What is a brank? While we break new grounds in Fintech Daydreaming every now and then this is the first time we might have accidentally invented a new word that tells everything about how banks could re-invent their brand strategy.

Join Pål Krogdahl and Ville Sointu for this episode, where they talk with Liz High (unfortunately Allison was unable to join us at last minute) about how banks today could do better with the way they communicate their investments in a digital world, and how that translates to value for their customers.

Check https://thinklikeabrandbook.com to learn all about it - or just listen to this episode to get the highlights - even better, do both!

Season six continues with another mega-trend and another mega-guest: current Head of IBM Cloud Platform and former Bank of America CTO Howard Boville, re-joins Pål Krogdahl and Ville Sointu to talk about what’s what in regards to banks moving to the cloud - and more.

A lot has happened since Howard was with Fintech Daydreaming the last time (S02:E05). We get to hear an update on where the current industry status on cloud adoption, and learn about every banker’s dream - mainframe on the cloud! ☁️🏭

In other words: buckle up for another wonderfully fintech-nerdy episode 🤓

Open season for banks or the season for open banking? In this episode Eyal Sivan, Mr. Open Banking himself, joins Ville Sointu and Pål Krogdahl in the Fintech Daydreaming studio, and right off the bat go deep into the philosophy of open banking. They end up making a full tour around definitions, regulation and actual use cases just to round it up in time to talk about the future of it all.

In short: Ever wondered about anything related to open banking? This is the episode you don't want to miss.

The short but sweet Nordic summer is over and it's time to kick off season six of Fintech Daydreaming! We've been trying to get the blockchain leader and fellow podcast host Anthony Day (host of the podcast "Blockchain won't save the world") to be a guest on our podcast for quite a while now so we couldn't have been happier to get him to join our hosts Pål Krogdahl and Ville Sointu to kick off this season.

Will we finally get a proper definition of web3? Is there a real use case for web3 and does it connect to the metaverse somehow? Did Ville manage to use an NFT to get to a secret party during his summer vacation? This and more answered - all you need to do is hit that play button 👉

Summer is officially here, and that means it’s time to end another roller coaster of a season of the Fintech Daydreaming podcast. Before we do that though, our hosts Pål Krogdahl and Ville Sointu sat down to summarise some of the main highlights, key themes and best takeaways of season five. As a bonus Ville drops a career newsbomb seemingly out of nowhere 💣

Special thanks to all our fans for listening and watching us during season five. Fintech Daydreaming will return for season six in August with a fresh lineup of guests and topics. But for now, we wish you all a great summer, and a big thank you to our guests for season five...