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Building a Diversified, Profitable Digital Bank with Starling

Building a Diversified, Profitable Digital Bank with Starling

Today, regular contributor Lex Sokolin and I are joined by Anne Boden, Founder and CEO of Starling Bank, one of the original wave of app-only digital banks in the UK. Starling has built a diversified bank and achieved profitability for the first time in October, a rarity for digital banks.

Self-Funding an International Digital Bank with bunq

Self-Funding an International Digital Bank with bunq

Today, we’re sharing a never before heard conversation recorded earlier this year with Ali Niknam, founder and CEO of bunq. bunq is a fully licensed digital bank based in the Netherlands and available in 30 countries across Europe. Prior to starting bunq, Ali founded TransIP, the largest domain name

Building the Digital Financial Infrastructure for Latin America with Ualá

Building the Digital Financial Infrastructure for Latin America with Ualá

Pierpaolo Barbieri is the Founder & CEO of Ualá, an Argentinian consumer fintech taking South America by storm. Founded just three years ago, Ualá has already amassed more than two million customers in its native Argentina and recently expnanded to nearby Mexico. Unlike consumer banking offerings in many developed markets,

Understanding the SPAC Boom and What It Means for Founders

Understanding the SPAC Boom and What It Means for Founders

Ryan Gilbert is General Partner at Propel Venture Partners, a Bay Area venture capital firm backed by BBVA. He is also as of very recently CEO of Olympus Acquisition Corp, a $750 million SPAC that listed on the Nasdaq in August. In this conversation, we look at why SPACs are

Remote Seed Investing and Post-Pandemic Fintech Opportunities

Remote Seed Investing and Post-Pandemic Fintech Opportunities

Today, Rebank co-host Aman Ghei is joined by Seb Wallace, an investor at Triple Point, an early stage UK venture capital firm that has invested in companies including LendInvest, Credit Kudos, CountingUp and many more. In this conversation, Aman and Seb discuss strategies for remote seed investing, the skew they’

Breaking Down Ant Group’s Proposed $200 Billion IPO

Breaking Down Ant Group’s Proposed $200 Billion IPO

Today, we’re joined by a pair of fintech analysts, Max Friedrich of ARK Invest and Lex Sokolin of ConsenSys, to break down Ant Group’s highly anticipated IPO. Ant, a spinout from Alibaba and the parent of Alipay, one of China’s leading payments companies, filed papers to IPO

UBS & Credit Suisse Merger Talks, and Klarna Now Worth $10 Billion

UBS & Credit Suisse Merger Talks, and Klarna Now Worth $10 Billion

Today, we’re joined by Lex Sokolin to talk through a few interesting developments in the world of fintech. M&A is a continued trend in fintech, with the most recent candidates reported to be UBS and Credit Suisse, the latter of which is also in the news with