Today on the Tearsheet Podcast, we're diving into a story that captures the evolution of modern finance — where professional athletes aren't just endorsing products, but building the infrastructure that empowers the next generation of wealth creators.

I'm joined by Sheldon Day, Co-Founder and President of The Player's Company, a collective of over 500 professional athletes and accredited investors who are rewriting the playbook on financial empowerment. As a NFL defensive tackle with the Washington Commanders and eight-year veteran, Sheldon understands firsthand the financial realities that athletes face both during and after their careers. 

The Players Company isn't just another investment club — it's a platform democratizing access to wealth-building tools once reserved for the ultra-wealthy, while providing financial education many athletes never received. Since 2019, TPC has facilitated investments in startups like ZenWTR, Teamworks, and Public.com, proving athletes can be sophisticated capital allocators when given the right resources.

We'll explore how Sheldon went from reading defensive formations to reading investment prospectuses, and how The Players Company is scaling to empower athletes across all sports to build generational wealth.

'We're changing the narrative on athletes being dumb money': The Player's Company

Esta investigación se basa en los efectos del ecosistema Fintech y las criptomonedas en Colombia, enfocándose en los desafíos y oportunidades regulatorias. Se emplea una metodología mixta, que mezcla los enfoques cualitativos y cuantitativos, con la cual se busca identificar los desafíos regulatorios que enfrentan estas tecnologías y como influyen en la adopción en el país. 

Entorno del ecosistema fintech y criptomonedas en Colombia: desafíos y oportunidades en su regulación

Текущее состояние рынка биржевых деривативов на ставки и облигации Московской Биржи (Григорий ИСАЕВ)

Блондинка в баре в роли дивидендной акции. Как случилось, что инвесторы в дивидендные акции недополучают доходность (Сергей МОИСЕЕВ, Банк России)

A Volatile Quarter with a Strong Finish. The second quarter of 2025 was a rollercoaster for the stock market. After a sharp, sudden drop early on, markets recovered quickly to reach new all-time highs, largely driven by excitement around artificial intelligence (AI) and strong company profits.  During this period, some of the world's most famous investors made significant changes to their portfolios. This report provides a neutral summary of the major buys and sells disclosed in their public filings for the second quarter of 2025.

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Smarter Cents Podcast - Titans at the Table: A Simple Guide to What Wall Street Legends Bought in Q2 2025

Today, we're joined by Camila Vieira, a Partner at QED Investors focused on Latin America. Camila brings a wealth of experience to our conversation, having established herself as one of the region's most influential fintech investors.

Camila joined QED in 2022 as the company's first employee based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she focuses on early stage investments. As an investor and operator with experience working across different regions, she brings a well-rounded perspective to the table, connecting founders and startups to valuable resources while leveraging QED's deep fintech expertise.

Prior to joining QED, Camila built her career at the intersection of technology and financial services. She started at Moody's, a credit rating agency, before joining Goldman Sachs to focus on corporate credit and economic risk. Later, as part of Goldman's investment banking division, she helped fintech, software, and e-commerce companies raise capital and navigate the transition from private to public markets.

She went on to join the global strategy and corporate development teams at Ceridian, a global software company servicing more than 160 countries. More recently, Camila spent time at Hotmart, a Brazilian tech unicorn whose platform facilitates sales of digital products, enabling creators to build, monetize, manage, and grow globally. There, she led strategy and operations, ESG, and investor relations.

Today, we'll explore the dynamic Brazilian fintech ecosystem, discuss cross-border investment opportunities, and uncover lessons that US investors and financial professionals can apply when looking to diversify their portfolios into these high-growth regions.

Before we jump in, I just want to tell you about a new initiative we’re running at Tearsheet. 

4dFI is an exclusive group of out-of-the-box builders and investors knitting together a community to invest in the next wave of fintech startups.

We’re bringing together current and former banking executives interested in investing in and learning about emerging market fintech startups. 4dFI’s network will be able to both help new companies reach maturity faster, while startups can provide new ways of thinking to our community members.

At 4dFI Capital Partners, I'm joined by Russell Weiss, experienced product and startup builder and Josh Liggett, who has led fintech and blockchain diligence, investments, and strategic partnerships at OurCrowd.

If you are interested in learning how emerging market fintechs are changing the financial services landscape around the globe and would like to play a part in crafting this new future, signup on https://tearsheet.co/4dFI.

Understanding the jabuticaba factor: How QED's Camila Vieira mastered local nuance in Latin American fintech investing

In this episode of the What the FinTech? podcast, host and FinTech Futures editor Paul Hindle is joined by Marie-Gwenhaelle Geffroy, Head of Growth Capital at BNP Paribas, to explore the key start-up and funding trends in the European fintech space this year and learn more about BNP Paribas’ fintech investment strategy and how the bank works with new start-ups to help them scale and grow.

The conversation covers how Europe’s fintech landscape has evolved in recent years and some of the defining focus areas across the region, which emerging technologies and use cases are picking up the most traction and showing the most potential moving forward, and Marie’s top tips for fintech founders looking to grow their businesses.

And finally, we find out what fintech buzzword Marie wants to free from our Fintech Jail!

