In this episode of Fintechpodden, we have the pleasure of once again having Micaela Vernmark och Jonas Brännvall from TietoEVRY. We will together discover the topic, cashless society. How did we in the Nordics become one of the most cashless societies in the world? What factors did play in, and how will it evolve in the coming years? What differentiates the Nordic region from the rest of the world? Has the development only been good, or does it have downsides as well? This episode will cover thi...
Jun 07, 2021•45 min
In Sweden and most other Nordic countries, we have something called BankID. It is a digital ID solution that almost everyone has and you use it to login and give consent to almost everything you do online. Everything from logging in to governmental websites, to your bank, to your favorite fintech, and many other places too. It is very nice and convenient, but it lacks challenges and today we are delighted to be joined by Kristofer von Beetzen who works as Chief Product Officer at one of the chal...
Jun 01, 2021•34 min
In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by no one else than the CEO of SaveLend, Ludwig Pettersson. Ludwig has a super interesting background as an entrepreneur. He started building his first company when he was just 11 years old and has since then kept his passion for building companies. After high school, he started playing poker and did so successfully for many years before diving deeper into the fintech space with his company SaveLend. Today SaveLend has grown to one of the leading p2...
May 27, 2021•33 min
In this episode of Fintechpodden we have the pleasure of having Aleksandr Peussa, Chief Data Scientist & Director Data Science at TietoEVRY financial services joining us. Aleksandr is responsible for driving AI initiatives and increasing data science maturity within TietoEVRY financial services. In this episode we discuss what steps large organisations need to take to become more data driven. We also explore what competencies an organisation need to have in place to be able to work more data...
May 10, 2021•36 min
In the latest episode of Fintechpodden we have the pleasure of having Mattias Fras, Head of AI Hub at Nordea, joining us. Together with Mattias, we discuss some best practices and learnings from successful AI implementations, what is important for large organizations to think about and how they can utilize their employees in an AI transformation. We also cover what areas and product within a bank that are most suitable for AI implementations today.
Apr 25, 2021•22 min
In this episode, we are pleased to be joined by Camilla who is the Director-General (Community) and the co-founder of EPA Asia. She has a long career in the financial technology industry and often talks about coming home when she started her work in the payments industry. Payments is the part of the financial services that touch people’s lives every day, and through EPA Asia work lives can be improved. The payments industry offered her an opportunity to combine her passion for fintech and humani...
Apr 22, 2021•21 min
In this episode, we have invited Christoffer Nilsson to talk about NFT's (Non-Fungible Tokens). Christoffer is working as digital strategy lead @ TietoEVRY and has a background with studies at Chalmers technical university. He wrote his master's thesis on blockchain and has since continued to deepen his knowledge in the subject. In the episode, we talk about non-fungible tokens. What they are. The latest and biggest happenings in this space and what use cases he sees around the corner for NFT's....
Apr 10, 2021•42 min
In this episode, we are joined by our friend from Signicat, John Erik Setsaas. We talk about the latest trends within digital identities, fraud, money laundering, and a lot more. We dig into what has happened since we last talked, how covid have changed the landscape for online fraud and what businesses can do to help their users avoid being exposed to fraud in financial products. John Erik also shares valuable information about Signicat express for startups - a program for startups to get up an...
Apr 05, 2021•22 min
In this episode of Fintechpodden, we have the pleasure of having Hugo Sundkjer from TietoEVRY joining us to discuss the latest trends within capital markets. Never before has the capital markets been so accessible to so many people around the world. TietoEVRY is one of the largest providers of services that powers the Nordic capital markets. We discuss some of the latest numbers on the Nordic capital markets development; for example, did you know that 80% of Swedes save in funds, but the number ...
Mar 17, 2021•42 min
In this episode, Johan and Gustaf are joined by Fredrik Ulvenholm who is the CEO of the company called Vilja Solutions. Vilja core banking platform is lots of things. Intuitive. Compliant. Innovative. Standardized. Automated. And Cloud-native. It’s all designed to keep you ahead of your competitors. By giving your bank better building blocks to work with. We talk about Fredriks journey to where he is today and also a lot about financial super apps and what is needed to be able to create super ap...
