Purpose Driven FinTech

Join us for an insightful conversation with Tamara, CEO of Velexa, as we explore how FinTech is revolutionizing wealth management and financial education. From democratizing investment access to building community-driven platforms, discover how Velexa is making financial services more inclusive and less intimidating for everyone. Why education and community are key to next-generation FinTech solut...

Imagine a world where rural communities thrive with access to financial services tailored to their unique needs. That’s exactly what Tim Scheffmann, CEO of LTS Ventures, is making possible with the largest digital village banking network in Southeast Asia. In this episode, we dive into the transformative power of FinTech in underserved regions and how Tim is redefining financial inclusion. From ad...

Purpose Driven FinTechs are predicated on accessibility and inclusiveness - it's not about building a product that a very few people really love and admire and adore and become early adopters. Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to securely invest, earn, and make payments and they are targeting a broader subsegment of society with financial services using...

Come behind the scenes of one of the largest NeoBanks in Southeast Asia! Zubin Rada Krishnan, CEO at BigPay, shares BigPay's mission of leveling up people's lives through accessible and simple financial services and explains how BigPay aims to promote financial well-being by shaping positive spending habits and providing innovative financial products. We discuss the unique challenges and opportuni...

The future is about Fintech & Bank Partnerships! And FinConecta is here to make it easier, cheaper and more efficient for all! If you are bank you know you have legacy systems, and that you need new tech to innovate As a B2B FinTech it is likely you are solving a problem for Banks... Well FinConecta makes it easy for both parties to find each other - And more importantly, to connect to multipl...

500M own crypto, 30% want to pay with it — are you ready? Customer expectations are changing fast And crypto payments are rapidly becoming the new normal! In today's episode I spoke with Max Krupyshev . CEO at CryptoProcessing.com by CoinsPaid to deep dive and understand what's going on! We cover: - How crypto is solving for real customer problems - Argentina as use case - Freelancers! A biggy one...

LATAM's payment infra is fragmented and outdated... Imagine a single API that breaks down barriers across LATAM and unlocks a seamless payment experience, and multiple geo launches; a smooth, unified digital payment experience for the entire region! Well, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kevin Litvin , Co-Founder at tapi , and he's doing exactly that! In LATAM people still line up to pay bills...

There are 5. 5 million small businesses with less than 20 people in the UK - and we can argue small businesses are the most underserved of all FS customers today! That’s why Bankifi is transforming the space and making bank's digital banking platforms from something that's purely transactional into the place where a small business run and operate their business from. In this episode Mark Hartley,...

“There's a lot of power behind financial data. Every time we move money from point A to point B, we also move information” BUT the power is unlocked by the quality of the data, and the what we do with the data! In this episode Nare Vardanyan, CEO & Co-Founder at Ntropy, the immense potential of financial data and its impact on both consumers and businesses. We discuss how standardizing and uni...

Buying a property is a big life moment, and one full of anxiety! And yes, we the people in the industry are guilty of creating anxiety to our customers! That’s why Geer Van Kerchkhoven, CEO & Co-Founder Oper is doing something about it, and helping both banks and customers create a much better mortgage experience! In this episode Geert shares his journey and insights on improving the mortgage...

Have you ever thought about owning a Franchise, but got discouraged by the large amount of investment capital? Many of us have. Franchises pose barriers to entry to most of us, but not any more! In today’s episode I speak with Kenny Rose, the founder of FranShares. He is on a double mission to allow individuals to invest in franchises and to solve for the generational wealth gap through local busi...

Wio Bank has become one of the fastest Neo-Banks globally to achieve profitability. In its first full year of operations, Wio reported a revenue of AED 266.4 million and a net profit of AED 2 million. Wio has over 50,000 Wio Business and 40,000 Wio Personal customers… and in today’s episode we go through the How they achieved such amazing success! I speak with Prakash Sunkara, Chief Financial Offi...

The Statistics are brutal! 56% of young investors avoid professional advice due to high fees and outdated approaches. 51% of respondents feel they lack control over their finances, indicating a significant financial literacy and engagement gap. 63% of women are uncomfortable with basic investment principles, with 72% not actively monitoring their investments. 47% of participants save little to no...

