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Available on Spotify, Apple, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts!Timestamps:* Intro* ‘Fin-techionary' of the Week: ETFs (1.14)* News (1.57)* Interview with Kiaan about their experience and current work at Stitch (4.25)* Quick Fire Questions with Kiaan (31.55)* Signals: When it rains in crypto (38.08)* Upcoming Events (40:35)Transcript:Hey FinTech friends!My name is Helen Femi Williams, and I'm your host of the Hey Fintech friends podcast, brought to you by This Week In Fintech.So let's talk about the structure of this podcast.First, we're gonna go through the news. And if you subscribe to The This Week in Fintech newsletter, you're in luck because this is the audio version.Secondly, we'll go through the fintechtionary, then we're going to have a chat with this week's friend KiaanAnd lastly, I'll tell you a bit about the latest Signals article.Oh, and before we move on, how can I not mention events!I'm going to go through some of the global fintech events, conferences, and places that you need to know about that are happening in the next two weeks. So listen up for that too!Also, friends, I did want to say I'm so happy about the number of people who've reached out if you've listened to this podcast, who've engaged in it, and I did want to let you guys know that from December onwards, we're going to be looking at the guests for 2023. So if you know someone interesting, or you think you would be great for this podcast, please do feel free to reach out to us.Fintechionary: EFTS According to Forbes, an electronic funds transfer (EFT) is a way to move money across an online network, between banks and people. EFT payments are frequently used in place of paper-based payment methods—like checks and cash—to make transactions faster and safer.When you make a payment these days, odds are you're using an EFT to make it happen. Friends can use EFT payments to split a restaurant bill, and businesses can use EFT payment options to get paid by their customers. With so many uses, EFT payments are essential to how money moves through the economy and your life.News
Recorded in October, this week's episode is with Nigel Verdon- Founder of Railsr (formerly known as Railsbank) who are pioneering something called ‘Embedded finance' - best described as the financial layer of the internet.Founding a startup is stressful, difficult and often painful at times - one of the most important skills of a founder, as many previous guests have said, is resilience.And after going through it once, you would understand if someone never wanted to go through it all again…Nigel, however, has started not one, not two but three businesses - giving him an expert view on the challenges entrepreneurs face at different stages on their journey.We'll talk in this episode about why you need to hire different types of people at different times, the difference between builders and operators & why Fintech may disappear. The topics we discuss in this episode are:Why Nigel rebranded from Railsbank to RailsrWhat is embedded finance?What is the future of FinTech?The future of currency and crypto - the great experiment of Bitcoin.How curiosity drove him to start a THIRD startup.The access to fast finance that embedded finance will power and how it's driving new experiences in sports.Nigel's advice to new entrepreneurs.Nigel's advice to himself aged 25 - don't fail your A-Levels!Deciding to break into FinTech. Jobs of the Future- the biggest learnings on hirings through 3 huge companies.The thesis of Builders and Operators.Giving back to the FinTech ecosystem.Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can up to Jimmy's substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsAlso make sure you subscribe to The Shift- you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Once again thank you to our series partner Octopus Group, a collection of 8 entrepreneurially minded businesses that look to back the people, ideas, and industries that will change the world.
Nigel Verdon is the CEO and co-founder of Railsr (formerly Railsbank) and is a 3x fintech founder and ‘Finance 4 Good' evangelist focused on building great ideas - first with Evolution (exited to BAE Systems), followed by Currency Cloud (exited to Visa), and now with Railsr. This episode of MoneyNeverSleeps is sponsored by SecuriCentrix. SecuriCentrix is a trusted cyber security company with offices in Dublin, Cape Town and London. SecuriCentrix provides expert advisory services, primarily in the finance and fintech industries, with tailored security solutions to fit your specific needs and regulatory challenges. In this episode, Nigel Verdon riffs with Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald on the foundational experiences that pushed him towards becoming a fintech founder before the word fintech even existed, the rebranding of Railsbank to Railsr, the impact of Railsr's $46mn Series C funding round and spending it on the right things, fintechs as public utilities, Nigel's view on the digital asset market and decentralized finance, and the difference between starting a startup and scaling a startup. LINKS: Follow Nigel Verdon on LinkedIn and learn more about Railsr Follow Railsr on Twitter Episode title inspired by Forever by Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem Amazon Bay (referenced by Nigel Verdon) - 2005 short video narrative written by Sean Park predicting the financial services landscape in the year 2015. Leave a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Check out our MoneyNeverSleeps website and email us at info@moneyneversleeps.ie Follow us on Twitter: MoneyNeverSleeps | Pete Townsend | Eoin Fitzgerald --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support
Before co-founding Railsbank, Nigel was already a successful fintech entrepreneur, having previously founded Evolution and Currency Cloud, which were both sold to well-known publicly listed companies. He brings a wealth of capital markets experience gained at Nomura, Swiss Bank Corp and Dresdner Kleinwort Investment Bank. Nigel's ambition for Railsbank is to enable the world's most ambitious brands to deliver exceptional embedded finance experiences for their customers. His taste for adventure has taken him to many places, from 17,769 feet up in the Himalayas, to sailing across the world's oceans and flying paragliders over the skies of the UKConnect with Behind Company Lines and HireOtter Website Facebook Twitter LinkedIn:Behind Company LinesHireOtter Instagram Buzzsprout
"Build something great, solve a real-world problem, and you'll make money." Nigel Verdon (CEO, Railsbank, a leading embedded finance experience platform) speaks with Xquadrant's Founder Richard Medcalf. We're continuing our season "Mission-Driven CEOs". Top Chief Execs talk about the impact they want to make beyond just the financials - in terms of the company mission and their personal leadership legacy - and how they put that into practice on a daily basis.
Ren Yi Hooi is the Founder and CEO of Lightning Social Ventures, a Fintech for Good startup which enables charities and public sector institutions to verify and accelerate support for people in financial hardship. A globally recognised impact award winner, Lightning launched in Feb 2021 and is now revenue generating with multiple national partners in the UK. Prior to this, Ren was the Product Director and Director of Financial Inclusion at Railsbank, a leading FinTech platform. Ren has also held a number of different roles at companies and social sector organisations across four continents, including Bain & Company, BIMA (a global InsurTech provider) and The Rockefeller Foundation. Ren graduated with an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. She is a recipient of the UK's Tech Nation Exceptional Talent Visa. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/ren-yi-hooi
This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA (formerly known as LendIt Fintech USA) held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 25-26, 2022. It is from the track: Consumer Lending: BNPL, Cards and Personal Loans - Sponsored by FICO and is titled: How Fintechs are Scaling Credit Card Businesses. Speaking at this session are Dipanjan Das, SoFi, Gary Singh, Zeta, Paul Flanigan, Railsbank, Brandt Smallwood, Bilt Rewards with Moderator: Nik Milanović, This Week in Fintech.
Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. This podcast episode is sponsored by Contis, the European leader in Banking-as-a-Service. Contis is proud to deliver process-pay, a brand-new standalone processing solution ready to cater for any organisations card processing needs. To find out more visiting www.contis.com today! THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Apple is turning into a fintech company. The company announced several new features for the iPhone's Wallet app at its developers conference Monday that directly compete with products from other fintech companies such as Affirm and PayPal. JUST IN: After raising over $100m from investors since 2016, embedded finance provider Railsbank unveiled a dramatic rebrand at Money20/20 yesterday. “In our fast-moving world of amazing customer experiences, the finance industry has failed to evolve,” said Railsr CEO and co-founder Nigel Verdon. “We've changed our name to Railsr, and we're making finance a phenomenal experience.” ALSO: Citi Group has completed the sale of its Australian consumer banking business to National Australia Bank (NAB). The business, including unsecured lending, residential mortgages, deposits, and wealth, is being transferred to NAB with approximately 800 Citigroup employees. WHAT ABOUT FUNDING ROUNDS AND INVESTMENTS? Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 billion. Morocco-based WafR has raised $455,000 in its latest funding round. Yabie, a Swedish fintech company, secured €15M at a valuation of €91M in an oversubscribed funding round. VirgoCX has raised $7.95 million in a Series A funding round that will help the firm expand globally and add products and services. Stage is announcing the availability of its first product–flexible plans and packaging–as well as a $5.1 million seed round. Hourly.io has closed in on $27 million in funding. Zippi announced a $16 million (about BRL 82 million) funding round. NymCard raised $22.5M in its latest Funding round.
In this episode Brett King returns to his roots to explore investment opportunities in and from Australia, how Australian capability can act as a launch pad for global innovations and investments within the fintech and insurtech ecosystems. Our guests Simone Dossetor, Insurtech Australia, CEO; Ben Smith, Railsbank, Chief Operating Officer (APAC) and Christie Downs, CEO & Co-Founder, handdii, cover how the rise of embedded solutions creates new financial services distribution models in the fintech and insurtech markets. Listen as Railsbank, which expanded into Australia, and handdii, an Australian claim fulfillment and property repair startup that expanded into the U.S., share their journeys.Then Brett interviews Chris Skinner, CEO of the Finansier and independent commentator on the financial markets about his latest book, Digital for Good: Stand For Something or You Will Fall. The book focuses on how technology and finance can work together to address the environmental and social issues we face today and make a better world. https://youtu.be/uBMQtr4EQsM
In Season 4, Episode 2 of the Global Digital Banker Podcast, RFI Global's Kate Wilson discusses the exciting role embedded finance plays in today's banking ecosystem, and what the future holds for Railsbank, with COO, APAC Ben Smith. Subscribe to our RFI Global channel and get notified when we have new episodes: https://youtu.be/M7lpAK6Itao Connect with Ben Smith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bensmithprofile/ Connect with Anna Shaw on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-perera-shaw-966530129/ Connect with Kate Wilson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-wilson-5448667b/ To learn more about RFI Global, visit: https://rfi.global/
Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Bogota-based payments infrastructure startup minka has secured $24 million in a funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and KASZEK. JUST IN: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) granted an“in-principle approval” to fintech firms Revolut and Luno Singapore to offer digital payment token services under the Payment Services Act. ALSO: Thoma Bravo, the tech-focused private equity firm, has approached banking software specialist Temenos about a potential takeover, people with knowledge of the matter said. WHAT ABOUT CRYPTO? Bank of Mexico governor Victoria Rodríguez told the Senate that the country can expect a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) by 2025. Crypto exchange Kraken Digital Asset Exchange has received a Financial Services Permission (FSP) license from the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) to operate a regulated exchange platform in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). AS FOR PARTNERSHIPS WAY2VAT (ASX: W2V) Ltd has partnered with Railsbank to launch the Smart Spend Debit Mastercard for the SMB and enterprise market, which fully automates VAT/GST returns from end to end. Zvilo, the digital platform unlocking working capital in the Balkans, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mastercard, signifying a strong collaboration and ongoing partnership.
Brad is the co-founder and COO of Cledara. Cledara combines management tools for teams with a payments platform to help companies take control of the software they use to run their business. This allows them to operate more effectively across teams, comply with regulations and ultimately focus on what really matters - serving their customers. Prior to Cledara, Brad was VP of Partnerships at Railsbank, the BaaS unicorn backed by Visa, where he was responsible for banking infrastructure globally and the company's go-to-market. Prior to Railsbank, Brad was Chief Partnerships Officer at dopay and a Principal at the EBRD, where he made early stage investments into fintech and financial services. He is also one of the longest serving and highest ranked Techstars startup mentors globally. You can find Brad: linkedin.com/in/bradvanleeuwen https://twitter.com/BradvanL?s=20&t=3CaKQiJubtSApr0js2palw This Episode is brought to you with the support of Indeed and Bambee --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uncharted1/support
[2:08] Your career from currency trader to COO of Railsbank [6:50] Advice for women in FinTech on growing their careers [11:07] Building a high-performance sales team and hiring women after a career break [16:24] Current trends in embedded finance and fintech [25:46] Growing from 120 - 500 people Links:RailsbankLittle Women by Louisa Alcott
Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. This podcast episode is sponsored by MoneyLion. MoneyLion provides an all-in-one mobile banking experience. You choose the tools you need when you need them — and they complement the financial accounts you already have. They'll help you decide what's right for you, but the choice is always yours. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Ethereum application and infrastructure builder ConsenSys has closed a $450 million funding round that values the New York City-based blockchain company at $7 billion. The hefty Series D round, led by ParaFi Capital, more than doubles ConsenSys' valuation based on its previous $200 million fundraise in November 2021. JUST IN: Parpera, a money management platform for sole traders, freelancers, and startup founders, has launched Australia's first embedded finance business experience using a debit card linked directly to deposit accounts, in partnership with Railspay (the Australian arm of Railsbank) and Volt Bank. ALSO: Last week, €495m was raised across 11 FinTech deals. Geography-wise, most deals came from the UK followed by Sweden and Denmark. Most deals were in Payments followed by Banktech, Insurtech, and Regtech. FURTHERMORE, Brazil's central bank announced tougher rules for fintechs on Friday, saying that payment institutions will be subject to regulations based on their size and complexity and raising standards for required capital. WHAT ABOUT CRYPTO? Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform provider mintBlue has secured €2 million in a round led by Two Hop Ventures Fund, with additional support from a Dutch angel investor and Ayre Group Ventures.
