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In this interview, we talk with Luka co-founder and head of growth at Berlin-based fintech Get Penta, who is in the process of re-thinking banking for small and medium businesses. Penta went live with their account, what they call open beta, this week and we have the exclusive podcast interview here for you. Tune in to learn more. Our listeners know Luka from his two extensive interviews, where he told about his entrepreneur live before Penta. You find them both here: https://www.startuprad.io//interviews/interview-penta-mobile-banking-app-small-medium-companies/https://www.startuprad.io//interviews/interview-penta-part-ii/CrunchBase profile Learn more about Penta on their website. © Startuprad.io - All right reserved Folge direkt herunterladen

Chris and Joe give you the regular news wrap-up for November. Find all the links in the show notes and hear you again in 2018.  Merry Christmas and happy new year! Find all the links and show notes here https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-news-germany-wrap-november/ Folge direkt herunterladen

In this interview, we talk with Patrick de Zeeuw, CEO, and Co-Founder of the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam. Tune in to learn more what Startupbootcamp does and learn more about the differences between startups and corporates. This podcast is sponsored by Slack. Consider having a look at our sponsor at www.slack.com Folge direkt herunterladen

Startup News Germany Wrap-up - October Find all the links and show notes on our website: https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-news-germany-wrap-october/  Folge direkt herunterladen

In this interview we talk to Dr. Tamaz Giorgadze, who came to Germany from his native Georgia, eventually becoming a partner at the German office of McKinsey & Company. During the financial crisis, he saw a demand for retail deposits by banks and decided to jump ship to set up his own company. The company is operating as weltsparen.de in Germany and raisin.com internationally. Joern talks to Tamaz and you get a quick overview of what banks actually do, where they get their money from and how retail investors in Europe profit from this. We are talking during the interview about those topics: Wholesale funding Bank’s transformation function  Duration Regulatory measures of bank’s liquidity Liquidity coverage ratio   Net Stable Funding Ratio  Deposit  KYC – Know your customer  AML – Anti Money Laundry TÜV – A German association of mostly technical auditors Payment topics we touch - SEPA - TARGET 2 - And a correspondent bank system (all money transfer used to be done this way) Deposit insurance schemes (how saver’s money is insured) - Harmonized scheme in Europe Folge direkt herunterladen

Startup News Germany Wrap-Up - September and Summer Find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-news-germany-wrap-september-summer/  Folge direkt herunterladen

For the first time in 17 years, a new health insurance company was founded in Germany, called ottonova. It just received their permission to operate from the German financial oversight BAFin. Due to this special occasion, we wanted to bring you a world premiere, their first English interview. We, therefore, talk to Yvonne Gründler, Chief Product Officer. ottonova aims to be an all digital insurance company,  who wants to partner with their insurance buyers.   Learn more in the interview about the differences to get a full insurance company off the ground and why they need forecasts of up to 120 years. Folge direkt herunterladen

The Brexit is getting closer and the negotiations are not looking to go smooth, for any side. We, therefore, think it is time to post our first "picture" of London pre-Brexit. This is the third interview in our Roadtrip to London series. You can find the first interview here: https://www.startuprad.io//interviews/roadtrip-pre-brexit-london-intro/ In this interview, we talk to Lukas Zörner, CEO and Co-Founder of Mobility.co. Mobility.co wants to become the "financial friend" of you to help you save money. Tune in to learn more. We took the trip during blockchain week London to talk to startups, investors, and service providers. We wanted to ask how Frankfurt is seen in London as a startup hub, as well as the idea of Joinmainland.com. You can learn more about Joinmainland.com and their idea in this interview here, or just tune in. We are grateful to the Business Development Agency Offenbach, who funded this trip. Thank you! Folge direkt herunterladen

The Brexit is getting closer and the negotiations are not looking to go smooth, for any side. We, therefore, think it is time to post our first "picture" of London pre-Brexit. In this interview, we talk to Pranay Jain, co-founder of Enterprise Bot. We talk briefly to him and learn how financial services companies could save billions per year in their customer service. We took the trip during blockchain week London to talk to startups, investors, and service providers. We wanted to ask how Frankfurt is seen in London as a startup hub, as well as the idea of Joinmainland.com. You can learn more about Joinmainland.com and their idea in this interview here, or just tune in. We are grateful to the Business Development Agency Offenbach, who funded this trip. Thank you! This is the second interview in our Roadtrip to London series. You can find the first interview here: https://www.startuprad.io//interviews/roadtrip-pre-brexit-london-intro/ Folge direkt herunterladen