Over a TRILLION dollars per year is spent on SAAS and so much of that is wasted! Customers know they are overpaying for subscriptions, don’t have good visibility on them, and are aware they could save so much Money if they could bring them all into a single place easily and unlock savings from the software providers This is exactly what Matt Bird, Co-Founder and CEO of Lemon is on a mission to do!...

“I love filing my return!” Said no one ever… did you know in the US people spend over 5 billion hours per year to get their taxes done. And Column Tax is in a mission to do something about it! Gavin Nachbar, Co-Founder of Column Tax, shares how Column Tax is disrupting the process of filing taxes - and it all starts by leveraging customer’s existing apps! Column Tax is a B2B2C solution that enable...

Jas shares with us the importance of data metrics in building purpose-driven fintech. We go deep and practical! We start by defining what makes great product and the role of metrics in product development. We give examples across fintech verticals to bring it to life. It’s a super practical conversation, so defining metrics is not enough, we also deep dive into the challenges like confirmation bia...

Today DATA is a differentiated proposition! And that's why it matters who you select as your payments processor and partner in crime! I had the honour and pleasure to speak with Robert Kraal, Co-Founder at Silverflow , and hear all about how Silverflow has designed with data in mind! Silverflow is a cloud-based payment processing platform that provides a state-of-the-art upgrade for payment-provid...

In Today’s episode we speak with Tiffany, CEO and Co-Founder of Aloi, a multi-award winning FinTech in Nepal. Aloi is enabling climate financing for grassroots entrepreneurs through real-time loan journey insights. They have a cashless-financing platform offering 3 features to track a full loan cycle for informal sector business loans: monitor loan usage, loan repayments, and payments. If you enjo...

In Today’s episode we speak with Oli Cook, CEO and Co-Founder of ekko, the multi-award winning sustainability platform for banks and payments. Ekko’s solution allows you to make any transaction or customer interaction an opportunity to do good for the planet and your business. We discuss how we should understand sustainability first and then think of how FinTech can be part of the solution, not th...

This is the start of season number two! We had a small break a few weeks and we are ready to go with more exciting guests and FinTechs One of the reasons why we had a short break in between season one and season two is because I've been attending conferences. I've been to Money 20/20 Bangkok, and then I went to Dubai FinTech summit, of course in Dubai. In this episode I cover the key insights that...

In Today’s episode we speak with Regina Lau, CFO at Weavr.io . Regina is a proponent of merging purpose and profit by not thinking of business as a zero sum game, but as an endeavor to growing the pie together. We discuss how measuring customer sentiment help us understand the actual impact we are having in customer’s lives. I love this approach because the amount of money we have in the bank is n...

For the first time ever in history, consumer borrowing in the UK has racked up to 2 trillion pounds. We've never seen that before. Pandemic ripple effects, high interest rates, and the raising cost of living have led people to rely on credit more. Even the richest 20 percent of the population are using credit to get by. This problem statement must to talked about. Today we speak with Yaseen Rostom...

Today we have the honour to speak with Jeff Parker, CEO at Paymentology. He takes us back to the core. We explore what is Purpose, how Paymentology is having direct impact in customers’ lives - even though they are a B2B FinTech. He emphasizes how we need to collaborate more and share ideas as a FinTech community for us to be able to have 10x the impact in 5 years time. Jeff is known as a great le...

In today’s episode Tina Fisher, Chief Marketing Officer at Intix, shares with us the how we can 10x the impact we have as FinTechers and go deep on the role of trust. Tina has an impressive trajectory, she was named “Top Female Tech Founder” by the British Government, and her company SnapSave was listed as “Top 12 Series A investment opportunity” by VC4A. We tap into her mind and heart and she sha...

In today’s episode Aditya Damani, Founder at Credit Fair, shares with us his vision on having impact in over one million adults in India who currently don’t have access to credit, and the one thing we can do as FinTechers to have 10x results in solving for financial stress. We discuss what makes Credit Fair different and why they are able to give credit to customers that banks usually wouldn’t. We...