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Join EDC’s hosts as they meet with a mix of leaders and practitioners at every level in the industry to learn what it actually takes to bridge the gap between strategy and execution and build a commercially viable business in the payments and fintech industry. Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast Music by dayfox
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Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
In this episode, Martin meets with Thomas Ficht, Head of Payments at MyToys.de a leading German ecommerce retailer. The company is part of the mighty Otto Group - an ecommerce marketplace in Germany. In the podcast, we discuss the popularity of the open invoice payment method in Germany. Open invoice is a long-standing payment method in Germany and is essentially BNPL. It allows consumers to order a basket of products with no prior payment. Consumers then typically have two weeks to decide what to keep and pay for which is normally done via bank transfer. Culturally German companies like to do things in-house and you’ll find many ecommerce retailers still with their own home-grown open invoice solutions. Many will offer instalment loans themselves. As Thomas explains, MyToys parent company Otto Group, recently expanded its own inhouse instalment lending programme operated by a newly set up subsidiary which now handles all payment functions for the group, and part of strategy to transform Otto from online retailer into an Amazon-like marketplace. We discuss much besides. I hope you enjoy the conversation with Thomas Ficht.
Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast
Martin's contacts:https://linktr.ee/martinkoderisch
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
In today’s episode, I meet with Ravi Kumaraswami, President of Worldwide Field Operations at Riskified with global responsibility for global sales, marketing and channel teams. Riskified is another phenomenal fintech success story. Founded 10 years ago, it has successfully commercialised deep AI and ML tech to help merchants combat and stop fraud. The company IPO-ed on NYSE in Summer of 2021, and recently announced FY 2022 revenues of $261m. We discuss Riskified growth story, Ravi’s GTM approach and leadership, plus much more besides.
Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast
Martin's contacts:https://linktr.ee/martinkoderisch
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
In today’s episode, Martin is joined by Mark Beresford, Director at EDC based in our London office and leads our retailer practice. In the conversation, Mark shares his views and perspective on the rapid growth and expansion of the payment orchestration space, a relatively cutting-edge innovation trend that has emerged over the past few years.
Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast
Martin's contacts:https://linktr.ee/martinkoderisch
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
In today’s episode, Martin is joined by Samee Zafar, Director at EDC based in our London office. In the conversation, recorded in December, Martin and Samee discuss EDC’s latest fintech report which addresses embedded finance, financial inclusion, and cryptocurrencies.
Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast
Martin's contacts:https://linktr.ee/martinkoderisch
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
In this episode, Martin meets with Dave Excell, founder of award winning fraud prevention technology company Featurespace. If you are in the payments and fintech industry, you most probably will have heard of Featurespace and its groundbreaking AI driven approach to fraud detection and financial crime prevention.
Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast
Martin's contacts:https://linktr.ee/martinkoderisch
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Martin speaks with EDC Director Jean Sideris who is based in our Dubai office and heads MENA region. We discuss the rapid development of the payment and fintech market in the region as a whole, and deep dive 3 key markets in particular, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which share a lot in common but, as Jean explains, also have important differences that sets them somewhat apart.
Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast
Martin's contacts:https://linktr.ee/martinkoderisch
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Martin meets with Sirpa Nordlund Head of Sales and Partnerships at MobilePay. The company launched in Denmark in 2013 and has grown to become a dominant force in Danish and now Nordic consumer payments. It recently merged with Norway’s Vipps to create a pan Nordic mobile wallet platform. In the podcast, Sirpa shares with us how MobilePay started, why Nordic consumers have embraced mobile wallet payments to such an extent, and underlying reasons for its popularity.
Episode links: https://www.edgardunn.com/theedcpodcast
Martin's contacts:https://linktr.ee/martinkoderisch
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Today’s conversation is about financial inclusion in LatAm. In this episode, I meet with Luis Marinelli who is CFO and co-founder of Vana, a fintech from Guatemala in Central America providing small loans to customers that have no formal access to the banking system. In the podcast, Luis shares with us how Vana started, survived COVID lockdown and successfully established itself in Guatemala and recently launch in the Dominican Republic - Vana’s second market.