Published statistics show that cybercrime is more profitable than the global illegal drug trade. There is a hacker attack every 39 seconds, Hackers steal 75 customer records every second and 66% of businesses attacked by hackers are not confident they can recover. In the meantime, Software is eating the world and fintech is driving financial…
Read MoreWe landed in the European giant, to have a conversation about the German ecosystem and market when it comes to fintech, financial services, and insuretech. The first guest is Christian Kirchner is the author FinanzScene.de, a well-known newsletter that covers the ups and lows of the sector every week. Later, we are joined by Dr.Robin Kiera…
Read MoreBreaking Banks Europe brings to you the very voice of the European Commission. This special #BBE episode discusses current initiatives to create an efficient digital infrastructure across the EU. Paolo Sironi and Matteo Rizzi are pleased to host Joan Rodrigues Frade – lead ITC architect of the 7 Billion EUR “Connecting Europe Facility” (CEF) –…
Read MoreOne 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 MoreWe 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 MoreIn 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 MoreIntroducing 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 MorePlatform 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 MoreOpen 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 MoreOn 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 MoreIn 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…
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