A weekly podcast & radio show about the music industry hosted by Music Business Association president, Portia Sabin. Listen to new episodes here, or wherever you get your podcasts!
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The re:ceeve podcast connects with leading experts in FinTech as well as credit and collections industries. Each episode shares deep insights around the future of finance and the innovative ways to improve customer experience across all stages of the customer journey. From lending to recovery, take a listen as we share amazing solutions to bridge the gap between companies and customers. Host Paul Jozefak has spent over 2 decades in FinTech, VC, Technology and Digitalisation and is now the CE ...
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Today we will be talking about the items in the name and more! Subscribe to stormtroopers Lego on YouTube for more Lego fun! I hope you enjoy! Cover art photo provided by Rick Mason on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@egnaro
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Episode #235 — How AI Tech & TikTok Consumption Is Changing Our Industry
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Since the digitization of the music business began, new tech applications and methods of consumption have helped to redefine how our industry operates. In recent years, the highest profile changes have been the implementation of AI algorithms and the rapid adoption of music consumption through short-form video platforms. We spoke with Miquido’s Chi…
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Episode #234 — Modern Music Royalties Processing
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Ray Bush founded The Music Royalty Co. (MRC) in 2014 after identifying opportunities to modernize royalty calculations in the face of music data’s exponential explosion as streaming began to take off. A decade later and the company has remained an expert in complex royalty calculations for labels, publishers and distributors, while also evolving to…
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Episode #233 — Our Employees’ Needs Have Evolved: How Do We Best Support Them?
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The events of the last few years, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, have had a major effect on how people across the globe view work-life balance and traditional ways of working. In our latest episode, we discuss how to best support today’s workforce with two experts in the avenues of HR and workers’ rights. First off, we speak with WorkFour Dire…
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Episode #232 — Solving Music’s Identity Problem With Switchchord
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The complex web of unique identifiers associated with an artist and their body of work can make it extremely difficult for them to interact with publishers, sync officers, and other parties they work with. Switchchord aims to eliminate this friction by allowing artists to document ownership of their music and map out the legal & business relationsh…
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Episode #231 — DiMA President & CEO, Graham Davies
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The Digital Media Association (DiMA) represents the world’s leading audio streaming companies and streaming innovators, providing community, resources and advocacy for its member companies. This month, we spoke with newly appointed DiMA President and CEO, Graham Davies about DiMA’s mission, his first few months at the helm of the organization, and …
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Episode #230 — Diversifying Music Industry Writing Rooms
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The music industry has proven time and time again that inclusive practices lead to better productivity and a higher quality of work in all business segments. That’s why Ralph Torrefranca of Angry Mob Music has sought for more diversity in high-level songwriting rooms by starting the New Normal Writing Camp in 2023, which featured 70% female artists…
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Episode #229 — Music Fraud Update: Combating Bad Actors From All Angles
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The fight against all forms of music fraud has been a major watershed moment for intra-industry collaboration, as was seen in the Music Business Association’s establishment of its Spin Fraud Task Force and its hosting of the Trust & Safety Symposium in January 2024. Now a few months away from that event, our latest The Future of What podcast explor…
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Episode #228 — Holistic Strategies For Selling Music Merch with Merch Cat’s Vanessa Ferrer
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Merch sales is one of, if not the primary, revenue generator for artists at certain levels of their careers. Tie this into the fact that merch proudly worn or displayed by their fans helps spread the word about their music, and it becomes all too essential for today’s artists to have a strong merch strategy. This important need is what led Vanessa …
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Episode #227 — Cosynd’s New Producer Copyright Registration Initiative
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With almost a decade of experience securing copyrights for artists & rightsholders, Cosynd identified that music producers were being potentially priced out of registering their backlog of work with the U.S. Copyright Office. This led them to develop a new group registration service, allowing producers to save time & money by registering groups of …
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Episode #226 — Creative Intell’s David Fritz & Steven Ship On Educating Today’s Artists
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While looking into higher-ed music business programs, David Fritz and Steven Ship found that the segmented approach to curriculums was helpful for new students, but it did not help artists and songwriters who needed to know the ins-and-outs of how the industry works for their already established careers. This led them to start Creative Intell, whic…
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Episode #225 — Vault & beatBread’s Funding Options For Indie Artists
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With more artists creating and releasing more music now than ever, there is a major need for new revenue streams and funding options to help artists take their careers to the next level. This month on The Future of What, we speak with two representatives from companies that do just that: Nick Struzenski of Vault, a bespoke catalog brokerage & artis…