  The Brexit is getting closer and the negotiations are not looking to go smooth, for any side. We, therefore, think it is time to post our first "picture" of London pre-Brexit. We did take the trip with our friends from the Emporion Creative Agency (one of the partners, who is also the founder of joinmainland.com) and Fintech Headquarter. We took the trip during blockchain week London to talk to startups, investors, and service providers. We wanted to ask how Frankfurt is seen in London as a startup hub, as well as the idea of Joinmainland.com. You can learn more about Joinmainland.com and their idea in this interview here, or just tune in. We are grateful to the Business Development Agency Offenbach, who funded this trip. Thank you!  Before take-off in Hahn (5.28 am)   Arrived in London. Always tired, but we still had fun during Blockchain Week in January 2017 in London  Folge direkt herunterladen

Gaurav did attend the RegTech event here in Frankfurt, in TechQuartier (TQ). TQ is one of the hubs of the emerging Frankfurt startup community. TQ did invite to the event talking about the impact the Brexit will have on RegTech startups. This will be a short series. Here is our follow up our interviews with Dr. Andrei Kirilenko, the Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at the Imperial College Business School. This interview is quite densely packed with information. Just a few links here: Clearing (finance) Back Office Blockchain Moore’s Law Types of Blockchains (Computers) EthereumRipple  Tune in to learn more.   Disclaimer: We did our best to improve the audio quality, but doing live interviews, sometimes on the go, results usually not in the highest audio quality. We apologize for the lower audio quality upfront and still hope you can draw insights from the interview. Non-the less we hope you enjoy it anyways. Next time we will be a bit better! PROMISE!  Folge direkt herunterladen

Gaurav did attend the RegTech event here in Frankfurt, in TechQuartier (TQ). TQ is one of the hubs of the emerging Frankfurt start-up community. TQ did invite to the event talking about the impact the Brexit will have on RegTech start-ups. This will be a short series and follow up our interviews with Dr. Sebastian Schäfer, who is the CEO of TechQuartier, which is the government-backed startup location in Frankfurt.  Tune in to learn more.  Disclaimer: We did our best to improve the audio quality, but doing live interviews, sometimes on the go, results usually not in the highest audio quality. We apologize for the lower audio quality up front and still hope you can draw insights from the interview. Non-the less we hope you enjoy it anyway. Next time we will be a bit better! PROMISE!  Folge direkt herunterladen

Gaurav did attend the RegTech event here in Frankfurt, in TechQuartier (TQ). TQ is one of the hubs of the emerging Frankfurt startup community. TQ did invite to the event talking about the impact the Brexit will have on RegTech startups. This will be a short series and follow up our interview with Prof. Hackthal here with Franklin Allen, who is Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London.  Tune in to learn more.  Disclaimer: We did our best to improve the audio quality, but doing live interviews, sometimes on the go, results usually not in the highest audio quality. We apologize for the lower audio quality upfront and still hope you can draw insights from the interview. Non-the-less we hope you enjoy it anyways. Next time we will be a bit better! PROMISE! Folge direkt herunterladen

Gaurav did attend the RegTech event here in Frankfurt, in TechQuartier (TQ). TQ is one of the hubs of the emerging Frankfurt startup community. TQ did invite to the event talking about the impact the Brexit will have on RegTech startups. This will be a short series and we start with Prof. Hackethal, who is Professor at the Frankfurt University and the House of Finance. He talked during the event about the future of RegTech Tune in to learn more. Disclaimer: We did our best to improve the audio quality, but doing live interviews, sometimes on the go, results usually not in the highest audio quality. We apologize for the lower audio quality upfront and still hope you can draw insights from the interview. None-the-less we hope you enjoy it anyways. Next time we will be a bit better! PROMISE! Folge direkt herunterladen

Startup News Germany - June 2017 find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-news-germany-june-2017/ Folge direkt herunterladen