Interviews
Discover interviews with fintech founders, executives, and innovators shaping the future of finance. Fintech Review spotlights real-world insights, growth journeys, and leadership lessons from across the fintech, crypto, and SaaS ecosystems.
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Helping e-commerce business and online sellers to grow: Interview with Jeff Parker, CEO of WorldFirst
Scaling a business is not easy, particularly an e-commerce one. That is the beauty of the internet… but also its biggest drawback. You can launch and run a business from absolutely anywhere with a decent internet connection. And so can help anybody else. In that intensely competitive environment, how do you help e-commerce business and…
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Payment Orchestration: Interview with Denys Kyrychenko
What is really payment orchestration? We asked exactly Denys Kyrychenko, CEO of Corefy. Like in any orchestras, you need a chief conductor when it comes to payments. For instance, organising things like payment authorisation, transaction routing, or settlement. This is the orchestration that many businesses so desperately need. Tell us more about Corefy. What is…
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Emotion AI in financial services: Interview with Rana Gujral
With technology taking us so far, it is easy to forget about what makes us humans… Before Skynet takes over. Emotions, feelings, a range of things that are not easily replicable or understandable by machines. Or can they? It is not obvious to associate emotion with artificial intelligence, but maybe it should be. Fintech Review…
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What is Open Payroll Connectivity? Interview with Maximilian Czymoch
Open payroll connectivity… if that sounds like a very random mix of words, you’ve come to the right place. These words taken individually actually are not so random. Everybody is familiar with payroll and connectivity. And you probably have heard of open finance or open banking. But that’s what we do at Fintech Review, decrypt…
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What role for fintech in climate change? Interview with Chris Peacock
Can fintechs have a meaningful role in fighting climate change? Many people believe so, which makes sense. ESG and fintech is a great combination. If you believe that one of the premises of the emergence of fintech is to do things differently. For the better. You know, not destroying the planet in the process is…
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What’s next for student finance? Interview with Ethan Fraenkel
Student finance is a mess in many countries… Unless you are lucky to live in a country where the university fees are free and of quality… Higher education is often a quite a challenge from a personal finance perspective. Most students are faced with a tough choice: trying to borrow large amounts or skip university…
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What is happening in DeFi? Interview with Gerben van den Bergh
If you are confused about what decentralized finance is, that’s probably normal. It is fairly new and evolving quite rapidly. However, here is your chance to learn a bit more about this fascinating new development in finance. As Coindesk puts it, “DeFi is short for decentralized finance. An umbrella term for a variety of financial…
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What Next for P2P Lending? Interview with Janis Eismonts
Peer-to-peer lending has boomed in recent years, particularly in the US and the UK. And so has the funding funnelled to these companies. It had been also quite popular in China between 2011 and 2015, because lending there was really ripe for disruption. Until we realised that most Chinese P2P lenders were in fact Ponzi…
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Bitcoin as a Widespread Payment Option? Interview with Sung Choi
Have you heard of Bitcoin? You need to read this with a sarcastic tone, obviously. The most famous cryptocurrency has been at the centre of all the financial news for quite some time. However, this has been more linked to its interest as a speculative investment or store of value. Depending on whom you ask.…
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What Next for Innovation in Banking? Interview with Dmitrii Barbasura
No matter what you can hear or read, innovating is incredibly hard. That’s true for both large and small companies. The vast majority of startups do not survive more than a few years. Incumbents try hard to spin-off new ventures, which sometimes end in massive and expensive failures. Like RBS and its digital bank, Bó,…
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Investment Advisory’s Future: Interview with Michael Summerton
The wave of fintech disruption that came after the Great Financial Crisis was strong. Incumbent banks and financial service providers were not in a strong position. And so new companies took the opportunity and emerged. Slowly but surely gaining customers and grabbing market share. Most of that growth was due to superior user experience, surfing…
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What is Going on in Payment Solutions? Interview with Valeria Vahorovska
Payment is a vast world. A lot of things are happening at every corner, all the time. That makes it a really exciting segment of the fintech industry. Payments were one of the low-hanging fruits that fintech sought to disrupt first. But what is really going on in payment solutions? We asked a few questions…
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How Can APIs Transform Lending? Interview with Nick Chandi
The financial world is being transformed very fast. Innovators are disrupting the status quo and challenging how incumbents are doing business. Anybody would have obviously realised that. Even if you do not spend as much time keeping an eye on what is going on. As some of us do, maybe a bit too much. The…
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21st Century Wealth Management: Interview with Elisabeth Dana
There is a lot of activity in all parts of the financial services industry. Everything is changing. And it is changing very fast as more companies are coming to the market. At the same time, the industry is awash with VC investments. First, it was a huge wave of innovation in payments that is still…
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Payments in Latin America: Interview with Carlos Steneri
In case you have not noticed, yet, fintech is absolutely booming in Latin America. The market was obviously ripe for disruption, and a number of fintech companies have emerged to become global giants. But what is really going on in LATAM? What are the key trends? As ever, the easiest way to understand what is…
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Wealth Management: Why is JP Morgan Acquiring Nutmeg?
Big news in UK wealth management: JP Morgan is acquiring the digital wealth manager Nutmeg. It seems that the U.S. banking giant has big plans for the UK, as it has been slowly but surely working on a digital bank for a few years already. It is due to launch later this year, and the…
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A Look at the Fintech Job Market: Interview with Ian Stewart
Investments into fintech companies continue to be incredibly strong. A bit as if Covid-19 never happened. Remember, that crazy health crisis that took the world by storm? No particular worrying signs of the pandemic in fintech. This is better exemplified with Stripe’s latest funding round. The payments’ behemoth closed a $600 million Series H funding…
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How is the International Money Transfer Market Evolving? Interview with Subhash Chander
There is a lot of activity going on in the international money transfer market. Beyond TransferWise rebranding to Wise. The foreign exchange market is the largest financial market in the world. Much larger than the stock market, with a daily volume of $6.6 trillion. Yes, trillion as in thousands of billions. Mind-numbing numbers. Money going…
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21 Women in Blockchain You Should Know About
Today is International Women’s Day. To celebrate that, we are going a bit further than just fintech. To the extent that every company will eventually be a fintech company according to Andreessen Horowitz, we actually are always in fintech territory… Today, we recognise the achievements of business leaders and innovators across a range of industries.…
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Venture Capital in Blockchain: Interview with Baptiste Cota
There has been a lot of hype around blockchain technology for years now. Notably because of bitcoin, ever since Satoshi Nakamoto published his white paper in 2008. What the technology could do that would completely change the world. It was hailed as potentially truly transformative for the financial services industry. Maybe it will in time…
