Future of Banking Podcast

Daniel Fogg is the Chief Executive Officer, and former Chief Operating Officer, at IOV Labs. Through his dedication to disruptive technological innovations that make the world a better place, Daniel has gained a wealth of experience whilst building deep tech companies across the globe in a variety of sectors, including energy, defence, internet access, and blockchain. With a formulaic mindset, Daniel is working towards making ‘Everyday DeFi' a reality, ensuring people in emerging markets can access financial services in their everyday lives.

It's time to address how the state of funding has changed the lives of Fintech founders. We know the money is still there, but what is the real deal when it comes to finding the right funding at the right price?We talk to 3 fintech founders to address the impact of a changed VC landscape and how they're approaching growth capital.Laura Pomfret - Co-Founder of Financielle.A female-focussed finance app helping women to take back control of their money, ditch debt, increase savings and invest in their future. What started as an anonymous Instagram account back in 2018 has turned into a global community of women working together on their money journey.Matt Bird - Co-founder & CEO at lemon.A repeat founder having started and scaled 3 companies over the past 10 years.Experienced in subscription and SaaS, with a deep interest in how technology and finance can work together to propel economies forwards.Harry Luscombe, CEO and Co founder @ BoodilHarry has over 10 years' experience across payments, technology and marketing. He is now one of the co-founders of Boodil, a fintech that provides a secure and developer friendly open banking payment solution that rewards consumers every time they check out via their mobile application. Harry has worked at some high growth startups including Social Chain Group a global marketing agency where he was responsible for the sales and marketing division, Mercarto a cloud based marketplace solution where he scaled the business winning large enterprise deals along with working for a Manchester based Fintech as their Commercial Director. 

With Consumer Duty around the corner and the use cases around Open Banking totting up, we speak to two very different experts about the protection and deployment of data in Fintech.

Group CEO of AAO Holdings, Danny Brewster, recently launched his financial services start-up TwentyOne, providing fellow entrepreneurs with current accounts, making the management of finances as effortless as possible and empowering businesses to focus on what matters most – growing their business. TwentyOne is progressive, convenient, and most importantly, effective. The transformative solution offers an accessible and novel way for creators and entrepreneurs to access business current accounts without the endless paperwork and frustrating processes that come with traditional banking. 

Introducing Lissele Pratt, the dynamic Co-Founder of Capitalixe, a visionary leader who is transforming the financial technology landscape on a global scale. With over 8 years of industry experience, Lissele is a driving force behind helping international companies access cutting-edge financial technology, payments, and banking services worldwide.Lissele's unparalleled entrepreneurial spirit has been evident since she launched her first business at a young age of 16, and she has since achieved remarkable success in the industry. Within just three years, she has built a seven-figure consultancy, a feat that earned her a coveted spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance list in 2021 and Tech Round 29 Under 29 in 2022In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the industry, Lissele has been honoured with several prestigious accolades, including this year's Women In Fintech Power List in Senior Leaders category. finalist positions in the Great British Businesswoman Awards, European Women In Finance awards, and the Women in Finance UK awards, and she is currently shortlisted for the UK Fintech Awards in the Rising Star of The Year and Diversity & Inclusion Award categories.

- Tamas Kadar: Founder and CEO of SEON- Adrian Mizzi: CTO at Weavr - Adam Sadler: Chief Revenue Officer at Intergiro

SIBOS special - Part 5 - Eddie Robb - Commercial Director, Zumo Interprise

SIBOS special - Part 6 - Professor & Chair in Financial Technology at Alliance Manchester Business School

SIBOS special - Part 4 - Nick Reid - Sales Director, BankiFi

SIBOS special - Part 3 - James Bryce-Lind - UK Banking Sales Lead, Minna Technologies

SIBOS special - Part 2 - Khaled Moharem - President, MENA, WadzPay

SIBOS special - Part 1 - Raf de Kimpe - CEO of Fintech Week London

In this episode, Kimberley speaks with Hugh Shannon. Hugh is Head of Sales and Customer Success at OakNorth.

