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Women in Fintech Launches International Podcast Series
Raiha Buchanan, founder of Women in FinTech (WiFT), and Sarah Kok, the founding member of this initiative, have launched the first episode of their podcast. In this episode, titled “How Did You Get Into FinTech,” they share their ambitions for the podcast and the WiFT initiative as a whole. Raiha and Sarah also, share their own stories in this first episode of the podcast, intended to be a regular series.
“Our motivation to start Women in FinTech arose when we were searching for a platform for women to support each other in the FinTech community, and couldn’t find one, so we decided to start one ourselves,” shares Raiha Buchanan, CMO at Instantor, in the first WiFT podcast powered by Instantor.
“So many women came to me at our launch event in Stockholm and told me how important a platform where they could support each other is. They were wondering why somebody hasn’t already done it” adds Sarah Kok, Brand Manager at Instantor. “We want this podcast to be a space for experienced voices as well as for newcomers who have a fresh perspective of the industry,” finalises Sarah.
The podcast series aims to increase female representation in the industry by sharing knowledge and experiences while building a meaningful international network. “How Did You Get Into FinTech” will be the theme of the 2nd. mingle of the Women In FinTech in Stockholm, taking place on May 13th, 2019. To listen to the podcast, please click here. The podcast RSS feed can be found here.
Raiha worked as Global Head of Digital at Bambora, when the company was acquired and went from startup to unicorn in 2017. Raiha has been fundamental in building iZettle, Bambora and Instantor´s brands.
In 2018 Raiha joined Instantor as CMO where she translates cutting-edge technology into easy-to-understand products and solutions across 25 markets in Latin America, Europe and Asia. In the same year, Raiha spoke at a Google event in Sweden focusing on the future of technology.
In 2018 Raiha was appointed Expansion Director for the ASEAN region when she also pitched Instantor´s solutions in the Google Cloud stage at the Singapore FinTech Festival.
In 2019 Raiha founded Women in FinTech with the ambition to achieve a higher gender balance in FinTech in Sweden and internationally.
As an expert in the industry, in the last two years Sarah has written numerous blog entries for Instantor and contributed to a number of reports around topics of credit risk management, digital transformation, transactional data based credit scoring and financing inclusion for minorities and vulnerable groups.
In 2019 Sarah spoke at the Stockholm FinTech Week about sustainable finance and attended the Financial Inclusion Summit in Oslo. Sarah is a passionate woman in FinTech with a deep understanding of the Eurasian landscape, which has been fundamental in the inception and take-off of Women In FinTech.
Sarah holds an MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Uppsala in Sweden and a BA in Chinese and Management from the University of Sheffield.
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