A podcast mapping out the Swiss and global FinTech ecosystem
Foraus, a Swiss foreign policy think thank, has focused on researching and promoting sustainable FinTech and Finance. We talk to Nadir Franca, Senior Sustainable Fellow and Fabian Ligibel, co-lead at Foraus - Sustainable FinTech, about the current status and trends in sustainable FinTech and Finance.
Read MoreGreat reflections of the world of business media, FinTech, diversity and leadership issues with Yahoo Finance UK's Head, Lianna Brinded.
Read MoreIn another edition of Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series, we discussed the current state of tokenization and blockchain (and yes, crypto too) given the recent changes in Switzerland and abroad with Lothar Cerjak, Head of Institutional Services & Products at Bitcoin Suisse, Lily Fang, Finance Professor at INSEAD, Anthony Lamy, Partner at Wecan Group and Emi Lorincz, Business Development Director at Ledger.
Read MoreHow do I make sure I don't run out of cash? How do I price this new product? How do I know if I can afford to hire? These are some of the questions that made Jana launch the Tiny CFO newsletter 6 months ago to make topics like these super easy to understand. Tiny CFO is 40% corporate finance, 40% business strategy, 20% food metaphors, and a whole another 100% of rooting for small businesses and entrepreneurs just starting. Here are some key, high-impact ideas on Entrepreneurial Finance Jana shared on the Voice of FinTech.
Read MoreOur 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.
Read MoreJohn Vuong, founder, and CEO of the Local SEO Search, Inc., a Canadian SEO company, helping SMEs get discovered on the web, gives simple advice on how to master search engine optimization (SEO) for small businesses!
Read MoreA discussion with INSEAD Finance Professor Lily Fang about how FinTech has been transforming Finance and the results of our survey among our listeners about the remote work in Finance and the opportunities this may present for FinTechs.
Read MoreEpisode 100!!! We celebrate this milestone with Henri Arslanian, PwC Global Crypto Leader, Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and University Professor with over half a million followers on LinkedIn!
We talk about the Future of Finance (and Henri's book on the same), digitalization, changes brought on by the pandemic, crypto and blockchain opportunities in the current setting and much more!
Read MoreIn this live virtual event as part of Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series, we spoke to INSEAD Professor of Strategy and Organizational Design, Phanish Puranam, about his work on how to leverage data and AI when thinking about changing your organizational design. Is there a smarter way of planning and executing organization design changes? If you missed it, here is the recording from the event.
Read MoreWe talk to Ken Banta, founder and principal of Vanguard Group for Leadership, a senior leadership consultancy, about the need for senior leaders to have a strategic side gig. What does it mean and why is it imperative in today's competitive career development? Listen in to find out more.
Read MoreIn this bonus episode, you can listen to the excerpt of the virtual event from Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series, where we talked to Naina Sethi from Magic FinServ New York, Darko Pilav from Digital Asset Zurich and Emilie Raffo from Geneva about Digital Assets, Blockchain and Crypto: 2020 reality check.
Read MoreIn this two-segment episode, a preview of the FinTech Talents Virtual North America, taking place in New York on September 9, we talk to legendary Jim Marous from the Financial Brand and Sarika Sangwan from Pinterest.
Jim explains the wealth of resources he and his team provide to the community, his views on the acceleration of digitalization trends in retail banking, who will be the winners in Financial Services in the post-COVID world and much more.
Sarika explains how Pinterest can be useful for FinTech and Financial Services firms by outlining the key elements of the platform for them: target, trigger and trust.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreArianna 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!
Read MoreIn 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?
Read MoreWe 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?
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 MoreWe talk to Janine Haendel, CEO of Roger Federation Foundation, about the foundation's origins and its mission, entrepreneurship, increased focus on performance in the NGO sector, leveraging technology and financial innovation when delivering on foundation's goals in Africa.
Read MoreWe 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?
Read MoreWe 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.
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