Jasper Ehrhardt has over 15 years experience across different parts of the payments ecosystem, leading companies in their international expansion. He has worked for leading fintechs such as PayPal, Worldpay, Currencycloud and Visa as well as innovation leaders in crowdlending, mobile payments and issuing. He has regularly spoken about key trends in international payments at conferences, including: embedded finance, cross-border, blockchain, regulation and CBDCs

Lena Hackeloer, CEO and Founder @ Brite PaymentsSadra Hosseini, CEO and Co-founder @ RyftPete Casson, CTO and Co-founder @ Collctiv

Today's guests: Ron Benegbi – CEO and Founder @ UplinqDerek Stewart,  CEO and Founder @ PAYSMEJeff Keltner, SVP @ Upstart

Kimberley and Rene discuss the past and the future of the podcast.

For this last episode of 2021, we sit down and discuss marketing for FinTech companies with:Liz Lumley - Technology and Transaction Banking Editor at The BankerLiz Lumley is a global specialist commentator on global financial technology or ‘FinTech'. She has spent over 20 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as Director at VC Innovations and architect of the Fintech Talents Festival, Managing Director at Startupbootcamp FinTech London and an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra.Eric Fulwiler - Founder & CEO of RivalEric is an entrepreneur who builds businesses through modern marketing and management practices. He is a well-known speaker and thought-leader on all things growth - including marketing, sales, management, and innovation. Over the last 15 years he's been lucky enough to help build some of the biggest brands in the world, from billion-dollar start-ups to Fortune 50 enterprises, and learn from some amazing people along the way. He spent 10 years in the agency world and was a first-15 employee and MD of EMEA for VaynerMedia , the world's biggest independent digital agency founded by Gary Vaynerchuck. For the last three years he's been the Chief Marketing & Commercial Office for 11:FS, a global fintech consultancy that builds digital banking and insurance propositions from scratch. He is the founder and CEO of Rival, a marketing innovation consultancy that helps businesses think, act, and grow like challengers. He's passionate about helping people fulfil the potential of their businesses, teams, and themselves.Mathias Eriksson -Brand & Marketing Director at JuniMathias Eriksson heads up marketing as the Brand & Marketing Director at Juni — the financial companion for ecommerce. Mathias is an anthropologist and journalist by training, internationally awarded leader and creative, and has spent 15+ years as an entrepreneur in the advertising-, media-, and tech space. He has spent the last five years in deep tech and digital transformation, first as a founding team member of AI-platform Adverai building the Meta-understanding of Marketing, and before joining Juni helping outdoor shoe brand Icebug transform to a consumer company building out their growth- and direct to consumer operations. Mathias perspective is in equal parts data & culture, art & science, and that is what makes marketing magical.Mathias is an appreciated public speaker and occasionally shares his insights on his blog. Born in the Forrests of Småland, now based in Gothenburg & Stockholm, Sweden, with an affinity for, and the second hometown in, Tokyo. Proud father and husband.

