Fintechpodden

In this episode, we have the great honor of being visited by Emmy Jansson from the fintech company stoEr. Emmy has a long experience within the fintech industry and above all the digitalization of the mortgage market. Before joining stoEr, Emmy was working as a product specialist within lending at Avanza Bank and worked on their new digital mortgage together with Stabelo AB. Now, Emmy is working as Product Operations & Partner Manager at stoEr. During our talk, we discuss the change that is taking place within the mortgage market and what stoEr is building on when it comes to the digitalization of the mortgage market. What challenges does still exist? How will the mortgage market look like in the future and a lot more. We hope that you enjoy the conversation as much as we did!

Christoffer O. Hernæs has a long background within banking and Fintech with his latest position as  chief digital officer of Sbanken, Norway's first digital-only bank and leading challenger bank. Christoffer is also and has been a frequent fintech blogger in Norway with many thoughtful blogposts over the last years. In this episode we got the chance to talk with Christoffer about Apples acquisition of Mobeewave and what it means to the payments and banking industries. We also of course talked about the fintech landscape in norway and the fundamental mismatch between bank's and fintech's when the go into collaborations. Christoffer gave us some advice for how fintech's should avoid wasting their time when trying to collaborate with banks. Finally we got to listen to why Klarna is so great and one of the fintech's in the world with the brightest future.

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In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Mikael Hussain, CEO and co-founder of Anyfin joining us. Anyfin is a Swedish fintech helping customers lower their interest rate on existing credits by utilizing data to take better credit risks. On average Anyfin helps customer lower their interest rate with over 50%. Listen in to learn more about the story behind Anyfin and the plans ahead. 

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This episode is one of a few in a series of best-of-conversations that we have had in Fintechpodden. Over a couple of episodes we have put together some of the highlights in all the interviews that we have held with different founders and leaders within the fintech industry. In this part, we get to listen to excellent Daniel Döderleinn when he passionately talks about his entreprenuerial journey founding mCash which later became the technology behind Vipps and what he thinks about PSD2 and how startups should do to get a PSD2 License. We also talk to Che Sidanius about Financial Crime, Green Crime, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and a lot more. Chris skinner speaks about what the world for banks will look like after the PSD2 Pandemic and why he likes Klarna and Stripe so much. Finally super nice Michael O'Loughlin tells us about Open Finance, PSD2, How far the banks have come within this space and the true meaning of banking the unbanked. We hope that you enjoy this episode!

In this episode, the Fintechpodden hosts, Gustaf and Johan sits down to discuss the biggest news and development of the fintech space in 2020. Topics includes the Wirecard scandal, Visa's acquisition of Plaid, the open banking development in the Nordics and much more. 

Fintechpodden will be back with some new exciting episodes in August. 

This episode is the last episode from Sthlm Fintech Week 2020 that we recorded in february. The guest in this episode is no one else than Taavi Tamkivi from Salv which is a company that help financial institutions combating crime by providing a flexible AML platform. Taavi is a person with an interesting background with previous positions at Skype and he has also been studying mathematics for many years but dropped out of his PhD when starting at Skype in its early days. We talk about the problems that exist in todays environments when it comes to fighting against fraud and money laundering. We also discuss what the future will be looking like and how Salv really can make a difference in the field of financial crime prevention.

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In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Gustav Berghog from Zmarta joining us. Zmarta is a service that helps customers lowering their mortgage, insurances, electricity bills, and much more. 

We will hear Gustav tell his experience of unifying three different brands under the Zmarta umbrella and how to build a new company culture. We will also hear more about how Zmarta in the future can help customers with even more savings and also becoming the customers own CFO. By using Zmarta's services a Swedish household can today save over 4000 € per year by challenging their current mortgage, insurances, and electricity bills. You will learn more about his and much more in this episode, enjoy! 

In this episode we are joined by Per Andersson who is CEO at Reg&Tech Solutions, FCG. Per knows many of the more than 400 fintech companies just in Sweden, Stockholm. We discuss what the regulatory challenges and opportunities, what FCG does and how they help both fintechs and larger financial institutions with reg and tech solutions. We discussed what Know You Client/Customer actually means and compares it with Know your Data. Questions such as what is needed to understand your data. What can you do to understand your data better? What are the low hanging fruits? And of course how Per can help clients with this. We also had time to listen to Pers view on the market and where we are heading in the near future. Join our discussion in this short but very informative episode!

Valega Chain Analytics have made it easier for everyone to analyse and prevent illegal activities in crypto and blockchain related transaction. In this episode we get to talk to Sven Martinsson, CEO and founder of Valegachain. We talk about the dark side of fintech and to what extent blockchain and crypto is being used for illegal activities today. We also talk about the fintech ecosystem and what needs to be done to prevent fraud and fraudulent transactions and what role blockchain can take in the future of a transparent financial market. Join us in this interesting episode with smart and humble Sven.

In this episode of Fintechpodden, we have the pleasure of having Hanna Raftell joining us. Hanna has a long history within the financial service industry and is now the CEO of the Swedish fintech company Fimento. Fimento is a modular cloud technology platform that delivers open banking and data analytics services. 

In the episode, we talk about customer benefits from using a SaaS model and how it can increase their ROI. We talked about how Fimento has helped its customers scaling more rapidly, reduced time to market, and lowered the cost of integration. We also cover how the industry is moving more and more towards value-based pricing models and why this benefits the customers. 

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