What the FinTech? | S.6 Episode 19 | The defining trends shaping Europe’s fintech scene

New statistics show that only a minuscule percentage of people know a deep fake when they see one. That creates a huge peril for financial institutions, businesses and consumers who aren’t ready to face the full frontal assault of cybercriminals armed with AI. Andrew Bud, Founder and CEO of iProov, draws on decades of tech experience to explain how deep fakes can be spotted, and shares how his company has developed a  defense that builds on biometrics to create bulletproof fake-spotting.

EPISODE 201: TAKING DEEP EXPERIENCE TO THE DEEP FAKE CHALLENGE

CyberJali empowers African fintech startups with practical guidance on AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC). Tune in for expert insights, tips, and discussions to help your startup stay compliant, build trust, and scale confidently.

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Episode overview:
Prince Nwadeyi spent years providing market research that unlocked South Africa's R600 billion (~USD 34.4 billion) informal economy for blue-chip clients. The likes of Swiss Re, Liberty, NASPARS all wanted the insights. Few wanted the execution risk.

In conversation with Andile Masuku, Nwadeyi explains why his holding company SAG Ventures stopped selling insights and started building businesses. From Mustard Finance Group (formerly Setana Capital) providing working capital to township spaza shops (micro convenience stores), to Purchase Pal embedding funeral cover into everyday groceries, Nwadeyi's ventures share a common thread: aligning incentives across entire value chains whilst playing a longer game than quarterly-focused corporates can stomach.

His journey from UCT postgrad researcher to operator deploying millions in credit with a claimed 99.9% repayment rate offers a masterclass in strategic patience and the power of granular consumer understanding.

Key insights:
- On why insights alone don't create impact: "We realised that some of the executives were not willing to take the risk, not for any risk of their own, but really just how the incentive structure set up within corporate." Nwadeyi discovered that knowing differently doesn't translate to acting differently when bonuses hang in the balance. The solution? Stop asking permission and build the innovation yourself.

- On aligning incentives to unlock impossible markets: Working capital finance to informal retailers seemed impossible until Nwadeyi mapped the ecosystem. Wholesalers wanted more sales but couldn't offer credit. They did have transaction data. "Can we build a technology solution that interprets that data at scale to enable unique insight that traditional finance institutions don't have access to?" The result: finance the stock purchase to the wholesaler, the SME repays over 14 days, everyone wins. One of their spaza shop clients recently scaled from one store to three and bought her first house for R1 million (~USD 57,400) cash.

- On thinking in decades whilst executing in months: "You don't have to think in days. You have to think in decades." Purchase Pal (what Nwadeyi claims to be "the world's first FMCG-embedded funeral insurance") represents one piece of a five-year strategy spanning multiple financial services verticals. The long game enables patient execution whilst maintaining corporate relevance. "What's my exit point? What's my entry point? Am I wanting to build this alongside?"

- On why research beats assumptions every time: A tearful interview during his MPhil research - a woman describing the humiliation of borrowing money to bury her mother whilst neighbours gossiped about her poverty - sparked the Purchase Pal concept. "What if we could unlock quote unquote, what I call, no cost insurance?" Years of ethnographic research revealed the margin structure in FMCG goods, the cost burden of traditional insurance intermediation, and the customer stickiness problem facing consumer goods manufacturers. Research made the impossible obvious.

Notable moment:
The pivot from consultant to operator: Walking through a Cape Flats township, Nwadeyi's co-founder encountered a spaza shop owner struggling for financing. "All I ever wanted to do is to feed myself, feed my family or feed my business." That human story, repeated across thousands of township retailers, shifted SAG from insight provider to solution builder. Traditional finance wouldn't touch these operators. Nwadeyi's team reportedly deployed over R100 million (~USD 5.7 million) and achieved 99.9% repayment rates.

Image credit: SAG Ventures

Prince Nwadeyi of SAG Ventures: Building solutions corporates commission but won't execute themselves

Diagnóstico FACIL Empresarial es una revista arbitrada por pares especialistas bajo el sistema doble ciego considerando los criterios de evaluación expuestos en las instrucciones para los evaluadores. Para la aprobación de su publicación los artículos serán sometidos a la consideración del cómite editorial de la revista y de evaluadores externos.

Africa-focused technology, digital and innovation ecosystem insight and commentary.

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Our podcast features conversations with founders, technologists, and experts at the intersection of finance, AI, and behavioral psychology. We explore the trends and ideas shaping the future of money.

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Candid conversations with senior executives, fintech entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts -- all weigh in on the trends impacting the industry and the disruptive impact technology is having on the business.

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Cbonds – информационное агентство, специализирующееся в сфере финансовых рынков. Cbonds отслеживает новости и конъюнктуру финансовых рынков, занимается поддержкой базы данных по всем выпускам долговых бумаг: облигации, еврооблигации, синдицированные кредиты, сделки по секьюритизации.

Одно из направлений деятельности Cbonds – проведение онлайн-семинаров. Среди основных тематик – актуальные инвестидеи на рынке долговых ценных бумаг. Основатель Cbonds, Сергей Лялин, проводит беседы с представителями компаний-эмитентов и банков-организаторов.  

Записи с онлайн-семинаров мы выкладываем в формате подкастов – так вы можете ознакомиться с выступлениями экспертов в формате аудио.

FinTech Futures was founded as Banking Technology Magazine in the 1980s.

Today you can find worldwide fintech news, intelligence & analysis at https://fintechfutures.com.

After amassing 125K listens as host of my previous banking podcast, I'm on my own and taking the game to a new level. Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, composer and performer of all the Bankadelic music ... pizza fanatic.

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