In Check with Fintech by PCN

How do you manage expenses within your company?On this week’s episode of In Check with Fintech, we were delighted to host Rodolphe Ardant Co-Founder & CEO at Spendesk, who joined Rogier Rouppe van der Voort, for an insightful discussion about spend management within companies, entrepreneurship and Spendesk’s unicorn status. Rodolphe also gave an overview of what Spendesk offers to customers and talked about the digitalization of businesses. Enjoy listening! This episode of In Check with Fintech is brought to you by Nets Group.A checkout that lets you hustle less and sell more. Easy.Upgrade the check-out once and see your sales increase without having to lift a finger. Can't believe it? Nets offers you a free analysis for your check-out to discover the hidden potential of your online shop! Contact Nets now! 👉  https://easy.concardis.com/checkout-gesundheitscheck-pcn

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! In this week’s episode, we were happy to host Ernst van Niekerk, Founder & CEO at Payaut, who joined Rogier Rouppe van de Voort, CEO at PCN, for an interesting chat about multi-PSP setup, payment orchestration, building a company from scratch, as well as Payaut’s recent investment, and the company’s plans for the future. Enjoy listening!

🎧 Welcome to In Check with Fintech! Michael Santner, Head of PSP DACH by Nets, joins PCN Head of DACH Morten Laufer to discuss his move to Nets, the merging of Nets and Nexi, and the commercial teams at Nets. He also discusses the developments unfolding within the industry and shares his insights into how he sees the future of e-commerce. Enjoy listening!

Welcome to in Check with Fintech! This week we were delighted to have @Andrea Fernandez, Co-founder & CEO at @Vitamin, who joined Petula Marbler, Recruitment Consultant at PCN, to discuss female finance empowerment, financial literacy, and Vitamin’s goal to change the lives of women through financial independence. She also shared her personal story all the way from Wall Street to founding a fintech startup in Berlin.

Welcome to In Check with Fintech!   Nabil Naimy, CEO at NORBr, joins PCN CEO Rogier Rouppe van der Voort to discuss Nabil's career trajectory and building the NORBr team. He shares his insights after 20 years working in payments and how fintech evolved out of payment. He also discusses payment as a critical part of e-commerce strategy and future innovations in payments: payment means, payment experience, and payment infrastructure.

Welcome to In Check with Fintech!   Felix Gerlach is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Passbase, a privacy focused identity infrastructure company. Launched in 2018, Passbase has since raised over $17 million in funding from Cowboy Ventures, Eniac & Lakestar with offices in Berlin and New York. Prior to Passbase, Felix worked in leading product roles in multiple startups around the world including San Francisco, London as well as for Rocket Internet in Singapore & Bangkok. He was a guest-lecturer at Stanford CSP and brings in deep experience in growth-driven product design. Together with his co-founders, Felix was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe Finance list.   In this episode, Felix shares his insights on identity infrastructure for the next wave of builders.

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! This week, PCN CEO Rogier sat down with Niels van Daatselaar, Co-founder & CEO of TreasurUp, to discuss how banks have struggled to keep up with online commercial banking and how TreasurUp's white label offerings to banks fills the gap. He also discusses TreasurUp's new Cash Visibility & Forecasting module. Niels started his career in M&A in Amsterdam and Hong Kong and then became the business manager of Global Sales and head of electronic distribution at Global Financial Markets where he built a new Foreign Exchange Platform alongside Marien, TreasurUp's CTO. He is currently the CEO of TreasurUp which won an innovation campaign at Rabobank in 2016.    Reach out to jacqueline@teampcn.com to discuss Head of Product Development and/or Corporate Development Manager.

Albert Saniger is the founder and CEO at nate, the first app with the technology to enable mobile checkout on behalf of a user for any item at any online retailer. Albert worked briefly on Amazon’s Fashion Retail platform and in 2018 founded nate with a mission to simplify and transform the online shopping experience into a social one. By April 2020, nate had closed the largest series seed round for a consumer software company of the year and launched to the public that summer.   In this episode, Albert touches on his career path, innovative AI retail solutions to meet ever-changing consumer needs in a new social age of ecommerce.    Reach out to jacqueline@teampcn.com to discuss Head of Product Development and/or Corporate Development Manager.

Welcome back to In Check with Fintech! We're kicking off the new season with Tom Greenwood, Founder & CEO of Volt, a technology developer and product innovator company with a focus on new generation real-time payments infrastructure and open banking. Tom is is responsible for managing strategic relationships, developing strategy and planning, and driving international expansion. Tom previously founded IFX Payments in 2005, a multi-billion dollar turnover fintech business operating across Europe and the Middle East. He shares his insights on Open Banking, the regulatory environment, and VRPs.    Have a thought leader in mind or want to share your insights? Fill in the PCN In Check with Fintech registration form. 