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Episode #224 — RAMPD’s Lachi & Precious Perez on Disability Awareness & Activism
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RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities) was founded in 2021 as a collective of artists, performers and music professionals with disabilities seeking to raise awareness of disability culture in the music business. Since then the organization has worked to advocate and create opportunities for disabled music professionals …
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Episode #223 — Trevanna Tracks’ Tools For Improving Sync Licensing
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Sync placements have become a highly lucrative revenue stream for artists and rightsholders alike in recent years, as the production teams behind tv shows & movies constantly search for the perfect tracks to set the scene in their latest project. With that expanded attention to this part of the business comes a lot of extra paperwork, something tha…
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Episode #222 — NIVA’s Journey From Survival To Advocacy
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The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) was founded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as a lifeline for small live music houses, pulling together federal grant money to ensure that venues would remain afloat until it was safe for artists to tour again. Since then, the organization has shifted focus to develop a member services suite, …
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Episode #221 — Exceleration Music + Redeye: An Indie Music Powerhouse
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Founded in 2020 by five tenured independent music professionals, Exceleration Music set out to invest in music rights, enter strategic partnerships and develop a suite of support services, all backed by authenticity and reverence for everything essential to indie music’s DNA. The company doubled down on that commitment in September 2023 by acquirin…
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Tune in to this special message from Music Business Association President, Portia Sabin with some updates regarding our inaugural Trust & Safety In Music Symposium, Music Biz 2024, the Common Ground Webinar Series & our new Music Biz Events app, changes to our website & socials, and more!De către Music Business Association
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Episode #220 — Supporting U.S. Indie Venues: An Interview With Live Music Society’s Cat Henry
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The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic opened eyes across the world to just how vital touring & live music is to the entire music business ecosystem. As venues of all sizes closed to stop the spread of COVID, a number of organizations and initiatives were founded in the first pandemic year to help local independent music houses financially stay af…
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Episode #219 — LyricFind’s Darryl Ballantyne On New Tools To Enhance Lyric Offerings
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In just a few short years, song lyrics have gone from a “nice to have” addition that music fans could seek out in liner notes or on the internet to a hot commodity on streaming platforms, graphics-heavy promotional videos, user-generated content and beyond. This month, we talk with LyricFind Founder & CEO, Darryl Ballantyne about the evolution of l…
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Episode #218 — Dolby’s Christine Thomas Talks Dolby Atmos & Immersive Audio
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While some say nothing quite captures the experience of listening to music performed in-person, new technologies are bringing unparalleled levels of immersion to the music listening experience. Enter Dolby Atmos, an immersive audio format which debuted for movies more than a decade ago that is now available across music services on 2.5 billion devi…
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Episode #217 — DAACI Talks AI Tools To Enhance The Creative Process
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Bad actors have already learned how to exploit generative AI to either pose as popular artists or misappropriate copyrighted material. However companies like DAACI are working with artists, songwriters & composers to develop tools that are additive to the creative process, helping to eliminate tedious parts of their job and overcome writer’s block.…
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Episode #216 — KYC Compliance To Fight Music Fraud: A Discussion With Too Lost’s Gregory Hirschhorn
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After running a record label and finding common issues across several different music distribution platforms, Gregory Hirschhorn decided to enter the distribution space with Too Lost, paying extra attention to technologies and methods for combating fraud. The company uses Know Your Client (KYC) protocol, which has roots in the financial industry, t…
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Episode #215 — Generative AI In Film, TV & Other Entertainment Spaces
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While generative AI can be used to help human creators develop original works, concerns exist as major film & TV studios stand to reap huge financial benefits by using the technology to wholesale develop screenplays or substitute in digital recreations of actors. This is one of the pillars of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, as workers in the…
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Episode #214 — Music Fights Fraud: A Discussion on Streaming Fraud with CD Baby’s Christine Barnum
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Recent months have shown an uptick in the frequency and variety of fraudulent music streaming practices, allowing bad actors to collect undue revenue by criminally inflating the number of streams for tracks they upload to DSPs. In the first of two episodes this Fall covering music streaming fraud, we talk to CD Baby's Chief Revenue Officer, Christi…
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Episode #213 — Building Community In Music With Web3: Interview With Revelator’s Bruno Guez