Mar 15, 2021•21 min
This episode is the second half of our interview with Eric Wall. In this part, we continue our discussions about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. We talk a lot about Ethereum and how it differs from Bitcoin. We also discuss Decentralized Finance, why mining cryptocurrency mining could actually be positive for the environment in the long run and Eric shares his predictions on where Bitcoin will be in five to ten years. Fintechpodden Website: https://fintechpodden.com/ Eric Wall on LinkedIn: https://...
Jan 28, 2021•46 min
In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by Eric Wall. Eric is a computer scientist that currently works as a crypto hedgefund manager at Arcane assets. With Eric's academic background and time that he has been into the crypto space (which is longer than most people have), he is a great person to talk to about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Decentralized finance, and the whole crypto space. We talk about everything from what bitcoin actually is. Eric tells us his best explanations. We also talk about ...
Jan 27, 2021•35 min
In this episode, the two hosts of Fintechpodden, Gustaf and Johan, share their highlights of fintech news of 2020 and are delivering some predictions for 2021. Enjoy the episode.
Jan 10, 2021•41 min
In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Hanna from Revolut joining us once again. She has been on the podcast two times before and always brings some exciting updates. We will listen in on the latest numbers, product updates, and how corona affected Revolut. Enjoy!
Dec 18, 2020•38 min
In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Micaela Vernmark & Jonas Bränvall from TietoEVRY joining us to discuss the latest within cloud in the financial service industry. We discuss the latest development and the ongoing battle between the large public cloud providers. In the middle of the episode, we have a special appearance from Harald Walden, CTO from Brite, a fast growing Swedish fintech in the payment space. We discuss together with Harald both the pros and cons of developing fi...
Dec 08, 2020•45 min
In this episode, which was recorded in August 2020, Johan and Gustaf had the pleasure to be joined by the Founder and CEO of Nordic API Gateway. NAG is active within the world of open banking and they recently launched its new platform, Aiia. A platform that removes all obstacles from powering your solution with open banking so you can make your open banking idea a reality within days without having to acquire a PISP or AISP license. Rune Mai exclusively shares insights with Fintechpodden into w...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 3 min
In this episode we have the pleasure of having Per Dahlqvist from Liberis joining us. Per is a seasoned financial service professional and at Liberis he is currently head of business development. Liberis is a fintech that is specializing on helping SMEs with flexibel financing solutions and embedded finance services. Embedded finance is a very broad area so in this episode we are trying to scope it down and give some real examples. We are also exploring the future of embedded finance and what in...
Oct 23, 2020•37 min
In episode nr 55 we had the great chance to sit down and talk with Espen Moen Kvelland from Wakandi. Wakandi is a startup from Norway that is active in Africa with the goal to make the 328 million people who are either without a bank, called unbanked, or with very little access to banking services, called underbanked, to get access to basic and fundamental banking services. What are the existing challenges going forward in Africa and how does it look today, how far have they come? Wakandi was bo...
Oct 21, 2020•52 min
In this episode, we are joined by fantastic Michal Gromek. Michal has a long background within the Fintech industry and is currently working as Head of Operations and Compliance at Safello. He is also very active in the Swedish Fintech Ecosystems where he is a public speaker and he is also contributing to Forbes where he shares his thoughts and opinions on the Fintech landscape. Earlier this year he was one of the main persons behind Stockholm Fintech Week. Given Michal's commitment and involvem...
Oct 15, 2020•34 min
Hanna Raftell from Fimento is back in Fintechpodden. She previously joined us in episode nr 43 where we talked about Open Banking. In this episode, we have a follow-up topic, Embedded Finance, or put in more simple terms - how any company can add fintech into their services. Hanna talks with us about what Embedded Finance actually is, which players are involved in the ecosystem that enables for embedded financial solutions. We talk about what non-fintech companies are offering fintech services t...
