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Episode Title:-🇯🇵VCs Buoyant Activity in the Southeast Asia Fintech Market 🇸🇬

In this weeks #HTFintechSeries episode of Heads Talk, I am joined by a charismatic entrepreneur and angel investor who not only is a Forbes 30 Under 30 - Finance/Venture Capital, but also was a member of the South Asian ecommerce startup Daraz, which was sold in 2018 to Alibaba for $200 million. 

Chia Jeng Yang, is a Principal at Saison Capital, the Venture arm of Credit Saison, one of Japan’s largest consumer credit companies. 

This was a very informative conversation and you get a taste of the goings on in the Southeastern region of the world with their ever growing numbers of Unicorns. We talk about what VCs are looking for in the fintech market and what are some of the deals that are going on today. Chia s a very listenable individuals and the episode is full of great nuggets for you to digest. 

Topics Covered: #RegulatorySandbox and #CryptoAdoption #SoutheastAsiaMarket #VCs #Unicorns #B2BFintechInfrastructure #FintechBrandTrust 

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Episode Title:- 🇮🇳Innovative Leadership & Fintech Adoption🇨🇭

International Women's Day was on Tuesday, but we continue to celebrate this with my second remarkable woman of the week on the #HTFintechSeries on Heads Talk. 

Reshma Ramachandran, who is the Chief Transformation Officer and Group Senior Vice President of The Adecco Group. Reshma is my kind of woman. She gets things done! 

I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Reshma, the recorded and after conversation. Reshma is an amazing woman that has done so many things in her life and has achieved a great deal more. So many topics and subjects could have been covered in my conversation with Reshma, as she was a delight to talk to.

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Topics Covered: #FintechVsSTEM #IndiaRevolution #MicroLending #WomenEmpowerment

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Episode Title:-  🇿🇲Shaping Fintech in Zambia🇿🇲

As we celebrate International Woman's Day, let's celebrate this individual woman and the work she is doing to expand financial access to the unbanked on the African continent.

We continue the #HTFintechSeries on Head Talk  with a conversation with Chilufya Mutale, CEO of PremierCredit Zambia.  This admirable leader & successful entrepreneur is tapping into a market and addressing a need for the Micro banking community.  

This was a discussion on the need for micro financing in developing countries and how PremierCredit is addressing this. We also talked about how banks are positively working with large Fintech organisation but are leaving the small businesses behind. As a result, a gap is created for organisation such as PremierCredit to help bridge this gap. 

Chilfuya is doing so many great things on the continent and have some great plans for the future. One of the things mentioned was the peer to peer platform, effectively empowering individuals to micro lend safely and with the necessary controls required. 

Topics Covered: #UnbankedAccessToCredit #BigFintechsAndBanks #MicroLending #Collaborations #PeerToPeerLending 

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Episode Title:-🇬🇧Trailblazing BNPL🇸🇪

We are back full steam ahead with #HTFintechSeries on Heads Talk. Many great guests to come, so watch out for this on Mondays (and sometimes on Thursdays).

Let me start with Alex Marsh, Country Lead and Head Klarna UK. Klarna is the Swedish Bank that is one of the world’s highly valued private Fintechs. 

Now this was an enjoyable conversation. Alex clearly knows his craft and was enthusiastic to discuss the topic of the rise of BNPL. He provided me with some fascinating insights on how BNPL has changed buyers habits and behaviours; and potentially will see the end of Credit Cards as we know it. Lots and lots of great nuggets in this conversation and you’ll have to listen to the whole episode to hear what Alex has got to say on where BNPL is going and importantly what  Klarna is doing that differs to some of the new adopters, but old established names.  

Topics Covered: #MerchantFundedModel #EndOfCreditCard #CustomerProtection #EcommercePayment  #TrustInBanks #Regulations #BNPLNewAdopters 

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Episode Title:-  🇬🇷Redesign Professional Services🇬🇷

In a continuation of the Professional Services week on Heads Talk, I am happy to introduce this erudite leader, whose academic excellence is clearly featured throughout this conversation.  He was a joy to listen to. Definitely a mind expanding exercise and a personal appreciation of the dialogue we had. 

Kyriacos Sabatakakis is the Country Head and Managing Partner Accenture Greece and the South Eastern Europe region. I loved how he elaborated on the reasoning behind some of the directions taken in the professional services industry today. A clear thinker and sound deliverer of information. This is a leader that not only talks about changing, diversifying and doing different and challenging things but also leads on it, creating noticeable results for the organisation and the territories that he heads. So we definitely have a talker and a doer here.  How refreshing!