Nigel Verdon the co-founder & CEO of RailsBank, the world's leading Embedded Finance Experience platform. Nigel has spent decades learning everything there is to know about payments and foreign exchange, first through his experience as an investment banker and subsequently as an entrepreneur of multiple financial start-ups. The serial FinTech founder sat down with James and Hector and opened up on the motivation behind launching RailsBank so soon after his previous success with the now acquired Currencycloud. Nigel went on to explain why founders should always establish some emotional distance between themselves and their ‘baby'. Nigel, a keen rugby fan, also reflected on how sports management informs his approach to being a leader in his business. The trio rounded off the discussion by focusing on the importance of culture and why the role of a CEO centres around knowing when to relinquish control. Make sure to like and subscribe to the Riding Unicorns podcast to never miss an episode. Also don't forget to give Riding Unicorns a follow on Twitter and LinkedIn to keep on top of the latest developments.
Fintech is a digital business and Covid has helped propel change and adoption. In today's episode we do a deep dive into Embedded Finance Experiences, the next phase of growth for embedded finance with host Brett King and industry leaders and innovators Nigel Verdon, Railsbank, CEO and Co-Founder; Steven McLaughlin, FT Partners, Founder and CEO; and Amit Siwal, Sezzle, CPO EU. Listen as they discuss deeper and richer financial experiences, from their different perspectives, that can seamlessly be part of your brand's customer journey. Consumers are increasingly interested in accessing credit, loans or investment from brands they love and trust, not necessarily tradfi and legacy finance. Listen as these leaders chart the future and figure how you'd like to engage! https://youtu.be/qjwJ-elXHbc
Railsbank is the world's leading Embedded Finance Experience platform. Today we're joined by their COO of UK and Europe, Louisa Murray. Louisa joined Railsbank as one of its first employees in 2017, and built the sales function from scratch, growing the sales and customer success teams. Prior to this she worked as a trader, headhunter and ran her own recruitment business. In this conversation, we explore consumer-driven products, legacy technology, making the tech industry more accessible to women, the power of role models – and a very important conversation she once had in an elevator.Talking PointsThe early stages of Louisa's banking career (04:41)The impact of being a woman in a male-dominated industry (08:01)What inspired Louisa to be a headhunter (11:33)Key lessons learnt from working in recruitment (15:22)Railsbank's mission (18:09)Trends to look out for in the UK FinTech space (22:42)Transitioning from a sales role into a COO (25:12)What makes a good salesperson? (27:02)What Railsbank has learnt from the pandemic (30:25)How can we make the tech industry more accessible for women? (35:40)The future of Railsbank (42:47)On the decentralisation of banks and cryptocurrencies (44:39)The problem with printing more money (48:29)Louisa's career advice (42:08)LinksRailsbankLouisa's LinkedIn
For this episode of Talking Hedge, we were joined by Nigel Verdon, CEO and co-founder of Railsbank, the world's leading Embedded Finance Experience platform. Before Railsbank, Nigel was already a successful fintech entrepreneur, having previously founded Evolution and Currency Cloud, which were both sold to well-known publicly listed companies. We discussed the next stage of embedded finance and the recent announcement from Railsbank of Embedded Finance Experience and what this means for the industry and consumers. We looked at why finance is not about the product but about the experience and more. Hosted by Pritesh Ruparel, CCO of Assure Hedge. Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. --------- Subscribe to not miss out on future events: https://www.assurehedge.com/hedging-matters/talking-hedge/ --------- HIGH RISK INVESTMENT NOTICE Trading in leveraged financial instruments such as Options or other financial derivatives, carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Investors who make use of these financial products run the risk of substantial capital losses which may exceed your initial deposit. Assure Hedge (UK) Limited makes no claim or warranty regarding either the appropriateness or suitability of these instruments for your purposes whether commercial or otherwise. Assure Hedge (UK) Limited may provide general commentary or educational material available on its website or otherwise, which is not intended as investment advice. You should carefully consider your financial situation and needs and seek independent advice from a duly authorised financial adviser. Assure Hedge (UK) Limited assumes no liability for errors, inaccuracies or omissions; does not warrant the accuracy, completeness of information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within these materials. You should read and understand Assure Hedge (UK) Limited's Terms and Conditions prior to taking any further action.
Host Brett King leads us off this week with news and a chat with Nigel Verdon, CEO & Co-Founder, RailsBank. Railsbank has some exciting news for consumers. Thereafter we go back to M2020 and learn from industry leaders. David Reiling, Chairman and CEO, Sunrise Bank, a socially responsible bank, and also host of our NextGen Banker, on trends he's noted at M2020 -- BaaS, Crypto. Real-Time Payments, Identity, Data Privacy, Corporate Responsibility. DEI to name a few. Last, an insightful segment with Matt Wallaert, Head of Behavioral Science at frog on how banks can propel change and adoption with behavioral science. Desire, energy and curiosity are not just for the young and hip, leaders need to to encourage curiosity for change and innovation. All behaviors on table for change. Banks can't afford to NOT mess up. https://youtu.be/79xSEI3jNLg
Louisa Murray, COO of Railsbank, shares her inspiring journey from director of Barclays Capital to entrepreneurial start-up Railsbank. Find out what she has learnt from acquisitions, cultivating culture during hypergrowth, and raising over $70 million in new equity funding.Railsbank is the pioneer and innovator in the global Banking as a Platform (BaaP) sector, and operates in the UK, Europe, South East Asia, Australia and the US. Louisa spearheads the team in Europe and has a keen eye for commercial success and ability to nurture culture. What you can learn from this episode: · How to scale effectively and preserve culture during a hypergrowth period· How to prepare for a funding round and ways to get “investment ready”· Tactics for ensuring company values and beliefs aren't diluted as an organisation grows· Biggest hurdles for early-stage tech start-ups· Challenges of scaling at a rapid rate· The role of mentors and inspirational leadersClick here to reach out to Peter Rabey direct Like this show? Please leave us a review. Every review helps.
