A podcast mapping out the Swiss and global FinTech ecosystem
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.
Read MoreWe 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?
Read MoreHusayn 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.
Read MoreAn 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!
Read MoreBrett 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!
Read MoreAn 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!
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreDoing 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreAn interview with Evelyne Pflugi, co-founder and Managing Partner at Singularity Group in Zurich, Switzerland. We talk about what are exponential technologies, relationship to the Singularity University and how to make money from exponential technologies and innovation today.
Read MoreAn 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.
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