Voice of FinTech®

Michael Klien , co-founder of Safeside talks to Rudolf Falat , founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about how to get life insurance more easily and intelligently. More specifically, here is what they talked about: Michael, how and why have you decided to start your own company?  What is SafeSide? How does it work? Why now?  What is your unique advantage? How are you different from comparison si...

Stacey Japhta , Head of Strategic FinTech Partnerships at Talent in the cloud , emerging markets FinTech executive search firm and host of Talking success podcast, talks to Buhle Goslar , Africa CEO at Jumo , a company providing financial services technologies to empower emerging market entrepreneurs, both based in South Africa. Buhle learnt about being an entrepreneur at the age of 23 when she bu...

James Wallis is Vice President RippleX, Central Bank Engagements and CBDCs at Ripple . Hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. Here is what they talked about: James, you have had a long and distinguished career at IBM. What drove you to the world of blockchain? What are your predictions for blockchain and its use cases?  I know you focus on CBDCs – some countries are more sup...

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Asia Pacific Series, Chia Jeng Yang , Principal of Saison Capital based in Singapore, speaks to Vaibhav Garg , Head of Business Strategy for Open, an Indian SME focused neobanking platform. Vaibhav is the Head of Business Strategy at Open and was a founder of multiple companies ( Boro , Zopper and IndieHaat ), ex- Dalberg Global Advisors consultant and an India...

Jana Kovacovska , the founder at Tiny CFO , providing advisory services to start-ups focused on entrepreneurial finance in the tech, consumer, and media space. Ex-VC and McKinsey. An enthusiastic supporter of new-ish entrepreneurs and small businesses. Hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. Here is what we talked about: Background on Tiny CFO and Jana  What made you start Ti...

David Yakobovitch discussed with Johnny Ayers , CEO and Founder of Socure , about the rise of identity verification and security for financial transactions in a Digital First Society.  This episode featured a conversation on leading FinTech startups that are enabled by technology at Socure and similar exciting Finance ventures such as Public, Stash and Robinhood .   Topics included uncovering the...

Will Graylin is a former US nuclear submarine officer, a serial entrepreneur with exits to Samsung, Oracle and others, former co-GM of Samsung Pay and Chairman and CEO of OVLoop, Inc., USA, his latest FinTech venture. Hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. We talk about: How did Will get to do what he does today? What has attracted Will to be an entrepreneur instead of being...

In the first episode of the Voice of FinTech: Africa Series, Adejoke Adekunle , CEO of VVM Group and the founder of the African Tech Woman podcast, based in Lagos, Nigeria, spoke to Jehiel Oliver , CEO of Hello Tractor , based in Nairobi, Kenya. Jehiel also served on the US President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (Obama administration). Here is what Adejoke asked Jehiel:   I think...

Cyrus Fazel , CEO and founder of SwissBorg  is a seasoned blockchain ecosystem executive, hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. We talk about: Cyrus has been an entrepreneur in the blockchain space for quite some time now. What has attracted him to it? What’s the SwissBorg about? What’s the problem they are solving? What’s the solution? What’s their unfair advantage? Who ar...

In this episode, our guest host Sara Palmbush , American Public Relations and Content Specialist living in the Netherlands, interviews Eva Schram , one of the new book's co-authors, ‘ The Secret of Silicon Valley .’ Schram is a Dutch journalist based in San Francisco. Her focus is on start-up culture, tech and innovation. She writes for international media, including the Dutch magazines De Groene...

We talk to John Vuong , founder and CEO of the Local SEO Search, Inc. , a Canadian SEO company, helping SMEs get discovered on the web! Hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. John explains his roots - born in Canada to an immigrant family from Vietnam John had many different jobs as a student – what were his favorites and useful for today's role? What was it like to work at...

Dennis Gada is SVP and Head for Financial Services, North America at Infosys . Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. Infosys enables clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. Hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. We talk about: How did Dennis find his way to Infosys? What is Infosys at large? What's their prod...

Janine Hirt , Innovate Finance , an independent, non-profit membership-based organization and industry body serving the United Kingdom's financial technology community. Hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. We talk about: Janine's global citizen's journey to her role as a COO at Innovate Finance. Switzerland, USA, UK all featured! Innovate Finance - mission and its objectiv...

