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Trust and Technology: Overcoming Psychological Barriers in Medical Innovations

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Explore the impact of Big Data, AI, and machine learning on personalized treatment in healthcare. In the interview, we discuss medical innovations and their implications, including the integration of wearable technologies, data privacy concerns, and psychological barriers such as technophobia and robotophobia. Konrad Maj highlights the benefits and challenges of remote therapy applications and envisions a future where preventive medicine and information processing centers enhance healthcare efficiency. He also talked about the need for trust and user-friendly designs in medical innovations.

Konrad Maj – Head of the HumanTech Center for Social and Technological Innovation Faculty of Psychology in SWPS University based in Warsaw

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FinTech Me This With Jezen Thomas: Leading Dispersed Teams to Productivity and Engagement

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What are the main challenges of leading a dispersed team? For this FinTech Me This Podcast episode, we chat with Jezen Thomas, co-founder and CTO at Supercede, whose engineering team works from all over the world. Jezen outlines how different communication styles and forms can work in a remote team and how to create a company culture that truly suits engineers’ needs. Give our conversation a listen to find out more!

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Ask Me AnyFin with Akshaya Bhargava: Applying AI to Crypto Investments

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Would you let AI invest in cryptocurrencies for you? For this Ask Me AnyFin session, we meet again with Akshaya Bhargava, the founder of Bridgeweave, to talk about his new AI-powered product that makes it easier for investors to enter the crypto space. Read the interview to find out more about regulations in crypto, the importance of retail investment, and the challenges for new crypto investment products.

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FinTech Me This with Daniel Parming: How to Develop Engineering Skills in Your Tech Team

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In this FinTech Me This episode Daniel Parming, Head of Engineering at Kantox, tells us how he approaches developing engineering skills in his team. We talk about setting goals for individual developers, spotting soft skills, and why you have to provide engineers with complex challenges. Check out the full episode!

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Ask Me AnyFin with Tom West: Social Strength of the Sharing Economy

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What if consumers started sharing instead of buying? In the new episode of Ask Me AnyFin, we’re taking a closer look at the state of the social sharing economy with Tom West, the founder and CEO of the rental platform RentMy. We also discuss building a community around the idea of renting your items and what makes some sharing economy models a success with users.

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FinTech Me This with Adrian Mizzi: How to Hire the Right Engineering Talent

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In the first episode of the FinTech Me This: Engineering Management Podcast, we talk with Adrian Mizzi, the co-founder and CTO of Weavr, about the importance of recruiting the right talent to your engineering team. We also cover a practical rundown of the recruitment process and the challenges of building a payments business. Check out the podcast below and read the interview to find out more!

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Ask Me AnyFin with Dorota Zimnoch: Rethinking FinTech Trends

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What elements do we factor into the innovation process? How do we use it to our advantage? What are the most disruptive fields of FinTech right now and how did these changes come about? Dorota Zimnoch really understands the mechanisms of innovation as much as she’s aware of the convergence of industries, shared economy and metaverse reality. She joined Code & Pepper for the Ask Me AnyFin session to share her invaluable insights.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Paul Thomas Walsh: At the Heart of WealthTech

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One of the driving forces of innovation is industry convergence which is all about establishing relations that have not been possible before. This is enabled by the ever-developing new technologies such as cloud engineering, microservices architecture and others. In our latest Ask Me AnyFin conversation we are joined by Paul Thomas Walsh, COO at Elinvar, a WealthTech Platform as a Service, which uses technology to connect various FinTech providers on one platform, making it possible to create new exciting partnerships and business models.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Simon Farmilo: Open Banking (R)evolution

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Traditionally, we put trust in banks to look after our financial data. In the past, they were the only ones with access to this sensitive information which they could use to their advantage.  This has changed with the PSD2, a directive issued by the EU in 2015 according to which incumbent banks were obliged to recognise customers as the rightful owners of their financial data and to provide them with the opportunity to decide who they want to share this information with. Open banking became a reality.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Toni Caradonna: Empowering Nature Conservation Through Blockchain

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Arrival of a new technology always stirs up a lot of emotions. It is either met with wild enthusiasm or fierce criticism. This is because of its disruptive potential which both creates new opportunities as well as threatens the status quo. This love and hate dynamic also applies to blockchain. Initially associated with Bitcoin it was criticised for high-energy consumption. Blockchain technology, however, also has its merits such as: transparency, independence and security. That’s why it started to be used in a variety of sectors and for a range of purposes such as secure sharing of medical data or supply chain and logistics monitoring. Our new Ask Me AnyFin guest, Toni Caradonna makes use of blockchain to support nature conservation communities. How does he do it? Find out in the Ask Me AnyFin interview. 

