Month: February 2017

Linda Duncombe__The Voice of the Customer_Episode 37

Linda wears many hats at Citi FinTech, as someone with her experience and passion for the customer should.  She is the Chief Marketing Officer and Managing Director – Head of Growth for Citi’s innovation team.  Or, as she puts it,

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Vicki Zhou & Herbert Moore_The Wise Banyans_Episode-36

The ‘startup’ Wise Banyan has received quite a few accolades from industry experts and the media this past year.  All of it well deserving.  The company’s co-founders Vicki Zhou and Herbert Moore are the quintessential fintech founders.

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Lisa Woodley_Experience Designer_Episode-35

I have the both the pleasure of working with and presenting with Lisa over the past few years.  She simply rocks at both.  Whether she is leading her Digital Experience team at NTT, lecturing at Rutgers, or singing in her band. –

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Fintech helping solve the refugee crisis

Today, Brett King, Marc Hochstein of American Banker, and Peter Renton, Founder of LendIt Academy, talk about the upcoming Digital Identity Crisis Webinar, The LendIt Conference at the Javits Center in NYC, and the proposed Fintech Charter and what that can mean for changes in banking in the US. Sam Maule takes the helm in…

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Jim Marous_The Strategist_Episode-34

Jim’s just about seen it all throughout his career when it comes to financial services.  He’s witnessed the rise of the internet, mobile, and pure digital solutions when it comes to banking.  And yet Jim remains grounded it facts when it comes to the…

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Jim Marous_The Strategist_Episode-34

Jim’s just about seen it all throughout his career when it comes to financial services.  He’s witnessed the rise of the internet, mobile, and pure digital solutions when it comes to banking.  And yet Jim remains grounded it facts when it comes to the i…

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Anna Irrera FinTech Correspondent #33

Anna has been writing about financial services since she joined Dow Jones back in 2012 when she moved to the UK from Rio de Janeiro. Her move to London at the beginning of the FinTech boom demonstrates her great timing (or great luck).

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Anna Irrera_FinTech Correspondent_Episode-33

Anna has been writing about financial services since she joined Dow Jones back in 2012 when she moved to the UK from Rio de Janeiro. Her move to London at the beginning of the FinTech boom demonstrates her great timing (or great luck).

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Fintech and MPESA: What Mobile Money Means

MPESA, the Swahili word for money, is Kenya’s mobile money system developed by Safaricom. It has literally transformed the ability for people to work, save, pay for everything from groceries, bills, rents, and everything else. Kenya reports that use of MPESA has helped to lift 186,000 families out of poverty. That is nearly 2% of…

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Nektarios Liolios_The Rainmaker_Episode-32

I’ve had the opportunity to speak with multiple start-up founders who have gone through the Startupbootcamp Accelerator Program.  And every single one of them have stated this was, without a doubt, the best and most intense program they’ve ever been th…

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Fintech Finals 2017

While Brett was keynoting the NextMoney Fintech Finals 2017 in Hong Kong, he took the opportunity to interview a lot of the leaders, movers, and shakers that are turning up the volume on the global Fintech scene. Hong Kong and Singapore have long been economic crossroads. China and India are economies with vast populations and…

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Fereshteh Forough_Social Independence Leader_Episode-31

I’m always interested in the back stories of the people I speak with in FinTech.  What drives them, how did they get into the industry, who motivates them, etc.?  I walked away from my interview with Fereshteh reflecting on my own focus and my actions …

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