Breaking Banks Europe

Episode 127 – Unconventional Saving Products

The “Unconventional Saving Products” episode is here! As the industry has been attentively exploring different segments for investments, and it has been said, these days the safest can really be considered “cash and commodities” … guess what #BBE brings you? Just that!First, we were thrilled to invite Ingrid Brodin and listen to her passion as…

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Episode 126 – Breaking Payments: Keys to success in hyper-growth companies

The first Breaking Payments episode is here! PPRO is powering this incredible overview of some of the “Keys to success in hyper-growth companies” – basically how to ensure growth through the voices of some of the most dynamic companies in the industry. How to generate growth for your clients? Which are the operational challenges that…

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Episode 125 – News From The FinTech Front – April Edition

Your “News From The FinTech Front” monthly installment is back with pioneer entrepreneur Matthias Kroener, together with top fintech thought leaders Xavier Gomez (INVYO) and Giada Gambadoro (PwC) – discussing the #BNPL trend and the dept bubble, crypto regulation in the US, fraud detection market after the new round for Seon and the strong funding…

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Episode 124: Cross Border Payments: Revolut, Visa & Currencycloud

“Brace yourself cause this episode has all the potential to create a completely new perspective on how you perceive “Cross Border Payments” – Currencycloud is powering this incredible discussion, giving the hosting responsibility to #BBE’s Executive Producer – Matteo Rizzi, in a conversation together with Richard Arundel (Currencycloud), Terry Angelos (VISA) and Hugh Kingdon (Revolut)….

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Episode 123 – Breaking Impact: PALOP Take Over!

The Breaking Impact series is back, and in this episode, Matteo Rizzi takes over accompanied by three exceptional guests coming from three different African Portuguese-Speaking countries (PALOP) to discuss all things ecosystem building and the local challenges faced in each one. Telma Seidi, Digital influencer (AKA Tita Pipoka), focused on the role of knowledge and…

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Episode 122: Financial Literacy: GAMIFIED!

Financial literacy and inclusion are hot topics both in developed and developing markets and addressing them is a challenge. Considering the trend of gamification our question is whether gamification can play a role in the design of effective solutions. Francesca discussed it with two exceptional guests.– Louise Hill, co-founder and CEO at GoHenry, brought her…

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Episode 121: Ecosystem Zoom In: The Bulgarian Case

Ecosystem zoom-in is back, today heading to Bulgaria with 3 exceptional guests who bring their point of view from the Bulgarian startup scene interviewed by Meaghan Johnson.Valentin Savov, Partner of Savov&Partners, Tax&Legal firm in Sofia, focused his speech on the wide opportunities that are in the Bulgarian ecosystem.Hristo Borisov, Co-founder and CEO of Payhawk, brought…

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Episode 120: The New Directions of DeFi

The number of startups in the DeFi scenario is growing and that’s why we decided to explore the new directions this sector can take as Ajit Tripathi did in this episode with two other DeFi experts.– Hart Lambur, co-founder at UMA, explained his view of this change in paradigm recalling the history of financial services…

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Episode 119: Breaking Leaders – Brett King & Matteo Rizzi

Welcome back to Breaking Leaders – our series for Breaking Banks Europe’s network to invite some of the most inspiring and pioneering profiles in the financial services sphere. In this new episode, Matteo Rizzi (Executive Producer) talked about fintech, the history of Breaking Banks (and BBE) and the challenges in becoming podcasters with the one…

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Episode 118: CX & COVID Impact

Distance, forced switch to online are only some of the ways customer experience changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meaghan Johnson discussed that with two financial sector experts.– Natasha Kyprianides, fintech expert that supported both incumbent and challenge banks, explained that customer experience is a key to stand out and differentiate in competitive markets, especially…

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Episode 117: Open Innovation Series – Innovation Perspectives and Collaboration Angles

Partnerships between big corporations and startups, hackathons and partnerships with research institutions are key to innovation nowadays.The financial sector is not an exception and that’s why we invited two super guests to discuss open innovation and fintech.David Rasson, Innovation Lead at De Cronos Groep, explained his point of view of how cooperation between banks and…

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Special Episode – Breaking Payments Kick-Off

Payments are cool again. The renewed interest in payment technologies made us launch a new spin-off of Breaking Banks Europe focused on the payment ecosystem, “Breaking Payments”.Today is the first edition of Breaking Payments hosted by Matteo Rizzi and four great guests: James Allum (Payoneer), Tamer El-Emary (Thunes), Keith Grose (Plaid) and James Booth (PPRO).Payment…

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