Breaking Banks Europe
Special Episode: News From The FinTech Front – Part 2
One month later, it’s time for a follow up with our European correspondents on the state of things around Europe. What has changed? What is the impact of Covid-19 and how some fintechs are helping SME’s survive?Government resources unlocked to help SME’s – will it be enough?Coronavirus hits fintech funding in Q1 globally, but not…
Read MoreEpisode 26: Breaking Impact: African Emerging Markets
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…
Read MoreEpisode 25: Where does the Money Go: Corporate Innovation Programs
In this episode of the “Where Does The Money Go?” series, Gabrielle Inzirillo and Nektarios Liodios led by Nina Mohanty and Matteo Rizzi, guide us through their personal experiences while working with Plug & Play, Startupbootcamp FinTech, along with several VCs and CVCs, as they have been disrupting the industry and fostering collaboration for the…
Read MoreEpisode 24: BBE Outside In – US
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…
Read MoreEpisode 23: Innovation and Tech Zoom In: Platform Economy
Platform economy sounds like an imperious new buzzword, but simply put is an opportunity for non financial players to build new services cross leveraging their distribution channels, their customer base and open banking. Join this discussion with Balazs Barna (Transferwise) and Paolo Zaccardi (Fabrick), hosted by Matthias Kroener and Matteo Rizzi.
Read MoreEpisode 22: Innovation and Tech Zoom In: Platform Mindset and Open Banking Reality
Open Banking is here to stay but fintech and bank mindsets have to change from early-days sandbox to strategic platform thinking. this way only they can harvest the revenue-generating capabilities of outcome economies. Nina Mohanty and Paolo Sironi host an in-depth conversation with two seasoned professionals: Louise Beaumont of tech UK, who advises industry leaders…
Read MoreEpisode 21: News from the FinTech Front
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…
Read MoreEpisode 20: Innovation and Tech Zoom In: Central Bank Digital Currency
In this episode, we host Todd McDonald, head of product at R3, the enterprise blockchain company that recently won the next phase of the Swedish Central Bank e-króna project and Makoto Takemiya, whose Soramitsu partnered with the central bank of Cambodia to build a retail CBDC. We are also joined by Lynn McConnell, an ex…
Read MoreSpecial Episode: From Room to Zoom
From ROOM to ZOOM is your special edition of Breaking Banks Europe with Matteo Rizzi, Paolo Sironi and featuring Jason Henrichs (Co-Host of Breaking Banks U.S.), on the during coronavirus outbreak and the acceleration of our digital life to stay connected. You will learn from EBS Business School in Germany, which converted all classrooms to…
Read MoreEpisode 19: Ecosystem Zoom In: Luxembourg
In this new series episode of Ecosystem Zoom In, we land in the innovative central European country of Luxembourg. And who better than Nasir Zubairi to introduces to this ecosystem – being a pioneer himself, and the CEO of The LhOFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology. He opens the doors to understanding how…
Read MoreEpisode 18: Where does the Money Go Series: Funding and Serving SMEs
In our first installment of Breaking Banks EU’s sub-series “Where does the money go?,” Meaghan Johnson interviews Nicholas Sando of Octopus Ventures. Meaghan and Nick discuss early-stage FinTech startups, the start of 2020’s trends toward consolidation, and even the role of operators. Later, Nina Mohanty interviews Natasha Foster, co-founder and COO of Paid to discuss…
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