Matteo Rizzi invites Breaking Banks host Brett King, for a conversation throughout 3 continents – with European entrepreneurs Devid Jegerson (National Bank of Fujairah), Mike Cunningham (Banque Saudi Fransi), and Osama Al Rahma (Al Fardan Exchange), on their perspectives on the fast-evolving and fast-paced financial services sector in the United Arab Emirates (although we also…

Join our host Francesca Aliverti, in a visit back to her “business home” in this new installment of BBE’s Ecosystem Zoom In. Once the Business Development Director of Holland FinTech, Francesca worked and stimulated the Dutch ecosystem together with the major key figures of the FinTech Ecosystem in the Netherlands. No surprises here, Don Ginsel,…

Join us in another Breaking Impact episode, featuring an almost unique case of Impact catalyst in the city of Lisbon, bringing together all stakeholders of the ecosystem. Ines Sequeira, Director of Casa do Impacto, is telling the story. Meg Pagani, young superstar Forbes 30under30 entrepreneur then will guide us through the ImpactOn model, a platform…

In this episode of the Breaking Impact Series, Matteo Rizzi steps back from the mic and invites co-host Nina Mohanty and our guests to un-mute and speak out. We learn about each of our brilliant guests: Dr. Anino Emuwa, Soulaima Gourani, and Dr. Leyla Hussain OBE and the inspiring work they each do. In the…

Experts say that AI could transform the world in the same way that electricity has done. However, just like electricity, while AI promises a vast range of applications and benefit to the European consumer, this AI does not come without its costs and risks. Modern AI techniques such as deep learning are extremely data hungry…

The Ecosystem Zoom In landed in France and this time, we invited not other than the Chief Innovation Officer of Société Generale – Claire Calmejane, leader in one of the largest European multinational investment banks, to introducing us to the ecosystem, and following up with an all-star panel of guests: Alain Clot – President of…

Breaking Impact brings you all about “PropTech”, a theme adjacent to fintech and developing steadily in the past years that is now is one of the sectors that has been impacted quite strongly by the crisis. In this episode, we will explore the concerns, the trends and the opportunities of this vertical together with Provoke.fm‘s “Tech…

BBE’s “Outside In” crossed the Atlantic once again, this time to understand and contrast the Latin American and European ecosystems, through the voices of Andres Fontao, Managing Partner of Finnovista the impact organization that empowers Fintech ecosystems in Latin America and Spain. Furthermore, we interview Gerrit Glass, Head of Banking of Nomad – the first…

This “Where Does The Money Go?” episode has a specific very relevant focus for Corporate Venture Capital and we bring you two very complementary and very compelling views from power companies in the field, exploring how they are tackling their strategies to help the startups they are boosting and of course the entreprises that supports…

We cannot talk about Impact, without mentioning the efforts and conquests of the evolving African innovation ecosystems. Hence, the first sample of interviews, enravelling UX Information Technologies (Mozambique) and CLIC (Uganda) – will take into a introductory understanding on how things work in these countries and what is there more to push ahead. Hosted by…

Introducing Breaking Banks Europe’s new series: BBE OUTSIDE IN, a space for the voices of European distinguished entrepreneurs, executives, and investors to enlighten on their perspective of the European scene from the outside. Each episode will focus on a specific country or region, and today we bring you to the US – with guests from…

On this Special Episode of Breaking Banks Europe we bring you the first installment of the segment “News from The FinTech Front”, a collaborative effort to debate, resume and update the audience on different country perspectives regarding the current state of things during this crisis for the financial services sector and fintech in specific; given…