Challenges, opportunities and growth of Fintech in Latin America

Colombian unicorn Rappi´s entrance into Fintech with RappiPay

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fintech-byte-sized/message

Challenges, opportunities and growth of Fintech in Latin America

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fintech-byte-sized/message

Chinese Digital Yuan: Analysis and Opportunities for Hong Kong & GBA

The GFTN [https://www.linkedin.com/company/hku-fintech-student-association/?originalSubdomain=hk] & HKU FinTech Student Association [https://www.linkedin.com/company/hku-fintech-student-association/?originalSubdomain=hk] bring Dr. Oriol Caudevilla [https://www.linkedin.com/in/oriolcaudevilla/] to talk about how China is leading the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) race in Asia and the globe. Oriol works as a Management Consultant at AirHelp, Advisor for ixFintech (HKG), Strategic Advisor at WealthTech company ETFCool (HKG), Strategic Advisor at Alpha Bright Asset Management (HK) Strategic Advisor at ScallopX, Scientific Advisor at the Israeli Blockchain Association, Mentor at R3 (Singapore), Mentor at Cyberport (Hong Kong), FinTech Mentor at F10 Incubator & Accelerator (Singapore), Blockchain Mentor at Tribe (Singapore) and also FinTech Mentor at Rise by Barclays (London and Mumbai). Oriol is Fellow at the Digital Euro Association [https://home.digital-euro-association.de/en] (D€A) and at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), as well as Honorary Fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law [https://aiifl.law.hku.hk/] at HKU. He is member of the Singapore Fintech Association [https://singaporefintech.org/] (SFA) as well as FinTech Australia. Furthermore, he is a columnist at China Daily (Global & Hong Kong Edition) and Macau Business. He has given talks and seminars on the Chinese Financial System, Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Digital Yuan in several universities in the US, Canada, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in international conferences, e.g. Israel/UAE Fintech Week [https://fintechweek.ae/], the Future of Fintech Saudi Arabia event and the Greater Bay Area Blockchain Week [https://www.gbablockchainweek.net/]. Last April, China announced the pilot testing of Digital Yuan in 4 major cities (Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu, Xiong'an), notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic -- and the tests have proven to be very successful. Tune in to learn about what CBDC is and its potential to change the future of money, while analysing the Digital Yuan & the its implications to the Greater Bay Area. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fintech-byte-sized/message

Diving into Robo-Advisory

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fintech-byte-sized/message

Wealth management in Fintech: A CEO’s perspective

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fintech-byte-sized/message