Lili Metodieva, Managing Director at MonneoAs the Managing Director of Monneo, Lilia is representative of powerful female leadership in Fintech. As part of a successful leadership team, she is responsible for managing the operationsof the company. Prior to joining Monneo, Lilia gained her master's degree in Commerce and began her journey through to her career. Lilia has been active in the eCommerce industry since 2006, with experience in operations management of card acquirers and knowledge about VISA, Mastercard and CUP regulations and compliance, online payments, risk management and marketing.Matthew Harrod, Founder of payments companyMatthew has been working in Payment acceptance for close on 20 years with a focus on cross border and international expansion for both customers and financial services businesses.  Working in several countries across Europe for the likes of First Data, Lloyds Bank and Ingenico he has an experience of both legacy and emerging payment methods globally.Mark Hartley, CEO and Founder at BankiFiBefore founding BankiFi, Mark Hartley has held a wide range of general management, sales, innovation and strategy roles in the technology industry for the financial services segment since the early nineties in the APAC region and Europe, most recently at Clear2Pay and FIS.His vision around open payments lead to the creation of the Open Payment Hub, the ‘stable' product that lead to the acquisition of the company in 2014 by FIS. A renowned innovator and thought leader on the subject of Payments & Open Banking, he served as strategic Advisor to the Board of Nationwide Building Society.Kimberley WaldronAn award-winning marketer and entrepreneur, with 10 years + experience in the technology, retail, mobile and banking sectors. Kimberley's career began in Manchester in independent music promotion, radio and online journalism.In 2009, Kimberley Co-Founded international communications agency SkyParlour at 26 years of age. Ten years on, from its base in central Manchester, the business has amassed Fintech clients around the world from Palo Alto, to Munich, to Jakarta and back again to Cheadle.Kimberley is co-chair of the Pro Manchester Fintech committee and industry advisor to the University of Salford Fintech MSc programme. She is also an active member of the Founders for Schools initiative and a mentor on the Tech Manchester mentoring programme.

Tackling "Embedded Finance" with Sebastian Fallert & Alex Mifsud

Bence Jendruszak is the co-founder and COO of SEON. He graduated from the elite EBS school and Corvinus in general management prior to starting the hyper-growth startup SEON. A regular startup pitch winner with Lendit London and advocate of safer digital transactions for all merchants and financial institutions. He's been featured in Forbes' ‘Hot Startups to Watch in Europe'.Jimmy serves as CCO at SEON, the fraud fighters. He has over 13 years within the online payments and fraud space as part of fraud tech pioneers CyberSource (acquired for $2B by Visa), GlobalCollect (acquired by Ingenico for $1B and latterly InAuth (acquired by American Express for $250m). His passion is mixing nerdy obsession over technology and hyper commercial growth.

In this episode, we speak with Julian Sawyer (CEO of Bitstamp), Rene van Pelt (CEO of Catadesk), Erica Stanford (Founder of Crypto Curry Club) and Asen Kostadinov (Head of Strategy at Copper).We discuss several topics within the broader topic of cryptocurrency regulation and adoption. Have fun and let us know what you think!

How can lifestyle and values-driven banking create a global financial ecosystem for all?

Today's guest: Gianluigi Davassi - Founder and CEO of Faire.aiToday's episode is the first fireside chat from the Future of Banking Podcast. Stay tuned for season 2!

Welcome to episode 3 of the Future of Banking Podcast.The Future of Banking Podcast is hosted by Kimberley Waldron, co-founder and managing director of SkyParlour PR.In this episode we will be discussing the topic: how to future proof payments infrastructure? With 3 formidable FinTech CTO'sGuests:- Steve Cook from Form3- Nick Fryer from Paymentsense- Hussein Badakhchani from Ziglu

Welcome to episode 2 of the Future of Banking Podcast.The Future of Banking Podcast is hosted by Kimberley Waldron, co-founder and managing director of SkyParlour PR.In this episode we will be discussing the topic: Are banks doing enough to help SMEs through times of uncertainty?Guests: - Michael Mueller from Form3- Craig Fox from Silicon Valley Bank- Mark Hewlett from Ebury

Welcome to episode 1 of the Future of Banking Podcast.The Future of Banking Podcast is hosted by Kimberley Waldron, co-founder and managing director of SkyParlour PR.In this episode we will be discussing how FinTechs can help SMEs through times of crisis and uncertainty. Joining the podcast are:- Fabrizio Zanollo, ACIB from FORM3- ray brash from PPS- Karen Rudich from ELEMENTARYb- Andrew Garvey from CountingupQuestions:- How has the perception on FinTech changed in recent years?- How do SMEs feel about working with FinTechs?- What do FinTechs have to offer (except the tech)- Do businesses see the benefit FinTechs are offering?- What can the FinTech industry do to step up to plate and take responsibility during these times of crisis?- How is the industry going to support SMEs getting back to work and opening and catering to changing consumer behavior?