Episode 4

Empowering Businesses: Payments and banking solutions for medium and high risk businesses | Lissele Pratt, Founder at Capitalixe

Lissele Pratt is the Founder of Capitalixe, a fast-growing fintech consultancy. Capitalixe specializes in helping medium to high-risk industries obtain market-leading fintech, payments, and banking solutions. Lissele has been recognized by the industry multiple times, she was named in Forbes' 30 under 30 Finance list and won Rising Star of the Year at the UK FinTech Awards 

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In this episode we cover:

(0:00:00) Purpose of Capitalixe: Provide reliable payment and banking solutions to businesses globally

(0:08:14) Underserviced industries, jurisdictions and medium and high risk businesses

(0:13:32) What makes a good product

(0:15:45) Framework for assessing tech partners

(0:19:18) How Lissele got on the Forbes 30 under 30 list

(0:22:01) Overcoming the challenge of lack of experience

(0:23:18) Challenges of being a young CEO

(0:26:25) Company culture and values: teamwork and celebration

(0:28:09) Remote work and freedom as a core value

(0:33:03) Suggestions for promoting diversity in fintech

(0:37:00) Male dominance and challenges in the payments sector

(0:38:59) Importance of transparency for customers, staff, and shareholders

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Disclaimer: This episode does not constitute professional nor financial advice and does not represent the opinion nor views of my current, past or future employers; nor those of the guests. The guest has agreed to record and release our conversation for the use of this podcast and promotion in social media.

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Monica Millares

Monica advocates for financial safety for all. She is the Product Principal at BigPay, where she leads Product and Design. As part of the founding team, Monica led building BigPay’s product from zero to one, to multi product line, and international expansion. Her leadership shaped the culture and ways of working to grow from startup to scaleup. BigPay has over 1.4 million customers, and has presence in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

Monica has almost 20 years’ experience in Financial Services. Prior to BigPay, she was one of the first joiners in UK’s challenger Tandem Bank, where she focused on building credit cards from scratch. Previously she worked in leading Financial Services brands like Visa, Barclays, and a Mexican Development Bank.

She sits on the Board of PayEd, and is recognised as Singapore’s #Fintech65 Product Leaders and Women in FinTech. She’s been multiple times speaker at the prestigious conference Money2020 and shared stage with JP Morgan, Standard Chartered Bank, Konsentus, and Money2020’s Rise Up. Her commitment to innovation and financial inclusion resonates in her podcast “Purpose Driven FinTech” where she explores how FinTech’s can have 10x more impact.

Monica has a background in Engineering and a Master’s Degree on Analysis, Design, and Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics.