Mambu (mambu.com) leads on a “Show Takeover”, bringing along ABN Amro spinoff, New10 (new10.com) to talk about composable banking, and how an incumbent can launch a new digital bank with the right entrepreneurial mindset – co-hosted by Meaghan Johnson and Matteo Rizzi. These two companies show us what a great tech partnership can produce, and…

New week, new format! “FinTech Journeys Around The World” deep dives in the Egyptian innovation ecosystem, a setting no stranger to the hosts Meaghan Johnson and Matteo Rizzi. The talk offers 3 different perspectives into the conversation: the ecosystem builder, the corporate, and the technology startup. Respectively – Karim SamraI founded Changelabs (https://changelabsme.org/) to give…

This “Where Does The Money Go?” is split in two separate interviews with key figures in the “Angel Investing” sector, with decades of experience in understanding what works, what the sector needs, and how exactly does the money flow in this particular type of investments in the financial services industry. In the first part –…

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…

DeCentralised Finance or DeFi is a shorthand for peer to peer public blockchain based financial services. While this sector has seen exponential growth from a low base in the last two years, skepticism abounds. On one hand Silicon Valley VCs such as Andressen and Draper have raised 500+ million dollar VC funds for the defi…

This week, we gathered non-other of some of the biggest thought leaders in the fintech and banking ecosystem to discuss a few highlights trending in everyone’s feed, and give their unmuted, unfiltered perspectives, from both an EU & US perspective. Furthermore, the hosts debate co-joint initiative live to all the audience, for Banking Transformed (Jim…

The Big 40 brings you one of the most essencial topics to date on the #BBE podcast: how emerging technologies are improving processes towards the production of crops and food, in a vertical known as AgriTech. But what are the key differences between AgriTech and FoodTech? What are its main challenges for its entrepreneurs and…

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,…

Your #BBE host Meaghan Johnson engages in a conversation with the land “down under” with two entrepreneurs, living in Australia, in another installment of BBE’s “Outside In”. The episode follows the discussion with Camilla Cooke, Xinja Bank (xinja.com.au) Co-Founder – which counts with over 25 years’ experience in marketing, specializing in digital & data-driven areas…

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…