In this interview, we talk with Patrick de Zeeuw, CEO, and Co-Founder of the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam. Tune in to learn more what Startupbootcamp does and learn more about the differences between startups and corporates.

This podcast is sponsored by Slack. Consider having a look at our sponsor at www.slack.com

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Startup News Germany Wrap-up - October

Find all the links and show notes on our website: https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-news-germany-wrap-october/ 

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In this interview we talk to Dr. Tamaz Giorgadze, who came to Germany from his native Georgia, eventually becoming a partner at the German office of McKinsey & Company. During the financial crisis, he saw a demand for retail deposits by banks and decided to jump ship to set up his own company. The company is operating as weltsparen.de in Germany and raisin.com internationally. Joern talks to Tamaz and you get a quick overview of what banks actually do, where they get their money from and how retail investors in Europe profit from this.

We are talking during the interview about those topics:

Wholesale funding

Bank’s transformation function 

Duration

Regulatory measures of bank’s liquidity

Liquidity coverage ratio  

Net Stable Funding Ratio 

Deposit 

KYC – Know your customer 

AML – Anti Money Laundry

TÜV – A German association of mostly technical auditors

Payment topics we touch

- SEPA

- TARGET 2

- And a correspondent bank system (all money transfer used to be done this way)

Deposit insurance schemes (how saver’s money is insured)

- Harmonized scheme in Europe

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Startup News Germany Wrap-Up - September and Summer

Find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-news-germany-wrap-september-summer/ 

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For the first time in 17 years, a new health insurance company was founded in Germany, called ottonova. It just received their permission to operate from the German financial oversight BAFin. Due to this special occasion, we wanted to bring you a world premiere, their first English interview. We, therefore, talk to Yvonne Gründler, Chief Product Officer. ottonova aims to be an all digital insurance company,  who wants to partner with their insurance buyers.

 

Learn more in the interview about the differences to get a full insurance company off the ground and why they need forecasts of up to 120 years.

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The Brexit is getting closer and the negotiations are not looking to go smooth, for any side. We, therefore, think it is time to post our first "picture" of London pre-Brexit.

This is the third interview in our Roadtrip to London series. You can find the first interview here: https://www.startuprad.io//interviews/roadtrip-pre-brexit-london-intro/

In this interview, we talk to Lukas Zörner, CEO and Co-Founder of Mobility.co. Mobility.co wants to become the "financial friend" of you to help you save money. Tune in to learn more.

We took the trip during blockchain week London to talk to startups, investors, and service providers. We wanted to ask how Frankfurt is seen in London as a startup hub, as well as the idea of Joinmainland.com. You can learn more about Joinmainland.com and their idea in this interview here, or just tune in.

We are grateful to the Business Development Agency Offenbach, who funded this trip. Thank you!

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The Brexit is getting closer and the negotiations are not looking to go smooth, for any side. We, therefore, think it is time to post our first "picture" of London pre-Brexit.

In this interview, we talk to Pranay Jain, co-founder of Enterprise Bot. We talk briefly to him and learn how financial services companies could save billions per year in their customer service.

We took the trip during blockchain week London to talk to startups, investors, and service providers. We wanted to ask how Frankfurt is seen in London as a startup hub, as well as the idea of Joinmainland.com. You can learn more about Joinmainland.com and their idea in this interview here, or just tune in.

We are grateful to the Business Development Agency Offenbach, who funded this trip. Thank you!

This is the second interview in our Roadtrip to London series. You can find the first interview here: https://www.startuprad.io//interviews/roadtrip-pre-brexit-london-intro/

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The Brexit is getting closer and the negotiations are not looking to go smooth, for any side. We, therefore, think it is time to post our first "picture" of London pre-Brexit.

We did take the trip with our friends from the Emporion Creative Agency (one of the partners, who is also the founder of joinmainland.com) and Fintech Headquarter. We took the trip during blockchain week London to talk to startups, investors, and service providers. We wanted to ask how Frankfurt is seen in London as a startup hub, as well as the idea of Joinmainland.com. You can learn more about Joinmainland.com and their idea in this interview here, or just tune in.

We are grateful to the Business Development Agency Offenbach, who funded this trip. Thank you!

 Before take-off in Hahn (5.28 am)

 

Arrived in London. Always tired, but we still had fun during Blockchain Week in January 2017 in London 

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Gaurav did attend the RegTech event here in Frankfurt, in TechQuartier (TQ). TQ is one of the hubs of the emerging Frankfurt startup community. TQ did invite to the event talking about the impact the Brexit will have on RegTech startups.

This will be a short series. Here is our follow up our interviews with Dr. Andrei Kirilenko, the Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at the Imperial College Business School.

This interview is quite densely packed with information. Just a few links here:

Clearing (finance)

Back Office

Blockchain

Moore’s Law

Types of Blockchains (Computers)

EthereumRipple 

Tune in to learn more.

 

Disclaimer: We did our best to improve the audio quality, but doing live interviews, sometimes on the go, results usually not in the highest audio quality. We apologize for the lower audio quality upfront and still hope you can draw insights from the interview. Non-the less we hope you enjoy it anyways. Next time we will be a bit better! PROMISE! 

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Gaurav did attend the RegTech event here in Frankfurt, in TechQuartier (TQ). TQ is one of the hubs of the emerging Frankfurt start-up community. TQ did invite to the event talking about the impact the Brexit will have on RegTech start-ups.

This will be a short series and follow up our interviews with Dr. Sebastian Schäfer, who is the CEO of TechQuartier, which is the government-backed startup location in Frankfurt.

 Tune in to learn more.

 Disclaimer: We did our best to improve the audio quality, but doing live interviews, sometimes on the go, results usually not in the highest audio quality. We apologize for the lower audio quality up front and still hope you can draw insights from the interview. Non-the less we hope you enjoy it anyway. Next time we will be a bit better! PROMISE! 

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