Voice of FinTech®

Kevin Levitt is Global Industry Business Development Lead, Financial Services at Nvidia , based in San Francisco. We talk about: Nvidia’s approach to start-ups overall, from partnering to investing Global Industry Business Development, Financial Services at NVIDIA – what does it mean in real life? Within Financial Services, what kind of institutions or start-ups is Nvidia focusing on? How does sco...

A discussion with Gerrit Sindermann , new head of F10 Zurich, Els Van Eyndhoven and Sabrina Bogaert , co-founders of mobility Goud corp-up with Baloise Belgium and Andreas Bezner , co-founder and Managing Partner of Stableton , a marketplace for alternative investments in Switzerland. We talk about: Gerrit, how did he get to do what he does today What’s new at F10 Zurich and what’s in store in the...

In this episode of Asia Pacific Series, hosted by Angela Conroy , based in Singapore, Angela talks to Varun Mittal , EY Global’s Emerging Markets FinTech Leader.  Varun and Angela talk about: How through a combination of good timing and hard work, Varun managed to craft an unconventional but ultimately successful career path for himself How public-private partnerships are the foundation of tech de...

Mimi Nguyen is co-founder of Mana Labs R&D and Ph. D. Fellow at Imperial College in London and Lloyd Wahed , is founder, CEO, and investor at Mana Search , a FinTech search firm based in London, UK. We discuss: Mimi's backstory. An academic and entrepreneur: how does it fit together? How has life changed during the lockdown/pandemic from the perspective of a founder and a parent?  Lloyd – back...

Este episodio Voice of FinTech conducido por CLementina Giraldo, Founder & CEO of Dots & Tech / FinTech / Blockchain. This episode of Voice of FinTech : Americas Series is hosted by Clementina Giraldo , Founder & CEO of Dots & Tech / FinTech / Blockchain. Founder of FinTech Latinoamérica Community, based in Colombia in Spanish! English description below. Mariano Biocca , Coordinado...

We talk to Ed Lascelles , Partner at Albion and Jessica Bartos , Investment Manager at Albion. You will find out more about: What brought Jessica and Ed to VC investing? Jessica from the White House under Obama's Administration to Rothschild's at Wall Street and the City to Albion and Ed, a VC investor from before it became fashionable What is Albion? Who founded Albion? When?  What’s Albion's inv...

Ken Banta is the founder and principal of the Vanguard Group for Leadership .  Ken is a leadership development consultant and executive advisor to both tomorrow’s top leaders and today’s CEOs. We talk to Ken about: Why Ken he become a leadership consultant In his article Strategic Side Gig, co-authored with Orlan Boston and published in the HBR recently, Ken argues that executives need to be engag...

Marwan Forzley , CEO of Veem , a B2B payments platform, operates worldwide, based in San Francisco Bay Area. We talk about: Marwan's back story: from Ottawa, Canada to Silicon Valley What is Veem? What is the problem they are solving - how does it work? How did Marwan and his team build the network needed to effect payments? How did they go about acquiring first clients, and how were you able to s...

Frederic Hofmann , Managing Director at ING Ventures, based in London, UK, explains: ING's approach to working with start-ups - a range of teams and strategies, from partnering to investing and ING's commitment to digital transformation ING Ventures' mandate - do they focus on the strategic alignment with ING or financial gain? Deal sourcing - how does ING find new investment opportunities What ar...

In this virtual event from Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series, we talked to Naina Sethi from Magic FinServ New York, Darko Pilav from Digital Asset Zurich and Emilie Raffo from Geneva about Digital Assets, Blockchain and Crypto: 2020 reality check.   Pandemic has accelerated digital transformation trends - have digital assets, blockchain and crypto players capitalized on the opportunity? Can yo...

Ahead of LendIt FinTech USA, we talk to representatives of companies participating in this virtual event: Keith Grose , Head of UK and International at Plaid , Jillian Cohn , Partner at Mouro Capital (formerly Santander Innoventures), and Sean Hunter , CIO of OakNorth . With Keith, we talk about: Plaid's growth ambitions and plans, including the US Recap of the key use cases and target customers f...

In this episode of our Asia Pacific Series, host Taneia Bhardwaj chats with Jitendra Gupta , Founder & CEO of Jupiter , a neo-banking start-up that wants to create mobile-first banking experiences for Indian millennials. Jupiter has raised a total of $26 million, whilst in stealth mode. Bedrock Capital and Hummingbird Ventures are the most recent investors in Jupiter.  Jitendra also co-founded...

