Voice of FinTech®

Matej Ftacnik is the CXO & co-founder of Vacuumlabs , a team of 200+ experts in building products & services with modern tech stacks. They also organize regular meetups, workshops, hackathons and conferences about advanced front-end technologies.  Besides that, he loves to travel and see the world, enjoy good food and whiskey, spend time with his great family and meet new people with the w...

Ghassen Benhadjsalah , CEO and co-founder of Acredius . Ghassen is already a serial entrepreneur, based in Switzerland. We talk about direct lending (or P2P lending) in general and then we focus on Swiss SMEs and Acredius' competitive edge vs. other platforms or banks.

In this bonus episode, we talk about a few of the key topics we discussed live with Tanya Koenig , Host of “Out & About” & Digital Producer at CNNMoney Switzerland during Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series event Digitalization of the Art Business in Zurich on February 5. During the live event, we covered the following topics and more: Value of art - is the banana taped to the wall worth...

Yves Guillaume A. Messy is Blockchain architect and ecosystem builder at R3 , an enterprise blockchain company behind Corda blockchain software. F10 Incubator & Accelerator is also dubbed as the Home of FinTech, based in Zurich, operated by SIX Group and supported by its corporate partners.

Anders Christensen is the Head of Ecosystem at Avaloq.one , based in Zurich, Switzerland. Last year, Avaloq  increased its commitment to open innovation and partnerships through startups by establishing avaloq.one's platform. 

In this bonus episode, we caught up with Peter Zemsky, Deputy Dean of INSEAD and Dean of Innovation on the side of INSEAD hosted a panel on Artificial Intelligence: Balancing AI productivity and responsibility in the SDG Tent in Davos during WEF 2020.  We talk about why is INSEAD in Davos, how t he Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society that shapes the conversations about what it means...

Christian Meisser is the CEO of LEXR, Zurich-based legal services company, that focuses on Tech, FinTech and digital businesses. In this podcast, we cover the incorporation of the company (when?), intellectual property rights, investor, employee and Board relationships, fundraising and exit (or bankruptcy). This podcast, of course, does not constitute legal advice, but it is a summary of the high...

An interview with William Laitinen , Managing Director of Exige International ,  a UK and Swiss executive search firm specializing in recruitment for global financial services companies and FinTech.

Alexander Verbeck is the Head of Cash Ecosystem at SIX. SIX is a financial service provider that operates the infrastructure of Switzerland's financial center. You can read the summaries or the full white paper in English and German here: the Future of Money . You can find out more about the most likely scenario of the cash usage as well as bold, alternative scenarios as deemed by experts.

Cedric Bollag is a founder and host of the "Startup Show" started in 2016.  We talk about his startup and media experience and views on the Swiss and Israeli startup scenes. Subscribe to the Startup Show by Global Tech Box on YouTube! You will find this podcast/vlog on https://youtu.be/ed0VoxpiMnI

We spoke with Thomas Duebendorfer , President of SICTIC about SICTIC's mission, activities and events like Swiss FinTech Investor Day and why he founded SICTIC. We also talked to Theo Lau , founder of Unconventional Ventures from the US about how to make banking better for underrepresented groups and the role of AI in this.  Lastly, we spoke to co-founder of eQTiq , Justyna Rydzewska about her ven...

We spoke with Etienne Delhaye , Executive Director of Sophia Club Enterprises and organizer of Soph. IA Summit and Michele Bezzi , Research Manager at SAP Security Research. Etienne explains how Sophia Antipolis, a technology park in the south of France (celebrating 50 years anniversary this year) operates. Michele describes how SAP leverages AI to combine the power of open source and the need to...

An interview with Rune Bentien , Managing Partner EMEA at Xoogler.co in London. Find more about this unique global Googler and Googler alumni community, you can also reach out if you are not a Googler: https://xoogler.co/ The Xoogler.co community consists of startup founders, early team members, angel investors, VCs, and mentors.

An interview with Florian Bucher , TEDx Zurich about TEDx activities in Switzerland and their various formats of events. It is TEDx Zurich 10 year anniversary this year! Check out their website for the next events.

JP Verwey is CEO of Check6 , a well-established FinTech company that provides data consolidation for wealth management reporting for high net worth individuals, wealth managers and banks. The goal is to provide clients with a total overview of their wealth. UPDATE AS OF MARCH 2021: Please note that Check6 was acquired by Private Client Resources (PCR) in December 2020. See the press release here .

Eric Sarasin is a former deputy CEO of J. Safra Sarasin Bank and currently Chairman of Singularity Group . We spoke briefly on the side of the Exponential Finance Summit that took place in Zurich on November 14-15.  What has attracted you to the Singularity theme? What's your message to startup founders and early-stage investors in Europe?

An interview with Alisee de Tonnac , CEO and co-founder of Seedstars World . Seedstars is an incubator, accelerator and investor in startups in active in over 85 countries! 10 entrepreneur hubs around the world, EUR 250m+ raised, 12k+ applications to Seedstars World competitions.

Lisa Schroeder is Head of Startup Program Management at F10 and recently spent considerable time in Singapore, preparing the Hackathon and F10's expansion there. More information on how to apply to their P2 Program in Singapore is here: F10 Singapore .

In an interview with Guido Buehler, we talk about the pros and cons of digital assets, a need for a universal bank for a digital economy and SEBA's ambitions going forward. https://www.seba.swiss/

Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series are interactive discussions with engaging leaders on the topics related to FinTech, Tech, Investing or Entrepreneurship. Lionstep combines the power of algorithms with traditional headhunting. Lionstep customers include Die Post, Linde, Telefonica, Husqvarna and many others. We also showcased a selection of contemporary art by Susanne Di Martino , an outstandi...

Anne-Katrin Maser, Lead Partnerships and Ecosystems at Generali Switzerland explains Generali's approach to open innovation, broad sector focus of Generali and also activities of Generali in the startup ecosystem.  https://www.generali.ch/en/allgemein/innovation

Geoff Ralston, an INSEAD alumnus, is the president of Y Combinator. Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator launched in March 2005 and was used to launch over 2,000 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, and many others. Y Combinator has been interviewing European startup applications for its Winter 2020 batch. https://www.ycombinator.com/

Christina Kehl and her team organize a yearly Swiss FinTech Fair (this year with 700 participants) in Zurich. We talk about the Swiss Finance Startups association goals, the need to "bring Bern to Zurich" to provide the best possible conditions for Swiss startups. At the Swiss Fintech Fair, in one question segments, we also talk to Julia Holzgreve, from Keen Innovation, innovation ecosystem builde...

An interview with Stefan Muehlemann, founder and CEO of Loanboox, about the problem his venture is trying to solve, why and how they locked in their first sale. Loanboox is an independent debt capital market platform, based in Zurich, Switzerland. It offers an alternative to conventional brokering by making financing and investing simple, transparent, safe and low cost. https://www.loanboox.com/

You can find more details and an amazing content from the SwissCognitive - The Global AI Hub here: https://swisscognitive.ch/ . Similarly, check out https://weshape.tech/ for more information and very useful, skill-building events. As mentioned, we caught up at https://www.businessinnovation.ch/de/ , which took place in Zurich in October, a business innovation conference.