Around The Coin

This week co-hosts Faisal Khan and Nako Mbelle interview CEO of Prasos, Henry Brade who is has been involved in cryptocurrency since 2011 to get his take on Segwit and Segwit2X, what is the difference between the two? What does it mean for the rest of us. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click...

In this episode of Around The Coin, Faisal Khan and one of our new co-hosts Nako Mbelle discuss the world of crypto and blockchain, specifically from the employment point of view. Nako is the CEO/Founder of Fintech Recruiters based in Toronto, Canada and she has first hand experience on all things employment in the bitcoin, blockchain, ethereum, crypto-coin space. We ask Nako what is working (and...

Brian Roemmele & Faisal Khan are back on the air this week. With the meteoric rise in the price of bitcoin and the added fear of an economic correction that is due, we discuss the power of Bitcoin and how it can be an avenue where wealth could get parked in the next financial crisis. Whether it will happen or not, remains to be seen. Brian does dwell on the dystopian society that we might be h...

This week Faisal Khan interviews Jordan Lampe who is the Head of Strategic Projects at Dwolla. Dwolla is payments related financial services company in Des Monies, Iowa. Dwolla also is one of the members of the Federal Reserve Task Force on Faster Payments initiative. We had interviewed Jordan earlier on this (See Episode 113). Reconnecting again with Jordan, we ask him on the Faster Payment Task...

This week, Faisal Khan interviews Scott Robinson is the founder and VP of Plug and Play FinTech, the financial technology focused startup innovation platform in partnership with BNP Paribas, Santander, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, TD Bank, Sberbank, USAA, Mitsubishi, Capital One, Sumitomo, Intuit and many more global financial institutions. Listen to how a UCLA History major finds his calling and...

The duo is back on the air after a short break. This week Brian Roemmele and Faisal Khan discuss the impending hard fork for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Classic versus Bitcoin Cash. Not many people truly understand why it is happening and what it means for the average consumer/user of bitcoins like you and me. Brian very eloquently explains the whole scenario about the fork and some of the players who ar...

This week, Faisal Khan interviews the Co-Founder of Innovate Finance, Abdul Haseeb Basit. We discuss what Innovate Finance is all about, how they are acting as a catalyst for the UK Fintech scene and above all we hear Abdul's viewpoint on a recent article which was published in the New York Times. The article cites that as per the numbers published by Innovate Finance, that "Investment i...

This week Brian Roemmele & Faisal Khan discuss the philosophical questions on the right of individuals to hold on to their own wealth. For centuries now, monetary value has been controlled by the Crown/Government. Today, with the disruption in the wealth creation, distribution, storage and payment verticals, a consensus based currency (or currencies) could very well be the de facto method of v...

This week, Kathleen Breitman, CEO of Tezos was interviewed by Faisal Khan for Around The Coin. We were very grateful for Kathleen to take time out from her busy schedule and update us on what tezos is all about and its upcoming initial coin offering. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza...

This week Brian Roemmele and Faisal Khan discuss the epic rise of Bitcoin. Once termed as a fad or tulip mania, it is fair to say, Bitcoin has reached critical mass and there is no way the genie can be put back into the bottle now. Brian also discusses attending Apple WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) that happened last week. In addition, ICO or Initial Coin Offering is all the rage these da...

This week Brian, Faisal and Mike are back into the thick of things, discussing payments. Brian covers his epic attendance of the ETA conference and what he saw there. Mike and Faisal discuss with Brian, the emergence of Amazon Echo and what it means for the masses, both in the developed world and in the developing world. Is Amazon Echo going to be the game changer? Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotte...

Brian and Mike back at it for an intense discussion about altruism and how people think about donating money and charity. In the first part of the conversation Brian and Mike initially discuss their favorite product of the week then spend time on Amazon's new announcement about the new Echo with a camera. Brian take a bullish stand on how new Echo will impact the fashion industry which he wri...

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Brian and Mike back on the show for another fun thought provoking discussion across many topics. We first covered Brian’s in person presentation to startup founders, investors and payment executives at Propeler VC last week. This week’s two special shout outs are:Jason Fiedler VC Investor @ Red Sea Ventureshttps://medium.com/@jasonfiedler/the-magic-of-mobile-pay-60136a886f9aBrett Caine CEO Urban A...

Guest Matthew Mezinskis dials in from Latvia where he's lived for the last 10 years working in banking, finance and payments. Matthew is the founder of Crypto Voices (https://cryptovoices.com/) a audio blog that focuses on Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital ledger technology and broader FinTech, including all of the benefits and challenges that come with these breakthrough technolog...

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In this edition of Around the Coin, Faisal Khan interviews Olivia Chow, the Project Lead of Finder.com's Money Transfer Award. Olivia discusses how for the first time in the remittance industry, Finder.com is presenting awards to money transfer companies. These awards are based on weeks of detailed research that Olivia and her team conducted on various online money transfer companies in the U...

In this edition of Around the Coin, we interview Luke Salinas, SVP Strategy for Adyen. Adyen is one of those companies, unless you're working with them not very many people know about them. This Dutch based payment processor started more than a decade ago and has become huge! Processing for the likes of Netflix, Uber, and Spotify to name a few. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire grea...

This week I got to sit down with the Founder & CEO of TerraPay, Mr. Ambar Sur. Ambar started his career in the RF design of cell sites and has now gravitated towards payment. His idea of an interoperable payments world is slowly taking shape. We ask him what TerraPay is all about, how it got started, where it is today and where it is heading. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great a...

This week, Brian, Faisal and Mike are back on the air again. We discuss Brian's Multiplex application, Faisal's traveling and Mike changing the direction of his company. In addition we talk about Amazon Alexa hitting 10,000 skills, yet it is difficult to make an income from it. PayPal buys TIO Network and what does it mean for the unbanked? Alibaba's Ant Financial scoops up MoneyGra...

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In this week's episode of Around The Coin, Faisal Khan interviews the Oracle of Payments & Identity, David Birch. Dave is truly multi-talented, he is the author of "Identity is the New Money", which was his book that came out in 2014. He's a public speaker, world traveler, and needless to say a consultant in the payments space and works with Consult Hyperion. We discuss the...

n this episode, Faisal Khan interviews Luis Buenaventura, author of "Reinventing Remittances with Bitcoin". Luis is one of the early pioneers in the Bitcoin Remittance space. The concise book shares his accumulated knowledge of what he has learned about Remittances+Bitcoin. This book collects stories about the pioneering startups who have been focusing on this exciting new space since 20...

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This week, Faisal Khan interviews Katharina Lueth, Head of Europe for Raisin. This interview was conducted in November 2016 at Raisin's headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Raisin's goal is to offer savers high interest rates! As the leading platform for investments throughout Europe, we give you access to exclusive offers from all over Europe - Raise your interest with Europe's #1 depo...