A refreshing podcast by Pål Krogdahl & Ville Sointu looking at Fintech & Banking Technology

Between digital native customers demanding instant gratification and the ever increasing amount of regulation, financial institutions are between a rock and a hard place. The era of the fintech started after the 2008 financial crisis, challenging the status quo. More than a decade later banks haven’t gone anywhere, yet fintech is more relevant than ever. What happened with all the fintech hopes and dreams? In this podcast Pål Krogdahl & Ville Sointu pick one topic in every episode and try to look at it through the lens of fintech disruption - or lack thereof. This is Fintech Daydreaming.

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A refreshing podcast by Pål Krogdahl & Ville Sointu looking at Fintech & Banking Technology

Between digital native customers demanding instant gratification and the ever increasing amount of regulation, financial institutions are between a rock and a hard place. The era of the fintech started after the 2008 financial crisis, challenging the status quo. More than a decade later banks haven’t gone anywhere, yet fintech is more relevant than ever. What happened with all the fintech hopes and dreams? In this podcast Pål Krogdahl & Ville Sointu pick one topic in every episode and try to look at it through the lens of fintech disruption - or lack thereof. This is Fintech Daydreaming.

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Fintech Daydreaming with Fintech Farm

Fintech Daydreaming, and Fintech Farm Helsinki, the Nordic fintech hub, have joined forces. Through this alliance, Fintech Daydreaming is the official podcast partner of Fintech Farm. Both organisations will collaboratively produce a monthly podcast episode focused on Nordic Fintech Highlights, Fintech Farm’s updated monthly industry review.  This partnership will not only enhance the content on our platform but will also offer our audience an in-depth look into the pulse of Nordic fintech innovation. Read more here

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Bringing a thought provoking perspective on banking and the global Fintech landscape the Fintech Daydreaming hosts are a great addition to any corporate event. We will set up to deliver a live episode of the poddcast as part of your agenda. Reach out to us for additional details and availability.

Recent Fintech Daydreaming Episodes

Recent Fintech Daydreaming Episodes

S08:E07 - Unbundling the platform revolution with Sangeet Paul Choudary

In this episode of the Fintech Daydreaming podcast, co-hosts Ville and Pål are thrilled to host a distinguished guest, best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary, the insightful mind behind the book "Platform Revolution." Sangeet joins the conversation to delve into the seismic shifts that platform business models are inducing across the financial sector.

 

In the conversation, Sangeet identifies a compelling pattern in the global economy: a cycle of digitalization that alternates between the unbundling and rebundling of services and industries. He sheds light on the critical role that platforms play in this dynamic, serving as orchestrators and connectors in an increasingly digitally-converged world.

 

We know you never want to miss an episode of Fintech Daydreaming, but this is guaranteed to be the one episode of Fintech Daydreaming you won't want to miss.

Nordic Fintech Highlights, October 2023:

From Hard Cash to Digital Cash and the future of Payments

In this engaging second episode of our collaboration with Helsinki Fintech Farm, we journey once more through the bustling Nordic fintech landscape.

 

Though payments and venture funding may appear routine, the Nordic fintech sector always keeps us on our toes.

 

This time around, we delve into the pivotal role of national infrastructure in fostering fintech adoption, and explore the impact of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in our daily lives, probing their actual relevance.

 

And fear not, our tradition of sharing a humorously bad joke continues in this episode, keeping the narrative lively and amusing. Will the joke be exceptionally bad this time? Tune in to find out!

S08:E05 - Beyond Banking with Paul Staples

If embedded banking and finance are the future of financial institutions, will the role of banks become more critical, less significant, or simply transform? Paul Staples, Head of Corporate Embedded Banking at ClearBank, joins hosts Pål Krogdahl and Ville Sointu to delve into the shifting role of banks within digital ecosystems and its long-term implications.

 

From atrocious quantum jokes to insights on machine-to-machine payments, this episode is a must-listen, even if you believe you've already mastered the intricacies of embedded finance.

Nordic Fintech Highlights, September 2023:

From Unicorns to Open Banking Innovations

 

The first ever episode of Nordic Fintech Highlights is here! Pål and Ville join Janne from Helsinki Fintech Farm to discuss what’s hot (or not) in Nordic fintech this month. In this episode we discuss:

 

  • Alphasense becomes the first Finnish fintech biunicorn - AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
  • Enable Banking partners for pan-European open banking - Enable Banking, CRIF and Strands Forge Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Open Finance Solutions in the Nordics.
  • Enigio Time secure funding from a top-tier bank for accelerating digital trade - Lloyds Banking Group Invests €3M In Enigio To Support Digital Documentation In Trade | Crowdfund Insider

 

Stay tuned for monthly updates of Nordic fintech news on this channel, and don’t worry - we still stick with bad jokes and of course Fintech Daydreaming will resume regular programming in the next episode 🤓

S08:E03 - Cost of convenience with Marcus Ivarsson

Do you have children? If you do, here’s something to think about: your kids are probably multimillionaires before they ever get their hands on a real bank account. How is this, we hear you ask...

 

This is true because of most kids getting exposure to virtual worlds like games with their own digital economies. But this also creates a financial education challenge when bridging the gap from virtual to real money.

 

Marcus Ivarsson has realised this abstraction of monetary value as a design problem that needs to be solved. As the CEO and founder of Tjing, he and his team are trying to find the right answers to the question: how to make money as understandable and intuitive as cash in a world where everything is digital? Hint: It must be something more than a number on a screen.

 

Join Marcus, Pål and Ville in this episode for all this, a very bad joke and much more!

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