VP, Strategy
Stripe launched its Financial Connections product, entering an already crowded market for account linking products. Despite the entrance of another big name, Open Banking has its limitations for developers looking to build dynamic user experiences.
The foundation of transformative tech companies starts with a stellar engineering team, and this week’s guest certainly knows a thing or two about that. Meet our new Head of Engineering, Carlos Vilhena!
It’s been a busy few months across our offices, and we’ve made several major hires over the summer of 2021. One of the key areas of focus has been scoping and developing new products and use cases, in particular, which leads us to introduce today’s guest.
We enjoyed chatting to Fidel’s Legal Counsel, Siobhan, so much last episode, we decided to stick around and see who else was free for a chat. The call was answered from sunny Lisbon, with our new VP of Global Strategic Initiatives, Kevin Akerman.
In today’s episode, it’s our pleasure to welcome a new member of the Fidel team, Siobhan Costello, who joins us as General Counsel. An experienced lawyer and regulator, Siobhan explores all things data security, regulation and reveals her must-see movie.
We’re joined by Matt Risley, Partner at QED Investors, who previously served as CFO for Klarna - one of Europe’s largest Fintechs, serving 90 million consumers across 17 countries. We think it’s safe to say he’s the right man to speak to about fintech innovation - so we did!
For a long time, the opportunity to build experiences on top of financial data remained untapped. This data was often kept hidden behind closed doors within large financial institutions. That all started to change a few years ago.
Welcome to Five with Fidel! We're handing the proverbial mic over to those who know the payments world best. They'll be sharing expertise on the industry and its future - all within five questions. Seems like a lot to fit into five questions? Not for these folks.