of the Swiss PropTech scene and cross-over with FinTech.

Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director & CMO, FIDO Alliance, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about FIDO Alliance and the world without passwords! FIDO Alliance is an open industry association launched in February 2013 whose mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that help reduce the world's over-reliance on passwords.

Patrick Awori spoke to Umar Sebyala, Uganda Ecosystem lead at cLabs, working on Celo based in Uganda, about democratizing access to financial services leveraging blockchain.

How to build the most engaged Finance community globally? How to bring the Finance news and knowledge to a busy, casual investor? Maximilian Rofagha, the founder of Finimize, explains.

In the first episode of the year, we are talking to Janine Hirt, COO of Innovate Finance, a leading industry body promoting innovation in Finance in the UK. We are discussing a wide range of resources provided by Innovate Finance, its successes, 2021 FinTech predictions and more!

A discussion with Gerrit Sindermann, recently appointed new head of F10 Zurich, a FinTech, RegTech, InsurTech, DeepTech incubator and accelerator in Zurich, Singapore and across Spain. We talk with Gerrit about what's new at F10 Zurich, and current start-up participants of their program, Andreas Bezner from Stableton and Els Van Eyndhoven and Sabrina Bogaert from GOUD, a Baloise corp-up about their ventures and support they are getting from F10.

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.

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Americas Series, hosted by Clementina Giraldo, founder and CEO of Dots & Tech, based in Colombia, Clementina talks to leaders of FinTech ecosystem in Colombia, Erick Rincon Cardenas, and Argentina, Mariano Biocca about the FinTech scene in the region, from figures to trends, challenges and opportunities. In Spanish.

En este episodio de Voice of FinTech: Americas Series, conducido por Clementina Giraldo, fundadora y CEO de Dots & Tech, con sede en Colombia, Clementina habla con los líderes del ecosistema FinTech de Colombia, Erick Rincon Cárdenas, y Argentina, Mariano Francisco Biocca sobre el panorama FinTech de la región, cifras, tendencias, desafíos y oportunidades. En español.

Kathryn Van Nuys, US Head of Business Development, Start-ups and Venture Capital at Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in New York, explains a wide range of resources and programs helping start-ups (and their investors) to get their ventures off the ground and scale-up worldwide. Many excellent examples included painting a picture of how you can grow your business leveraging cloud services.

Fernando Vázquez Cao, CEO at SBI Digital Assets Holdings, the digital assets arm of the SBI group, and Marc Robinson, COO at SBI Digital Assets Holdings in Tokyo, Japan discuss their vision for the digital assets ecosystem, their views on the importance of partnerships (such as Boerse Stuttgart), the status of the ecosystem in Japan and their hiring plans worldwide.

The SBI Group operates in 21 countries and provides financial services in a wide range of categories, including securities, banking, asset management and insurance. The SBI group is an investor in Ripple, BRD, R3, Solaris Bank and Boerse Stuttgart among others.

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.

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!

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?

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?

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!

In this episode, we talk to Matt Lashmar, Managing Director of MassChallenge, Switzerland. He explains the origins of MassChallenge, how they differ from other accelerators, how to apply, how start-ups can benefit from the program (access to the corporate sponsors and prize money of a million Swiss Francs!) and their success stories. LISTEN HERE

An interview with Alisee de Tonnac, CEO and co-founder of Seedstars World. Alisee is a road warrior, entrepreneur and ecosystem builder focused on emerging markets. Find out more about Seedstars philosophy, competitions, support to startups from mentoring to funding.

After running two hackathons in Singapore, F10 (The Home of FinTech) from Zurich, will also expand its flagship program to Singapore in 2020! We spoke with Lisa Schroeder, Head of Startup program management at F10 FinTech Incubator / Accelerator to find out more.

" I see a tremendous spirit of entrepreneurship taking off in Europe," says Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator. Great new companies will come from Europe, or anywhere on the planet, not just the United States, Geoff explains in this soundbite. We caught up on the side of the INSEAD LaunchPad event at STATION F in Paris.

An 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.

On the side of the Business Innovation Week in Zurich, we quickly caught up with Dalith Steiger-Gablinger, co-founder and Managing Partner of SwissCognitive - The Global AI Hub and Melanie Gabriel, Board member at We Shape Tech. We talk with Dalith about what cognitive technology means and with Melanie about We Shape Tech's mission and activities to drive female participation in tech and innovation to a 50/50 female/male ratio.

An interview with Mona Zoet, founder of RegPac Revolution, RegTech ecosystem builder & accelerator based in Singapore and F10 Hackaton Singapore's local partner.

An interview with Matthias Zwingli, Project Manager Start-up Enablement at digitalswitzerland. digitalswitzerland is a non-profit organization, whose mission is making Switzerland a leading digital innovation hub. Matthias explains the activities of digitalswitzerland and shares the views on digital transformation and the start-up ecosystem in Switzerland vs. the rest of the world.

Bernard Marr, an internationally best-selling author, popular keynote speaker, futurist, and strategic business & technology advisor, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about what generative AI can mean for all of us!

Today,  in another episode of the MENA series hosted by Dorra Mahbouli, we have the privilege of hosting Faraz Amjad, an industry leader in FinTech with an impressive trajectory in payments, technology consulting, and venture building. Over 25 years of experience, he has architected 12+ ventures, served in 7+ corporate leadership roles, and delivered 6+ successful M&A deals.

