Akoni CEO, Felicia Meyerowitz Singh, [PFF2021/15]

When he got his first taste of startup life, in San Francisco, freshly-graduated Freddy Kelly did a few months at culinary school on the side. Little did he know that years later, his baking skills wo...

24 Joulu 202133min

In its early days, banks tried to block Bankin’. Some set up call centres, warning customers of the danger of using the personal finance app, and encouraging them not to use it. On one occasion, they ...

17 Joulu 202133min

Some people thought launching a fintech during a pandemic was crazy. Then Banxware - a Germany-based, white-labelled SME lending platform - saw its banking partner, Wirecard, blow up. Since then, it’s...

10 Joulu 202132min

How Yoshi Yokokawa is enabling the world to have Robinhood-style access to financial markets and crypto, and why the Alpaca co-founder & CEO feels the furry camel cousin best symbolises this ambition.

26 Marras 202136min

How Olivier Jaillon cheated death, and survived the failure of his U.S. startup, to reinvent a 200-year old insurer-turned-insurtech, Wakam.

19 Marras 202136min

Blurb: How having investors from day one helped wealth management platform, Elinvar, get off to a flying start, and why co-founder and CEO, Chris Bartz, says that doesn’t mean there was any less press...

12 Marras 202128min

Aged 14, Radko Albrecht, was one of Germany’s top figure skaters. A child of Slovakian refugees, he was on track to become an Olympian, something that would have required focus, dedication and the abi...

5 Marras 202135min

When Christoph Rieche told colleagues at Goldman Sachs he was leaving to set up iWoca, some of them thought he was crazy. Others were jealous. Ten years later, the second group would appear to have be...

22 Loka 202133min