Voice of FinTech Africa Series with Patrick Awori: Powering e-commerce in Africa with Flutterwave's Elizaphan Mouko

Nairobi, Kenya
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In this episode, Patrick Awori interviews Elizaphan Mouko, Flutterwave’s East Africa Business Head, about their strategy for the region and why supporting Africa’s small businesses is an important pillar for their organization and economic development in general. In addition, we spoke in detail about Flutterwave’s comprehensive service offering and their simple onboarding process.

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Launching digital assets easily with CEO and co-founder of Zero Hash, Edward Woodford

Chicago
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Edward Woodford, CEO, and Co-Founder of Zero Hash (VC backed, including Bain Capital Ventures, Point72, NYCA & tastytrade), discussed his serial entrepreneur journey leading to his current venture that enables launching and distributing digital assets easily with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast. Also discussed is the potential of Finance 2.0, DeFi and digital assets overall.

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FIDO - leading the way to a passwordless future with Andrew Shikiar, FIDO's Executive Director

Los Angeles
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Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director & CMO, FIDO Alliance, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about FIDO Alliance and the world without passwords! FIDO Alliance is an open industry association launched in February 2013 whose mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that help reduce the world's over-reliance on passwords.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Currency trading solutions for frontier markets with CEO and co-founder of AZA Finance, Elizabeth Rossiello

Nairobi
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Stacey Japhta, VP Growth at TalentintheCloud, interviews Elizabeth Rossiello. Elizabeth discusses all things FinTech, a fitting formula for acquisition, and why Boards push back on crypto.

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

Fontainebleau
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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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FinTech 2021 success stories! A critical view by the hosts of Voice of FinTech, recording of our latest LIVE show on FISHBOWL

New York
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David Yakobovitch, our New York-based host, teamed up with Rudolf Falat, founder of Voice of FinTech podcast, to discuss worldwide FinTech successes of the last month and look at them through a critical lens! Topics included rapid growth and regulatory backlash of N26, FinTech M&A (e.g., Revolut and HRTech), BNP scale-up strategies of Square and Klarna, quantum computing, CBDCs in Nigeria, incumbents like HSBC getting into BaaS with Oracle and more! This is the recording of their live show on Fishbowl.

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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

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

Zurich, Switzerland
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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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Building a DeFi community with Matthijs de Vries and Anders Christensen from AllianceBlock

UItrecht, Netherlands
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Matthijs de Vries, founder & CTO and Anders Christensen, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Head of Ecosystem at AllianceBlock, shared their insights on growing the blockchain and decentralized Finance community and solutions with Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast.

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Bridging fiat and crypto and improving your payments experience with Petr Kozyakov, CEO of Mercuryo

London, UK
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Petr Kozyakov, co-founder and CEO of Mercuryo spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about bridging traditional Finance (fiat currency) and crypto to enable users to switch seamlessly between fiat and crypto and improve the payments experience.

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FinTech 2021 success stories! A critical view by the hosts of Voice of FinTech, live on Fishbowl

New York
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David Yakobovitch, our New York-based host teamed up with Rudolf Falat, founder of Voice of FinTech podcast to discuss worldwide FinTech successes in 2021 and looked at them through a critical lens! Topics included financial literacy, digital payments, autonomous Finance, digital-only banks, and specialty payroll solutions. They also covered the state of fundraising and M&A in FinTech and the growing list of unicorns featured already on Voice of FinTech!

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Superbid - auctioning off NFTs of memories and experiences with sports personalities and more (e.g. US Open Finalist Leylah Fernandez)

Warsaw, Poland
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Wojciech Sobczuk, co-founder and CTO at Superbid.io, an NFT experiences and memories auction site, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about the NFTs, Superbid's approach and focus on tennis, movie and gaming personalities, blockchain protocols in the background and more!

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Asia Pacific Series with Taneia Bhardwaj: Building financial planning platform for women in India with Priti Rathi Gupta, founder of LXME

Mumbai, India
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Taneia Bhardwaj, Head of India Consumer Business at Nium, spoke to Priti Rathi Gupta, founder, LXME (financial platform for women). Finance is a feminist issue. And if there's one person who gets it - it is Priti Rathi Gupta - founder of financial planning platform LXME. So much so that she founded LXME intending to bridge that gap between women and Finance. In this episode of Voice of Fintech, we chat with Priti, to understand how she is inspiring a wave of financially fearless women in India.

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Building an institutional business in blockchain with Blockchain.com's Dan Bookstaber

New York, NY
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Daniel Bookstaber VP of Markets at Blockchain.com, leading global provider of crypto and digital assets services, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about the evolution of blockchain, latest developments, ways to build an institutional business in blockchain, long terms predictions and more!

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Building regulated digital market infrastructure with SDX (SIX Digital Exchange)'s General Counsel, Nathan Kaiser

Zurich, Switzerland
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Nathan Kaiser, General Counsel at SDX (SIX Digital Exchange) in Zurich, Switzerland, spoke to spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about his thoughts on building infrastructure for digital assets, utilizing blockchain, SDX's initiatives internationally and CBDCs.

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

Mountain View, California
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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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Americas Series with David Yakobovitch: How FinTech can make retail purchases more inclusive with Katapult's CEO, Orlando Zayas

New York, NY
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In this episode of the Americas Series, David Yakobovitch spoke to Orlando Zayas, CEO of Katapult about how pandemic has changed the way we shop, Katapult's role in the value chain, alternative credit scoring and BNPL and on going public with the SPAC Finserv.

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