Voice of FinTech®

Jeff Lynn is Executive Chairman and co-founder at Seedrs , an equity crowdfunding platform headquartered in London, UK. We talk about: Why and how Jeff and his classmate, Carlos Silva , turned their classroom project at Said Business School (University of Oxford) into a very successful business How does it work? Seedrs is based in London and Lisbon and around Europe Is the same idea as the outset,...

Husayn Kassai is CEO and co-founder of Onfido and Oxford University alumnus. Onfido is a market-leading digital identity verification provider, based in London and San Francisco. We talk about online document verification and the vision of digital identity in the future. More specifically, we talk about: Co-founders and the need to complement one another Interest to digitize document's verificatio...

In this episode on the corp-up approach in the insurance sector, we talk to Stefano Bison , Group Head of Business Development & Partnerships at Generali and Board Member of HITS - House of Insurtech Switzerland, and Oliver Werneyer , CEO and Co-founder of IMburse AG, a participant in Generali Innovation Garage, now HITS. You will find out more about: How Stefano's passion for the start-ups ou...

Marion Leslie is Head of Financial Information and Executive Board Member at SIX , the Swiss Exchange Group. She is also a trustee at Prostate Cancer UK charity and Non-Executive Director at UK's Hydrographic Office. In this episode, you will find more about: Marion's team mandate and mandate as a Board Member at SIX SIX's Whitepaper on Data Transformation Focus on data quality Use of data for com...

Brett King is a speaker, author, founder, podcast host, pilot, gamer and a scuba diver, based in New York, NY. Founder and host of #1 FinTech podcast and radio show, Breaking Banks . Founder and Executive Chairman of Moven, an enterprise-focused challenger bank.  Brett has an insightful new booking coming out later this year; you can pre-order it on Amazon: The Rise of Technosocialism . Check out...

Janine Haendel is CEO of Roger Federer Foundation . A lawyer, diplomat and philanthropist. In this podcast, we discuss: Origins and mission of Roger Federer Foundation Focus on performance in the NGO sector: efficiency and effectiveness Difference between charity and philanthropy  Improving education in Africa: focus on a teacher Leveraging technology Making an impact on the aid recipient: village...

Ute Koenig-Stemmler , Head of Business Development & Sales Non-Traditional Financial Institutions, Central Europe at VISA .  We cover the following topics: Ute's Business Development Central Europe mandate VISA's activities in the region and in Switzerland in particular VISA's investment in the FinTech space (e.g. acquisition of Earthport , a cross-border payments services provider or investme...

Marc Gruber , Vice President Innovation and Professor of Entrepreneurship at EPFL and Sharon Tal , Professor of Entrepreneurship at Technion , co-wrote the book Where to Play, which is an excellent complement to the Lean Start-up toolkit. You can get their book Where to Play on Amazon. You will find out more how to pick the right arena, so pivoting is less likely or less costly! We also talk about...

Sven Siat , Head Connectivity at SIX, the Swiss Exchange Group , talks about Open Banking in Switzerland and solutions his team developed to facilitate the cooperation between FinTechs and banks. In this episode, you will find more about: The state of Open Banking in Switzerland and comparison to the EU PSD2 in the EU - is it fostering cooperation between banks and FinTechs in a balanced way, or n...

Shruti Van Dyke Gandhi is Partner at Array Ventures in San Francisco and adjunct Professor Computer Sciences at Columbia University in New York. In this episode, you will learn: Back story : About Shruti's transition from an engineer to an investor Array's focus area:   Enterprise software. Big issues, problems and pain points – for which you raise money early on, even pre-revenue but you need to...

Rodney Reis , co-founder and CEO of Avalia Systems . They advise their clients on how to improve the return from their investments in software development. Avalia's clients range from CTOs and CIOs to investors, looking at emerging technologies and trying to assess the value of potential investments into Tech-led companies.

