Chasing unicorns in rural France & redefining amateur sports business with Dom Einhorn

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.

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Asia Pacific Series with Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳: Building payments infrastructure in South East Asia with Y-Combinator backed Arrow's CEO Neo Liat Beng

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.

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Investing in crypto assets with SwissBorg

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.

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Asia Pacific Series with Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳: B2B payments in South East Asia with Tazapay

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.

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Asia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Entrepreneurship and innovation with Varun Mittal from EY

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.

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Asia Pacific Series with Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳: P2P FinTech in Indonesia: Koinworks and AC Ventures

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.

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Plug and Play, a VC and corporate innovation program, whose CEO is an early backer of PayPal, explained

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!

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Asia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Neal Cross - PictureWealth, orangutans and sense of it all

In 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?

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Can you teach entrepreneurship? Bocconi PhD and INSEAD Professor explains

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?

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Nomisma & SCX: Europe's first licensed, blockchain-based MTF for digital asset derivatives

A 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.

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The Insurtech Series: Where to play?

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

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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Financial Markets Technology: VC perspective

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.

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