When a business is ready to scale internationally, it faces great opportunities - but also challenges - at a whole other level. And many fintech (financial technology) companies are finding themselves in this exact position right now. Last year, UK fintech startups reached a record level of $2.9 billion of funding in the first half, across a total of 123 deals (Finextra). This means that brands that were small start-ups, with one local product or service, just a few years ag

Our Head of Content, Lea Jakobiak, was invited as a Speaker to talk about building a colourful and successful career in Fintech! I'm now old enough to tell stories that start: "When I was young"...and things were actually competely different. So here goes! When I was a young, 18 year old university student at Oxford Brookes in 2003, tech and IT was a world away from what it is now. Most of us didn't have our own computers, and we all went to write our dissertations in designa

Zena Media was the first crew to get invited to film at Kard's very snazzy, new office in Paris! A location that felt suitable for Kard's brand given it's a "social bank for Generation Z". When it comes to financial services, Kard CEO Scott Gordon saw a big gap in the market when it came to generation Z, aka people who were born in the early 2000s (so the demographic cohort after the Millennials). He told Zena Media's Lea Jakobiak: "Gen Z has always lived with crazy business

Zena Media got the prestigeous and rare invite to speak on the main stage at Money 2020 Europe in front of thousands of people! It's not every day you look out at a sea of thousands of faces! And it's not every day you see your name and company on a giant billboard. But at Money 2020 Europe, this is exactly what happened to us! It was an amazing experience and we are so grateful that this huge, global event decided to include us. Money 2020 is one of the biggest events in fin

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I mean...only a few achievements...! Advisor to three US Presidents, bestselling Author, member of the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, founder of non-profit Operation Hope, Inc's Top 10 CEOs 2016, Time Magazine 50 Most Promising Leaders of the Future...John Hope Bryant has the sort of career most dream of having. And one that comes with recognistion for all the right reasons! We did a shoot with with John over in the US. Before our interview he spoke on

What an absolute honour for us to meet Christine Lagarde, MD of the International Monetary Fund - the third most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes. Paris I was invited to speak at the Paris Fintech Forum in January about the power of Fintech. The huge event featured the likes of Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, Bruno LeMaire, Former French Minister of the Economy, and of course Christine Lagarde, MD of the International Monetary Fund. She comes across as firm b