January summary!

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If you missed out on the Voice of FinTech podcast in January, here is your roundup! You can listen to all the episodes on the Episodes pages of this website or when you subscribe to your favorite podcast apps under Subscribe.

Any business can be a FinTech with Joe Keeley, CEO and co-founder at JustiFi Technologies (USA)

Joe Keeley, CEO, and co-founder at JustiFi Technologies, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about founders making the most out of their business by adding a FinTech layer to their companies.

Here are the questions Joe answered:

  • Joe - how did you get to what you do these days?

  • How is the Embedded FinTech world evolving?

  • Where should founders start when considering adding a FinTech layer to their platform?

  • You are saying on your website that payment platforms take too much value from their customers, and you are different. How and why?

  • What’s your technology angle, or do you have more brilliant engineers than other players?

  • What is your solution/services?

  • Who are your key clients?

  • Many FinTech founders are young and haven’t experienced a recession yet. So how do you keep growing your business in a challenging economic environment? 

  • What’s your favorite business book? Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

  • What’s the best way to reach out: website Justifi.ai or Joe's LinkedIn 

Growing FinTech with modern Marketing tools with Shameer Sachdev, founder and MD at Growth Gorilla (UK)

Shameer Sachdev, founder and MD at Growth Gorilla, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about helping FinTechs grow, leveraging all modern Marketing techniques.

Here are the key questions for Shameer:

  • Shameer - how did you get to what you do these days?

  • Growth at any cost is behind us for a while. So how do you help FinTechs to grow profitably and sustainably?

  • What are your crucial takeaways from designing a growth strategy?

  • How can FinTechs create a robust marketing plan on a budget? Should FinTechs try to build a B2C brand, or are they better off going through the B2B route?

  • Does one still need a website to promote their business?

  • What are the best marketing tools to focus on? Digital marketing, SEO, PR?

  • What about social media? How do you drive conversion from likes to sales?

  • Who are your key clients? How do they differ? 

  • What’s the best way to reach out: Shameer Sachdev (LinkedIn) or Growth Gorilla (website)

Bringing more ladies to VC investing and boardrooms with Karen Wendt & Carolina Newton from the Swiss FinTech Ladies

Founder of the Swiss FinTech Ladies (SFTL) association, Karen Wendt and board member Carolina Newton, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how to bring ladies to invest more in FinTechs and be better represented in start-up boards. They also talked about many activities and initiatives of the SFTL to get there.

Here are the questions Karen and Caro answered:

Diversity, inclusion and leadership in Financial services with Aicha Zerrouky from Headspring (UK)

Aicha Zerrouky, UK Corporate Partnerships Director at Headspring Executive Development, a joint venture of the Financial Times and IE Business School, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about diversity and inclusion in leadership education and training.

  • Aicha's non-linear journey to Headspring

  • What is Headspring? What is its mission?

  • Examples of some programs or projects: FinTech plus Santander, BBVA or Societe Generale.

  • Headspring offers many leadership programs – can you teach leadership, or one needs to be a natural-born leader?

  • What would be your most critical advice on leadership to founders who lead businesses growing from start-ups to scale-ups?

  • What about managing a business in a downturn?

  • Why is diversity and inclusion good for businesses and especially start-ups? 

  • How does it impact the product development in FinTech you have been working with? 

  • Favorite business book: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

  • The best way to reach out: Headspring Executive Development on LinkedIn

Crypto and FinTech - regulatory perspectives with Janay Eyo, Director Financial Policy at Chamber of Progress (USA)

Janay Eyo, Director of Financial Policy at the Chamber of Progress spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about the need for regulatory clarity for crypto and FinTech to achieve a fair playing field internationally and financial inclusion.

Here is what they covered:

  • Janay´s journey to financial policy

  • What is the Chamber of Progress? What is your mission?

  • How do your work with FinTechs?

  • How do you see the outlook for crypto this year?

  • What went wrong with the FTX?

  • How should tech and cryptocurrency leaders prepare for an ever-evolving policy landscape?

  • Where cryptocurrency fits into climate change policy and environmental concerns?

  • How do US policymakers view cryptos’ function – as a payment mechanism or a commodity? 

  • Does tech anti-trust legislation could impact crypto?

  • Recommended further reading: Crypto For My People

  • The best way to reach out: Janay on Twitter or LinkedIn or the Chamber of Progress website


If you have suggestions for topics or guests on the show or have ideas about how to make this podcast better for you, please e-mail us at info@voiceoffintech.com. Alternatively, you can also leave a voicemail here.

Keep safe!

Sincerely,

Rudolf Falat