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Ask Me AnyFin with Martins Sulte: Offering a New Investment Asset

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There are many sources of inspiration in business. One of them is technology which both feeds on new ideas and breeds them. This is, particularly, true for financial technology which relies heavily on communication technology. These two: money and the Internet create the most powerful media duo in the world. No wonder there are so many volunteers eager to come up with a new product that will thrive on this combination. Martins Sulte has succeeded in doing this. His company, Mintos, is a virtual marketplace which offers a new investment asset. We invited him to our Ask Me AnyFin conversation to learn more about his offering and the details of his entrepreneurial journey. 

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Ask Me AnyFin with Akshaya Bhargava: Creating a New Model of Wealth Management

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What’s the future of wealth management? And what good can come out from 41 years of experience in financial services? Read or watch the next episode of our inspiring series of interviews, Ask Me AnyFin, where we talk to extraordinary insiders of the FinTech industry. This time we met with Akshaya Bhargava, the founder of Bridgeweave — a company on a mission to make investing more accessible.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Richard Peers: Building Green FinTech

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What is the real meaning of sustainability? How to differentiate between a genuinely sustainable practice and greenwashing? And how does sustainability relate to economic growth? Check out the next episode of Ask Me AnyFin, where we talk to Richard Peers, the founder of ResponsibleRisk — an innovative consultancy that drives improvements in sustainable finance. Sit, relax and watch the video or read the transcript below to discover inspiring insights from the green FinTech world.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Zion Schum: Community-powered Innovation in Crypto Economy

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How can cryptocurrency change the world? Is blockchain really a problem looking for a solution? In this episode of Ask Me AnyFin, we talk to Zion Schum, the cryptocurrency enthusiast and the CEO and co-founder of Leutheria.com. Check out the video or read the transcript below to find inspiring insights about cryptocurrency and blockchain specifics, its merits and challenges, and the vision of the future of the crypto world.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Koray Koska: About Change in FinTech – Startup Ecosystem and the Use of AI

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One of the main missions of software developers’ work is to deeply understand the product they are working on and the real problem that the product is supposed to solve. In the new episode of Ask Me AnyFin, we talk to Koray Koska, who tells us the story of how he turned from a software developer to a startup co-founder and how the idea of VitraCash – a smart debit card – was born. What is the truth behind the “magic” smart tools like VitraCash? And what are the biggest challenges of entering the FinTech market? Check out our interview for all the answers!

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Ask Me AnyFin With Apiax: What Is RegTech? On Regulations and How to Handle Them

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At some point anyone who ventures into financial services has to try and navigate the tricky maze of compliance and other regulations. In this episode of Ask Me AnyFin we chat with Alan Blanchard to find out how RegTech can help businesses easily comply with constantly changing regulations. How to keep up with these changes? What interesting solutions are available in the market? You’ll find the answers in our interview!

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Ask Me AnyFin with Simon Farmilo: Customer Centricity, Sustainability, and the Power of Networking

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In the new episode of Ask Me AnyFin we met with Simon Farmilo to discuss the customer-centric approach in finance, COVID’s impact on SMEs in the UK, and the growing popularity of green FinTechs. How does the trend for sustainability shape emerging startups? Will it affect attitudes towards cryptocurrencies? Check out the interview for a fresh serving of FinTech insights!

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Ask Me AnyFin with Christian Kranicke: How to Digitalise Financial Services?

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Why Ask Me AnyFin? At Code & Pepper, we believe in testing assumptions and leaving no stone unturned when getting to the bottom of complex issues. But what are the right questions to ask? Now, that’s when things get really interesting… There is no one magic formula for a FinTech company. That’s why I’ve decided to sit down with founders, innovators and disruptors from different sub-sectors and with diverse backgrounds to look for the bigger picture: together.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Lombi: Is Empathy the Key to FinTech Startup Success?

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Why Ask Me AnyFin? At Code & Pepper, we believe in testing assumptions and leaving no stone unturned when getting to the bottom of complex issues. But what are the right questions to ask? Now, that’s when things get really interesting… There is no one magic formula for a FinTech company. That’s why I’ve decided to sit down with founders, innovators and disruptors from different sub-sectors and with diverse backgrounds to look for the bigger picture: together.

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