Nigel Verdon is a three time FinTech founder - in 1996, he founded Evolution (now part of BAE Systems), in 2007, he started Currency Cloud, and in 2016, he began building his latest venture - Railsbank. Railsbank is a global Banking as a Service (BaaS) business that enables any company or brand to become a FinTech. The Railsbank platform enables marketers, product managers, developers, CEOs and founders to prototype, launch and scale financial products super fast through using an open finance platform, operations, regulatory licensing and rich set of simple APIs. Railsbank has raised over $120 million from leading investors including Anthos and Middlegame Ventures. We hope you enjoy the show.
Embedded finance is a relatively new term in fintech but it getting set to revolutionize finance. Today it is relatively easy to add finance functionality either within a financial or non-financial firm. And we are beginning to see large brands embrace financial services as a way to increase engagement with their customers. I think this is a trend that is unstoppable. Our next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Nigel Verdon, the CEO and co-founder of Railsbank. Nigel has deep experience in the fintech space, this is his third fintech company, and he has created Railsbank to make it quick and easy to scale any financial use-case via simple APIs, which are at the heart of embedded finance. Connect with Fintech One-on-One: Tweet me @PeterRenton Connect with me on LinkedIn Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
Can we make embedding finance into apps and customer journeys as simple as drag and drop? While no one would go to Ikea for the sole purpose of opening a bank account, they might need payment installment services during checkout. The new breed of technology platform players (BaaS) has made offering such services much more cost effective and less complex for big brands and retailers. Welcome to the new world where nearly every aspect of traditional banking can simply be an invisible feature of another industry's customer experience. In this episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley chat with Shaul David, Head of Banking, Growth at Railsbank on the future of financial services, the role of technology, and the era of embedded finance.
Can we make embedding finance into apps and customer journeys as simple as drag and drop? While no one would go to Ikea for the sole purpose of opening a bank account, they might need payment installment services during checkout. The new breed of technology platform players (BaaS) has made offering such services much more cost effective and less complex for big brands and retailers. Welcome to the new world where nearly every aspect of traditional banking can simply be an invisible feature of another industry's customer experience. In this episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley chat with Shaul David, Head of Banking, Growth at Railsbank on the future of financial services, the role of technology, and the era of embedded finance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Can we make embedding finance into apps and customer journeys as simple as drag and drop? While no one would go to Ikea for the sole purpose of opening a bank account, they might need payment installment services during checkout. The new breed of technology platform players (BaaS) has made offering such services much more cost effective and less complex for big brands and retailers. Welcome to the new world where nearly every aspect of traditional banking can simply be an invisible feature of another industry's customer experience. In this episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley chat with Shaul David, Head of Banking, Growth at Railsbank on the future of financial services, the role of technology, and the era of embedded finance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Louisa Murray, chief operating officer for UK and Europe at Railsbank, joins us on this latest episode of the What the Fintech? podcast. This week for our news in numbers we talk about the rising need for great talent at fintechs in London and UK, plus Plaid settling a class action over its open banking data gathering. For your discussion segment we chat all about embedded finance, how it can be the future of the industry, what constitutes a good strategy for implementation, and just exactly what the definition of it is. Stay tuned for the end of the show, where we discover what buzzword Louisa wants to lock away in our Fintech Jail!
Ren Yi Hooi is the founder and chief executive of Lightning Social Ventures. Founded in 2020, the startup works with charities and public sector organisations to accelerate support to those in financial hardship. With a global background in Fintech, Ren worked previously as product director and director of financial inclusion at Railsbank, a rapidly scaling open finance platform. In this in-depth conversation, Ren recalls her career journey so far and how she started Lightning Social Ventures to “use business to play a role in making this a fairer world;” discusses the company and how using tech allows them to support people much more quickly and effectively than traditional financial support; and shares her future plans to take the business outside of the UK as “hardship is a global problem” that needs an effective solution.
This month's News From The FinTech Front is hosted by Matteo Rizzi and starred by two of the responsables for providing the fintech audience with the latest updates in the financial industry. We will be exploring the neo banks panorama (Bunq, Railsbank, Revolut, Starling), the intensified "talent battle" in the US banks and the rise of embedded finance in tech giants such as Google and Booking.com. Anna Irrera (Reuters) and Ali Paterson (FinTech Finance) are in charge of the commentary for the July installment of the format. More on the guests: Ali PatersonEditor in Chief - FinTech FinanceConnect with Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alipaterson1/ Anna IrreraChief Correspondent - Fintech, ReutersConnect with Anna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annairrera/
Invite-only social audio app, Clubhouse, has launched its direct messaging feature- Backchannel- for all users, which allows them to slide into a one-on-one chat mode or a group text format.Microsoft has unveiled Windows 365 that takes the OS to the cloud to offer a personalized PC experience for users and organizations, a new approach to cloud computing amid hybrid working.Simpplr has raised a $32M Series C from Tola Capital. Simpplr will use the new funds to develop its platform, expand its development team, and scale up to serve worldwide commercial clients.Crayhill Capital Management invests $300 million in Unybrands as growth capital. Unybrands is an eCommerce platform that helps Amazon fulfill and direct-to-consumer businesses scale.Deskimo, a Y Combinator's S21 batch startup providing on-demand access to work desks in professional workspaces, has launched in Singapore and Hong Kong after its inception in February this year, reports state.Cybereason, an end-point detection and response platform has raised $275 million in a crossover Series F funding round led by Liberty Strategic Capital, with participation from Irving Investors, certain funds advised by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC and Softbank Vision Fund 2*, it said in a press release.Bevy, an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events platform, has acquired Eventtus, an engagement platform managing events for an undisclosed amount to offer a comprehensive end-to-end management solution and a seamless experience for event attendees.Flymachine, an organizer of digital live events, has raised $21 million in a round co-led by Greycroft Partners and SignalFire, with participation from Primary Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Red Sea Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.Untitled Ventures has announced its second fund of USD 118.3 million. It will collaborate with InnMind to deliver high-quality deep tech startup deal-flow to the fund's pipeline.Railsbank, a provider of APIs for fintech services, has raised $70 million in equity funding led by Anthos Capital. Other participants include Central Capital, Cohen and Company, and Chris Adelsbach's new fund Outrun Ventures.Cardless, a platform developer for companies launching credit cards, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital. Other participants include Accomplice, Pear VC, and the owners and management of NBA teams Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics. The funding increases the company's total raised since its debut in 2019 to $50 million.The Moot Group (TMG), an eCommerce technology startup, has raised €5 million (approx. USD 6.9 million) in a seed funding round led by Fuel Ventures. The new funds will be used for the company's next growth stage. Great Question raises $2.5 million in a seed funding round. Great Question is an online platform that provides product managers, designers, researchers, and research operations with UX research services. Great Question was part of Y Combinator's winter program of 2021. BHyve, a future of work platform, has raised $300,000 in a JITO Angel Network, LetsVenture, and other angel investors. BHyve is a platform for disseminating tacit employee knowledge and allowing peer learning networks in the future of work.Mobile.dev, a startup providing pre-production workflows to help mobile teams automatically detect problems, has raised $3 million in seed round funding from Cowboy Ventures.Acelerate, a software company helping restaurants operate efficiently, has announced the raise of $14.4 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. Taking the announcement to its LinkedIn handle, the company expressed delight at the investment after a year of bootstrapping.Stytch has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital with participation from Coatue and existing investors, Benchmark and Index, the company wrote in an official blog. Multiplier, a Professional Employment Organization (PEO) platform, raises a $4 million investment round. It provides complete solutions that enable businesses to hire individuals globally. Proper, a property accounting services provider for the real estate industry, has announced the raise of $9M in Series A from QED Investors, with participation from our partners at MetaProp, Expa, and Bling Capital.
