Fintechpodden

John Erik Setsaas has a long history within the area of Digital Identity, in fact he started working with this already back in 1995 and have had positions at SAP as senior architect and today he is the Vice President of Identity and Innovation at Signicat. Signicat is a pioneering, pan-European digital identity company with a unrivalled track record in the world’s most advanced digital identity markets. Its digital identity platform incorporates the most extensive suite of identity verification and authentication systems in the world, all accessible through a single integration point. They handle over a million transactions per day and during this episode we get to hear John Erik tell us about the history of Digital Identity, where we are now and what might come around the corner in the future as well as what challenges exists with areas such as Self Sovereign Identities. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did.

In this episode Fintechpodden is joined by Michael O'Loughlin. Michael has a long background within finance, banking and payments. Since two years he is managing director at a young Open Banking company called Token. We talk with Michael about PSD2, Open Banking, Open Finance and its challenges and the opportunities that comes with it. 

I det här avsnittet gästas vi av Henrik Gradin och snackar blockchain, kryptovalutor, bitcoin, betalningar och framförallt framtidens betalsystem. Henrik är en oerhört erfaren serieentreprenör som har startat hela 7 st IT-bolag tidigare i sin karriär. Sedan två år tillbaka är han grundare och VD på betalningsplattformen Centiglobe. Ett bolag som idag består av ca 20 personer med ambitionen att skapa ett globalt swish där alla betalinstitut och banker är sammankopplade med hjälp av blockchainteknik. 

In this episode, we had the pleasure of having Michael Pierce, sales director at the cloud core banking provider Mambu joining us. We talked about how fintechs and banks around the world use Mambu's services to faster and better deliver new services to their customers. We also talked about composable banking and how banks around the world create speed boat initiatives to better be able to innovate and explore new technologies. 

In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Che Sidanius, Global Head of Financial Crime & Industry Affairs at Refinitiv with us. Che is an experienced leader with a variety of leadership roles within the areas of online crime prevention, regulation, financial crime, green grime and other types of cyber crimes from companies such as KMPG, PwC and Bank of England. In the episode we talk about many different kinds of crimes that can be done online. We also briefly talk about the crimes that may have been done behind the corona virus.

In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Eli Daniel Keren, Co-founder and head of strategy at P.F.C joining us. Eli tells us about his background, starting with studies in London and his entrepreneurial experience starting several ventures. How he got inspired and introduced to Fintech when he lived in New York right after the crash of Lehman Brothers and the following financial crisis. When he got back from New York he went around in Stockholm to pitch the idea of the company that we today call P.F.C. You will also hear us discuss with Eli about why Personalization is such a big thing in the future of banking.

In this episode we have the pleasure of having Morten Sønderskov, COO at Lunar joining us. Lunar is a fully digital Nordic bank that has the mission to really transform the way we bank and creating a financial super app. We get to listen to what challenges Morten sees for challenger banks and what they have learned so far building Lunar. We also talk about the financial eco system and how Lunar is combining financial and non-financial services simultaneously and integrated in their app. And of course, Morten shared interesting insights on what he sees coming for Lunar and where they will be in a couple of years and what kind of partnerships that will be crucial for succeeding within the finance industry.

This episode is part of a special episodes series that were recorded during STHLM Fintech Week 2020.

In this episode we have the pleasure of having Sara Berg, COO at Trustly joining us. Sara gives us an introduction to Trustly and the services it provides. Trustly recently entered the US market so we discussed the differences in regulations between Europe and US. Sara also described her view on the PSD2 implementation and what is needed to really unlock the promises of PSD2. This and much more you can hear about in this episode. 

In this special episode recorded live from Stockholm fintech week, we had the pleasure of having Roland Palmer from Alipay and Masood Arai from ePassi joining us.

We talked about how the collaboration between Alipay and ePassi, has enable Chinese tourists to pay with their own Alipay app when they travel here in the Nordics. Roland and Masood openly shared interesting insights both about the collaboration between the two companies but also about the future of payments and they gave their thoughts on where the market is heading. Roland also tells you what “Payments Plus” is, and why payments are just the key to the door and that the actual power is the possibilities with digital marketing.

This episode is part of a special series of episodes that were recorded during Stockholm Fintech week 2020 in collaboration with Stockholm Fintech week.

During Stockholm Fintech Week 2020, we had the pleasure to interview Lars Sjögren CEO at P27. In this episode Lars openly shared the vision and ambitions behind P27 and he described the new payments platform as the first of its kind in the world. Described as a wonderful instant payments network which will function cross-border and multi-currency.

P27 is a unique collaboration that unifies instant payments within the Nordic area. It is being built in different layers which will enable not just banks to interact with the platform but indirectly also FinTech’s, through banks, to interact with the platform. In addition to enabling innovation for banks and Fintech’s, P27 will also cut costs dramatically, by around 80%. The network will In January 2021 go live with four banks, Handelsbanken, Swedbank, Danske Bank and the fintech Klarna being the first players to use the platform.

This episode is part of a special series of episodes that was recorded during Stockholm Fintech week 2020 in collaboration with Stockholm Fintech week.