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Originally hailing from the record label side of the business, Bruno Guez founded Revelator 10 years ago to help jumpstart an evolution in digital payments to help meet the needs of the increasingly digital music industry. Fast-forward to today, and Web3 asset distribution & sales may have a similarly transformative effect on the global music busin…
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Episode #212 — 2023 Music Biz Presidential Award Winner, Gina Miller (MNRK Music Group)
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The Presidential Award for Outstanding Executive Achievement is one of the Music Business Association’s highest and longest-standing honors, presented to individuals or organizations who have contributed greatly to the overall success of the music industry. In our latest podcast interview, Gina Miller of MNRK Music Group — our 2023 Presidential Awa…
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Episode #211 — Generative AI and the Music Industry: Interview with Danielle Aguirre of the NMPA
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AI and machine-learning technologies have been utilized in various capacities in the music industry for decades now. However, the rise of Generative AI — which uses existing human-created art within its algorithms to generate content — presents new legal challenges over who is compensated when the tech is used. This month, we spoke to the NMPA’s Da…
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Episode #210 — Music Industry Mental Health: A Conversation With Amber Health’s Dr. Chayim Newman
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At the outset, Amber Health was founded to analyze the mental health needs of artists & touring professionals and develop resources to support them navigate their incredibly taxing line of work. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, its mission and scope expanded to create boots-on-the-ground support for the mental health needs of all music industry pro…
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Episode #209 — ClicknClear & Performance Sports Music Licensing
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The performance sports space offers an exciting new revenue opportunity for artists whose tracks are properly licensed for use in gymnastics, dance, cheerleading and beyond. This month we talk with Chantal Epp, the founder and CEO of ClicknClear, a tech-based solution for athletes and program directors to access pre-cleared licensed music that ensu…
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Episode #208 — 2023 Leading Light Award Nominees, Pt. 2(The Orchard, A to Z Media, WMG)
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2022 marked the first edition of Music Biz’s Bizzy Awards program, a crowd-nominated series of honors recognizing music industry individuals and companies who strive to advance commerce in our industry and make it a better place to work. This ceremony marked the debut of the Leading Light Award, which is given to a company or executive that has sup…
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Episode #207 — 2023 Leading Light Award Nominees, Pt. 1 (TuneCore)
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2022 marked the first edition of Music Biz's Bizzy Awards program, a crowd-nominated series of honors recognizing music industry individuals and companies who strive to advance commerce in our industry and make it a better place to work. This ceremony marked the debut of the Leading Light Award, which is given to a company or executive that has sup…
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Episode #206 — Black Lives in Music CEO, Charisse Beaumont
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Black Lives in Music (BLiM) began as after Blackout Tuesday in 2020 to combat issues of systemic racism in the UK music industry. After learning there was no available data on the topic, the organization commissioned a survey of 2,000+ artists & industry professionals about issues & perception of racism in the region. In our latest podcast, we spea…
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Episode #205 — BE THE CHANGE Gender Equality Study, Pt. 2
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Released on International Women's Day 2023, the 3rd iteration of the BE THE CHANGE study showcases the perspectives of more than 1,500 music industry professionals across 100+ countries on how gender discrimination is both experienced and perceived across the music industry. We continue our coverage of the BE THE CHANGE study by talking with TuneCo…
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Episode #204 — BE THE CHANGE Gender Equality Study, Pt. 1
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Released on International Women's Day 2023, the 3rd iteration of the BE THE CHANGE study showcases the perspectives of more than 1,500 music industry professionals across 100+ countries on how gender discrimination is both experienced and perceived across the music industry. In the first of two episodes focused on this year's report, Matthew Yazge …
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Episode #203 — Affordable Health Insurance For Indie Labels
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For many years, smaller independent labels have found it challenging to provide health insurance options to their employees that were not cost prohibitive. This month we talked with A2IM's President and CEO, Dr. Richard Burgess about the A2IM Benefits Store, launched in September of 2022 to deliver member labels access to affordable health insuranc…
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Episode #202 — Continued Support For Inclusion & Mental Health in the Music Business
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While major strides have already been made to improve the work culture of companies across the music business, it’s a never-ending task to ensure that EVERYONE who works in our industry is welcome, supported and truly happy in their day-to-day roles. To kick off the new year, we sat down with BMI’s SVP, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, …
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Episode #201 — The Lazuli Collective & Mental Health In Entertainment Industries
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Born from the renewed calls for focus on mental health & wellness during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lazuli Collective works to establish "a new cultural paradigm" that puts the human needs of both artists and music industry executives front and center. In this month's interview, we sat down with the organization's founder, Brandon Hol…
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Episode #200 — Capturing Creator Credits While In-Studio
