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Isabelle Castro Margaroli

London

Reporter at Freelance

Future of Finance journalist for Digital Frontier focused on crypto, tech, fintech, banking and digital communities All opinions expressed are my own

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  • Nov 26, 2023 | fintechnexus.com | Isabelle Castro Margaroli

    Hi guys, welcome to the Fintech Coffee Break. I’m your host Isabelle Castro. This week I shared my coffee break with Don Muir CEO and founder of Arc. This episode was a special one. It was the last one of a very busy year and I wanted to kind of take stock of what had happened and how it had affected the fintech ecosystem. Arc works closely with startups and fintechs and has had a great insight into what’s going on in the landscape.

  • Nov 20, 2023 | fintechnexus.com | Isabelle Castro Margaroli

    Hi guys, welcome to the Fintech Coffee Break. I’m your host, Isabelle Castro. This week I joined Dani Fava Group President of Product Innovation at Envestnet for my coffee break to talk about the promise of generative AI for the financial advisory. With AI being one of the topics of the year for finance, I wanted to ask her how she sees the technology impacting financial advisors and the customers they serve.

  • Nov 15, 2023 | fintechnexus.com | Isabelle Castro Margaroli

    The Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, and for many fintech workers in the tech hub that is Tel Aviv, 44 miles from Gaza, life has had to continue through the chaos. Today, American Banker published a piece looking into the impact the conflict has had on many fintechs that have offices in the area. Although some, like Pagaya and Bluevine, have headquarters in the US, many have hundreds of employees based in Israel.

  • Nov 14, 2023 | fintechnexus.com | Isabelle Castro Margaroli

    Today, I woke up to a rush of news reports covering blockchain-focused company Fnality’s latest successful funding round. The round was led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas, joined by a number of other banks, raising a total of £77.7 million ($95.2 million) – no mean feat in today’s climate. CEO Rhomaios Ram said that he felt that “small pockets” of optimism were finally emerging in the funding space, despite it being difficult to close the round. So what exactly are they so optimistic about?

  • Nov 14, 2023 | fintechnexus.com | Isabelle Castro Margaroli

    American banks have faced a barrage of regulatory changes during the course of this year. With many of the CFPB’s new rules involving data collection, bankers are feeling the strain. At a certain point, the collection, analysis, and reporting of all this data increasingly becomes a challenge regardless of the bank’s size,” said Peter Dugas, Executive Director at Capco. “Financial institutions are just being overwhelmed with data.

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RT @RichHewes: With issue 4 of @DigitalFrontier now released, I’ve been reflecting on what we’ve achieved by launching a print publication…

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15 Apr 25

The latest issue of Digital Frontier’s magazine is now out!!!

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The Echoes issue of our Digital Frontier magazine is out online and in stores today 🎉 Built around echoes through time, it unpacks the patterns we can’t seem to shake – and the reverberations shaping what comes next – across 130 pages. Take a peek under the cover 🧵🔽 https://t.co/JpHSURKGdr