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HIGHLIGHTING FINTECH LEADERS
OUR INTERVIEW WITH NEKTARIOS LIOLIOS
The World Economic Forum reports a “mental health crisis in entrepreneurship”. Entrepreneurs and leaders are waking up to the unique challenges faced by start-up founders. Four-time co-founder and sense maker Nektarios Liolios left to #buildabetterfuture.
Nektarios is a master-builder with a star-studded start-up resume. He founded three companies in six years and is a consummate pro and all-around stellar start-up guru. After ten years of watching entrepreneurs struggle he founded his fourth startup, The Future Farm, to offer a platform to help entrepreneurs when it is #timetotalk. No one should struggle alone.
Power-down that spreadsheet, silence your phone, kick back, and join us for our talk with Nektarios...
FINTECH NEWS
Fintech Futures
Business banking challenger Wise launches premium account in US
Businesses can earn up to 1% annual percentage yield (APY) on their deposits. They can also send and receive various payments through the app, and...
Finextra
Holt Fintech Accelerator announces 2020 cohort
This year, Canada’s only business accelerator devoted exclusively to all Fintech verticals has pivoted due to the ongoing pandemic. To accelerate competition in this space...
Bank Innovation
TD’s new commercial innovation head prioritizes SMBs
An evolving competitive landscape of banking and fintech has prompted TD Bank to create a new role dedicated to commercial products and innovation, tapping a...
BetaKit
Wealthsimple receives conditional approval from regulators to test crypto platform
Toronto-based FinTech startup Wealthsimple has received conditional approval from the Canadian Securities Administrators’ (CSA) to test its recently-announced cryptocurrency platform for a period of two...
FINTECH JOB BOARD
FINTECH VENTURE FUNDING
Angle Health Announces $4M Seed Round to Launch Health Insurance Plans for Startups
Seedlings, it’s your lucky day. We feature on our report this week those companies just starting out who are raising initial seed capital.
SF Bay Area InsurTech startup Angle Health has an eye towards small-group health insurance for those lean-mean business machines. Next up, Cambrian Asset Management explodes onto the wealth management scene with the promise of uncorrelated riches investing in digital assets. Pulling it together for real estate owners is Chicago-based IoT SaaS platform Cohesion – also a Chicago’s 50 Startups to Watch. With a flourish, Flourish Savings blends financial literacy and game elements to encourage super financial habits [...]
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FINTECH PODCASTS
What's one of the easiest ways to stay up on FinTech trends? Here's a short list of a few of close friends of Empire who just happen to have 🔥 podcasts.
Join The Future Farm's Vladi and Nektarios, in a “naked” conversation with the people who have been through it all. We’ll talk to business founders, investors, life partners and other ecosystem players about the personal challenges that business builders face when pursuing their dreams and passions.
LATEST EPISODE
For Fintech’s Sake is a broad look at the world of fintech. Host, Zach Anderson Pettet, explores the stories at the intersection of finance and technology from the perspectives of Founders, Investors, and Incumbents.
LATEST EPISODE
Fintech Insider is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of experts and joined weekly by fantastic guests, they discuss the latest news within the industry.