In case you missed out on the November episodes of Voice of FinTech podcast, here is the monthly summary! You can listen to all the episodes on the Episodes pages of this website or when you subscribe to your favorite podcast apps under Subscribe.

F10 Zurich update with Stableton and Goud, a Baloise corp-up

A discussion with Gerrit Sindermann, new head of F10 Zurich, Els Van Eyndhoven and Sabrina Bogaert, co-founders of mobility Goud corp-up with Baloise Belgium and Andreas Bezner, co-founder and Managing Partner of Stableton, a marketplace for alternative investments in Switzerland.

We talk about:

Gerrit, how did he get to do what he does today
What’s new at F10 Zurich and what’s in store in the near future?
Els and Sabrina, co-founders of a corporate start-up at Baloise Belgium, Goud – what led them to Baloise and innovation?
What is Goud? Mobility for elderly and insurance - how does it tie together? Why is it worth solving? Why now?
What is their unique advantage? How are they different from other InsurTech or mobility start-ups?
Andreas – is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Stableton, a marketplace for alternative investments and a serial entrepreneur. How does it feel to found a new business so many times?
How does a digital marketplace for alternative investments like Stableton work?
Who are target clients for Stableton and how is it regulated?
Why did Els, Sabrina and Andreas choose to participate in the F10 program?
How does F10 and start-up participants measure the success of partnerships, especially with early-stage companies?
Key innovation areas in financial services and the insurance industry in the next few years - predictions? Any immediate changes post the pandemic?
Next steps for this year and beyond?
Best way to reach out to F10, Goud and Stableton

Accelerated computing and AI in FinTech and Financial Services with Nvidia

Kevin Levitt is Global Industry Business Development Lead, Financial Services at Nvidia, based in San Francisco.

We talk about:

Nvidia’s approach to start-ups overall, from partnering to investing
Global Industry Business Development, Financial Services at NVIDIA – what does it mean in real life?
Within Financial Services, what kind of institutions or start-ups is Nvidia focusing on?
How does scouting at Nvidia work? How do they bring new business in the times of Covid?
How does the selection process work? Who is the right partner or a client for Nvidia?
Nvidia just hosted a GTC conference, where the CEO and founder, Jensen Huang, presented many new products. What kind of products or services are these? What’s new?
Where is AI in Financial Services is headed in the near term and long term?
How does Nvidia cooperate with other actors in the ecosystem? E.g., AWS or other cloud companies.
Success stories of the cooperation with Financial Services firms, especially FinTechs
Lessons learned from your partnerships
Kevin's favorite business book: Never split the difference about negotiation
Best way to reach out and leverage Nvidia's resources

Asia Pacific Series with Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳: B2B payments in South East Asia with Tazapay

In this episode of Voice of FinTech: Asia Pacific Series, Chia Jeng Yang, Principal of Saison Capital based in Singapore, speaks to Rahul Shinghal, ex-Head of Stripe APAC and ex-Head of SMB Payments International at PayPal and now co-founder of Tazapay, a cross-border payments platform for SMEs, also based in Singapore.

Chia and Rahul talk about:

Tazapay’s objectives in Southeast Asia - its current progress and future roadmap
Opportunities in the SME cross-border space
The opportunities for B2B and B2C fintech in Southeast Asia and the scale of the opportunity
Exciting developments and trends in Southeast Asia’s fintech scene
The journey from a senior corporate executive of large companies to a startup founder

FinovateWest Digital Preview with HSBC Bank USA's Head of Innovation Jeremy Balkin

Jeremy Balkin, Head of Innovation at HSBC Bank USA, leads the Innovation Strategy for the HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management business in the US.

We talk about:

HSBC’s approach to innovation from partnering to start-ups to investing
Head of Innovation at HSBC Bank USA – what does that mean? What's Jeremy's mandate and goals in this role
Many commentators agree that the pandemic has accelerated digitalization trends. Where does Jeremy see the most significant impact on HSBC's business?
What will be Jeremy's keynote at Finovate West about
Wrap up: the best way for interested parties to learn more about Jeremy, HSBC's innovation efforts and reach out

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

The pace of disruption has been accelerating in the last few years, and in 2020, even more so! Often, organizations realize their organizational design is unsuitable for the business challenges ahead. How do they plan and implement organizational changes? Is there a better, more scientific way of doing it than the current industry practices? This is relevant for banks, FinTechs, and, frankly, any industry. How can AI help?
This is what we talked about in this edition of Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series with INSEAD Professor Phanish Puranam.

Check out his free e-book Phanish co-wrote with Julien Clément, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, called Organizational Analytics and related blog post in INSEAD Knowledge.

We also have a homework kind of question from Prof. Puranam to the audience and listeners. Feel free to respond directly to him via LinkedIn here. This year, we have witnessed these trends related to organizational design: First, we all learned we can do lot more work remotely. Consequently, we know have an enormous amount of data from all online meetings and communication gathered in the past 10 months as they happened online.

So if lot of managerial work will be taken away by using data driven algorithms, are we bound to see flattening and reduction of hierarchies? Note: delayering doesn't necessarily mean more autonomy.

Episode #100! Future of Finance with Henri Arslanian, PwC Global Crypto Leader

Henri Arslanian is PwC Global Crypto Leader, Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and University Professor based in Hong Kong.

We talk about:

What has kept Henri busy during the pandemic?
Before COVID, there was a wide acknowledgment that FinTech’s more viable route to success is through cooperation rather than a disruption. What’s Henri's view on this today?
The book “The Future of Finance: The Impact of FinTech, AI, and Crypto on Financial Services” came out last summer – anything that would have changed with a benefit of hindsight in 2020?
Henri's recommendation for incumbents on how to embrace the digital transformation
Some incumbents are bracing themselves for further cost-cutting, job cuts and delaying all non-essential investments. Can one delay the innovation investments without repercussions?
Why Henri believes in crypto and blockchain opportunities for sharing the future of Finance
Many commentators agree that pandemics has accelerated the digital transformation around the world. Have digital assets, blockchain and crypto players capitalized on the opportunity? Is crypto going mainstream?
What are the biggest challenges for adopting blockchain or digital assets by large incumbents, and to what extent they can be sorted
Check out FinTech Capsules and Crypto Capsules on YouTube and follow Henri on LinkedIn

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Sincerely,

Rudolf Falat