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LIVE AT MONEY20/20 SERIES:  Fasten your seatbelts and ready your minds for a thrilling ride into the booming world of open banking. We promise a journey of discovery, where we'll delve into the regulatory and market conditions that have catapulted this innovative industry into the stratosphere. Led by our guest host Don Cardinal of FDX, our fellow travellers in this exploration are none other...

AUTHOR SERIES!!!!   In the true spirit of our RiseUp initiative, we have an interview with Winnie Wong,  the author of You Don't Have to Look the Part: How East Asian Women Thrive as Entrepreners.  Women-led start-ups get only 2% of venture capital funding, even though women own 1 in 3 businesses globally. Of that percentage, East Asian women-led startups only receive a small sliver of that 2...

This is a special series from the EBANX Payments Summit, which focused heavily on Rising Market - aka- Latam, Africa, and India.    In this episode, we speak with Wiza Jalakasi, Director of Africa Market Development, EBANX Ready to take a journey into the financial future of Africa? We've got an exciting exploration planned with our special guest, Wiza Jalekasi, Director of Africa Market Deve...

This is a special series from the EBANX Payments Summit, which focused heavily on Rising Market - aka- Latam, Africa, and India.    In this episode, we speak with Costanza Lopez Vela, the Deputy Managing Director for Acquiring Business, Banorte. Since its foundation, Banorte has successfully navigated all stages of the financial services industry's recent history. It is one of the so-called b...

This is a special series from the EBANX Payments Summit, which focused heavily on Rising Market - aka- Latam, Africa, and India.    In this episode, we speak with Carlos Eduardo Brandt, Head of PIX Management and Operation,  Central Bank of Brazil Pix Automático, the new launch of Brazil's Pix to enable recurring payments: how it will work, capabilities, launch timeline How Pix Automático is...

This is a special series from the EBANX Payments Summit, which focused heavily on Rising Market - aka- Latam, Africa, and India.    In this episode, we speak with Wagner Ruiz, Co-Founder and Board Member, EBANX Delve into the transformation of credit and the incredible opportunities of the global south in this discussion with about the growth of ecommerce and the increase in financial inclusion th...

This is a special series from the EBANX Payments Summit, which focused heavily on Rising Market - aka- Latam, Africa, and India.    In this episode, we speak with Kesheni Moodley,  Chief Commercial Officer, OZOW Explore the world of e-commerce payments in South Africa, where a remarkable 85% of adults possess a financial account, setting a continental record. Despite the dominance of card payments...

Pranav Sood from Airwallex joins The MoneyPot LIVE at our booth in Amsterdam, to discuss  the challenges and opportunities of programmatic money movement including the importance of financial infrastructure and how it can enable businesses of all sizes to scale across borders.  Every entrepreneur will want to listen to this one!  Guest: Pranav Sood,  Executive General Manager,  EMEA, Airwallex Hos...

With the launch of FedNow in July, the US has jumped into the mix of several different nations who have inspired incredible innovation with real time payments. However, the ubiquity and persistence of financial crimes and fraud rose, and RTP make these schemes harder to fight or prevent.   We need to engage in practices, and arm ourselves with the tools, to fight this on grand scheme.   Ravi Logan...

What if we misunderstand the value of crypto and where its value is derived?  When Bill Spence bought a power plant in western Pennsylvania, he wasn’t aiming to become a crypto-pioneer.   His thoughts were more local, and more about reviving the communities that he had grown up in.    Western Pennsylvania is at the top of the Appalachian Basin coal region, and coal was mined there, and funneled th...

What if we misunderstand the value of crypto and where its value is derived?  When Bill Spence bought a power plant in western Pennsylvania, he wasn’t aiming to become a crypto-pioneer.   His thoughts were more local, and more about reviving the communities that he had grown up in.    Western Pennsylvania is at the top of the Appalachian Basin coal region, and coal was mined there, and funneled th...

Embedded Finance seems fait accompli, but in reality, it is just getting started.  As products come into the market, and with the current regulatory oversight,  there needs to be great care in looking toward the safety and security of users and consumers. As they say, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.   In much the same way, building compliance and risk management into your produc...

