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.

ReFi – what is that again? That’s what Dirk and Augustin asked themselves, so they brought Adrian Wons (senken.io), an expert, into the studio.

Okay, the promise of soon being able to tokenize everything sounds cool – real estate, art, music, etc. – but wait a minute.

But wait: What’s the point if I can’t trade and liquidate my assets like traditional stocks, funds, etc.? This is exactly the problem we’ve noticed in previous podcast episodes (e.g. episode #50 with Theresa from Econos).
That’s why Dirk and Augustin had Fabian Schaum (CIO & Co-Founder) as a guest. Among other things, he is working with FinTech 360X to enable tradability of tokenized assets

Welcome to the multigenerational podcast about Gen-Z with Dirk, Sebastian and Jan-Soeren Zinke (Iris Capital)!

Honestly: We sometimes don’t quite understand the clothing style of “young people” (belly-free, pastel colors) and the music taste (German Hip Hop). Not to mention TikTok…so we thought we had to shed some light on that, so we invited Jan, someone from Gen-Z, to talk about those very things.

Thing Big? No problem for Alex Blania (CEO) and his company Worldcoin. His goal is to legitimize every person in the world to subsequently distribute the cryptocurrency Worldcoin. Guest hosts Mara and Dennis saw for themselves just how crazy this is in the podcast with Alex.

“NFTs? – Those are just those colorful pictures on the Internet.” NFTs are much more than that, as Augustin and new host Dennis convinced themselves in conversation with NFT expert Gero von Drateln (NFT Consultant).