Around the Coin – Fintech Podcast
Weekly Podcast on all things banking, money, payments, economics, crypto and fintech.
This week Behind The Coin Host Nako Mbelle sits down with Tyrone Ross of NobleBridge Wealth. Tyrone has more than a decade of experience in the financial services industry.
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In this episode, we get a chance to sit down and have a chat with Andy Bryant, who is the COO of bitFlyer Europe. bitFlyer is a licensed cryptocurrency exchange in Japan and holds additional licenses in Europe and the United States. We talk with Andy where we stand today with respect to crypto exchanges and what might we see in the coming months/years as cryptocurrency trading evolves more into the mainstream.
Around the Coin got a chance to sit down with both the Co-Founders of Kora, Dickson Nsofor (CEO) and Maomao Hu (COO).
Kora is a blockchain company that is focused on bringing low-cost access to financial services to as many people as possible. They are building a blockchain network and embedding into it functionality where it can be accessed by anyone thus helping people access the blockchain without the internet by going through telecom networks. They are investigating betas this year around solving the problem of financial infrastructure, including payments to Nigerian farmers, trade financing to Colombian coffee exporters, and core systems for a Bangladeshi co-op.
Dickson is a serial entrepreneur who has led organizations in Internet, Hardware & Technology. Dickson is a blockchain researcher, & is an Advisor to a number of blockchain projects. He is a Lecturer at INSEEC Business School London, teaching Blockchain for Finance and Social Good. He founded Lixon Mobile, a low-cost mobile phone brand focused in the Chinese and West African Markets which got acquired by GSEMC China. In 2017, he founded Kora to build infrastructure for inclusive financial systems.
Maomao’s experiences have focused on the intersection between machines and people. In 2014, he founded the Artificial Intelligence practice at management consulting firm The Capital Markets Company. Later, he joined AI startup Neurensic to lead technical sales and implementation for their machine learning based compliance solution. Seeing the potential and impact of Blockchain, he moved from AI to co-found Kora.
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In this episode of our Fintech podcast, Around the Coin, Faisal talks to Evgeni Mitkov, the COO of Everex.
Everex is a blockchain technology provider offering global money transfer, payment and currency exchange solutions to financial and non-financial institutions worldwide.
Everex technology enables its partners to usher individuals and SMEs, with or without access to banking services, into the new global economy with real-time fiat payments using distributed ledger technology. Fiat currency transactions are powered and governed by smart contracts in compliance with existing regulations. Everex payment ecosystem brings the best of banking and blockchain together.
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In the third episode of Behind the Coin, we talk to Thomas Euler, who has created a framework for the cryptocurrency space called The Token Classification Framework. Our co-host, Nako, discusses the details of this much-needed framework and gets some insights into the motivation behind it.
A writer, analyst & consultant, for the past 10+ years, Thomas worked with countless clients – global corporations, SMEs, and startups – on their digital strategy and transformation efforts. His main subjects are internet business models and antifragile organizations. Due to his long-standing interest in decentralized systems, he researched the blockchain space from early on. These days, Thomas is working in the blockchain space with the Untitled INC network, doing consulting and developing independent projects.