Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Building digital businesses with Basalt

In this episode of Africa Series, hosted by Stacey Japhta, Stacey speaks to Wayne Zwiers, founder of Basalt. Basalt is a global Fintech studio focusing on designing and developing digital banking and insurance solutions for the future, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. They discuss all things FinTech, important attributes to look for in your leadership team, and the difference between the traditional model and the new model of VCs in Africa.

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The Financial Markets Series: Open Banking in Switzerland

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!

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Core banking in the cloud with Thought Machine

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.

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