FinTech: Byte-Sized

For today´s episode, I had the privilege of interviewing Gabriel Migowski, the current CEO of RappiPay. (RappiPay was founded by Colombian Unicorn Rappi, worth over 5.2B USD). In this episode, Gabriel and I spoke about the current and future perspective of the fintech ecosystem in Latin America, the operational challenges of the pandemic and being a Fintech CEO, soft and technical skills required to work in fintech, advice about how to start a Fintech and much more!

 ¡ We truly hope you enjoy this episode!

This week we had the privilege of speaking with Angelica Castellanos, Harvard MBA, and COO of Konfío, a prominent Mexican digital banking and software solutions fintech focused on small and medium businesses that is recognized for being one of the biggest and fastest growing fintech’s in Latin America, with over $400 million USD in funding across four venture rounds.

In this episode, we spoke with Angélica about the challenges and opportunities for Fintech in Latin America, her perspective on the future of fintech in the region, her challenges, and responsibilities as a COO for a fintech, advice for young entrepreneurs in the fintech industry and much more!

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Welcome to the new season of FinTech: Byte-Sized! 

This week we have an incredibly exciting guest! The GFTN & The CityU FinTech Society are proud to introduce Mr Kelvin Lei is the CEO and Co-founder of one of AQUMON. Inspired by a need for change and the lack of access to financial advice, Kelvin left his job in the financial sector to found his own company. Join us as we explore the who, what and how of Robo-advisory and the journey Kelvin took as an entrepreneur. 

This week’s episode features Valdemaro Mendoza - Co-founder and CEO of Tyba, a wealth management Fintech company focused on bringing accesible investing opportunities to people in latin America. It achieves this by selecting the best investment portfolio  according to your risk profile and the time you wish to invest and then helping you manage it through their app.

Valdemaro´s motivation to start this Fintech came from his prior experience in the traditional banking sector, where he realized investment opportunities were complex and hard to access for all the Colombian population.

Tune into this episode to find out more about the process of starting a Fintech, the challenges and favourite memories of Valdemaro throghout this journey, his perspective of Fintech in Colombia and Latin America and his advice for new entrepeneurs looking to dive into the fintech world!

“My inspiration for Casedo came from both my needs as a lawyer and from my experience of comparable software as a video editor”

Ross is a barrister. In his journey from video editing to law, he realised he was lacking a legal toolkit comparable to that available to him in the audiovisual world. So he created one, and Casedo was born.

Tune in to this episode to find out his path to date and how a video editor becomes a lawyer and start-up founder. The most important takeaway from this video: it takes all sorts to make the (LegalTech) world!

Africa is contrary to belief one of the single greatest opportunities for fintech to grow and develop. Across the continent, banks, companies and startups are racing to serve Africa's severely underbanked population. Today, I am joined by Arno Von Helden, the head of Digital Solutions for Forex and Standard Bank - Africa's largest lender. He is also the founder and executive business head of Standard Banks SHYFT a global easy to use e-wallet. Listen as we discuss the future of Africa. and its road to digitalizing financial services.