 In Indonesia, 40 percent of the population is unbanked, but Yada Piyajomkwan, Co-founder and CPO of Ajaib saw a future where learning to invest could actually be the on ramp to financial inclusion and building wealth, allowing people to achieve financial literacy while growing their own portfolios.    We got to speak to her about why she started Ajaib, why she saw investment as a crucial point of...

Co-hosted with  Convera.   Avowed crypto skeptic and Convera CEO Patrick Gauthier sits down with crypto evangelist Teana Baker-Taylor, VP of Policy and Regulatory Strategy at Circle to discuss the fragmented global regulatory landscape for crypto assets, the new SEC lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase, regulation by enforcement, blockchain for real-time payments as a disruptive technology, creat...

Ruth Wandhofer has a vision for “ReDecentralization” of the internet.  In that vision, the “metaverse” or “web3” is the opportunity to embrace change and explore how it can help humans.  She sat down with us to talk about why she is passionate about this new challenge for financial services, and how hopeful it can be. Guest: Dr Ruth Wandhofer, global 50 fintech influencer, and chair of the PSR pan...

Embedded finance is providing tons of opportunities to reimagine payments.  When it all becomes digital, the nature of payments has to be more mindful, and the decisions around processes are growing more deliberate.  So, we talked with Maria Prados, the Head of Vertical Growth at Worldpay,  who designs payments for different industries, taking into account the variables of what kinds of friction,...

ChatGPT and Bard have reinvigorated the imaginations of entrepreneurs and investors, creating a bright spot among everything going on.   We are once again on the bank of a great shift in expectations for and from financial institutions.   Everyone must be thinking about appropriate use cases, and what kind of transparency is needed.  We spoke to Maarten Stolk, CEO and founder of Deeploy about what...

Can empowering employees to know more of their worth actually be a benefit to their employer?  Aydan Al-Saad, Head of the UK, Ireland and Nordics at Ravio and TikTok sensation believes that pay transparency and employee empowerment will benefit their organizations as much as the individuals.   He sat down with Gina Clarke, our Director of Content in the EU, to discuss pay transparency, why content...

Why is embedded investing the next step to wealth inclusion with Mary Agbesanwa Financial Inclusion means so much more than access to a money account.  Building wealth requires access to many financial tools that are not understood broadly, but are vital to creating health and wealth.  This has created a gender wealth gap that  Mary Agbeswa, Fintech Growth Lead at Seccl is on a mission to end util...

 Every once in a while, someone uses truly clever solutions to leapfrog forward and show us how technology can truly solve real problems.    That’s what Carmen Vicelich did with Valocity.   Carmen, a self-described data nerd, realized that a platform that brought together all the players in real estate, shortening the valuation process, and allowing for a more complete picture of neighborhoods, wa...

Utilizing payments as a tool to aim towards a more inclusive system requires more than just an extended tech stack.   There is a lot of work to be done to make payments as inclusive as possible, and that challenge has increased as our world has gone more digital and there are barriers to acquiring proper payment products.    But Joanne Dewar, former CEO of Global Payments Solutions where she remai...

Simon Taylor is one of the most forward thinkers and trusted movers in fintech, and last year when sanctions around SWIFT were announced, he wrote an incredibly clear and compelling explanation in his Fintech Brainfood Substack. One line stood out: “I think as Fintech Nerds, we have a real opportunity to build a better SWIFT and a better dollar global order.” Since that was written, several events...

The ESG space is busy, busy, busy. Sustainability is becoming a key indicator for our industry. And one of its busiest proponents is Gerrit Sindermann, the Deputy Executive Director at the Green Digital Finance Alliance, a Swiss-based non-profit promoting the next generation of green digital finance. We spoke with Gerrit about how to get serious around the issues of environmental, social governanc...

In December 2021, 10 nations and several international institutions participated in a simulation "war game" on the global financial networks. It was organized and led by the Israeli Ministry of Finance, to anticipate the need for smarter international cooperation to protect systems. The goal was to prepare for the possibility of wide-spread simultaneous hacks, understand what were the ke...

With ChatGPT and its cousins flourishing and fleshing out our imaginations of what AI can do, there is more open scrutiny about the ethics and definitions of AI.   We will be looking to talk more about this in the coming months, but in the meantime, we wanted to revisit an episode that seems even more relevant now. AI has a ‘black box’ issue and the lack of understanding about how such systems wor...