Fintech Impact

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  • Billd with Christopher Doyle | E155

    In this 155th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Christopher Doyle, the CEO of Billd, a vendor–financing company that allows contractors to purchase materials via credit so they can take on bigger projects!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:32 – Christopher Doyle introduces Billd and its role in the construction industry.
    • 1:17 – How did Billd get started and what motivated it?
    • 3:47 – What were the challenges of trying to make this platform work with being able to profile the clients accurately?
    • 6:27 – Why is commercial construction way worse than individual contractors?
    • 9:00 – Jason and Christopher discuss the risks involved in this business.
    • 10:55 – What does the process look like for contractors looking to work with Billd?
    • 13:06 – Where is the money coming from when it’s time to get paid back?
    • 14:23 – What kind of feedback is Billd getting from its clients?
    • 15:44 – Christopher discusses what has surprised him the most.
    • 18:15 – Jason and Christopher discuss the innovative tech that is being deployed in the construction industry.
    • 19:48 – What change would Christopher make in his business right now?
    • 22:00 – Christopher dives into the biggest growth problems that Billd has faced.
    • 24:11 – What excites Christopher the most about what he is working on?


    3 Key Points

    1. By providing a system of material credits, Billd allows contractors to pay for their materials upfront, allowing them to take on projects that would otherwise be too large to bid on.
    2. Most of the time, when Billd has to get involved for payment, it’s because they haven’t been paid for the work. In this case, Billd gets to act as the bad guy for the contractor.
    3. Even with a slow adoption curve, more and more innovative technology is being used in the construction industry, such as robot learning and 360-degree job site digital views.

     

    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “In construction, contractors rely so much on those upfront payments and often times it’s a limiter to growth and starting the business altogether.” – Christopher Doyle
    • “What we’re really talking about here is the reduction of burden for working capital within a business.” – Jason Pereira
    • “If we’re going to burden someone in that process, it’s the supplier...We try to keep our contractor doing what they do best.” – Christopher Doyle
    • “When you have a small group of people working tightly to build something from scratch, those little things actually will annoy the heck out of you.” – Jason Pereira


    Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • Billd.com/ – Website for Billd

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    27 min
  • 2020 Year In Review with Jason Pereira | E154

    In this 154th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host is interviewed by Guy Anderson about what has been going on for the last 12 months!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:57 – Guy and Jason touch on Jason’s podcast rankings and success in 2020.
    • 2:40 – There are many subcategories in the Fintech industry.
    • 3:24 – What episodes did people like the most this year?
    • 5:48 – Are there any past guests that have made changes that Jason wants to have back on?
    • 7:12 – What are some exciting new technologies in the Fintech space?
    • 9:20 – Jason breaks down Cinchy’s strategies for connecting data with bilateral communication.
    • 10:37 – What is Jason looking forward to in 2021?
    • 11:40 – Jason dives into no-code platforms that are changing tech.
    • 14:28 – Would you spend $120/year for software that would save you 1 minute every day?
    • 17:25 – Jason discusses how automated software is benefiting businesses everywhere.
    • 19:48 – Guy and Jason talk about the painful process that used to be required to sign up for financial software.
    • 20:42 – What does the future relationship look like between the stock exchange and blockchain technology?
    • 21:57 – Is there anything coming down the pipe for the podcast that excites Jason? 


    3 Key Points

    1. In 2020, Fintech Impact has become #2 on Apple and #1 on Spotify for podcasts in the Fintech category.
    2. Crypto and blockchain technologies have gone from speculation and hype to large applications that have begun to deliver.
    3. Automated software provides the opportunity for exponential gains by saving users time.


    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “Each day is the same...This is the year of groundhog days.” – Guy Anderson
    • “Now we’re starting to see real applications of blockchain, and it’s exciting to actually start to see this stuff that had so much promise actually start to deliver.” – Jason Pereira
    • “Once you wrap around what you can do, the number of problems in your life you can start to solve with these platforms is just nuts.” – Jason Pereira
    • “The stuff that used to take a team of 5 can now probably be done by 2 in the same amount of time.” – Jason Pereira


    Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • Fpalpha.com/ – Website for FP Alpha
    • Cinchy.com/ – Website for Cinchy

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    25 min
  • Canaree with Sara Green Broderson | E153

    In this 153rd episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Sara Green Broderson from Canaree, an online projection tool that holds the hands of startups by building their financial model and providing financial advice!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:36 – Sara Green Broderson introduces Canaree.
    • 1:38 – What is Sara’s history before and with Canaree?
    • 4:31 – How does the Canaree end-user experience look from start to finish?
    • 6:06 – Has Canaree involved API connections to accounting software or data aggregation?
    • 6:50 – Jason vents about his frustration with Canada’s lack of an open–banking policy.
    • 7:46 – What drives fundraising? Choice or demand?
    • 10:02 – What are the plans for further development of Canaree?
    • 11:17 – Where does Canaree get its current benchmark data?
    • 12:03 – What is the early feedback from Canaree’s clients?
    • 14:09 – Jason and Sara discuss what it’s like being a female founder in the Fintech industry.
    • 22:01 – How would Sara change the financial industry as a whole?
    • 23:10 – What has been the biggest challenge for Canaree during its growth?
    • 24:40 – Why does Sara get out of bed every morning?


    3 Key Points

    1. Less than 10% of Excel’s functionalities are commonly utilized, making it an ineffective tool to make financial projections and giving way to companies like Canaree.
    2. One of the biggest pain points for startups is not having their finances planned out, thus driving the need for fundraising and projections.
    3. Though there is a lack of gender diversity amongst female founders in the Fintech industry, Sara has found that being one of the few has been a positive experience and the industry is moving in the right direction.

     

    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “The time to model out your business is now because you’re probably facing unprecedented financial stress.” – Jason Pereira
    • “Anyone would think that when you start a company the first thing you would do is sit down and make a budget or a plan for your cost, but people don’t.” – Sara Green Broderson
    • “When we started out we thought it would be founders and non–finance people coming on board, but we’re actually seeing quite a lot of finance individuals signing up.” – Sara Green Broderson
    • “Never discount simplicity and the value of it even to the most complex users.” – Jason Pereira
    • “A worthy cause, entrepreneurship is the lifeblood of any economy.” – Jason Pereira

     

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • Canaree.co – Canaree’s Website
    • LinkedIn – Sara Green Broderson’s LinkedIn

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    28 min
  • Ortec with Richard Owen | E152

    In this 152nd episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Richard Owen, VP of Sales for Retail Wealth Management in North America for Ortec, a company that projects out returns for a variety of asset classes through the use of sophisticated econometric models! 


    Episode Highlights: 

    ● 0:39 – Richard Owen introduces Ortec and the services it provides. 

    ● 3:02 – How did Richard come to be involved with Ortec? 

    ● 4:32 – Jason and Richard compare Monte Carlo analysis and Ortec’s analytical strategy. 

    ● 7:28 – Richard and Jason break down the differences between financial projection companies in Canada and Ortec. 

    ● 11:17 – Jason and Richard discuss Ortec’s core capability of providing a realistic view of the future. 

    ● 16:06 – How often do Ortec’s algorithms shift and adjust with the market? 

    ● 18:18 – Richard breaks down just how specific of information their models bring to advisors. 

    ● 20:11 – How do Ortec’s clients feel about its methods and projections? 

    ● 22:02 – What are the real-life deployment cases for Ortec’s software on a retail level? 

    ● 24:53 – What kind of feedback does Ortec get from institutions and advisors? 

    ● 28:30 – Jason and Richard discuss the tendency for businesses and individuals to have the wrong goals. 

    ● 30:06 – What would Richard change in the financial planning industry? 

    ● 31:08 – Richard explains the biggest challenge for Ortec in North America. 

    ● 32:07 – What excites Richard the most about what he is doing? 


    3 Key Points 

    1. Ortec creates large economic models, up to 40 years out, for both companies and individuals throughout the European and North American markets. 

    2. Most large financial institutions make the mistake of solely looking backward to historical data to project for the future, while Ortec uses historical data and current trends to make its projections. 

    3. Ortec deploys its software in 3 different ways: client-facing API, integration with existing systems, and integration with Salesforce. 


    Tweetable Quotes: 

    ● “Historical data has biases...it doesn’t necessarily give you a good view of what the future looks like.” – Richard Owen

    ● “It’s very very hard to operationalize those capital market models...The assumptions that you’ve built into the plan then need to change because the portfolio has changed.” – Richard Owen 

    ● “Really, a lot of this is about driving what is the next best action for the advisor.” – Jason Pereira 

    ● “You tell us the asset allocation and portfolio value, we’ll project out that future returns. What you do with that really depends on the use case.” – Richard Owen 


    Resources Mentioned: 

    ● Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook 

    ● LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn 

    ● FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact 

    ● JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter 

    ● Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial 

    ● Ortecfinance.com – Website for Ortec


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    35 min
  • iComply with Matthew Unger | E151

    In this 151st episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Matthew Unger, the CEO of iComply, a company that deploys intelligent compliance management services! 