Patrick Loepfe is the founder and Chairman of Gentwo , based in Zurich, Switzerland. Gentwo provides securitization of all assets; bankable and non-bankable assets, including digital assets with a Swiss ISIN off-balance sheet.  We talk about: What is Gentwo? What do they do? Securitization of what assets? Bankable, non-bankable, and digital assets (Gentwo vs. Gentwo Digital) Why Gentwo? What's the...

Kathryn Van Nuys , US Head of Business Development, Start-ups and Venture Capital at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in New York, talks about: Amazon Web Services (AWS) value proposition - low cost, easy to use, global infrastructure to support start-ups from the early stage to global scale. Many household names like Coinbase , Transferwise and many others use AWS infrastructure Strategic partners...

Jim Marous is a financial industry publisher, global speaker, podcast host, owner and CEO of Digital Banking Report and co-publisher at The Financial Brand (#2 in the United States and #1 free resource on banking). Jim also hosted Gary Vaynerchuk , Tom Peters or Steve Wozniak on his Banking Transformed podcast. We talk about: Digital Banking Report's recently published Digital Transformation repor...

In this episode of Asia Pacific Series, hosted by Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳 , Principal at Saison Capital , based in Singapore, we speak to Benedicto Haryono , CEO of Koinworks. ID , the largest socially responsible digital lender and the first super financial app in Indonesia, and Adrian Li , Managing Partner of AC Ventures . We talk about: Koinworks’ objectives in Indonesia - its current progress an...

In this episode, we speak to Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao , CEO at SBI Digital Assets Holdings and Marc Robinson , COO at SBI Digital Assets Holdings. You will learn about: Fernando's and Marc's journey, which led them to Japan and SBI specifically Background: SBI Holdings and SBI Digital Assets and their connection to Softbank Why did SBI venture out to Digital Assets? Why do they believe in digital...

David M. Brear is Group CEO of 11:FS , Host of the Fintech Insider Breakfast Show and FinTech Insider Host by 11:FS.  We talk about: How pandemic exposed organizations that haven't truly embraced digital transformation and what lies ahead of them  Potential opportunities for FinTechs despite the economic downturn  David's advice to start-ups attempting partnerships with banks or enterprise sales B...

Arianna Elena Maschietto , Corporate Partnerships & Program Manager at Plug and Play Tech Center in Milan, Italy and Gabrielle Inzirillo , Director, Fintech (EMEA) at Plug And Play Ventures in Paris, France. Plug and Play Tech Center is an early-stage investor, accelerator and corporate innovation platform with global headquarters in Sunnyvale, California in Silicon Valley. We talk about:   Ga...

Gregor Braun is Head Sales Switzerland & Europe for Equities and ETFs at SIX , Henrik Husman is President Nasdaq Helsinki, VP, Head of European Cash Equities Nasdaq and Reinier Boeschoten is Board Member at 12H. In this episode, we cover: Gregor explains SIX's services as primarily cash equities exchange  - as the third-largest operator of financial market infrastructure in Europe by revenue a...

David Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services, based in the UK.  In this episode, we cover: David's activities as a keynote speaker, an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services David's digital finance consulting work Big picture views on digital money and digital identity - before and after the pandemic E-currencies - developments and prospect...

Neal Cross is co-founder and Chairman of PictureWealth , an award-winning innovator and speaker based in Perth, Australia, who is active in FinTech and innovation across the Asia Pacific. Angela and Neal talk about: Why, of all the issues in the current financial services sector, he chose to focus on personal wealth management  Neal's background in innovation and if an enterprise is ready for a fu...

Chiara Spina , a Ph. D. graduate from Bocconi, is joining INSEAD in Singapore in September as Assistant Professor of  Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise. We talk about: How Chiara became interested in becoming an academic in entrepreneurship Chiara's goals at INSEAD in her first year as a professor Can you teach entrepreneurship? If yes, how? In terms of method, through the case study method o...

Dimitrios Kavvathas , former Co-Head of Asia Pacific Securities Division Distribution and Partner at Goldman Sachs, is Executive Chairman and CEO of Nomisma. Nomisma is the first company in Europe with the license granted by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority for an MTF, which allows trading of tokenized financial instruments, in particular derivatives, on a blockchain. Francesco Adilibe...

In this episode, we speak to Neil Thomas , SIX Group 's representative in Asia - Head of Sales and Country Head Singapore and Japan and Jonas Thuerig , Head of F10 in Singapore. We talk about: SIX's objectives in Asia  The state of financial services in Asia and Europe Comparison between Singapore's and Japan's economies and implications for financial markets Why is SIX the core corporate partner...