Christian Ali is Senior Vice President Product at Entersekt , headquartered in South Africa. Christian leads his global team from Toronto, Canada. Hosted by Rudolf Falat , founder of Voice of FinTech podcast. We talk about: Christian's motivation to join a FinTech What is Entersekt? How does it work? How did the founders come up with Entersekt’s key idea? Some breakthrough innovations that Enterse...

Fabio Federici is a serial entrepreneur, based in Zurich, Switzerland. We talk about his latest venture, Base58 , an asset management and trading firm specializing in crypto assets and recent events in the crypto or digital assets and the prospects for the future. More specifically, we talk about:  What has attracted Fabio to the blockchain or crypto space? What’s Base58 about? What’s the problem...

In another episode of the Asia Pacific series with Taneia Bhardwaj , Taneia spoke to the founder and CEO of Niyo – Vinay Bagri , based in Bangalore, India. Niyo was one of the first neobanking platforms to go live in India - 5 years on, Niyo is serving over 1.5 million customers through its digital banking services!  Here is what Taneia asked Vinay:  FinTech founders are closer to being finance pe...

Lily Fang is Finance Professor at INSEAD . We discussed Lily's fascination with Finance, innovations in the field like FinTech and the results of our survey among listeners on the impact of remote working in Finance and the opportunities this may present for FinTechs. We talk about: What drove Lily to become an academic after her Ph. D. at Wharton Trends in education (MBA, EMBA) since the early 20...

We recorded this live virtual panel discussion with the Voice of FinTech hosts in the Asia Pacific and the Americas on December 10. Our hosts are outstanding entrepreneurs, investors and start-up community leaders focused on FinTech or related areas such as AI! We talked about what's going on in the FinTech or start-up scene, early-stage investing or open innovation in Singapore, South East Asia,...

Andrea Melville is MD Commercialisation & Propositions at Lloyds in London. Andrea is also a board member at Fnality , a network of decentralized Financial Market Infrastructures (dFMIs), where Lloyds invested. We talk about: MD Commercialisation & Propositions at Lloyds in London - what does it mean in real life? Andrea previously said, “Why shouldn’t banking be just as simple as booking...

En este episodio de Voice of FinTech : Americas Series, conducido por  Clementina Giraldo , fundadora y CEO de Dots & Tech , con sede en Colombia, Clementina habla con Diego Creel , cofundador y CEO de Creze , líder de la industria FinTech en México, sobre las oportunidades que ofrece México en esta imparable industria. In this episode of Voice of FinTech : Americas Series hosted by Clementina...

Martins Sulte , an INSEAD MBA alumnus, is CEO and Co-Founder at Mintos , an award-winning global marketplace for investing in loans, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. We talk about: Martins's motivation to start his own business Martin's way of picking co-founders to maximize success What is Mintos? How does it work?  Where are the investors on the platform from, and which loans does Mintos finance?...

Henri Arslanian is PwC Global Crypto Leader, Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and University Professor based in Hong Kong. We talk about:  What has kept Henri busy during the pandemic?  Before COVID, there was a wide acknowledgment that FinTech’s more viable route to success is through cooperation rather than a disruption. What’s Henri's view on this today? The book “ The Future of Finance: Th...

The pace of disruption has been accelerating in the last few years, and in 2020, even more so! Often, organizations realize their organizational design is unsuitable for the business challenges ahead. How do they plan and implement organizational changes? Is there a better, more scientific way of doing it than the current industry practices? This is relevant for banks, FinTechs, and, frankly, any...

Jeremy Balkin , Head of Innovation at HSBC Bank USA, leads the Innovation Strategy for the HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management business in the US. We talk about:  HSBC’s approach to innovation from partnering to start-ups to investing Head of Innovation at HSBC Bank USA – what does that mean? What's Jeremy's mandate and goals in this role Many commentators agree that the pandemic has acceler...

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Asia Pacific Series, Chia Jeng Yang , Principal of Saison Capital based in Singapore, speaks to Rahul Shinghal , ex-Head of Stripe APAC and ex-Head of SMB Payments International at PayPal and now co-founder of Tazapay , a cross-border payments platform for SMEs, also based in Singapore. Chia and Rahul talk about: Tazapay’s objectives in Southeast Asia - its cur...