The attraction and vast potential for ‘embedding' insurance products has made it one of the hottest topics of 2021. Robin Merttens chats to Simon Torrance on Podcast 144 about the opportunities offered by embedded insurance and insights from the InsTech London report, Insurance: to Embed or not to Embed. Talking points include: The definition of embedded insurance Embedded success stories from around the world Why customers like embedded solutions Third-party distributors and platform business models The challenges facing incumbents If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech London newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Insurance: to Embed or not to Embed will be available to download on the InsTech London website from 9am on Thursday 1 July. The report takes an in-depth look at what embedded means in practice, the emerging opportunities, and the companies who are making it work. Join Robin at 12pm on 1 July as he discusses the findings from the report in a Live Chat with Franck Pivert, Chief Revenue Officer, Wakam; Jean-Charles Velge, Co-Founder, Qover; Louisa Murray, Chief Operating Officer (UK & Europe), Railsbank. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech London podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. To claim 0.5 hours for this podcast, go to the Episode 144 page of the InsTech London website, or email cpd@instech.london.
Learning notes from this episode: APIs are tiny snippets of code that allow one tech product to be integrated into another tech product. For example, each time you see Login with Facebook in a website or an app, that company is using the Facebook API to allow you to login. Railsbank allows companies to move money around just like a bank would, by giving access to its services via its API To learn more about APIs, listen to episode 37: APIs: Why Uber uses Google Maps Say hi to Justin Xiao on LinkedIn here. Do you have a brilliant app idea and no tech knowledge to build it? Get your FREE guide here. To go deeper, join the Tech for Non-Techies membership community. As a community member, you'll get: Weekly live masterclasses with global experts Mini-course on how to go from idea to live app Supportive Online Community Library of masterclasses Monthly live coaching with Sophia Matveeva, tech entrepreneur & Chicago Booth MBA Exclusive Resources & Perks Learn more and sign up at https://www.techfornontechies.co/membership Say hi to Sophia on Twitter. Following us on Facebook and Instagram will make you smarter.
In today's episode, Ryan Zauk sits down with Wade Arnold, Founder & CEO of moov. moov raised a $27M Series A from a16z in December 2020, following a $5M seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Moov provides developers with an elegant, simple platform that takes the complexity out of embedded payments and more. They take a developer-first approach of being built on open source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Wade is a self-described “engineers engineer,” a true nerd at heart who has built a number of technical products in fintech and beyond. Wade will be at the Wharton Fintech Conference on April 22 and 23, on a panel titled “Unpacking APIs and SaaS: how best-in-class fintechs are building from the ground up” alongside execs from Treasury Prime, Finix, OpenPayd, Railsbank, and QED. WFT Conf: https://whartonfintechconference.com/ Fintech Devcon: https://fintechdevcon.io/ For more Fintech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Ryan's Twitter: twitter.com/RyanZauk LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/
Dov Marmor, the COO of North American at Railsbank is our special guest this week on episode 74 of the Leaders in Payments podcast. Dov grew up in Miami, spent 13 or 14 years in New York and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and 3 kids and dog Batman. He got his undergraduate degree at University of Maryland and his masters at Cornell. Railsbank is a platform that allows any company to become its own fintech. The company has been around 4 years, is headquartered in the UK, has about 200+ customers on the platform and 3 million end users and is live on 3 continents. Railsbank has gone to market in the U.S. with a credit card as a service model. There are four verticals within fintech that they target including, lending, neo-banks, investment and personal finance, and cryptocurrency. Outside of fintech their customers are major brands like large tech companies, large retailers, airlines – basically anyone that has a co-branded credit card today. One key differentiator for Railsbank is the fact they built their product from the ground up and all their APIs are country agnostic – so it really removes the headache of starting a credit card or a debit card in one country and then having to find another vendor to launch in another country. Dov is passionate about building tools that help other people innovate. Personally, he’s passionate about seeing his kids excel.
In this episode, Hall welcomes Kevin R. Jacques, General Partner at Cota Capital. Cota Capital is a San Francisco-based, SEC-registered, multi-stage investment firm focused on private and public enterprise technology companies. Cota has invested in more than 100 private and public technology companies since inception. Cota’s overall mission is to deliver impactful outcomes through principle-guided investment in modern enterprise technologies. Kevin joined Cota in 2021 as a General Partner. Prior to Cota, Kevin was Head of Corporate Ventures at Visa, where he executed over 30 investments into leading fintech companies including Plaid, Railsbank, Paidy, and Paystack. Before Visa, Kevin spent 6 years at Intuit directing Corporate Development. At Intuit, Kevin and his team completed over 30 acquisitions, five investments, and 11 FinTech venture fund investments. Earlier, Kevin spent nearly 12 years as an investing partner with Sevin Rosen Funds and Palomar Ventures. Kevin was also the CEO of Globeranger, an RFID middleware provider, and a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Kevin received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Kevin speaks about the growth rate, primary trends, evolution of the fintech sector, and much more. You can visit Cota Capital at , and via LinkedIn at . Kevin can be contacted via email at . Music courtesy of .
