Many established banks groan under their legacy IT systems. Especially when it comes to adapting quickly and agilely to changing customer needs. New providers, such as Mambu, show how things can perhaps be done differently. Probably the most unknown (FinTech) unicorn in Germany. What makes Mambu different from other providers and how do they build a modern core banking system? Find out this and much more in Dirk and Sebastian’s conversation with Anton Langbroek (Mambu).

Emotions are sometimes difficult to control, sometimes annoying, but just as often simply beautiful. In the end, they accompany us at every turn – and are accordingly important for communication and advertising. But how do you properly advertise FinTechs and banks? They don’t have a “real” product at all, do they?

“Sind Grüne Staatsanleihen nicht doch eher Greenwashing?” Diese provokante Frage hat unser heutiger Interviewgast Michael Viehmann (Sauren Fonds-Research) in den Raum gestellt. Doch warum eigentlich? Was ist das Problem mit staatlichen Green Bonds und ihrem Anspruch grün zu sein? Und was ist der Unterschied zu Unternehmensanleihen? Viele Fragen, viele Antworten, die Michael im Gespräch mit Sebastian und Dennis gibt. 

“Sind Grüne Staatsanleihen nicht doch eher Greenwashing?” Diese provokante Frage hat unser heutiger Interviewgast Michael Viehmann (Sauren Fonds-Research) in den Raum gestellt. Doch warum eigentlich? Was ist das Problem mit staatlichen Green Bonds und ihrem Anspruch grün zu sein? Und was ist der Unterschied zu Unternehmensanleihen? Viele Fragen, viele Antworten, die Michael im Gespräch mit Sebastian und Dennis gibt. 

Wie soll ich mein Geld anlegen? Wie habe ich im Alter genug Geld? Wie lege ich nachhaltig an? Muss ich das überhaupt? Rund um die Geldanlage gibt es viele Fragen. Gut, dass Dirk und Augustin mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Hackethal (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt) einen wahren Experten zu Gast hatten, der ihnen Rede und Antwort stand.

Wie soll ich mein Geld anlegen? Wie habe ich im Alter genug Geld? Wie lege ich nachhaltig an? Muss ich das überhaupt? Rund um die Geldanlage gibt es viele Fragen. Gut, dass Dirk und Augustin mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Hackethal (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt) einen wahren Experten zu Gast hatten, der ihnen Rede und Antwort stand.

Banking-as-a-Service, or BaaS for short, is the basis for many current trends such as vertical banking or embedded finance. But we are seeing more and more movement on the BaaS market and individual providers focusing on individual segments (e.g., Upvest, lemon.markets) and offering their services there.

Is this just a phase or the beginning of a larger trend, i.e. BaaS unbundling? That’s exactly what we wanted to know, so we invited Lars Markull (weavr.io) into the virtual podcast studio. Due to vacation and illness situation today with guest host Dennis.

Corporate Banking. It sounds simple, but it’s really complex. It starts with the definition of where corporate customers actually start, what is still an entrepreneurial customer, what is a medium-sized customer, etc. And what about innovation in the area? And what about innovation in this area? Where does it come from? 

ESG investing, impact investing, sustainable investing – it all sounds good, but what is actually what? What are the differences? All very confusing. But not only that.

Sometimes funds/ETFs boast of being sustainable, but really aren’t. Problems with the current classification of ESG are certainly one reason for this.

We want to shed some light on this. That’s why Sebastian and Dirk brought an expert in impact investing into the virtual podcast studio.

With Dr. Ingo Dahm from capacura, they discuss, among other things, zebras and unicorns.

Quite a lot going on in the BNPL market. On the one hand, the valuation of European BNPL super-FinTech Klara has “crashed” from $45.6 billion to $6.7 billion. But listed competitor Affirm is doing only marginally better. Is the BNPL hype over?

On the other hand, Apple is getting into BNPL, and shortly before this podcast was published, Deutsche Bank announced its entry into the BNPL market.