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As the FinTech arena moves beyond smoothing back-office processes and facilitating relationships between existing players we are seeing a new generation of B2C players rise to take on the incumbent institutions. Â
With the rise of challenger banks, we also see hybrid organizations seeking to use new technologies and the resulting processes and public awareness thereof to slice up markets a little differently. Alpian is one such nascent institution, with both new aspects and old backers, seeking to bridge the gap between high street/ retail banks and service-based private wealth managers. Â
IMD MBA 2017 alumnus Schuyler Weiss is a dual U.S.-Swiss citizen and he has been CEO of Alpian for the past three years. In a conversation with IMD Executive in Residence Ian Charles Stewart, he discusses the near future of how you manage your money.

October 23, 2025 • by David Bach, Felix Zeltner in Podcasts
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October 20, 2025 • by Omar Toulan in Podcasts
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