Railsbank is the pioneer and innovator in the global Banking as a Platform (BaaP) sector, enabling banks, businesses, and brands to define the future of consumer and SME finance. Currently, Railsbank is live and enabling customers in the UK, Europe, SE Asia, and the US. The Railsbank platform enables marketers, product managers, developers to take their financial product vision and rapidly prototype, launch and scale their vision using its open finance platform, financial operations, regulatory licensing, and rich set of APIs. Dov Marmor joins me on the podcast to talk about banking as a service and its next frontier, credit as a service. We discuss the difficulties of building credit cards for fintechs and new use cases that credit card as a service could unlock. We also talk about why building on a platform is a faster way to test ideas, get market feedback, and build a unique value proposition using a standardized set of tools. Dov Marmor has led two of the top FinTech platform businesses in banking and international payments. Formerly GM and Head of BaaS at Green Dot, Dov grew that business 3X over 2.5 years, launching enterprise programs including Intuit TurboCard, Uber Debit/Money, Stash Banking, Wealthfront Debit, and many others. Prior to that, he launched the US business of Currencycloud, building over 20 new programs and expanding the teams and operational processes for scale.
Today we interview Dov Marmor, COO, Railsbank N. America. Dov led two of the top FinTech platform businesses in banking and international payments. Formerly GM and Head of BaaS at Green Dot, Dov grew that business 3X over 2.5 years, launching enterprise programs including Intuit TurboCard, Uber Debit/Money, Stash Banking, Wealthfront Debit, and many others. Prior to that, he launched the US business of Currencycloud, building over 20 new programs and expanding the teams and operational processes for scale. Sponsors: Otter Labs www.hireotter.com - Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. DeFi Code www.defi-code.com Go-to-market agency for cryptocurrency companies. Make your project stand out and gain maximum impact in the industry.
Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet editor in chief, Zack Miller. Embedded Finance is becoming more competitive. New platforms are launching and existing platforms are expanding into new products and geographies. My guest today has seen it all. Dov Marmor has helped build some of the leaders in banking as a service, including Currencycloud, Green Dot, and now Railsbank. Railsbank’s chief operating officer for North America, Dov Marmor joins me on the podcast to talk about the embedded finance field — where the market is headed and who’s best positioned to take more marketshare. Railsbank is launching in the U.S. with its credit cards as a service solution to both fintech and brand customers. Dov Marmor is my guest today on the Tearsheet Podcast.
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Kate Moody, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: David Jarvis - CEO of Griffin Anna Irrera - Fintech Correspondent, Reuters Ginger Schmeltzer - Senior Analyst, Aite Group We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Santander buys Wirecard’s core European business for €100m Staying with BaaS: Griffin and Railsbank raise funds, and Marqeta and Uber team up on cards PNC to buy BBVA US Brazil launches instant payments platform; expects WhatsApp to return soon Lanistar is a “first in fintech” according to Forbes, but the FCA warn consumers against using its services Rooster Money predicts what all the kids want for Christmas This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital (https://hubs.ly/H0w__kt0) the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically differentiate their digital offerings from those of MegaBanks, BigTechs and FinTechs. This podcast is also brought to you by Pento (https://pento.io/insider) - the UK’s first automated payroll platform. Say goodbye to clumsy spreadsheets, endless emails with external payroll providers and manual payments. Pento lets you run payroll in just a few clicks. It calculates taxes, integrates with platforms like Xero and makes all the payments and reports to HMRC & pension providers for you. Go to pento.io/insider to run payroll for free for the rest of the year. Banking as a Service is deconstructing the banking stack. It's enabling brands to embed finance more easily, and to tailor financial products to specific customer needs. This is presenting new opportunities for specialised providers and offers banks extra revenue streams. Download our report for a comprehensive, no BS view of what Banking as a Service is and what it means for the industry. Head to bit.ly/bankingasaservice (https://bit.ly/bankingasaservice). Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates and Sarah Kocianski and joined by a range of brilliant guests, we cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Anna Irrera, David Jarvis, and Ginger Schmeltzer.
Dexter Cousins chats to Joe McGuire, CEO and Co-founder of MyMy, a Malaysian FinTech tackling the issue of financial inclusion.Joe is an Aussie and has spent part of his career with Commonwealth Bank before joining Airwallex in the early days.in 2017 Joe spotted a huge opportunity in Malaysia and began the journey of what he is planning to be Malaysia's first Neo Bank.In building MyMy's core system from scratch, Joe and the team is re-defining financial services in Malaysia. And having built the technology platform, MyMy has spun off another business to challenge rising stars like Railsbank.Tune in for a super interesting discussion on the challenges faced launching a start up in Malaysia, the size of the SE Asia opportunity, the obligatory Covid-19 'Pivot' and why the Neo Bank model will prove to be a winner in the next decade.For more info go to https://www.my-my.com/Thanks To Our Partners FinTech Australia We share a mission to build a strong Fintech community, foster connections and support innovation.Launch, Scale, Innovate Leaders in Fintech Executive Search and Recruitment
In the latest episode of Fintech@Haas, I chat with Dov Marmor, COO of North America for Railsbank where they have just launched their Credit-Card-as-a-Service. Railsbank enables any business to prototype, build and scale their own financial services products. They are riding the wave of embedded finance and enabling innovative brnads to solve unique problems for their customers. We touch on the history of Railsbank and the challenges in launching a global banking platform and his approach to culture. Since we spoke Railsbank successfully raised $37m in funding to grow their business.
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Nico Cortés is Talent Acquisition Specialist at Railsbank. Railsbank is a banking and compliance platform. It is a B2B company that connects a network of banks, financial institutions and compliance providers to companies that want to integrate global banking into their app or business. They have set out to make it super simple to access financial services by giving "access to global banking with 5 lines of code". Nico gives us some amazing advice for fellow Recruiters and an insight into the reason why Railsbank is so successful and why creating robust and dedicated teams is so powerful in any business. Making teamwork one of Railsbank's core company values, and a clear emphasis on self-managing teams that are empowered by great leaders to make their own decisions to achieve their personal and company goals. Showtimes 0:45 - What Railsbank provides as a Fintec service. 1:50 - Access to global banking with 5 lines of code! 2:30 - Nico's role and career history in Recruitment. 4:12 - How the business has grown, despite Covid. 5:30 - What the reason is for the success of Railsbank. 7.46 - Creating strong teams and strategies to ensure success is imperative. 8:35 - The culture at Railsbank. 10:44 - Reading body language during an interview over video conferencing. 14:44 - Transparency in recruitment 15:30 - The undervalued and overlooked skills in the industry. 20:00 - Recruiters' time is precious. 21:30 - Advice for people starting out in recruitment. 24:00 - Where Nico looks to for inspiration and other resources he relies on. 28:00 - Learning the hard way, is the best way - taking positives from negative situations. 29:45 - The future of Railsbank.