While the title suggests we talked solely about rethinking professional services for today’s needs, we also discussed the promise of 5G and the direction this is taking us all. Kyriacos, with his extensive experience  and expertise in this field, provided me and my listeners with his understanding on what 5G will bring to the table other the common expectation of better communications. Fascinating segment of the episode, so make a note of this. 

Topics Covered: #BusinessReconstruction #CoCreate #PromiseOf5G #GrowthOfPS #DigitalTransformationPartTwo #DoersNotTalkers

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Episode Title:-  🇺🇸Leadership Dissected🇺🇸

In this episode of Heads Talk, I had a fireside chat with Jay Persaud, Americas Vice Chair at EY.  What an engaging conversation I had with Jay . I loved how he, in answering some of the questions, steered the conversation into a direct that naturally begs additional questions and therefore fostering a seamless dialogue. Two individuals having a conversation after a day's work. 

It’s all about Leadership today and Jay dissected this title and provided me and my listeners with some great thoughts on the position yesterday,  today and tomorrow.  The role is so much more complex than it was in yesteryear and Jay gave candid thoughts of what it takes to be successful for the leaders of tomorrow.  A must listen to episode as it will surely make you think. 

I really loved my conversation with Jay and do hope that he will grace Heads Talk again sometime in the future. 

Topics covered: #OutdatedPractices #LeadershipRedefined #RethinkYourStyle #NewTraitsOfLeadership #WhoAreYou 

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Episode Title:-  🇬🇧Digital Service Tax🇬🇧  

In this week’s episode of Head Talk we continue the #HTFintechSeries and what a delightful conversation I had with a gregarious leader. It was incredible how he made a conversation about Taxation so interesting and I would go as far as to say enjoyable too. Please note, that does not make me want to jump and complete my tax returns any time sooner than required; nevertheless the conversation about Digital Service Tax is one that is a current hot topic. Richard Iferenta is the Vice Chair and Partner at  KPMG LLP

I could listen to Richard all day. He was very forensic and measured in his observations and insights. 

Topics covered: #DST #TradeWars #TransferPricing #GlobalConsensus #USAPosition #CountriesInterest #Taxes

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Episode Title:-🇨🇭Unbiased Automatisation & Digitalisation of VC operations🇨🇭

This is the second of our VC guests for the #HTFintechSeries of Heads Talk.

This is a fabulous episode with my guest today, who is a winner of a plethora of awards. Xiao Jean Chen is the founder and #CEO of VenturePole, an AI-powered Venture Investment Platform that is armed with Smart Tools to include Valuation Calculator and Automated Due Diligence. To name a few. 

It was a very insightful conversation about the human as well as the technical aspects of VC operations. You learn quite a bit from this episode with Xiao, who incidentally is passionate about investing in Female Entrepreneurs. 

Topics covered: #AlgorithmsVsVCAnalyst #DueDiligence #AngelInvestors #Teams #VenturePoleUSP #AI #EvaluationAutomatisation

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Episode Title: 🇨🇭VCs, PEs & Fintech Today🇨🇭

This week is a VC week and a continuation of the #HTFintechSeries on HeadsTalk. We have 2 incredible guests. 

The first is Andreas Goeldi, #CEO, #CTO, Angel Investor and Partner of the European Venture Capital firm BtoV Partners. Very much a detailed conversation and one that cuts into the technical aspects of VC operations. We delve into Andreas thoughts on the boom with Fintechs as well as what is on the minds of VCs and investors in this space. 

Definitely a ‘listen to more than once' episode. 

Topics covered: #VCsToday #EmbeddedFintech #AIInFinance #VCsinFintech #B2BDrive

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Episode Title:-  🇨🇭Banking COO Challenges🇨🇭

We continue the #HTFintechSeries of Heads Talk with an awesome CSuite leader and someone that is passionate about her job and the team that she leads. Lucia Zarisova is the  Chief Operating Officer (COO) for HSBC Bank, London, Zurich Branch. She works at the heart of business transformation and operations. Lucia has spent a number years in HSBC with previous directorial roles to include Head of Business Management. She served on a number of Committees and Governance Working Groups and in her role established a Centre of Excellence in Operations Management.

Lucia has managed a portfolio of 100 multinational corporate clients (from both Commercial Banking and Global Banking, developing sound business relationships through, for example, identification of cross-sell opportunities. 

Topics Covered #Commercial Banking #Security #CloudMigration #HSBCPolicies #HSBCEthos #COOChallenges #CollaborativeWorking #RiskManagement

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