On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Xavier Gomez, a Fintech Thought Leader and specialist of Investment Banking and Wealth Management with strong expertise in Fintech, Digital Assets and Private Equity.

Xavier writes and speaks about the emerging trends within our digital economy, with a sharp lens on what is disrupting finance, namely financial inclusion and regtech.

Xavier is also the co-chief editor of Invyo Insights, a Global Fintech Intelligence platform powered by Invyo. Xavier and his team partners with the best experts and entrepreneurs in the region to cover the latest trends in all topics related to Digital Banking, Payments, InsurTech, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy.

Over the course of their discussion, the pair dive into the Digital Economy, FinTech and WealthTech trends which affect the world of finance today and in the future.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I started my career as an investment banker in equity capital, moving between top management positions, trading algorithmic, self-derivatives. I then moved into wealth management, so I have a good knowledge of the banking and finance sector, particularly in terms of digitalisation. Invyo is a data driven startup that uses machine learning to help private equity firms and VC to take opportunities of investment, to compare the data of the different kinds of investment they can do, and also to detect what is wrong in terms of competition. We provide a solution for everyone from VC, principle and partners to be driven and empowered by the data so they don’t waste time collecting the data themselves, they have all the elements possible.
• We have had so many opportunities in the last five years with the explosion of startups, business models and so on. It’s a lot of work for investment actors – especially as they’re all a little bit old fashioned – they invest in technology but they don’t apply the technology for them in order to be augmented by the data as investor and private equity actors.
• Being an influencer or influencing it doesn’t matter, why? I started by following others, who were all very kind to me and gave me advice and pushed me to publish more, and I just want to share my insight and knowledge to educate people in the ways of financial literacy. By chance, a lot of people like what I publish.
• AI will be an up trend for the next 10 years. With this kind of upwards trend it is clearly a big top trend for the coming years. AI will also augment nearly every job in every business across industries. It will be used to manage and automate the complex inventory management processes that happen behind the scenes. It’s amazing in terms of customer experience because AI/machine learning can improve their experiences and, more or less, with FinTech solutions, you can have a priceless experience.

BEST MOMENTS

‘We use a machine learning element in order to have solutions adapted to the investment cases. Each is a little bit different, the philosophy of one partner will be different than another one. This is the beauty of machine learning with data.’
‘I spent a lot of years in London and I know the French accent is very successful with women!’
‘Artificial intelligence will become real in organisations and enable any business to leverage its power to create more intelligent products and services. We saw this recently with the birth of OpenAI, this is the start. I didn’t expect it to come so early.’
‘The metaverse is a concrete application in the GameFi (gaming finance) industry, where we see a lot of big developments, it's a $300 billion market with a lot of exchanges of payments. I don’t care for the term “metaverse”, but it’s become a shorthand for a more immersive internet. It’s expected to add $5 trillion to the global economy by 2030 and we will see by the end of 2023 an indication of what kind of direction the metaverse will go for the next decade.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Xavier Gomez is a Fintech Thought Leader and specialist of Investment Banking and Wealth Management with strong expertise in Fintech, Digital Assets and Private Equity.

Xavier writes and speaks about the emerging trends within our digital economy, with a sharp lens on what is disrupting finance, namely financial inclusion and regtech.

Xavier is also the co-chief editor of Invyo Insights, a Global Fintech Intelligence platform powered by Invyo. Xavier and his team partners with the best experts and entrepreneurs in the region to cover the latest trends in all topics related to Digital Banking, Payments, InsurTech, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy.

About Invyo

INVYO is a leading technology solution provider specialised in data processing and analysis. Venture Capital looking for a new data-driven approach? Discover today our newest solution designed for VC investment: https://marketing.invyo.io/en/vcdataasaservice See more www.invyo.io

ABOUT THE HOST

Sabine is a corporate strategist turned entrepreneur. She is the CEO and Managing Partner of Alchemy Crew, a venture lab that accelerates the curation, validation, and commercialization of new tech business models. Sabine is renowned within the insurance sector for building some of the most renowned tech startup accelerators around the world working with over 30 corporate insurers and accelerating over 100 startup ventures. Sabine is the co-editor of the bestseller The INSURTECH Book, a top 50 Women in Tech, a FinTech and InsurTech Influencer, an investor & multi-award winner.

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