Tonya Evans, professor, expert in crypto policy and law, and Board Member at Digital Currency Group, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about her new book, Digital Money Demystified, and hot issues still surrounding the crypto world.

Elliot Chun, Partner at Architect Partners, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about crypto and FinTech-related M&A.

Colin Levy, Chief Lawyer @ Malbek, Legal Tech Author and Commentator, Fastcase 50 2022 Honoree, and Legal Tech Start-up Advisor and Investor, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how technology drives the legal profession to be more efficient and benefit its clients, start-ups and incumbents and individuals.

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.

Emmanuel Daniel, the founder of the Asian Banker and the Wealth and Society, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how banks face disintermediation as decentralized Finance or personalization is taking hold. 

Elliot Kallen, the owner of Prosperity Financial Group, a wealth advisor to entrepreneurs, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the importance of financial planning for entrepreneurs and his charity helping tackle depression and thoughts of suicide.

Yossi Sheffi, Elisha Grey II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and LinkedIn's Top Voice, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the role of AI in supply chains, its impact on international trade and finance and his latest book: The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work. 

Simon Severino, Business Strategy Advisor at Strategy Sprints, Vienna, Austria, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about improving B2B sales results.

Marco Santos, CEO Americas at GFT Group spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about helping incumbents with their digital transformation efforts, namely transition to the cloud.

Efi Pylarinou, a global FinTech influencer, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the digitalization of wealth management, wealth management and WealthTech trends and implications for wealth advisors. 

Kavita Ganesan, an AI strategist, advisor, and educator, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about successfully implementing AI in business.

Stephen Flood, CEO of GoldCore, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the importance of diversification of your assets and the benefits of owning gold and other precious metals compared to blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

Elizabeth A. Tuleja, founder of the Intercultural Leader Institute spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the importance of intercultural management, leadership and communication skills that are essential for start-ups scaling up out of their home market.

In this episode, Margarita Chli, Swiss National Science Professor in Computer Vision for Robotics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about improving drone vision and building autonomous drones and their use cases in Insurance.

In this podcast episode, Alexandra Levis, President of Arro Financial Communications, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the unique nuances and challenges of Marketing in Financial Services.

David Yakobovitch, our New York-based host, teamed up with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, to discuss what's been shaking in the FinTech world and adjacent sectors in early 2022 live on Fishbowl. Here is the recording if you missed it! Key topics covered: Gaming and FinTech, X-AI or Explainable AI, Crypto crash, and the end of InsurTech revolution?

Daniel Aghdami, the founder of Board Owl, talks about Board Owl matching senior executives to companies, especially start-ups and SMEs to form boards and advisory boards with an impact with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast.

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.

Reto Ringger, the Founder & CEO of Globalance Bank, entrepreneur, financial leader, and innovator, had a chat with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech, about his passion for sustainability in financial markets.

David Yakobovitch, our New York-based host, teamed up with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, to discuss worldwide FinTech (success?) stories of late 2021 and look at them through a critical lens! Topics included (among others!) Nubank's IPO, N26's retreat from the US, Peloton's stock price drop due to a death of a fictional character on a TV show, Monzo's and Starling Bank's successes and challenges, Europe catching up with the US in VC funding, NFTs for Christmas and do we finally know who Satoshi Nakamoto is? This is the recording of their live show on Fishbowl.

Myron Mallia-Dare, Partner - M&A, Venture Capital, Technology and Corporate Finance at Miller Thomson LLP in Toronto, Canada explains the specifics of the FinTech M&A, nuances of doing deals between Canada and the US, cybersecurity vs. current legal framework, who the hottest RegTechs in Canada are and more!

Henning Piezunka, an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, shared with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, what led Henning to choose the academic path, his highly successful workshop Venture Capital, Business Angels, and Start-ups, and key learnings from it.

David Yakobovitch, our New York-based host, teamed up with Rudolf Falat, founder of Voice of FinTech podcast, to discuss worldwide FinTech successes of the last month and look at them through a critical lens! Topics included rapid growth and regulatory backlash of N26, FinTech M&A (e.g., Revolut and HRTech), BNP scale-up strategies of Square and Klarna, quantum computing, CBDCs in Nigeria, incumbents like HSBC getting into BaaS with Oracle and more! This is the recording of their live show on Fishbowl.

David Yakobovitch, our New York-based host teamed up with Rudolf Falat, founder of Voice of FinTech podcast to discuss worldwide FinTech successes in 2021 and looked at them through a critical lens! Topics included financial literacy, digital payments, autonomous Finance, digital-only banks, and specialty payroll solutions. They also covered the state of fundraising and M&A in FinTech and the growing list of unicorns featured already on Voice of FinTech!

Nathan Kaiser, General Counsel at SDX (SIX Digital Exchange) in Zurich, Switzerland, spoke to spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about his thoughts on building infrastructure for digital assets, utilizing blockchain, SDX's initiatives internationally and CBDCs.

Donna Griffit, corporate storyteller and pitch alchemist for start-ups, spoke to spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about why it pays off to pay attention to your storyline when you pitch for funding, what to include and what to avoid and a lot more!

Michelle Tran, the adviser to Harness Wealth, founder of NYC FinTech Women and founder member of Dreamers & Doers, discusses improved financial advisory for founders and other start-up employees with their new wealth, empowering women on the FinTech and entrepreneurship scene and more!