    Episode Highlights: 

    ● 0:35 – Matthew Unger introduces iComply. 

    ● 1:18 – What was the origin of iComply and why did Matthew create it? 

    ● 5:21 – How is iComply different from its competition? 

    ● 8:49 – Jason translates iComply’s platform into layman’s terms. 

    ● 10:15 – Matthew discusses the growing possibilities of client-side processing. 

    ● 15:10 – How does iComply protect the user experience? 

    ● 17:00 – Matthew breaks down the validation problems of current API–based KYC data services. 

    ● 20:57 – What would Matthew change about his industry as a whole? 

    ● 23:08 – Matthew discusses the biggest challenge in getting iComply to where it is today. 

    ● 25:02 – What excites Matthew the most about what he does? 


    3 Key Points 

    1. COVID has forced people and businesses out of brick–and–mortar services and into the future of financial tech. 

    2. iComply sends verification programming to the devices of the end-users rather than having them come into a store to do facial verification. 

    3. API–based KYC workflows have taken the human element out of the data input process, allowing users to make it to the end of the process before informing them that there is a problem. 


    Tweetable Quotes: 

    ● “Things like KYC, things like compliance need to have a fresh look at how we handle user data and user privacy, and that’s really what led us down this path.” – Matthew Unger 

    ● “What we actually do is we send the verification program into the browser of the client, so all of their data stays on their device.” – Matthew Unger 

    ● “At the end of the day, you’re still pushing some form of data into the cloud to feedback something to verify.” – Jason Pereira 

    ● “We can perform initial validation on the date the user’s inputting, and when the user inputs data that doesn’t seem to check out, we can immediately ask the user to correct it while they’re sitting at that form field.” – Matthew Unger


    Resources Mentioned: 

    ● Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook 

    ● LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn 

    ● FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact 

    ● JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter

    ● Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial 

    ● iComplyis.com – Website for iComply

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    30 min
  • FP Pad with Bill Winterberg | E150

    In this 150th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Bill Winterberg, Founder of FP Pad, a source of educational content on tech for financial advising and forecasting. Bill is here to have a friendly chat about the current state of affairs as well as the future of tech in the world of financial advising!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:38 – Bill Winterberg introduces his website, FP Pad.
    • 3:04 – What did Bill do before he founded FP Pad?
    • 5:14 – Ted shares his dream before he went to college.
    • 9:35 – How painful was the state of affairs of technology when Bill got into financial advising?
    • 11:52 – Jason and Bill dive into the effects that AWS played on the cloud technology boom.
    • 15:42 – What are Bill’s best practices when he takes on a new client?
    • 20:53 – How much of an obstacle does changing the behavior of people in the firm represent?
    • 24:30 – Jason and Bill break down how to scale without integrating more than a firm can handle.
    • 28:08 – Where does Bill see the biggest changes in the future for the day–to–day life of financial advisors?
    • 32:50 – Jason and Bill discuss the tendency of financial advisors to believe bad advice.
    • 35:41 – How should advisors be spending their time these days?
    • 40:04 – What would Bill change about his industry as a whole?
    • 42:05 – What has been the biggest challenge for Bill to get to where he is today?
    • 45:10 – Bill talks about what excites him for the future.


    3 Key Points

    1. FP Pad has evolved from a website and blog to a YouTube channel, podcast, activity highlights, and a plethora of other content and resources to improve Fintech practices.
    2. When taking on a new client, Bill hopes that the person or small group of people in charge of transition are focused on adding value to the company while helping everyone grow.
    3. Bill hopes that in 5 years, financial advisors will go from storing financial plans in silos to utilizing financial software that allows them to communicate with each other.

     

    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “The movers and shakers have origins in Electric Avenue.” – Bill Winterberg
    • “If you’re paying on a monthly basis, now you’re not worried about large–scale deployments, you’re worried about constant improvement. And now we all benefit from multiple upgrades per year.” – Jason Pereira
    • “I am very receptive to legacy solutions and what exists in the business.” – Bill Winterberg
    • “Focus on scaling the business with a couple of tools to leverage before you go building this massive platform.” – Jason Pereira
    • “I think advisors should be spending their time figuring out how they’re going to grow their business or engage clients and engage prospects very effectively.” – Bill Winterberg

     

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • XY Planning Network
    • Garrett Planning Network
    • FPPad.com – Website for FP PAd
    • LinkedIn – Bill Winterberg’s LinkedIn

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    49 min
  • Eq Bank with Mahima Poddar | E149

    In this 149th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Mahima Poddar, the Senior Vice President of Digital Banking Strategy at Equitable Bank and head of EQ Bank!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:40 – Mahima Poddar introduces Equitable Bank and EQ Bank.
    • 1:15 – How did Mahima get to her current career?
    • 2:10 – What was the genesis of the decision to move to a Challenger bank?
    • 5:05 – Jason breaks down the banking system in Canada.
    • 6:55 – Mahima discusses the problems with lending/depositing with big banks.
    • 10:15 – Jason and Mahima vent about the dark patterns that big banks have with their accounts.
    • 15:30 – Challenger banks could have made the COVID-loan processes much simpler.
    • 17:02 – How does EQ collaborate with other players in the Challenger space?
    • 21:07 – Jason and Mahima dive into the willingness of the Canadian people to make a banking change.
    • 24:08 – What are the biggest concerns with open banking in different countries?
    • 29:37 – Mahima talks about EQ Bank’s efforts to cause changes within the big banks.
    • 33:12 – What are all the ways that EQ Bank provides great value to its customers?
    • 33:43 – If Mahima could change one thing in banking, what would it be?
    • 35:25 – What has been the biggest challenge in EQ Bank’s growth?
    • 38:30 – What motivates Mahima to battle the glaring issues of big banking?


    3 Key Points

    1. Equitable Bank chose to never be a brick-and-mortar organization and to go the route of a digitized Challenger bank.
    2. EQ Bank offers zero monthly fees, free check deposits, bill-pay, interest-earning checking accounts, and more as ways to differentiate itself from the big banks.
    3. For the benefit of the Canadian people, EQ Bank aims to go beyond bringing people to its doors and cause real change in the banking system.


     Tweetable Quotes:

    • “We are trying to develop lending products that are serving needs that are underserved by the big banks.” – Mahima Poddar
    • “They don’t make it easy. They don’t understand it, but Equitable does.” – Mahima Poddar
    • “There’s no business account that doesn’t have a larger-than-life fee attached to it.” – Jason Pereira
    • “Friction is not a way to keep your clients. Friction is a way to piss them off and guarantee that when they see a better way, they’re going to leave.” – Jason Pereira
    • “Canadians are starting to become more value-conscious and realize that there are better options available.” – Mahima Poddar


    Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • Eqbank.ca – Website for EQ Bank
    • LinkedIn – Mahima Poddar’s LinkedIn

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    41 min
  • Peernova with Gangesh Ganesan| E148

    In this 148th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Gangesh Ganesan, the Founder and CEO of PeerNova, a data management company that helps companies get control of their data to empower growth!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:32 – Gangesh Ganesan introduces PeerNova and its services.
    • 3:01 – How badly does it look when a company comes to PeerNova?
    • 5:10 – How do companies get onboarded and work with PeerNova?
    • 7:03 – Jason breaks down what a data lake is for those who don’t know.
    • 7:47 – What answers do clients get when they finish the onboarding process?
    • 10:20 – What are the biggest challenges that lead to data being inaccurate?
    • 15:00 – Do clients give positive feedback once they are onboarded with Peernova?
    • 18:47 – How does getting the data situation under control empower future innovation within these companies?
    • 20:54 – Jason explains the concept of low-code and no-code platforms.
    • 21:45 – Gangesh and Jason talk about the next level of AI and trends in the industry.
    • 23:52 – How much more innovation will we see in the next decade now that we have auto-generated code?
    • 24:45 – What would Gangesh change in the financial services industry?
    • 27:10 – What has been the biggest challenge during PeerNova’s growth?
    • 29:42 – Gangesh shares what excites him the most about his job.


    3 Key Points

    1. Peernova is an operating system for data, helping companies manage and clean up their data, something that strangles many companies to death.
    2. Companies that come to PeerNova are not required to onboard all of their data onto PeerNova’s platform but can work side-by-side with PeerNova’s servers as they act as a data lake.
    3. Once companies have their data cleaned up and under organized management, their IT-centric work becomes automated while also empowering their business users.


