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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Meeri Savolainen, the CEO, and co-founder of INZMO, Berlin-headquartered InsurTech, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about creative solutions for tenants being asked to pay a rental deposit and house contents insurance which is not only easy when a client is being onboarded, but also when they make a claim.

Bente Krogmann, CEO of mTek Services, based in Nairobi, Kenya, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about disrupting the insurance industry in Africa with her insurance brokerage platform.

Nikolaus Sühr, CEO and founder of Kasko, a London headquarter InsurTech-as-a-service spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how Kasko helps incumbent insurers reach customers with new offerings and features quicker than on their own.

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.

How to bring customer-centricity to the insurance industry? Leveraging technology from the ground up, explains Fabian Wesemann, co-founder and Group CFO at Wefox, a USD 3bn InsurTech unicorn that started in Switzerland. Co-hosted by Wani Baumgartner, Finance and Life Sciences recruiter and Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast.

Do you want to know how you can get a loan (or insurance) instantly before you lose your deposit? Seedstars World Competition 2020/21 winner, digital broker Finology from Malaysia, will help you. Co-hosted by Wani Baumgartner and Rudolf Falat.

LeaseLock is the world’s leading InsurTech platform for real estate. LeaseLock is the world’s leading InsurTech platform for real estate. LeaseLock's flagship lease insurance product leverages AI to eliminate security deposits from operating infrastructure. CEO and co-founder Derek Merrill explains why security deposits and surety bonds are done, how LeaseLock leads the overdue disruption of the insurance and real estate industries and more - in Americas Series with David Yakobovitch.

Vedran Pranjic and Benedikt Andreas, wefox alumni, explain why better insurance solutions for SMEs are needed and how they leverage technology to provide them in their latest venture in Switzerland. Co-hosted with Wani Baumgartner, Finance & Life Sciences recruiter in Basel.

How do you make sense of the various benefits and financial products efficiently and intelligently? Check out vlot's innovative technology, enabling individuals to make responsible financial decisions effortlessly.

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.

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?

Husayn 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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alexia Theodorou, Kraken Futures Product Lead, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the role of derivatives in the crypto markets and futures in particular.

Emilie Raffo, founding Partner and Head of Sales at ChainSecurity and Niko Torgin Mackinga, blockchain security engineer spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about smart contracts, its pros and cons and how to make them useful and secure.

Edward Woodford, CEO, and Co-Founder of Zero Hash (VC backed, including Bain Capital Ventures, Point72, NYCA & tastytrade), discussed his serial entrepreneur journey leading to his current venture that enables launching and distributing digital assets easily with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast. Also discussed is the potential of Finance 2.0, DeFi and digital assets overall.

Andreas von Estorff, a serial entrepreneur, advisor, and CEO of ModelManagement.com, spoke to Rudolf Falat about digitizing the modeling business through smart contracts, AI and more.

Matthijs de Vries, founder & CTO and Anders Christensen, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Head of Ecosystem at AllianceBlock, shared their insights on growing the blockchain and decentralized Finance community and solutions with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast.

Petr Kozyakov, co-founder and CEO of Mercuryo spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about bridging traditional Finance (fiat currency) and crypto to enable users to switch seamlessly between fiat and crypto and improve the payments experience.

Wojciech Sobczuk, co-founder and CTO at Superbid.io, an NFT experiences and memories auction site, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about the NFTs, Superbid's approach and focus on tennis, movie and gaming personalities, blockchain protocols in the background and more!

Daniel Bookstaber VP of Markets at Blockchain.com, leading global provider of crypto and digital assets services, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about the evolution of blockchain, latest developments, ways to build an institutional business in blockchain, long terms predictions and more!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Angela Conroy, CEO and co-founder at Notarum, spoke to Chang Zi Qian, entrepreneur, lawyer and historian, and CEO and co-founder at Intelllex, about disrupting legal research by leveraging categorization technology they developed.

How to leverage AI, blockchain and DeepTech to make compliance a sustainable function? We are talking to Shub Nandi, a leading AI and blockchain practitioner in India, who co-founded PiChain to help smaller banks onboard and serve underbanked clients efficiently.

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

Ralf Huber, the co-founder of Apiax, explains why and how he co-founded Apiax, an award-winning Swiss RegTech company, with offices in Zurich, Geneva, London and Lisbon.

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.

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!

Christoph Baumann, Deputy Head Insurances & Risks at State Secretariat for International Finance SIF (SSIF), spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how Switzerland sees sustainable Finance as a major opportunity for the Swiss financial center.

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.

In this bonus episode, we caught up with Peter Zemsky, Deputy Dean of INSEAD and Dean of Innovation on the side of INSEAD hosted a panel on Artificial Intelligence: Balancing AI productivity and responsibility in the STG Tent in Davos during WEF 2020. We talk about INSEAD’s activities in Davos and partnerships in the field of innovation.

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.

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.

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.

Marine Tanguy, CEO of MTArt Agency, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about disrupting the way visual artists get discovered and represented so they get the best value for their efforts and talent.

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.

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Asia Pacific Series, Chia Jeng Yang, spoke to Neo Liat Beng, founder of Arrow, building FAST / Bolt of Southeast Asia. You will learn more about the Southeast Asia startup ecosystem, the state of payments in Southeast Asia, and Neo’s experience building Arrow.

Cyrus Fazel, CEO and founder of SwissBorg that raised over CHF 50m in their ICO, talks about SwissBorg's mission, bringing digital assets to the ecosystem of the clientele often overlooked by traditional private banks, recent developments in the blockchain/crypto/digital assets world and its potential going forward.

Our guest host, Sara Palmbush, talks to Eva Schram, a Dutch journalist based in San Francisco, about what made Silicon Valley successful, which features Europe should replicate, and which it should avoid when building a successful start-up ecosystem.

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Asia Pacific Series, Chia Jeng Yang, Principal of Saison Capital, speaks to Rahul Shingal, ex-Head of Stripe APAC and ex-Head of SMB Payments Int'l at PayPal and now co-founder of Tazapay, a cross-border payments platform for SMEs, based in Singapore about the pain points for SMEs when it comes to payments in the region and Rahul's team's solution.

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 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.

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. 

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. 

Roland Whyte, CEO of Nokkel, a property platform backed by FNZ Group, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the importance of managing your property just like any other asset that you own. Also, how does Nokkel leverage technology to gather all the information that drives your property value and can lead to a deal if need be.

Tamara Kostova, CEO of Velexa, an investment services as a service platform, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about supporting new investment platforms with ready-to-go infrastructure.

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!

How to help wealth managers manage client assets in various asset classes and spread around different institutions? Alastair Cairns, Addepar's Head of Insights and Marketplace, explains how Addepar has been serving many wealth managers in the US and abroad to provide a seamless client experience in the sector ripe for disruption.

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.

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.

An 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.