Volt co-founder and newly-appointed chief operating officer Steffen Vollert joined Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan in this episode of the Unplugged podcast to discuss fraud.

He explains Swiss consumers’ attitudes to data sharing and the banking industry, and why this might account for slower Open Banking adoption than in other European countries. Fabian also offers his views on which fintech and bank collaborations have produced positive results in Switzerland.

In this episode, Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan is joined by Ghela Boskovich, head of Europe at the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA), to explain how FDATA ensures that the voice of European fintechs is well represented and why it’s important for the lobbying group’s members to have a “fair and competitive” playing field so that they can fulfil the mandate of PSD2.

In this episode, Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan is joined by Kenny Tsang, managing director at PingPong Payments, to discuss the cross-border payment pain points that the company helps retailers overcome.

In this episode, Nucleus Commercial Finance CEO Chirag Shah tells Ellie Duncan, head of content at Open Banking Expo, why there is no such thing as ‘alternative’ lending to SMEs and that it should be considered mainstream lending.

Anton Langbroek, general manager of DACH at Mambu joins Ellie Duncan in this episode of Open Banking Expo Unplugged to discuss the Open Banking challenges that are unique to Germany, Austria and Switzerland and how these are being overcome.

Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan is joined on the podcast by Experian’s Shobana Balasundaram, director of global DA, and Ed Heal, product director, software to discuss the value of cloud for financial institutions, given its ability to solve for customer-specific and operational challenges across both large banks and mid-sized firms.

In this episode, Bent Winkel, Nordics general manager at Mambu, reveals why the Nordic region is one of the ‘first movers’ in Europe when it comes to Open Banking and why he believes there are only ‘opportunities’ and not ‘challenges’ for the region to address.

In this episode of the Unplugged series, Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan is joined by Janine Hirt, CEO of Innovate Finance who explains what her plans are for the organisation since taking the helm earlier this year.

In this episode of Open Banking Expo Unplugged, head of content Ellie Duncan speaks to Paul Lloyd, co-founder and chief marketing officer of fintech Snoop, to find out how the app uses Open Banking data to help households save money.