#48 FinTech, past present and future with Matteo Rizzi.

Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.In today's show I'm joined by Matteo Rizzi who has been deeply involved in FinTech for over 20 years as an investor, founder, innovator, author and many other things and we’ll be covering a broad range of topics about where Fintech is and where it is headed. In his more than 20 years in the space he spent 13 years at SWIFT where, in 2008 he co-founded Innotribe. The innovation arm of SWIFT.In 2013 Matteo become a partner at SBT Venture Capital which was one of the first dedicated FinTech funds to emerge.In 2014 He co-founded FinTech Stage, a global community platform holding events and conferences on FinTech. Today Matteo is a venture partner at Bamboo Capital Partners who focus mainly on impact investments in post seed ventures in the African market.He has been nominated as one of the 40 most influential FinTech execs in Europe and is also the author of the ‘FinTech Revolution’.__________________________________This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain. You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.__________________________________Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.__________________________________ Connect with Matteo.Connect with Mike or Nona. Follow Nona Digital: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube