Fintech Underground by Alpaca

In episode #29 of Fintech Underground, our CEO, Yoshi, speaks with Mark Chahwan, Co-Founder and CEO of Sarwa about the following topics:

0:00 - Why Sarwa built Sarwa Trade as a way to give their customers more control over their own investing and trading decisions.

4:00 - Why Sarwa has focused on building a robust product suite before expanding into new markets.

10:00 - The impact of adding options to Sarwa’s product suite and how options trading has been a growing trend.

15:00 - How COVID sparked a global interest in investing and asset ownership.

19:00 - The growing trend of increasing access to markets beyond the U.S. exchange.

29:00 - What Mark feels is the hidden gem of the fintech world.

Thank you for listening to Alpaca’s latest episode of Fintech Underground. You can find the YouTube video and transcript here: https://alpaca.markets/learn/how-sarwas-options-trading-and-product-diversity-has-helped-them-scale-quickly

In episode #28 of Fintech Underground, our CEO Yoshi speaks with Erik Zhou, Chief Accounting Officer and SVP of Finance and Accounting at Brex about the following topics:

1:00 - How Erik transitioned from auditing at PwC to the world of startups, including implementing new processes and overcoming challenges.

4:00 - Building an internal account team compared to the process of being an auditor.

9:00 - How internal accounting and financial processes scaled during Brex’s growth from 70 to 1,200 employees.

22:00 - Why Brex built a broker-dealer entity within their business.

37:00 - How Brex is working to position itself as the go-to commercial financial services provider for now and the future, and his role in getting there.

44:00 - The pros and cons of remote work in a scaling company.

51:00 - What is the one undervalued opportunity you see in fintech?

Thank you for listening to Alpaca's latest episode of Fintech Underground. You can find the full transcript here: https://alpaca.markets/learn/how-brex-built-and-scaled-their-accounting-and-financial-operations-028

In episode #027 of Fintech Underground, our CEO Yoshi Yokokawa interviews Tosin Osibodu, Alpaca's Executive Director of Sales. They discuss his pre-Alpaca entrepreneurial ventures, key learnings, and their relevance to Africa's investment climate.

In episode 26 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Diana O’gilvie, Communications Manager at Fimi Market. We talk about starting in web3 and the process of learning, what can we do to have more diversity in web3 and how to find your community.

In episode 25 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Devin Crane, CEO and co-founder of Breaking Equity, we talk about how the role of systematic trading, capture inefficiencies and efficiencies in the market, and finally on the relationship between crypto and securities.

In episode 24 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Justin, co-founder of Dappio. We talk about his journey to where he started building in DeFi, what it takes, and the difficulties, and what has changed from a year ago to this crypto winter.

In episode 23 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Michelle, co-founder of Governance Research Institute. We go over how blockchain works, where is blockchain at right now and where it is going, and how important it is to develop blockchain well.

In episode 22 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Julian Figueroa, owner of YouTube blog Kinetic Finance, a blog with videos explaining crypto and finance-related topics, such as Bitcoin, scams, inflation, among other topics. We discuss topics about the fall of Bitcoin and where its going, liquidation engines, and high interest rates.

In episode 21 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Christie Ruales, Product Manager at Alpaca, Conor Anwyll, Sales Director of Key Account at Alpaca, and Jason Hsu, Crypto Growth Manager at Alpaca. They all attended Consensus at Austin, TX this month and they share their insights to the event and to the recent fall of crypto.

In episode 20 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Shing Yiing Ong, co-founder of Cryptolingo DAO, and Amy Soon, founder of Blu3 DAO. Cryptolingo DAO is an organization created to break the language barriers in the Web3 space, targeting non-English speakers. Blu3 DAO has the mission of empowering women, non-binaries, and allies to achieve financial freedom in the web3 space through learning, earning, and playing. Shing and Amy share with us their experience and struggles coming into the crypto and web3 world, and how they came to found DAOs.