Hear from FinTech Founders, CEOs and Product leaders on how to build FinTechs with commercial and customer impact!

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Feb. 24, 2024

Masterclass. What is purpose in FinTech? Financial Wellbeing? And how…

In today’s episode I step back to have deep thinking time. I went through key Purpose Driven FinTech episodes and found common threads and insights that allow us to answer the research question — How can FinTechs have better ...

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Feb. 19, 2024

Regenerating Banking with AI | Paolo Sironi, IBM Institute for Busi…

In today’s episode Paolo Sironi shares with us in plain English the findings of his most recent research paper “Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets Regenerate Banking with AI” where he surveyed 600 banking execut...

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Feb. 12, 2024

How to stop fraud with AI and Machine Learning| Amanda Lieu, Directo…

In today’s episode, Amanda Lieu, Director Brand, Product Marketing & Growth at SEON, shares with us the fundamentals of fraud. Why fraud is on the rise? Different types of fraud - we can’t prevent nor manage if we don’t under...

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Feb. 5, 2024

AI, The Coreless Banking Revolution, and The Bank of the Future | N…

In today’s episode, Norris Koppel, Founder and CEO at Monese, shares his vision of hyper personalization and customer-centric financial services enabled by AI, and becoming 'the bank of the future.' We discuss the impact of A...

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Jan. 29, 2024

The Secret to Building Trust in FinTech | Kimberley Waldron, Founder…

We can not talk about Money without talking about Trust. Since the begining of time customers have trusted financial institutions to look after their hard earned money - or have they not? This is a critical topic for FinTechs...

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Jan. 15, 2024

11 tips to make your FinTech better to move the needle | 2023 Compi…

Today, we have a compilation episode with my favorite question. I always ask this question at the end of the episode, which is, Hey, if you were to change one thing in fintech that could have the most impact to …

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Jan. 8, 2024

Dealing with Failure | 2023 Compilation Pod

We can't talk about FinTech, startups, and entrepreneurship without talking about failure, the tough times, mistakes and all the difficult things in life. Today's episode is a compilation episode for one of my favourite minds...

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Jan. 8, 2024

Bonus. Monica Millares on The Fintech Marketers and Leaders Podcast

Shameer, host of “The FinTech Marketers and Leaders Podcast”, goes extensively through my career journey, my trajectory within BigPay, my thoughts and advice on Product leadership and growth, improving communication between ...

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Jan. 6, 2024

Bonus. Monica Millares on The All Immigrant Podcast

This is raw and personal. Vivek Ishwar and Abin Shetty, host of “All Immigrant Podcast”, interview me on my over 15 year journey living away from home. We go back in time on the why I decided to move out …

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Dec. 13, 2023

Bonus. Monica Millares on A Girl in the Product World Podcast

Aamna Hussain, host of “A girl in the product world”, interviews me with her somewhat tricksy questions…. We worked together in Tandem Bank, while she worked with one of our Tech Partners back then, so she brings this perspe...

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Dec. 11, 2023

Bonus. Monica Millares on the Digital Transformation & Leadership Pod…

This week I'm on the hot seat! Danny Levy, Managing Director Asia & ANZ at Money20/20 invited me to his pod "Digital Transformation and Leadership". We start with a quick intro and icebreaker questions, the work we are doing ...

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Nov. 27, 2023

The Truth Behind Empowering The 44 Million Immigrants In The US contr…

Being an immigrant in the US comes with financial challenges, starting with struggles to open a bank account. This is a 44 Million problem with 13% of US population classified as immigrants, and contributing to 22% of US GDP ...

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Nov. 20, 2023

Bringing Banking Access to the 60% Unbanked Mexicans

Financial Inclusion means reaching out to customers who are by definition not very digital savvy, so how do we do it in the age of digital banks? … A hybrid partnership approach seems to work as a solution! In today’s …

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Nov. 13, 2023

Deconstructing AI and Digital Transformation in Financial Services

Incorporating AI in your tech stack is a digital transformation project among both big banks and FinTechs. To do it well it’s important first we understand the challenges of both digital transformation and AI. In today’s epis...

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Nov. 6, 2023

Loqbox shares shocking stats! and the path to helping 1,000,000 peopl…

11.5 million people in the UK have less than a hundred pounds in savings 9 million people are in serious debt 81% of young people in the UK feel anxious about money 73% of adults say that money worries impact …

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Oct. 31, 2023

Why Angel Investing is for everyone when you back businesses you beli…

I bet you are not an angel investor because you think you need a ton of money to be part of the club, or you have no idea even where to start because you don’t have a network of entrepreneurs …

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Oct. 24, 2023

Jas Shah Reveals How to Build a Killer FinTech Value Proposition

A differentiated FinTech value proposition that resonates with customers is what differentiates the great from the average - nice UI/UX is not enough anymore! It is easier said than done. But it’s not an impossible mission. I...

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Oct. 17, 2023

Solving the £2 Billion Annual Lost Payments in Subscriptions

Did you know that in the UK consumers lose £2 Billion per year on unwanted subscriptions? Yes the ones that you join a trial and then forget about and boom! You get charged by surprise. This in turn creates financial …

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Oct. 10, 2023

Open Banking and Open Finance as a Journey

Today I speak with Lauren Jones, Director of Market Development at Open Banking Exchange. Lauren is an expert focused on delivering open banking and open finance to central banks, regulators and market infrastructures around ...

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Oct. 3, 2023

Merging two companies to create an innovative SoftPOS solution known …

Today I speak with Barry Levett, Co-founder and CEO at Mypinpad. Mypinpad strives to be the solution of choice for money on the move — making mobile transactions safe, easy and enjoyable and Barry confidently says they are kn...

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Sept. 12, 2023

The financial super app for the 2.5 million agribusinesses feeding Af…

My guest today is Shalom Ben Or, Co-founder and CEO at Avenews. Avenews is building the first financial super app for the agriculture industry catering for the 2.5 million agriculture SMEs across Sub-Saharan Africa. They empo...

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Sept. 5, 2023

The journey to becoming a FinTech Unicorn - with female Co-Founders

My guest today is Daniela Binnati, Co-founder and CTO at Pismo. Pismo is global leader in cloud-native core banking and a card issuing platform and Daniela to me is one of the most inspirational women in FinTech. Earlier this...

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Aug. 29, 2023

The world's first plastic-free wooden card: Solving the 6 billion ann…

My guest today is Christian Lehringer, CEO at Copecto. Copecto’s innovative product is The TIMBERCARD. The world’s first plastic-free wood payment card that can be used like any conventional banking card. It is fully biodegra...

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Aug. 22, 2023

Unleashing the Power of AI, Sustainability and Programmable Money

My guest today is Tony Craddock, the Director General of the Payments Association, an award-winning community to advance payments innovation, and encourage collaboration across the payments industry. We talk about mindset, AI...

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