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A monthly intake of the most prominent news, trends and features surrounding fintech, digital finance and the platform economy. We’ll cover controversies, debates, and interviews on the biggest topics you haven’t heard about. Our efforts will uncover the decisions made behind closed doors that affect the digital future of marketplaces, economies, and civilisations. The Digital Dividend, by Fasanara Capital; your sneak peak into the digital future.
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Depth and Spread is a podcast published by dYdX Trading focused on crypto trading, market microstructure and exchanges. We aim to demystify how professional traders do their job and provide insights that are as actionable and concrete as possible. Follow us at https://twitter.com/dYdX Trade at dYdX https://trade.dydx.exchange/r/depthandspread Download the dYdX app for iOS https://dydx.onelink.me/rNzl/tf3rbtzl
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#10 – Plata – Mexican fintech credit card lender soon to be digital bank
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Welcome to the first episode of The Digital Dividend. In this episode we are joined by Plata's CEO and Co-Founder Neri Tollardo. Plata was born when a team from Tinkoff Bank, decided to leverage their experience of having built the first, largest, and most successful digital bank and credit card issuer in Russia to do the same in Mexico. Despite ha…
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#9 – Karmen – French fintech SME lender with a forward-looking approach
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Welcome to The Digital Dividend! In this episode we are joined by Karmen's Co-Founder Gabriel Thierry. After seeing first-hand the astronomical growth and success of revenue-based SME lending models in the US, Gabriel and his co-founder Paul seized the opportunity to be the first player to launch a tech-driven RBF lending business in their home cou…
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#8 – Tilta – German B2B BNPL embedded payment solution provider
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Welcome to The Digital Dividend! In this episode we are joined by Tilta's Founder Christoph Nicola. With the goal of enabling B2B marketplaces to provide their sellers the ability to offer extended repayment terms to their buyers via the seamless integration of Tilta in a single line of code, Tilta is a digital payment service provider and lender s…
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#7 – Multifi – UK SME payables finance lender taking a digital first approach
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Welcome to The Digital Dividend! In this episode we are joined by Multifi’s Founder and CEO Rob Keown-Boyd. A repeat founder, Rob discusses how lessons learned from a previous digital lending venture helped him when planning and launching Multifi, the UK’s newest SME working capital lender providing a digital-first payables finance solution. In add…
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#6 - Finiata - Leveraging tech to prudently provide working capital to Polish SMEs at speed
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Welcome to The Digital Dividend! In this episode we are joined by Finiata's CEO Anna Kozlowska, who worked her way up to a leadership position by learning the business inside and out after joining the firm as a sales manager in 2018. Through the course of the discussion, Gennaro Crocamo and Matt Kus from Fasanara's origination desk gain interesting…
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#5 - Flexfin - Greece's first and only licensed non-bank factoring fintech
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Welcome to The Digital Dividend ! In this episode, Flexfin's co-founders and life-long friends, Dimitris Vranopoulos and Alex Kelaiditis, join Matt Kus and Gennaro Crocamo from Fasanara's origination desk. Dimitris and Alex provide insight into their unique founder journeys, starting with a friendship in elementary school which endured as they both…
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#4 - SellersFi - Industry leading financial solutions for e-commerce merchants looking for growth
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Welcome to Digital Dividend ! In this episode, Patrizia Lando, Head of Capital Markets Origination & Financing at Fasanara Capital welcomes Ricardo Pero, Founder and CEO of SellersFi, formerly SellersFunding, a global financial technology company that aims to empower e-commerce merchants looking to grow. From working capital solutions to payment so…
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#3 - Novicap - Pioneering Spanish digital SME lender
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Welcome to Digital Dividend ! In this episode, Novicap's Founder and CEO, Federico Travella joins Francesco Filia (Founder & CEO) and Matt Kus (Head of Originations for Developed Markets) from Fasanara Capital. Federico discussed his journey from training in marine biology to founding and scaling up one of the largest non-bank SME working capital l…
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#2 - StashFin - Leading FinTech Consumer Lender in India
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Welcome to the second episode of The Digital Dividend. For this episode we have Naman Rastogi from our Fasanara VC team speaking with Shruti Aggarwal, Co-founder StashFin. We spoke at length about the consumer lending landscape in India and learnt how StashFin became a successful FinTech lending company in India. Shruti highlights some of the key m…
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#1 - SME Finance - Largest non-bank lender in the Baltics
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Welcome to the first episode of The Digital Dividend. For our inaugural episode we welcomed Mindaugas Mikalajūnas, CEO of SME Finance. We learned how SME Finance started as an idea by three ex-coworkers with 100K of their own capital to the largest non-bank lender in the Baltics with >150 million outstanding portfolio. Mindaugas highlights some of …
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Listen to Antonio, the founder of dYdX, address the whole team the afternoon following the FTX collapse. He gives an impassioned tour of his hopes and fears for DeFi and dYdX.
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A bi-weekly intake of the most prominent news, trends and features surrounding fintech, digital finance and the platform economy. We’ll cover controversies, debates, and interviews on the biggest topics you haven’t heard about. Our efforts will uncover the decisions made behind closed doors that affect the digital future of marketplaces, economies,…
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In this episode we dive into Jordi’s background in chess and poker, and how that led him to high-frequency trading, first in traditional markets, now also in crypto. We talk about his approach to discretionary vs. systematic trading, his philosophy on sharing ideas, in contrast to most HFT firms, and designing a good exchange as dYdX moves towards …
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Finding opportunity in crypto markets with Nikita Fadeev, Fasanara Capital
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Join us to hear from Nikita Fadeev from Fasanara Capital on a variety of topics related to crypto markets. Learn about his story starting Fasanara with a group of friends from university, providing liquidity to “arbitrage” funding rates, optimizing execution across different trading venues, his thoughts about the main types of players in crypto mar…
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In this episode, we chat with Dan Matuszewski, founder of CMS Holdings. CMS is one of the most well-known crypto trading and venture firms, and in this conversation, Dan tells us about his background, his firm, and his trading process. We hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as we did! Follow your hosts: Ivo: https://twitter.com/ivo_crnkovic…
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In this episode, we chat with Mitchell Dong, the CEO of Pythagoras, a crypto hedge fund. Mitchell is a serial entrepreneur with diverse experience starting both traditional business and trading firms. Mitchell talks us through some of frontier markets he has traded in his career, ranging from physical uranium to electricity futures to crypto. Along…
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Market Making through the Terra Crash with Sixtant
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In this episode, we chat with Josu San Martin and Matt Downey, the co-founders of Sixtant, a trading firm and market-maker. Josu and Matt tell us about piloting their firm through the Terra ecosystem unwind. We speak about their typical strategies, how to think about profitability in a period of elevated volatility and go through their experience o…
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