Whether you're running a business in payments, or a fintech-related business, you may come across APIs. Dov Marmor, COO of Railsbank North America joins the show to discuss why they're so powerful, Credit Cards as a Service, and more. Find show notes and more at: https://www.soarpay.com/podcast/
Nigel Verdon is the cofounder and CEO of Railsbank which is an open banking API and platform that gives regulated and un-regulated companies access to global banking. The company has raised over $14 million from top tier investors like Kima, Moneta VC, and Visa to name a few.
Nigel Verdon is the cofounder and CEO of Railsbank which is an open banking API and platform that gives regulated and un-regulated companies access to global banking. The company has raised over $14 million from top tier investors like Kima, Moneta VC, and Visa to name a few.
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Jason Bates, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Shefali Roy - COO and CCO at TrueLayer Rachel Green - Research Analyst for Insider Intelligence We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Railsbank to buy Wirecard UK (01:54) JPMorgan to challenge UK banks with digital launch in early 2021 (12:00) Under lockdown open banking payments surged 800% (25:40) Laybuy goes floating on the Australian stock exchange (36:43) Zopa takes first steps in digital banking with the launch of their fixed term savings accounts (45:25) Japan is running out of credit card numbers (53:36) *Banking as a Service is deconstructing the banking stack. * It's enabling brands to embed finance more easily, and to tailor financial products to specific customer needs. This is presenting new opportunities for specialised providers and offers banks extra revenue streams. Download our report for a comprehensive, no BS view of what Banking as a Service is and what it means for the industry. Head to bit.ly/bankingasaservice. Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates and Sarah Kocianski and joined by a range of brilliant guests, we cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Rachel Green and Shefali Roy.
In episode 37 of the FinTech Australia Podcast Dexter chats with Shaul David, APAC Region Director of Railsbank.Railsbank enables every business to become a fintech. By solving the pain points of infrastructure, regulation, operation and integration, they help founders, CEO's, product managers and marketers at any company or brand prototype, launch and scale any financial product.Founded by Nigel Verdon (Founder of Currency Cloud) and Clive Mitchell, Railsbank set out to make it super simple to access financial services by giving "access to global banking with 5 lines of code".Shaul talks about some of the success stories so far and their plans for Australia.We are super excited to see Railsbank coming to Aus as open banking gains momentum.To find out more go to www.railsbank.comFollow Shaul; https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaul-david-a53262 and Twitter @ShaulDavidUKPS, if you like the show please leave a review, it helps us attract great guests!-------------------This podcast is produced by Tier One People, leaders in FinTech Executive SearchYour Host, Dexter Cousins is Founder and CEO of Tier One PeopleThanks to our partners FinTech Australia - a member-driven organisation that is building an ecosystem of Australian Fintechs advancing the global economy.We share their mission to build a strong community, foster connections and support innovation. To become a member go to https://fintechaustralia.org.au/join-now/If you would like to sponsor the show please contact info@tieronepeople.comJOIN THE FASTEST GROWING COMMUNITY IN FINTECHThanks To Our Partners FinTech Australia We share a mission to build a strong Fintech community, foster connections and support innovation.Tier One People Advisory Services Helping founders get from seed to series B.
Railsbank is the pioneer and innovator in the global Banking as a Platform (BaaP) sector, enabling banks, businesses and brands to define the future of consumer and SME finance. Currently, Railsbank is live and enabling customers in the UK, Europe, SE Asia and the US. We spoke with their CEO, Nigel Verdon. You can find out more or connect to Nigel on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelverdon/ When you connect tell him you listened to this podcast and all of the others. We would be super grateful if you could take 2 minutes to write a quick review which will help this reach a wider audience and bring some value like hope it's done for you. Use the link below or write a review on iTunes directly: ratethispodcast.com/vineresources.
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Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Simon Taylor, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Shafali Gupta - VP Strategy and Ops at Fluidly Roisin Levine - Head of Banks at Flux Erin Platts - Head of EMEA and President of UK Branch at Silicon Valley Bank We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Starling Bank and OakNorth join coronavirus loan programme (02:53) PayPal, Intuit and Square to issue coronavirus relief in the US (16:15) US government in talks with Onfido about immunity passports (24:28) Morgan Stanley leads $34 million round in 86 400 (34:43) Visa invests in open banking and compliance platform Railsbank (42:13) Marcus launches point-of-sale lending product (48:57) A women-only neobank is coming to Brazil (56:03) This podcast is brought to you by Mitek (https://www.miteksystems.com/). Smart, automated and fast. Mitek (https://www.miteksystems.com/) helps you reduce fraud, create trust, and offer your customers the experience they value. Hundreds of AI-based analytics and face comparison algorithms work together to verify a user is truly the owner of their ID document in order to enable secure customer acquisition, fast money movement and prevent account takeover fraud. Document verification and facial biometrics work hand-in-hand to verify identities of users to provide them with a secure and convenient onboarding process. Love fintech? Then sign up for our newsletter, Fintech in Five. A snack-sized selection of the week's biggest stories, longer reads, soundbites and more. Just visit this link to sign up! 11fs.com/newsletter Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates, Leda Glyptis and Sarah Kocianski and joined by a range of brilliant guests, we cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Erin Platts, Roisin Levine , and Shafali Gupta.
Nick Kerigan is a Fintech and Payments industry veteran, most recently at the role Managing Director - Future Payments at Barclaycard. His team has been responsible for designing and developing innovations such as the award-winning Grab+Go and Dine & Dash.. In this episode we talk about the UK fintech ecosystem helping out with the COVID-19 crisis, power of banking-as-a-service, co-branded cards for Batman fans and more. Listen until the end to hear Nick answer the billion dollar question: What is the future of payments and banking? Here is a rundown of the episode, if you want to jump ahead: 01:50 Why banks like Barclays partner with fintechs 06:20 UK Fintech community helping out with Coronavirus relief 12:05 The power of banking as a service like Railsbank 20:45 Your bank transactions in Excel. Will this work? 26:44 Getting kids and teenagers to use banking 31:50 On getting a Batman card and the future of co-branded card 38:35 What is the future of payments and banking? You can find Nick Kerigan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-kerigan Note: Apologies for the lower audio quality at times. - - - Banking in Air podcast explores the lives and journeys of founders and technology leaders as they work to overcome challenges in am ever-changing world. Hosted by Marcel Klimo of Vacuumlabs.
