812. News: CaixaBank's GenAI revolution and our fintech naughty or nice list
Benjamin Ensor and Rachel Pandyan are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: CaixaBank investing in 100-person team to work exclusively on GenAI, TikTok acquire Tokopedia following new social media laws, and Canapi launch a $750m VC fund to support fintechs.
Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Rachel Pandyan, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week.
This week's guests include:
- Aditi Subbarao, Global Financial Services Lead at Instabase
- Megan Cooper, Chief Product Officer at ClearBank
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space - Christmas pun edition:
- AI'll be Home for Christmas - CaixaBank create 100-person strong team to work exclusively on GenAI
- TikTok Merrily on High - the social media platform buy a 75% stake in Indonesian payments firm Tokopedia
- All I Want for Christmas is the UAE - Network International and Huawei join forces in the UAE
- Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing... a $750m VC fund - Canapi launch new fund to support US fintechs
- Christmas in the Citi - Colombian B2B fintech Supra gets investment from Citibank
- Making a list, checking it twice... - gonna find out who's on your fintech naughty or nice list
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Special Guests: Aditi Subbarao and Megan Cooper.