InShare with Mark Warnquist | E231

On today's episode of the Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Mark Warnquist, CEO of InShare - an insurance tech that focuses on distributing protection solutions to the on-demand economy to lift the gig workers of the world. Mark talks about the early challenges that he had faced with the insurance companies.

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Currency Hedging with Shane Slater | E088

On today's episode we have Shane Slater, Corporate Currency Specialist from the FirmaFX. He will talk about foreign exchanges, how it impacts business owners and how you can do better than just taking what the bank or your credit card will give you and how that can materially change your margins sometimes, depending on how the better rate you are paying before.

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Flybits with Gerti Dervishi | E230

On today's episode of the Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Gerti Dervishi - Chief Growth officer for Flybits. The company helps financial institutions utilize the context of clients, individual situations, geography, and other factors that help serve up better next recommendations. Gerti goes through a very rigorous process when they engage with financial institutions, not only for their privacy and security but also in terms of user expectations and how their consumers will receive certain services.

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Loop with Cato Pastoll | E229

On today's episode of the Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Cato Pastoll, the CEO of Loop. They will discuss Loop's platform and how it helps companies operating as Canadian businesses get access to banking services in another market. Our goal is to help businesses anywhere who want to manage their business across borders, their finances, and in multiple jurisdictions, says Cato.

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ReadyWhen with Jessie Vaid | E228

On today's Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira will speak with Jessie Vaid, the creator, and CEO of ReadyWhen. ReadyWhen is a digital legacy manager that assists you in putting all of your essential information in one place so that when the worst comes, your family will have a head start in settling your affairs, as well as other kinds of beneficial tools and use cases while you are still living. Jessie is trying to be an educator in the platform of knowing what needs to go into there and beyond all that information there. When he goes into a conversation, people don't realize there are masked digital footprints that they have a lot of the time.

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Physis with Stefania Di Bartolomeo | E227

On today's episode of the Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Stefania DiBartolomeo, the founder, and CEO of Physis Investments. This investment is an ESG and impact investing platform for reporting sustainability amongst companies. Stefania realized that the next big question for people that wanted to invest in sustainability, they wanted to invest to respect and protect the planet. But the question was going to be, can you prove the impact of this investment? And she decided to leave the company at work for a disaster management company in Europe and she came back to Harvard to start vice investment to really answer this next big next big question, help people measure the impact of their money on the planet.

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Liveflow with Anita Koimur | E226

On today’s episode of the Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Anita Koimur. Co-founder and COO of Liveflow. Liveflow is an online platform that pulls data into Google Sheets from various accounting software to allow and enable different workflows and processes more efficiently than currently can be done within that native software.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 5, with Jason Pereira | E087

Today is the 5th part of the continuation of a series that Jason is doing on understanding financial statements. On this episode, Jason will be talking about various accounts such as notional accounts and capital dividend accounts. He will be explaining further about RDTOH, refundable dividend tax on hand and safe income in this series on understanding your Financial Statements. Jason explains what are notional accounts? These are accounts that exist in your financial statements. They have to be tracked by your account separately and reported to CRA. Some of them, not all of them yet, but they are all being reported.

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Funding Matters with Bill Petruck | E225

On today’s episode of the Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Bill Petruck, Founder and CEO of funding matters. Funding matters is a light fintech with a series of calculators and other tools that help not-for-profit charities. It helps generate donations more easily by showing people the actual tax implication of various donation schemes and options and helping kind of grease the wheels towards making that happen.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 4, with Jason Pereira | E086

Today is the 4th part of the continuation of a series that Jason is doing on understanding financial statements. Today, Jason is going to focus on cash management and working capital because cash is your lifeblood of a business. He will give you a framework for how to work with the cash because the accounting books and looking at that just don't give you the full picture. He will be explaining all the queries related to cash flows in your business.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 3, with Jason Pereira | E085

Today is the third part of the continuation of a series that Jason is doing on understanding financial statements. Today, Jason is going to talk about accounting ratios. Accounting ratios are used to analyze your business in several different ways. First, it’s helpful to track the performance of your business in multiple different facets, from its solvency to its profitability to its efficiency. It also is a valuable tool if you can combine comparing the help of your business with another business.

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Daylight Automation with Art Harrison | E223

On today’s episode of the Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Art Harrison, Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of Daylight. It helps companies automate their data processes and create greater efficiencies around things like onboarding, documented population etc. TurboTax is a solution that will guide you through the right questions just to make sure that you contextually are providing the right information.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 1, with Jason Pereira | E083

On today’s episode, Jason Pereira will review financial statements, how to read them properly, and what different terminologies mean. There are all kinds of rules about how depreciation impacts different types of business, and it’s also known as capital cost allowance in Canada.Today, Jason will discuss income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and ratios.

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