Swiss Kickstart Innovation are highly active in enabling deals between Fintechs and incumbent FS – when we recorded the podcast for example they had facilitated an extraordinary 300 negotiations in the prior 10 days. As we haven’t dived for many years into the whole challenge of young Fintechs managing to close deals with incumbents whose heartbeat, whose pace of change is radically different from the newcomers, it is rather overdue a visit? What has empirical evidence found in the meantime? After all you can probably meet someone new and get married in less time than it takes to seal a deal with some of FS’s slower-moving incumbents. 

Katka herself has a varied background – from Czechland through US government to Kickstart in Switzerland – all of which enables her to take a 30,000 feet view of the challenges and opportunities. The Art of Diplomacy is invaluable in marriage-making on the corporate front.

;So what are Kickstart’s experiences? What how they found works well and what not so well? What should all Fintechs that need to do deals with MegaFSCos (that’ll be most all) have on their checklists?

Topics discussed include:

• Switzerland as attracting Fintechs from around the world to Kickstart

And much much more