Andri Silberschmidt is an entrepreneur, the youngest member of the Federal Assembly - Swiss Parliament and advisor. Andri is the co-founder of Kaisin, a poke bowl - food start-up in Zurich and also a senior advisor to the family office Marcuard and does some great work with the charities.  Andri explains how all his activities came together and what he as a Co-President of the Start-up Committee i...

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Paul Taylor , CEO and founder of Thought Machine explains his background in the computer sciences, machine learning, serial entrepreneurial experience including having his company acquired by Google. We then talk about cloud infrastructure solutions benefits in general and tailored to banking clients. Thought Machine focuses on providing solutions to retail banks around the world, it is headquarte...

Maxime Debure is CEO and founder of Wine Funding . We discuss the merits of investing wine bottles vs. wine estates, traditional debt financing vs. equity financing (crowdfunding or larger, private equity style tickets) arranged by Corporate Finance boutiques like his.

Sarel Tal is VP EMEA at Rapyd , London based, FinTech-as-a-Service platform.  Rapyd provides APIs that help integrate local payments and FinTech capabilities. With guest co-host Adelle Grisaffe , host and producer of RFi Group 's Global Digital Banker . Check out their website and subscribe!

Christine (Mar) Ciriani  is Chief Commercial Officer at Finantix , Board member at Barclays Switzerland and Industry Partner at Motive Partners . Christine is Managing Partner and advisor with experience in wealth management, technology and FinTech transformation and Private Equity.

Renu Ann Joseph , founder and CEO of Luminant Analytics , a Swiss-American InsurTech start-up, talks about the "last mile" when it comes to using data science and data analytics in the insurance industry. We also talk about the benefits of open innovation for both insurers and InsurTechs. Renu also shares some early thoughts on the impact of the COVID-19 on the start-ups and the insurance industry...

Greg Palmer , is VP at Finovate ,  Host of Finovate Podcast, Director of Fintech Strategy at Informa Connect and contributor at Banking Technology, based in San Francisco, USA. Check out video demos of the startups presenting in Berlin here, for example, with a leading Swiss RegTech company Apiax , here . You can also check out Voice of FinTech podcast with Apiax here . Myles Stephenson , CEO of M...

Oliver Bussmann , CEO and founder of Bussmann Advisory , is a well respected FinTech influencer in the German-speaking world. Oliver explains his advisory services to the corporates: There is a generational change of the CEOs, who understand that the industry is going through a massive business model, operational model and structural change.  Somebody who went through strategy and execution change...

Mark Beeston is the founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Financial , based in London and New York, with a global mandate. Illuminate is a VC firm backing technology companies solving problems in the Capital Markets, Wealth Management and Asset Management.

Invisage 's slogan is "from research complexity to investment clarity" - helping investors find out which research is worth paying attention and today, also pay for. Harsh Dadhich is their COO, explains the importance of research in the active asset management and Invisage's solution for the buy-side.

Astorre Modena is General Partner at Terra Venture Partners , based in Israel, on the side of Startup Funding - VC Talks in Zurich, organized by the FinTech Connector . He explains the Terra Venture Partners investment approach, the Israeli government's support of innovation, his views on the art of startup valuation and fundraising and Israeli-Swiss VC and start-up connectivity.

Matt Lashmar , is the Managing Director of MassChallenge Switzerland .  MassChallenge is a no-equity & not-for-profit startup-friendly accelerator that helps entrepreneurs across any industry. Founded in Boston, MA, the United States in 2008 and active around the world, with Switzerland as its European center. We talk about the benefits of joining this accelerator and how to get in!

Clara Durodie , Chair of the Cognitive Finance Group talks about Artificial Intelligence for Financial Services and her book on the same. You can get it on Amazon here . Ian O'Sullivan , European Lead of Mastercard Start Path explains how Mastercard works with start-ups, helping them to get to market and gain scale, providing services to Mastercard customers and their support of female entrepreneu...