Fintech x Growth

This episode is about owning our own financial data!

I spoke to Alan McDonald, founder of Unbanx, the world's first consumer banking data union. 

We talked about why open banking opens new possibilities for using financial data, but we still don't know who owns our financial data and, most importantly, how we could monetize it - how blockchain and DeFi can help with that.

Also, we chatted about fintech innovation and what the "DeFi mullet" is: fintech at the front, decentralized finance at the back - Alan did this very "technical diagram" on Twitter here.

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This episode is all about scams! As crypto and NFTs are evolving, so are the scams!

To talk about that, I invited Jesse Anglen, founder of Rapid Innovation. He made a YouTube video called "Common Crypto Scams and How to Avoid Them in 2022" that sheds a new light on how scammers are becoming more ingenious.

We talked about the "good old-fashioned" exit scams and Ponzi schemes, the recent NFT wash trading wave, bot accounts, gas fee manipulation, and "sacrificing" —  and other creative types of scams. I've learnt that there is no "free lunch" in the crypto world.

Rapid Innovation is a BlockChain / Web3 App Development company that help startups and entrepreneurs go from concept to launch

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When Pablo Escobar's private zoo was seized by the police and all the animals were re-homed apart from 4 hippos. Now, decades later, these 4 hippos multiplied to 120 individuals. Their impact on the Colombian ecosystem is becoming more and more evident and different wildlife organizations have different opinions in how to deal with the problem: from monitoring, to sterilization and even culling.

So, I invited two guests, Chris Truman and Benton Perret, co-founders of Pablo's Hippos, an NFT project with a mission to help funding different wildlife NGOs in Colombia using decentralized governance with the funds raise of their NFT sales.

You can read Chris' article about decentralized governance here

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I invited Eric Osuorah, the founder of AFOMA, "the goodwill token". He wanted to empower artisans and small businesses in different African communities, so he started Sellitic - a more financial inclusive eCommerce marketplace using a crypto token called AFOMA.

He told me that these craftsmen and artists want to sell outside of their native countries, but the existing cross-border payment methods (PayPal and bank transfers) are prohibitively expensive, slow, and impractical for small businesses in emerging markets. Also, Eric told me about the difficulties in educating about crypto technology and its benefits, but he already has a strategy in place.

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This episode will be about Crypto as a Service: the gap between traditional finance and crypto finance is closing! 

I invited fellow Brazilian Bruno Diniz, a fintech advisor, best-selling author and managing director of Spiralem, a consultancy focused on Fintech. 

We talked about what Crypto as a Service (CaaS) is, why Bruno thinks that CaaS will boom in 2022 and the coming years. Plus, we talked about embedded finance, regulations for crypto and fintech companies and some other fintech trends coming up (or evolving) in the next 12 months. 

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Bruno's article (in English): Crypto-as-a-Service and the new financial market infrastructure 

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Welcome to the third (and last) episode of the Blockchain + Football series! This episode is all about crypto sponsorships.

I invited Matt House, Founder of SportQuake and eSportQuake to talk about the wave of crypto sponsorships happening in the last 12 months and how they will evolve in the years to come.

Matt gave us an overview of the regulations, sponsorships, and advertising in Europe and US and in emerging markets like Brazil and Africa. He also told me about the crypto sport sponsorship trifecta, which includes football (which we already know), eSports, and Formula 1.

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Welcome to the Blockchain + Football series! Here is my chat with football writer Martin Calladine, Author of football books The Ugly Game and The Lies and Fall of OWNaFC. 

We talked about fan tokens and why they might be doomed, the rise and fall of the infamous crowdfunding football app OWNaFC and why Martin decided to write a book about this scandal. If you are not familiar with this story, you are in for a wild ride! 

Also, why a lack of regulation may be the reason of future types of fan-based club ownerships (either with crypto or fiat) will face the same fate as OWNaFC. 

Buy Fit and Proper People: The Lies and Fall of OWNaFC here 

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And 

Watch Pelé's Goal on Brazil vs Italy World Cup Final 1970 here 

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Welcome to the first episode of Blockchain + Football series! To kickoff the series I invited Petrit Berisha, head of CryptoMedia at Copa90 and multi award winning podcast creator. 

He is "the person" to talk about all things football and sports. 

We talked about why crypto sponsorships in Football clubs are booming, why Petrit thinks the fan token model needs to change and evolve, and why some team NFTs received criticism.  

Petrit has just launched a new podcast about NFTs - Floorcast - Check it out here 

Also, you can subscribe to his newsletter Sporting Crypto here 

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This episode is for anyone who is planning to create (or has already launched) a NFT, or who simply wants to learn more about community building.

I've got countless emails from various NFT projects saying that they launched the project but it had little traction, meaning no sales.

So, I invited Jun Loayza, founder of Metablox, a NFT project that allows you to own real world places as NFTs, powered by real life memories. 

Jun has a fantastic series of Medium blog posts about some of the strategies he used to build a thriving community for Metablox, including using Google Docs to publish their white paper with their community's help and some tips for keeping a Discord channel active and engaging.

Metablox Discord discord.gg/gEqZHj8ANt

And here is my Medium post  3 Don’ts if You Want to Launch your NFT Successfully

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Did you know that malaria kills over 400,000 people per year globally?

This episode will be about how a project in Uganda is reaching underserved areas where testing for malaria can be challenging and having the diagnosis early can be a matter of life or death. 

I invited Lito Michala, PhD and Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the school of computing science focused on IoT - and she is involved in the project to talked about why they chose the blockchain technology to store and share the data of the malaria test results and the challenges for blockchain adoption in the healthcare system.

In the second part I selected some clips from my interview with Professor Jon Cooper and Julien Reboud from the Bioengineering school at the University of Glasgow – we talked about how the project came about – the technology behind the test – cleverly named origami testing and how smartphones are used as a power source providing electricity to process the test.

If you want to listen to this second part in full, just go to my other podcast Emerging Markets Today in this link.

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