Best practices in Corporate Venturing with Fidelity's Alokik Advani

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!

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Venture Capital, Business Angels, and Start-ups with INSEAD Professor Henning Piezunka

Henning Piezunka, an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, shared with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, what led Henning to choose the academic path, his highly successful workshop Venture Capital, Business Angels, and Start-ups, and key learnings from it.

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Making early stage investing smarter with AI and data - Penny Schiffer, CEO of Raized.ai

Penny Schiffer, CEO and co-founder of Raized.ai, a Swiss-based start-up determined to make early-stage investing smarter using data, AI and analytics, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about the pain points in the early-stage investing for investors and start-ups, how to address them using technology, product development and fundraising approach and more.

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The art of pitching right with Donna Griffit, corporate storyteller and pitch alchemist for start-ups

Donna Griffit, corporate storyteller and pitch alchemist for start-ups, spoke to spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about why it pays off to pay attention to your storyline when you pitch for funding, what to include and what to avoid and a lot more!

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Asia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Taiwan as a tech, not only a hardware hub with Mark Hsu from GD1 VC fund

In this episode of the Asia Pacific Series, Angela Conroy spoke to Mark Hsu, a serial entrepreneur and a tech VC investor based in Taipei, Taiwan - partner at GD1 VC Fund (Global from Day 1) about transforming Taiwan into a leading tech hub in Asia beyond manufacturing.

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Tech-led customer centricity in the insurance industry with Wefox's CFO, Fabian Wesemann

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.

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Digitizing Wealth Management with Addepar

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.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Empowering emerging market entrepreneurs

In this episode, Stacey Japhta chats with Buhle Goslar, CEO Africa of Jumo. They discuss building units from the ground up, the reason we're not seeing the full benefits of financial inclusion in South Africa & moving away from pay secrecy.

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Hello Tractor - Power (tractors) to the people (farmers)! Pay-as-you-go financing with Mastercard

In this episode, we discuss farm mechanization in Africa, how Mastercard accelerates the Hello Tractor vision to close the mechanization gap in Africa and how the company uses data and IoT technology to enhance tractor financing.

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Voice of FinTech Americas with Clementina Giraldo (in Spanish / En español): Introduction to FinTech in Mexico / Introducción a FinTech en México con Diego Creel, cofundador y CEO de Creze

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Americas Series hosted by Clementina Giraldo, Founder & CEO of Dots & Tech, based in Colombia, Clementina speaks to Diego Creel, co-founder and CEO of Creze, a FinTech leader in Mexico, about the incredible opportunities in this industry. In Spanish.

En este episodio de Voice of FinTech: Americas Series, conducido por Clementina Giraldo, fundadora y CEO de Dots & Tech, con sede en Colombia, Clementina habla con Diego Creel, cofundador y CEO de Creze, líder de la industria FinTech en México, sobre las oportunidades que ofrece México en esta imparable industria. En español.

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Episode #100! Future of Finance with Henri Arslanian

Episode 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!

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Voice of FinTech Americas with Clementina Giraldo (in Spanish / En español): Introduction to FinTech in LatAm / Introducción a FinTech en LatAm - Erick Rincon Cardenas & Mariano Biocca

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Americas Series, hosted by Clementina Giraldo, founder and CEO of Dots & Tech, based in Colombia, Clementina talks to leaders of FinTech ecosystem in Colombia, Erick Rincon Cardenas, and Argentina, Mariano Biocca about the FinTech scene in the region, from figures to trends, challenges and opportunities. In Spanish.

En este episodio de Voice of FinTech: Americas Series, conducido por Clementina Giraldo, fundadora y CEO de Dots & Tech, con sede en Colombia, Clementina habla con los líderes del ecosistema FinTech de Colombia, Erick Rincon Cárdenas, y Argentina, Mariano Francisco Biocca sobre el panorama FinTech de la región, cifras, tendencias, desafíos y oportunidades. En español.

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Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series - Digital Assets, Blockchain and Crypto: 2020 reality check

In 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.

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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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The Financial Markets Series: Financial Information

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!

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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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