Banking as a Service Nigel Verdon, Railsbank Nick Ogden, Clearbank Sophie Guibaud, Robin Finance Tech Frank Otten, Varengold Bank Moderator: Helene Panzarino, Rainmaking
It's all about technology! Joanna Jenkins, Head of Compliance at Railsbank, on the future of Regtech and what it means for the industry and compliance officers. Points of Interest 01:55 Railsbank Explained: Open Banking & Compliance Platform 04:05 Career Journey 10:20 How Regtech is Changing Industries: Financial, Healthcare, Government, Cannabis 12:06 Exciting Developments: Customers Select Vendors to Integrate, Compliance Firewall 15:46 Pattern Recognition - Fighting Financial Crime, AML, Modern-Slavery 18:23 Enhance Your Technology, Don't Build a Larger Team 19:15 Rapid Fire Round Get transcript and more on our website >
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Cameron Parry, CEO of Lionsgold speaks to Share talk about the Proposed Investment Securing Goldbloc Banking Platform. How he see's the companies future short mid-term, what debit card LION has agreed to use. He comments on a future listing for the company on a new stock exchange, answers shareholders questions. This is a personal interview, Cameron explains why he and his fellow directors invested personal family monies £300,000 alongside Lionsgold plans to invest £1.25 million from existing funds in Railsbank for a 12.5% equity stake. Subject to Lionsgold choosing to proceed, Lionsgold (or its subsidiary nominee) to have exclusive access to Railsbank's banking platform in relation to deposits connected with physical gold or gold derivatives, for a period of three years. This is an exclusive deal with LION that will them a competitive stance over other rivals. About Railsbank Railsbank is a banking and compliance platform which connects a global network of partner banks with companies who want API (Application Programmer Interface) access to global banking. Railsbank simplifies on-boarding companies to its banking partners, then gives access via the Railsbank API to banking services such as creating digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to real bank accounts, issuing IBANs for ledgers, receiving money, sending money, converting money (FX), collecting money (direct debit), issuing cards, and managing credit. www.railsbank.com
Welcome back after a week off last week - our first in a year. Wow. Hope everyone's having some fun this summer. We've got some amazing guests lined up over the next few months, so stay tuned for that. We're increasingly active in our newsletter lately - if you'd like to be a part of that, you can subscribe on our website at www.bankingthefuture.com. Today, we've got one for the entrepreneurs. We've had some great episodes with venture capitalists and founders going through the most interesting opportunities their seeing, ideas about areas of fintech ripe for further innovation, startup advice and more. We're pulling all of that together in one place in a nod to our founder and aspiring founder listeners, of which there are many. A lot of the questions that come up most often in our community are around turning concepts into action. One of our core tenants at Rebank is that its delivery that matters. The discussion and analysis of high level ideas and trends are part of the work that takes place around and in support of execution, but with no action, the reflection is only so relevant. Today, we hear from a number of past guests, including Michael Kent of Azimo, Steve Lemon of CurrencyCloud, Nigel Verdon of Railsbank, Alex Macpherson of Octopus Ventures, Carolina Brochado of Atomico, Michael Treskow of Eight Roads, Ameya Upadhyay of Omidyar, Charlie Delingpole of ComplyAdvantage and Aman Ghei of Orange Growth Capital. As always, connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or on our website at bankingthefuture.com. If you like today's show, please subscribe on iTunes, or your podcast platform of choice, and leave us a review. Please enjoy today's special episode on starting a fintech.
Shaun Weston interviews Nigel Verdon from RailsBank, who talks about the technology and potential behind APIs, London's fintech ecosystem, and mentoring.
Nigel Verdon is the co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, an API-layer connecting fintechs to a wide range of banking and payments services in five lines of code. Nigel is a pillar of the London fintech community. Prior to starting Railsbank, he founded and ran CurrencyCloud, an API-based FX and payments solution, invested as a venture capitalist at Orange Growth Ventures, advised startups in the UK and Europe and traded FX at Nomura and Swiss Bank. Banking-as-a-platform is regularly cited as the next phase of financial services evolution, and Railsbank is operating at the cutting edge of that trend. As always, connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or on our website at bankingthefuture.com. If you like today's show, please subscribe on iTunes, or your podcast platform of choice, and leave us a review. Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome, Nigel Verdon.
In this episode Onboarding a FinTech into a bank is expensive, due to acquisition and compliance costs, and the risks that come with different APIs. Railsbank, which goes live in early 2017, will give banks access to the FinTech world through one API. We talk to Nigel Verdon, CEO and Co-founder of Railsbank, about how his company serves as the glue between FinTechs and banks. Nigel Verdon, CEO & co-founder Railsbank, @nigelverdon Enjoy the show! If you like what you hear, subscribe, review us on iTunes, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. You can always email us at fintechinsider@11fs.co.uk The post Ep127 – Giving Banks Fintech Access Through One API appeared first on 11FS. The post Ep127 – Giving Banks FinTech Access Through One API appeared first on 11:FS.
In this episode Onboarding a FinTech into a bank is expensive, due to acquisition and compliance costs, and the risks that come with different APIs. Railsbank, which goes live in early 2017, will give banks access to the FinTech world through one API. We talk to Nigel Verdon, CEO and Co-founder of Railsbank, about how his company serves as the glue between FinTechs and banks. Nigel Verdon, CEO & co-founder Railsbank, @nigelverdon Enjoy the show! If you like what you hear, subscribe, review us on iTunes, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. You can always email us at fintechinsider@11fs.co.uk The post Ep127 – Giving Banks Fintech Access Through One API appeared first on 11FS. The post Ep127 – Giving Banks FinTech Access Through One API appeared first on 11:FS.
In this episode Are chatbots the last bridge to true AI? Or are we getting excited over nothing? We discuss whether chatbots are ready for primetime, as well as the latest fintech news. Guests this week Sam Maule, Director of Digital & FInTech at NTT DATA Americas @sammaule Nigel Verdon, CEO & co-founder of Railsbank @nigelverdon Leysa Li, Head of Content at Railsbank @LesyaLi News this week ValueWalk – Future of FinTech [INFOGRAPHIC] – Link Business Insider – Chancellor Philip Hammond says UK is ‘global fintech capital’ as Nutmeg raises £30 million – Link Banking Technology – More branches and jobs to go at Lloyds Banking Group – Link City AM – Most fintech employees don’t value diversity in the workplace – Link Mattermark – AI Is The New New Thing (And It’s Taking Over) – Link Finextra – PayPal sends cash with Siri – Link HBR – Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs – Link Engadet – Twitter expands ‘mute’ and ‘report’ features to combat abuse – Link Why chatbots are the last bridge to true AI – Link Enjoy the show! If you like us, subscribe so you never miss an episode. And we’d love to see you on Facebook. The post Ep122 – I Like Chatbots and I Cannot Lie! appeared first on 11FS. The post Ep122 – I Like Chatbots and I Cannot Lie! appeared first on 11:FS.