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It is of utmost importance for creators, especially in the age of digital music consumption, to log EVERY detail of who participates in the preparation of a song to ensure that all collaborators are properly paid. With his background as a songwriter and producer, Niclas Molinder set out to create a creator-friendly toolset to help not only fairly t…
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Episode #199 — The Impact of the CRB Royalty Rate Increase
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The recent ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) to increase royalty payout rates for songwriters and publishers is a great step forward in fairly compensating creatives for their work. However given the complex nature of the industry, other segments of the business, particularly those involved in selling and distributing music both physicall…
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Episode #198: Ongoing Diversity Efforts In the Music Industry
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Over the past two years, we’ve seen a major shift from pursuing incremental change to taking truly meaningful action in establishing a more inclusive and equitable workforce. In this month’s episode, we talk to three executives leading the charge to bolster diversity and inclusion in the music industry about the successes of their initiatives and w…
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Episode #197: Disability Pride Month — Interview with Lachi
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In this month’s episode recognizing Disability Pride Month, Music Biz President talks with singer/songwriter and disability advocate, Lachi who founded RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), a coalition that works to build support for disability culture and inclusion for creatives & industry professionals with disabili…
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Episode #196: Pride Month & Queer Representation in the Music Business
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Now more than ever, it is vital to amplify and celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ community, particularly in an industry like ours where they've had an immeasurable impact. In honor of Pride Month, we discuss the state of queer visibility & representation in the music business, both for artists and executives, with Joshua Dickinson of Queer Capita and…
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Episode #195: New Models of Funding Indie Artists
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The financing options available to artists at all levels of their career are much more robust today than they’ve ever been, allowing them to accelerate their exposure and access tools to create music more in-line with their original vision. In our latest podcast, Music Biz President Portia Sabin talks to Andrew Bergman, CEO of Downtown Music Holdin…
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Episode #194: Record Store Day 2022
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What began as a way for independent record store owners to bolster foot traffic and sales has grown into a shining example of, "if you build it, they will come." In celebration of Record Store Day's 15th anniversary in 2022, Music Biz President Portia Sabin discusses the origins of the event and its affect on the recent resurgence of U.S. vinyl sal…
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Episode #193: The Orchard's 25th Anniversary
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From its humble beginnings on Orchard St. in NYC 25 years ago to the use of wide-reaching distribution tools used by artists & their teams across the globe today, The Orchard's mission has not changed in its first quarter-century: work to help indie artists get their music out to the masses. In the latest episode of The Future of What, listen in as…
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Episode #192: An Overview on Streaming Fraud
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We're excited to bring you the first new episode of The Future of What since 2020! Listen in for expert insights from Beatdapp co-founders, Andrew Batey and Morgan Hayduk, as they discuss the ins-and-outs and different types of fraud which are present in the streaming ecosystem and how they can be detected. Plus, Melissa Morgia from the IFPI (Inter…
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Episode 5 Topic: Leading successful teams even during challenging times In this episode Paul speaks with Nina Pütz, CEO of Ratepay, about her experience in growing successful global businesses even during difficult times. Nina explains the importance as a leader to ensure the health of her teams, both physically and mentally. She also details what …
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Episode 4 - Between Two Tracks - Founders Episode
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Episode 4 Topic: Founders Episode with Paul Joezfak and Michael Backes Here is a special episode of What the SaaS: The future of fintech, a ‘Between The Tracks’ episode with receeve Co-founders Paul Jozefak and Michael Backes. For this very special episode, Paul and Michael got together in person to talk about all things receeve and to provide list…
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Episode 3 Topic: Best practices for innovating and disrupting the financial services industry In this episode Paul speaks with Matthias Kröner about some hard hitting topics around customer centric banking, embedded finance, cryptocurrencies, and the digitalisation of banking across Europe and the world. Listen in as Matthias also drops some exciti…
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Episode 2 Topic: Embedded finance and the future of banking and fintech Paul speaks with Miriam Wohlfarth about the future of payment, banking, embedded finance, plus key moments in the German fintech industry. We also get a glimpse of the banking landscape in 3, 5 or even 10 years. Will classic legacy banks survive? Or will we see fintechs dominat…
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Episode 1 Topic: Organisational challenges and digital transformation in collections Paul speaks with Stephan Schuller about the organisational challenges of digital transformation in the collections industry. They also discuss how banking and collections in European countries can adapt to new technology and improve the debt collection process and …
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