E99 - Fred Schebesta - Surviving the Rise of Cryptocurrency and the Metaverse in the Financial Industry

Imagine this.


One day, you press a few buttons on your keyboard and your unique
avatar is walking into a virtual bank.


You go up to a virtual ATM, poke at some keys, and withdraw that
Bitcoin you've been saving for a small treat.


Next stop? Who knows!


With the Metaverse and Cryptocurrency creeping up on us, the
future is big and uncertain and could look vastly different from
today.


That includes those little things you do everyday, like banking.
Meet Fred Schebesta

Fred’s Role as a Fintech Leader at Finder


Fred Schebesta is a Co-founder of Finder. Finder is an
award-winning fintech assisting people around the world in making
better financial decisions and improving their lives. Their
vision is to become the world’s go-to destination for comparing.
After starting out in Australia in 2006, Finder is now the most
visited personal finance comparison website in Australia and are
expanding around the world, with offices in the USA, the UK,
Canada, the Philippines, Poland, and Singapore.
Fred’s Other Work in Finance and Crypto

Besides his work with Finder, Fred is currently a co-founder of
Hive Empire Capital, a crypto investment fund interested in
helping technical teams launch projects. He is also the Chief
Executive Officer of his own project, Schebesta Ventures Pty Ltd,
meant to share his proven systems and strategies with others. He
is an Advisor at Balthazar, a scholar-driven NFT gaming platform
for the metaverse.


On top of all that, Fred is a contributor to multiple magazines
where he writes on topics such as finance, crypto,
entrepreneurship, and business. So far, he’s written for
Cointelegraph, Entrepreneur Media, Yahoo Finance, news.com.au,
Forkast.News, Kidspot.com.au, value walk, The Australian
Financial Review, The Daily Hodl, DynamicBusiness.com.au, The
Huffington Post, SUCCESS Magazine, and Fairfax Media. He has also
spoken about business at the University of London and
StartCon.com.
Cryptocurrency, the Metaverse, and Open Banking

In this exclusive analytics podcast episode, Fred shares:


His role as the Co-founder of Finder

The Finder wallet and how it works

Using data analytics to remove friction and improve customer
experience

How his work with crypto and the Metaverse industry connects
with his work at Finder

How the uprising of the Internet compares to the uprising of
crypto

How crypto and the Metaverse are impacting finance and
banking

What will help companies survive the uprising of crypto and
the Metaverse

How data science, AI, and Machine Learning impact crypto and
the Metaverse

What he is hoping to achieve with Open Banking and Finder

Crypto and the Metaverse vs Open Banking

How crypto and the Metaverse help Open Banking in creating a
more fair and ethical landscape for the financial industry

His advice for startups or innovators in the banking industry
who want to use crypto and the Metaverse in the future



If you are a data professional in the banking industry interested
in how cryptocurrency and the Metaverse will affect your work in
the future, this is the episode you do not want to miss out on.