Sep 28, 2020•40 min
In this episode, we have the great honor of being visited by Emmy Jansson from the fintech company stoEr. Emmy has a long experience within the fintech industry and above all the digitalization of the mortgage market. Before joining stoEr, Emmy was working as a product specialist within lending at Avanza Bank and worked on their new digital mortgage together with Stabelo AB. Now, Emmy is working as Product Operations & Partner Manager at stoEr. During our talk, we discuss the change that is ...
Sep 20, 2020•44 min
Christoffer O. Hern æs has a long background within banking and Fintech with his latest position as chief digital officer of Sbanken, Norway's first digital-only bank and leading challenger bank. Christoffer is also and has been a frequent fintech blogger in Norway with many thoughtful blogposts over the last years. In this episode we got the chance to talk with Christoffer about Apples acquisition of Mobeewave and what it means to the payments and banking industries. We also of course talked ab...
Aug 23, 2020•42 min
In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Mikael Hussain, CEO and co-founder of Anyfin joining us. Anyfin is a Swedish fintech helping customers lower their interest rate on existing credits by utilizing data to take better credit risks. On average Anyfin helps customer lower their interest rate with over 50%. Listen in to learn more about the story behind Anyfin and the plans ahead. Subscribe to our episode and news release letter: https://mailchi.mp/4dab66e60474/subscribe#header Anyfin's...
Aug 17, 2020•38 min
This episode is one of a few in a series of best-of-conversations that we have had in Fintechpodden. Over a couple of episodes we have put together some of the highlights in all the interviews that we have held with different founders and leaders within the fintech industry. In this part, we get to listen to excellent Daniel Döderleinn when he passionately talks about his entreprenuerial journey founding mCash which later became the technology behind Vipps and what he thinks about PSD2 and how s...
Aug 02, 2020•26 min
In this episode, the Fintechpodden hosts, Gustaf and Johan sits down to discuss the biggest news and development of the fintech space in 2020. Topics includes the Wirecard scandal, Visa's acquisition of Plaid, the open banking development in the Nordics and much more. Fintechpodden will be back with some new exciting episodes in August.
Jul 08, 2020•27 min
This episode is the last episode from Sthlm Fintech Week 2020 that we recorded in february. The guest in this episode is no one else than Taavi Tamkivi from Salv which is a company that help financial institutions combating crime by providing a flexible AML platform. Taavi is a person with an interesting background with previous positions at Skype and he has also been studying mathematics for many years but dropped out of his PhD when starting at Skype in its early days. We talk about the proble...
Jul 02, 2020•20 min
In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Gustav Berghog from Zmarta joining us. Zmarta is a service that helps customers lowering their mortgage, insurances, electricity bills, and much more. We will hear Gustav tell his experience of unifying three different brands under the Zmarta umbrella and how to build a new company culture. We will also hear more about how Zmarta in the future can help customers with even more savings and also becoming the customers own CFO. By using Zmarta's servi...
Jun 28, 2020•38 min
In this episode we are joined by Per Andersson who is CEO at Reg&Tech Solutions, FCG. Per knows many of the more than 400 fintech companies just in Sweden, Stockholm. We discuss what the regulatory challenges and opportunities, what FCG does and how they help both fintechs and larger financial institutions with reg and tech solutions. We discussed what Know You Client/Customer actually means and compares it with Know your Data. Questions such as what is needed to understand your data. What c...
Jun 25, 2020•14 min
Valega Chain Analytics have made it easier for everyone to analyse and prevent illegal activities in crypto and blockchain related transaction. In this episode we get to talk to Sven Martinsson, CEO and founder of Valegachain. We talk about the dark side of fintech and to what extent blockchain and crypto is being used for illegal activities today. We also talk about the fintech ecosystem and what needs to be done to prevent fraud and fraudulent transactions and what role blockchain can take in ...
Jun 22, 2020•18 min
In this episode of Fintechpodden, we have the pleasure of having Hanna Raftell joining us. Hanna has a long history within the financial service industry and is now the CEO of the Swedish fintech company Fimento. Fimento is a modular cloud technology platform that delivers open banking and data analytics services. In the episode, we talk about customer benefits from using a SaaS model and how it can increase their ROI. We talked about how Fimento has helped its customers scaling more rapidly, re...
Jun 18, 2020•37 min
