Fintech Talks (a Georgia Fintech Academy podcast) - Episode 2: Rodrigo Dantas e Silva - Americas Payments Leader at EY joins Daniel Hadgu and Minas Yohannes students from Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Episode 2: Rodrigo Dantas e Silva - Americas Payments Leader at EY joins Daniel Hadgu and Minas Yohannes students from Georgia State Robinson College of Business

02/20/20 • 44 min

Fintech Talks (a Georgia Fintech Academy podcast)

Episode 2: Rodrigo Dantas e Silva - Americas Payments Leader at EY joins Daniel Hadgu and Minas Yohannes students from Georgia State. Tommy Marshall, Executive Director of the Georgia Fintech Academy moderates a discussion about the payments landscape worldwide. The team considers the recent Visa acquisition of Plaid for $5.3 billion. Daniel and Minas talk about their fintech company EthioPay.
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Welcome to the Georgia FinTech Academy podcast. The Georgia Fintech Academy is a collaboration between Georgia SpinTech Industry and the University System of Georgia. This talent development initiative addresses a massive demand for Fintech professionals and give learners the specialized education experiences needed to enter the FinTech sector.

Hi everyone. This is Tommy Marshall, the Executive Director of the Georgia FinTech Academy. Welcome to episode two of the Georgia FinTech Academy podcast. Its great to have all of you back here with us and we are excited that we're getting into this rhythm of hosting this podcast where we have an executive visitor from the FinTech industry along with students that have been involved or are involved today with the Georgia FinTech Academy. So at first I'd like to introduce you to Rodrigo Dantas e Silva. Rodrigo, thanks so much for being with us today.

Well, thank you for an invitation, Tommy. It's a pleasure to be here.

And tell us about yourself.

All right. So, I am the Americas Payments Leader for EY and that capacity of basically coordinate our teams and our offerings to serve the payments industry. And a little bit about my past, 10 years ago, a little more than that, I thought my career was over because I had worked a good chunk of it in financial services and strategy and the other good chunk of it in technology. And then someone invented the term FinTech and, [wala 00:01:48], I was saved. So, and that has been a lot of what I've been doing so far.

Fantastic. Thanks so much for being here. I mean, EY is such an amazing firm. Does, I think some really remarkable [thorough 00:02:04] leadership and delivery in the FinTech space and we are lucky, lucky, lucky to have you here in Atlanta. You've moved here to Atlanta. What's it been now? Three years?

A little less than three years ago. Yes.

Okay. And so we are just... Thanks for being here [inaudible 00:02:23]and we're,

All my pleasure [inaudible 00:02:24]

Appreciate for [inaudible 00:02:25]. So, Daniel, tell us about yourself.

Yeah, sure Tommy. So my name is Daniel Hadgu. Currently a first semester senior at Georgia State University. A co-founder of EthioPay, and this current summer I'm going to be interning at Vanguard doing investment management.

Oh great. And how did you get attracted to the Vanguard because they're not in Atlanta the last time I checked Malvern, Pennsylvania if I have my facts.

That's correct. So, I just applied online seeing it on there. And-

Are you a Boglehead?

Oh yes sir. Of course. And so I think the thing that attracted me to them and really liked the big three, which is Vanguard, BlackRock and Fidelity, is right now I think a lot of the things that are

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Well, thank you for an invitation, Tommy. It's a pleasure to be here.

And tell us about yourself.

A little less than three years ago. Yes.

Okay. And so we are just... Thanks for being here [inaudible 00:02:23]and we're,

All my pleasure [inaudible 00:02:24]

Appreciate for [inaudible 00:02:25]. So, Daniel, tell us about yourself.

Oh great. And how did you get attracted to the Vanguard because they're not in Atlanta the last time I checked Malvern, Pennsylvania if I have my facts.

That's correct. So, I just applied online seeing it on there. And-

Are you a Boglehead?

Oh yes sir. Of course. And so I think the thing that attracted me to them and really liked the big three, which is Vanguard, BlackRock and Fidelity, is right now I think a lot of the things that are

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Previous Episode

Episode 1: The Georgia Fintech Academy overview with guest Glen Sarvady and Jonthan Pinder

Tommy Marshall, Executive Director of the Georgia Fintech Academy hosts fintech executive Glen Sarvady and Georgia State student Jonathan Pinder in a discussion of the Georgia Fintech Academy. Jonathan Pinder is also a fintech entrepreneur with a company called OshunPay. Glen Sarvady is a former FISERV and Mckinsey executive providing expert commentary on payments.
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Welcome to the Georgia FinTech Academy podcast. The Georgia FinTech Academy is a collaboration between Georgia's fintech industry and the University System of Georgia. This talent development initiative addresses a massive demand for fintech professionals and gives learners the specialized education experiences needed to enter the fintech sector.

Hi, everybody. This is Tommy Marshall, the executive director of the Georgia FinTech Academy, and I would like to welcome you, our listeners, to our inaugural podcast for the Georgia FinTech Academy. I am super excited that I have been able to bring a couple of my good friends into our first podcast today. First, I have to introduce you to Glen Sarvady. Hi, Glen.

Tommy, thanks for inviting me.

Thanks for being here. Glen is with 154 Advisors. He's also a core leader of our Technology Association of Georgia FinTech Society, and I've had the great pleasure of working and getting to know Glen over the last many years here in Atlanta. Thanks for being with us, Glen. I really appreciate it.

You know me. I'm always happy to talk about fintech.

That's right. Me too. Me too. Then we also have a very special guest in Jonathan Pinder, who is a senior at Georgia State University's Computer Science school, and he, congratulations, Jonathan, will be getting his bachelor's of science and computer science in May, will be graduating, and I know all of you prospective employers out there are going to be disappointed to hear that he's got a full-time job that he's already agreed to take with BlackRock, that is the largest asset manager on the planet, 7.43 trillion dollars under management.

Jonathan, they set a record last week with that, with their assets under management. Fink, their CEO, he announced that he had, I guess, his 2019 shareholder-type meeting announcement, and they announced that they hit this massive record number of assets under management. Fantastic organization. Really excited you're heading there. Then I guess additionally, Jonathan is an entrepreneur, and has created a payments company called OceanPay that we want to hear a whole lot more about. So, thanks so much for being here, Jonathan.

Thank you so much, Mr. Marshall.

I want you all both to talk a little bit more about yourselves, but before we jump into that, since this is our inaugural podcast, I want to share with all of you, our listeners, what we've been thinking about in terms of format here. You're getting a bit of it just as you hear the introductions. We're going to release a podcast monthly. Today is January the 23rd, 2020. We are on the Georgia State campus in a recording studio that they've been so generous to let us take advantage of.

So, we're going to do a podcast monthly, and the format's going to have a basic similarity every month, and that's going to, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on whether you like me or not, I'm the moderator, as the executive d

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Episode 3: The Coronavirus Crisis - Impacts on the Financial System and the role of Fintech - Jeff Gapusan, Primerevenue and Qazi Haq of Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Jeff Gapusan, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Corporate Development at Prime Revenue joins Qazi Haq a college senior from Georgia State Robinson School of Business who just found out yesterday his commencement is cancelled due to the coronavirus. Both talk with Tommy Marshall, Executive Director of the Georgia Fintech Academy about the coronavirus crisis and its impacts on financial markets and the fintech industry.

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