June recap!
In case you missed out on June episodes of Voice of FinTech podcast, final month of the Season 1, here is the monthly recap. 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.
Discussion with Janine Haendel, CEO of Roger Federer Foundation
Janine Haendel is CEO of Roger Federer Foundation. A lawyer, diplomat and philanthropist. In this podcast, we discuss:
- Origins and mission of Roger Federer Foundation
- Focus on performance in the NGO sector: efficiency and effectiveness
- Difference between charity and philanthropy
- Improving education in Africa: focus on a teacher
- Leveraging technology
- Making an impact on the aid recipient: village banking
“I believe in the power of people. They might only need some initial empowerment. We know that a good education empowers children by allowing them to take their future into their own hands and play an active part in shaping it. And we trust in the best will of parents that they want to ensure the best possible opportunities for their children. For 16 years my Foundation has therefore been committed to enable parents and local communities in providing these children with the opportunity for a good education. We have reached one million children by today. ” Roger Federer
One Year Anniversary Special: Breaking Banks with Brett King
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. Founder and Executive Chairman of Moven, an enterprise-focused challenger bank. Brett has an insightful new booking coming out later this year; you can pre-order it on Amazon: The Rise of Technosocialism. Check out also the episode of Breaking Banks: Sci-Fi Legends talk COVID-19 mentioned in this podcast.
In this Voice of FinTech’s One Year Anniversary Special, we talk about:
- Virtual events during the lockdown — are they here to stay? Do traditional conferences have a future?
- Breaking banks podcast and radio show — beginnings, regional spin-offs, focus on the content and high profile guest focus (previous guests included Elon Musk, Boris Johnson or Bill Gates)
- Science-fiction as an inspiration for the future of banking
- His new book, The Rise of Technosocialism: what are the possible scenarios for humans as species. Brett argues the technosocialism, which is a highly automated society, broad quality and prosperity and ubiquitous technology infrastructure which provides for health, education transport is the preferred scenario.
- The founding of a challenger bank Moven, pivoting to enterprise clients to drive the growth and journey to scale worldwide
- Plans for the rest of the year, including hopefully spending more time in Thailand
- How to get noticed — tips for when approaching time-poor influencers
“Basic bank account should be something that’s helpful to the customers, not a passive thing that stores value and charges you interest on your credit card. Secondly, let’s raise our total social consciousness and awareness so we understand that things like climate change disruption on society is a choice, it’s not inevitable and we can change the future, if we just set our mind to it and get to work.” Brett King
The Financial Markets Series: Financial Information
Marion Leslie is Head of Financial Information and Executive Board Member at SIX, the Swiss Exchange Group. She is also a trustee at Prostate Cancer UK charity and Non-Executive Director at UK’s Hydrographic Office.
In this episode, you will find more about:
- Marion’s team mandate and mandate as a Board Member at SIX
- SIX’s Whitepaper on Data Transformation
- Focus on data quality
- Use of data for compliance and regulatory purposes
- Leveraging technology in delivering data and ultimately, financial information, to SIX’s clients, primarily banks
- Key trends in the data business over the years, especially after the crises
- Alternative data and sustainability (ESG)
- How does the Head of Financial Information keep on learning?
“While SIX takes care of providing well-connected data and valuable insights, our clients can concentrate on their core business.” Marion Leslie
This episode of the Financial Markets Series was brought to you by SIX, the Swiss Exchange Group. If you would like to learn more about SIX, please go to www.six-group.com.
The InsurTech Series: Corp-Up approach with Generali and IMBurse
In this episode on the corp-up approach in the insurance sector, we talk to Stefano Bison, Group Head of Business Development & Partnerships at Generali and Board Member of HITS — House of Insurtech Switzerland, and Oliver Werneyer, CEO and Co-founder of IMburse AG, a participant in Generali Innovation Garage, now HITS.
You will find out more about:
- How Stefano’s passion for the start-ups outside of work also serves him well in his role at Generali
- Oliver’s entrepreneurship roots from the age of 16 when he started buying and selling computer games and his passion for his current venture
- Generali’s overall approach to partnerships, especially with start-ups
- How close the connection between Generali’s current business and the start up’s focus Generali requires to engage and why
- How do both a corporate and a start-up measure success in a corp-up setting
- How IMBurse pivoted to their current B2B instant payment business, a capability that Generali needed
- Why IMBurse picked Generali Innovation Garage (now HITS) as a partner
- Innovation trends in the insurance sector and the acceleration of digital transformation by COVID-19 from the perspective of an incumbent and a start-up
- Next steps for both Generali and IMBurse this year
- How to reach out to Stefano and Oliver most efficiently
This episode of the InsurTech Series was brought to you by HITS — House of InsurTech Switzerland. HITS is the innovation corp-up hub focusing on the InsurTech sector, bringing corporates and start-ups to develop customer-centric solutions. HITS creates the perfect environment to make innovation happen with early-stage investors and partners from the InsurTech sector.
Digital Identity with Onfido
Husayn Kassai is CEO and co-founder of Onfido and Oxford University alumnus. Onfido is a market-leading digital verification provider, based in London and San Francisco. We talk about online document verification and the vision of digital identity in the future.
More specifically, we talk about:
- Co-founders and the need to complement one another
- Interest to digitize document’s verification
- Onfido’s recent raise of USD 100 million and plans to spend it
- How does Onfido leverage AI to verify documents remotely?
- Is it perfect? Can it be hacked? How does it work in terms of liability?
- Expansion plans to DACH region
- Living on the edge as a part of start-up life
- Digital immunity passports for the post-COVID-19 world
- The vision of digital identity
If you have suggestions for topics or guests on the show or have ideas about how to make this podcast better for you, please e-mail us at info@voiceoffintech.com.
Keep safe!
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