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! This week we have Richard Doherty, Founder & CEO at ScaleUp Consulting and host of the Fintech Scaling Show podcast. He will share his insights on how budding companies and entrepreneurs can scale up their businesses strategically and position themselves as industry leaders.

This week, we have Roberto Valerio, an experienced entrepreneur who founded Payla, a true white-label Buy Now, Pay Later solution provider for European financial institutions. He is a well-known name in the risk & payments space and has worked with Otto Group and Vodafone. Roberto discusses his unconventional path to becoming an entrepreneur and shares his insights on building a software startup from the first product idea into scalable, sales-oriented product companies. He discusses the evolution and future of the Buy Now, Pay Later space. 

PCN CEO Rogier sat down with Krik Gunning, Co-Founder & CEO of digital identity specialist Fourthline, to discuss how the pandemic has triggered a surge in financial crime and the ways in which we can build a safer, more accessible global financial system. Fourthline is one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintech companies working with some of the top financial enterprises in Europe. Fourthline partners with leaders such as KPN, N26, Solarisbank, and Trade republic to solve their digital identity challenges. Enjoy listening!   About Fourthline Fourthline is a Dutch fintech that partners with some of the fastest-growing regulated enterprises in Europe, such as KPN, N26, Solarisbank and Trade republic, to solve their digital identity challenges. Its vision is to build a safer, more accessible global financial system. Founded in 2017, Fourthline authenticates and verifies the identities of thousands of new customers every day by performing hundreds of checks across countries- in seconds. Fourthline’s proprietary technology enables clients to be compliant with ease through best-in-class solutions such as continuous monitoring and e-signatures (QES).   Please contact Fourthline's recruiter Tom Vrenken: t.vrenken@fourthline.com for more information on our open positions. We'd love to meet you!

And we're back with In Check with Fintech! Consultant Morten sits with Mirko Krauel, Managing Director at OTTO PEG, to discuss building a PSP from scratch, the challenges that come with quick growth, and more!   Mirko Krauel, Geschäftsführer bei der neuen OTTO PEG, über den Aufbau eines PSPs, die Herausforderungen, die schnelles Wachstum mit sich bringt und vieles mehr!   Enjoy listening!

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! In this week’s episode we will be talking to Benjamin Esser who is Co-CEO at Kontist and former CEO and Founder of Urbanara, a leading DTC brand in the Home & Living space. Besides that, he worked in executive positions at  Fanatics, Myfab, CVA and Bain & Company. At Kontist, Benjamin works closely with Founder and Co-CEO Christopher Plantener and is responsible for strategy, marketing, finance, and business development. We will discuss the tax tech market in Germany, how Kontist fits into that and what more is there to come especially when the German tax market is 8 times bigger than the banking market for SMEs. Enjoy listening!  

Welcome to In Check with Fintech!   We sat down with Kevin Gosschalk, founder and CEO of Arkose Labs, to discuss the significant rise of credential stuffing attacks especially during COVID19. Although ransomware is generally the hottest topic in cybercrime, COVID19 has fueled the new trend in credential stuffing attacks which is taking a serious toll on businesses across the world. Credential stuffing attacks are predicted to overtake ransomware in 2022. Arkose Labs alone detected 285 million of such attacks in the first 6 months of the year and the FBI estimated an average cost of £4million each year. Arkose Labs is working hard to combat this problem with the industry's first $1m Credential Stuffing Warranty and an AI Fraud Prevention platform.    Enjoy listening!     About Kevin Gosschalk Born and raised in Brisbane, Australia, Kevin graduated from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) with a degree in Interactive Entertainment. Prior to founding Arkose Labs he worked in biomedical research where he used machine vision technology for early detection of diabetes. He later developed technology that assisted adults with intellectual differences in social settings. His unique background has enabled him to take this disruptive approach that gamifies fraud prevention. Kevin has been named CEO of the year by Cyber Defense Magazine and is regarded as an expert in the fraud and risk management industry.   Reach out to PCN recruitment consultants imo@teampcn.com, gilles@teampcn.com, careers@teampcn.com, and/or jacqueline@teampcn.com to discuss best fit for jobs.

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! Drumroll for Layla Qassim, Solarisbank’s Head of Strategy and Shareholder Relations! Layla is a phenomenal leader and capital markets expert, developing Solarisbank’s long-term strategic vision. She joined Solarisbank in 2019 after working as an independent startup consultant for three years in London. And before that, she spent over six years in New York in financial analysis and research. Going further back, Layla graduated from UCL with a BA in Ancient History & Social Anthropology. Listen in, as Layla shares insights on the move from Wall Street to Berlin, and how she’s heading the European expansion of Solarisbank! Enjoy listening!   Reach out to Imo Noordman (imo@teampcn.com) to apply to the Product Manager (Amsterdam). Reach out to careers@teampcn.com to apply to the Graduate Sales Program.