Voice of FinTech Live Speaker Series: Tokenization and blockchain prospects in 2021

Zurich, Switzerland
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In another edition of Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series, we discussed the current state of tokenization and blockchain (and yes, crypto too) given the recent changes in Switzerland and abroad with Lothar Cerjak, Head of Institutional Services & Products at Bitcoin Suisse, Lily Fang, Finance Professor at INSEAD, Anthony Lamy, Partner at Wecan Group and Emi Lorincz, Business Development Director at Ledger.

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Essentials of Entrepreneurial Finance

London, United Kingdom
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How do I make sure I don't run out of cash? How do I price this new product? How do I know if I can afford to hire? These are some of the questions that made Jana launch the Tiny CFO newsletter 6 months ago to make topics like these super easy to understand. Tiny CFO is 40% corporate finance, 40% business strategy, 20% food metaphors, and a whole another 100% of rooting for small businesses and entrepreneurs just starting. Here are some key, high-impact ideas on Entrepreneurial Finance Jana shared on the Voice of FinTech.

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Episode #100! Future of Finance with Henri Arslanian

Hong Kong
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Episode 100!!! We celebrate this milestone with Henri Arslanian, PwC Global Crypto Leader, Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and University Professor with over half a million followers on LinkedIn!

We talk about the Future of Finance (and Henri's book on the same), digitalization, changes brought on by the pandemic, crypto and blockchain opportunities in the current setting and much more!

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Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series - Data driven changes to Org Design with INSEAD Prof. Puranam

Singapore
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In this live virtual event as part of Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series, we spoke to INSEAD Professor of Strategy and Organizational Design, Phanish Puranam, about his work on how to leverage data and AI when thinking about changing your organizational design. Is there a smarter way of planning and executing organization design changes? If you missed it, here is the recording from the event.

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Leadership Special: Strategic Side Gig with Ken Banta (founder of The Vanguard Group for Leadership and Harvard Business Review contributor)

New York
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We talk to Ken Banta, founder and principal of Vanguard Group for Leadership, a senior leadership consultancy, about the need for senior leaders to have a strategic side gig. What does it mean and why is it imperative in today's competitive career development? Listen in to find out more.

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Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series - Digital Assets, Blockchain and Crypto: 2020 reality check

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In this bonus episode, you can listen to the excerpt of the virtual event from Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series, where we talked to Naina Sethi from Magic FinServ New York, Darko Pilav from Digital Asset Zurich and Emilie Raffo from Geneva about Digital Assets, Blockchain and Crypto: 2020 reality check.

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FinTech Talents Virtual North America Preview with Jim Marous from the Financial Brand and Sarika Sangwan from Pinterest

New York
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In this two-segment episode, a preview of the FinTech Talents Virtual North America, taking place in New York on September 9, we talk to legendary Jim Marous from the Financial Brand and Sarika Sangwan from Pinterest.

Jim explains the wealth of resources he and his team provide to the community, his views on the acceleration of digitalization trends in retail banking, who will be the winners in Financial Services in the post-COVID world and much more.

Sarika explains how Pinterest can be useful for FinTech and Financial Services firms by outlining the key elements of the platform for them: target, trigger and trust.

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Plug and Play, a VC and corporate innovation program, whose CEO is an early backer of PayPal, explained

Milan
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Arianna Elena Maschietto, Corporate Partnerships & Program Manager at Plug and Play Tech Center in Milan, Italy and Gabrielle Inzirillo, Director, Fintech (EMEA) at Plug And Play Ventures in Paris, France explain how Plug and Play, a VC and corporate innovation program that started with its CEO as an early backer of PayPal works!

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Can you teach entrepreneurship? Bocconi PhD and INSEAD Professor explains

Milan
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We talk to Chiara Spina, Ph.D., Bocconi, and from September, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD in Singapore. Is there a way to teach entrepreneurship? Are entrepreneurs born or made? How can you make strategic decisions in your early-stage venture intelligently to maximize your chances of survival, and even better, success?

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One Year Anniversary Special: Breaking banks with Brett King

New York
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Brett King is a speaker, author, founder, podcast host, pilot, gamer and a scuba diver, based in New York, NY. Founder and host of #1 FinTech podcast and radio show, Breaking Banks. Executive Chairman of a challenger bank Moven. We talk about: virtual vs. live events and their outlook in the post-COVID-19 world, Brett's hit podcast and radio show Breaking Banks, sci-fi as an inspiration for a futurist and future scenarios described in his upcoming book, The Rise of Technosocialism and much more!

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The Insurtech Series: Where to play?

Lausanne
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We talk to Marc Gruber, Vice President Innovation at EPFL and Professor of Entrepreneurship, about innovation, entrepreneurship, implications for FinTech, InsurTech and incumbents. In their book Where to play, Marc Gruber, together with Sharon Tal, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, address the issue of the need of start-ups to get to the target market first vs. the reality that more than 70% of them end up pivoting anyway. How to pick the right arena/domain early on to make pivoting less costly and increase the chances of success? How does entrepreneurship differ in Europe vs. the US or Asia?

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Wealth Management vs. WealthTech

Geneva
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We talk to Christine (Mar) Ciriani about the Wealth Management challenges and where WealthTech could provide solutions for pain points of client advisors servicing high net worth or ultra-high net worth clients. Christine (Mar) Ciriani is Chief Commercial Officer at Finantix, Board member at Barclays Switzerland and Industry Partner at Motive Partners, well-respected Wealth Management and Wealth Tech expert.

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Finovate Berlin

Berlin
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In this episode, we speak to Greg Palmer, VP at Finovate, based in San Francisco, a leader in FinTech conferences around the world about the Berlin edition that took place in February. Also, we talk about Finovate's concept that varies across the globe and plans for San Francisco, New York and Asian editions, updated for the current situation around the COVID-19. We then speak to Myles Stephenson, CEO of Modulr, London based, integrated payment service for businesses about Copernican Leap in banking, direct connectivity of FinTechs to Bank of England and Modulr's growth plans.

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Paris FinTech Forum 2020

Paris
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Short interviews from Paris FinTech Forum with - Clara Durodie, Chair of Cognitive Finance Group, London about Artificial Intelligence for Financial Services and her book - Ian O'Sullivan, European Lead of Mastercard Start Path, who explains how Mastercard works with start-ups, helping them to get to market and gain scale, providing services to Mastercard customers and their support of female entrepreneurship - Susanne Chishti CEO of FINTECH Circle & FINTECH Circle Institute, London that explains their business angel, education and digital transformation acceleration programs - Emmalyn Shaw, Managing Partner from Flourish Ventures, San Francisco talks about global scalability and financial inclusiveness.

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