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Exploring the Next Wave of Fintech | (with Nik Milanović, Founder of This Week in FinTech) | Fintech

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How is the future of global Fintech landscape?

In this episode, we speak with the Founder of This Week in FinTech, Nik Milanović, about his entrepreneurial journey from starting one of the biggest newsletters in Fintech to building a venture fund and discussed the future of Fintech worldwide! 🌎

Join us for an insightful conversation on the state and future of Fintech with Nik Milanović!  

Highlights

00:05 Introductions and welcome
02:12 Nik’s journey to get in Fintech
18:40 The most exciting FinTech sub-sectors with highest growth potential
26:19 The process of building a fund
38:49 The fundamentals of evaluating FinTechs as an investor
43:42 Opportunities and challenges of MENA region

Episode Guest

Nik Milanović

Founder of This Week in FinTech

Nik Milanović has spent the last decade working in fintech and microfinance. He currently runs This Week in Fintech, a global digest of financial technology news, and The Fintech Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund. He previously led business development and strategy for Google Pay and Google Finance, led strategy at Petal and partnerships at Funding Circle. He writes on fintech at Techcrunch and Forbes.

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Podcast hosts

Ronit Ghose

Ronit Ghose

Ronit Ghose is the lead author of Citi’s GPS Bank of the Future and FinTech report series – the first edition has had more than 250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi, and one of the most read FinTech reports ever published. Since joining Citi in 1997, Ronit has covered banks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. He is the Global Head of Future of Finance in Citi Research. He is also an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Finance, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Ronit previously worked at the British Bankers’ Association and as a research assistant in Parliament. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, a postgraduate diploma from the University of London and is a CFA charter holder.

Gaurav Dhar

Gaurav Dhar is the CEO of the Payments Solution Provider Marshal in Dubai. Gaurav has been working at Marshal for over 19 years now He strives to continually be on the frontier of building FinTech ecosystems and solutions. His personal time is spent on working with and investing directly in innovators, with a view to the future of Fintech both locally and globally via his cache of relationships which include VCs, incubators, accelerators, and start-ups and Angel Syndicates. In his position as a board member of the MENA FinTech Association and several advisory positions to international family offices, start-ups, and funds, he looks to grow the relationships within the FinTech and start-up ecosystem to contribute towards the education of budding disruptors and eventually the growth of economies and the job market where possible in the MEA Region and abroad.

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Fintech & Web3 Founders Podcasts

Hosted by Gaurav Dhar and Ronit Ghose