    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “We run both data quality and process integrity checks on the data and then we allow you to take actions on the results of that data quality and process checks.” – Gangesh Ganesan
    • “Data quality is the albatross around the neck of every company and it is not great.” – Jason Pereira
    • “Trying to find data quality and process issues and trying to make data available to downstream users is looking for a needle in a haystack, and the haystack itself is spread over a huge farm.” – Gangesh Ganesan
    • “Humans are always the weakest link.” – Jason Pereira
    • “The trend in the industry is to automatically start writing software itself for you. Instead of having to write code, you use tools that can write software for you now.” – Gangesh Ganesan

     

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • Peernova.com – PeerNova’s Website
    • LinkedIn – Gangesh Ganesan’s LinkedIn



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    33 min
  • Ava Labs with John Wu | E147

    In this 147th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews John Wu, CEO of Ava Labs, a blockchain company focused on financial institutions!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:33 – John Wu introduces Ava Labs.
    • 1:07 – John dives into his storied career in emerging technologies.
    • 5:38 – How did John dive into the world of blockchain?
    • 7:20 – The owner of Ava Labs reached out to join forces with John.
    • 8:00 – How does Ava Labs solve many of the problems that others do not?
    • 9:57 – Jason and John dive into the problems with crypto exchanges that exist today.
    • 13:50 – John breaks down the reason that blockchain integration will take a long time.
    • 16:28 – Jason and John talk about the evolution of banking and plastic payments.
    • 21:47 – How does the blockchain scale without forgetting about the libertarians that have helped build it?
    • 24:50 – Jason and John look 10 years into the future of blockchain.
    • 27:19 – If John could change one thing about his industry, what would it be?
    • 29:02 – What are the biggest problems that Ava Labs has right now?
    • 30:55 – What inspires John to get jazzed up every day?


    3 Key Points

    1. John began a software company that automated many of the backend tasks and gave access to crypto in an attempt to help individuals and small businesses.
    2. In today’s world of crypto exchanges, everything has been made for crypto users by crypto users, making it difficult for new users to enter the market. Ava Labs hopes to fix that problem.
    3. Eventually, end users will think of blockchain on the same level as using AWS. Even though they won’t understand how it works, it will just be a part of life.

     

    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “Once you start investing for yourself, you realize this stuff is really hard for individuals and small businesses to get involved with.” – John Wu
    • “The attention really comes when people think about it as the value that’s being transferred away from traditional finance to somewhere in the ether.” – John Wu
    • “It’s the adoption cycle of any technology, right?... I’m starting to see the promise of blockchain finally come to fruition.” – Jason Pereira
    • “The concept of a consensus protocol has been around for a long time.” – John Wu
    • “There are so many applications for blockchain in so many niche spaces that you can have many different companies and protocols winning.” – John Wu


     Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • LinkedIn – John Wu’s LinkedIn
    • Avalabs.org – Ava Lab’s Website


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    33 min
  • Auka with Daniel Döderlein | E146

    In this 146th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Daniel Döderlein, the Founder and CEO of Auka, the tech company that helped pioneer mobile-cash transfers in Europe!


    Episode Highlights:

    • 0:37 – Daniel introduces Auka and its journey.
    • 1:26 – Daniel talks about his history as an entrepreneur.
    • 6:15 – Jason and Daniel dive into the regulations that technology companies face and how they are used as a cop-out.
    • 11:03 – What was the genesis of Auka?
    • 19:20 – Daniel talks about the introduction of the smartphone and how that changed the mobile-finance game.
    • 22:32 – mCash lost its patent protection, leading to banks launching their own mobile-payment systems.
    • 24:10 – Daniel talks about his decision to take their mobile-payment system to the international market.
    • 27:02 – What does Settle, the next leg of the journey, look like?
    • 31:57 – What is one thing that Daniel would change in the ecosystem of his industry?
    • 33:53 – What was the biggest challenge for Daniel to get where he is today?
    • 35:40 – What excited Daniel the most about what he is working on?


    3 Key Points

    1. Daniel began his entrepreneurial journey selling ice cream on a boat during summers in Norway, which led him to his entry into the world of technology.
    2. Daniel designed a brand-new payment system from the ground up, using Python to write the first mobile-payment system in Norway, mCash.
    3. Settle was designed as a mobile-payment business model to interconnect the #1 mobile-payment schemes in individual markets.


    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “There are so many firsts that we have done in Auka. We wouldn’t be able to pull that off unless we had a vision, some really talented and dedicated people, and some hustling skills.” – Daniel Döderlein
    • “Move fast and break things does not work well in highly regulated markets, quite honestly.” – Jason Pereira
    • “There needs to be some tech involved in moving this money. Let’s replace this freight train with some fiber optics.” – Daniel Döderlein
    • “We believed firmly there would only be one domestic winner in the mobile-payment space in every individual market.” – Daniel Döderlein


    Resources Mentioned:

    • Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
    • LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
    • FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
    • JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
    • Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
    • LinkedIn – Daniel Döderlein’s LinkedIn


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    39 min

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