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Linda talked with Tal Sharon and Nir Netzer from Equitech.

Equitech is an Israeli consultancy firm providing innovation scouting services to financial institutions and business development services to FinTech and Cyber Security ventures. They're also leading FinTech-Aviv community, one of the world's largest FinTech communities, consists of 6,000 members.

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Linda talked with Akos Deliaga, one of the co-founders at Talk-A-Bot, a Hungarian chat-bot provider start-up.

Akos talked about why is it a great strategy to embed your chatbots into superapplications. 

Talk-A-Bot was one of the 10 start-ups that could participate in Techstars accelerator program powered by Rakuten. Akos talked about the program. 

Akos revealed what is the goal with their recently announced 2M Euro investment and he talked about the interesting business strategy they choose.

Linda talked with Andrius Biceika head of business development at Revolut. Revolut was founded in 2015,  now (2018 Dec) they have more than 3M customers worldwide. 

Andrius walked me through Revolut's world beyond banking. We talked about new product developments at Revolut, but also went deeper to understand the secret sauce behind Revolut's success and to discuss the role of neobanks/challenger banks in today's financial world. 

Special thanks to Hajni Bessenyei and Fintech Camp.

Linda is talking  with Balazs Faluvegi, who is one of the co-founders of Blueopes. Blueopes is a Hungarian wealth tech start-up, that is combining robo advising with ESG investing/social responsible investing. 

Balázs talks about what is the reason why people choose ESG investing and he reveals why social responsible investing is a great financial decision besides being a nice and sustainalbe thought. 

He also talks about the world's biggest fintech competition, the BBVA Open Talent Competition.

In this episode FintechFlow, I smashed things up a bit and instead of having an interview I prepared a report about Junction X Budapest. Junction is Europe's biggest hackathon and the guys from Tech Embassy brought it to Budapest . Over 200 hackers were competing from 40 countries in an astonishing atmosphere.

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