Building a fairer and more inclusive financial ecosystem

In this episode of One Vision, Theo hosts Amanda Estiverne-Colas , Director of Payments Practice at Perficient. Amanda shares her journey in financial services, focusing on financial inclusion and fairness by design, as well as the importance of empathy in banking. They also touch on the challenges and opportunities within the financial ecosystem, the need to adapt to changing consumer needs, in order to build a more inclusive future. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 01:25 Amanda's Journey in Financial Services 05:39 Empathy and Financial Inclusion 06:33 Challenges and Opportunities in FinTech 12:19 Global Perspectives and Innovations 19:31 Consumer Protection 24:02 Closing Thoughts 📍Hot take: “We're focused on automation and efficiency, have we lost the art of relationship building?” 📍Hot take: ”If self-regulation works, then why did we introduce new rules in the last decade or so?” Find Amanda Estiverne-Colas on LinkedIn : Find Theodora Lau on LinkedIn : 🔗 Theo’s latest book: Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence: 🔗 About Unconventional Ventures and the One Vision Podcast: One Vision Podcast is a fintech, banking, and AI podcast hosted by Theodora Lau (Founder, Unconventional Ventures; author of Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence). One Vision goes beyond the headlines on AI, agentic commerce, digital banking, financial inclusion, and the future of money — with founders, analysts, venture capitalists, technologists, and operators building the next chapter of financial services. New episodes weekly. Featured guests include leaders from Ant, bunq, J.D. Power, Forrester, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAS, SAP, and Wall Street Journal. Recognized in American Banker's Top 20 Most Influential Women in Fintech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Building a fairer and more inclusive financial ecosystem is an episode from One Vision by Theodora Lau.

This episode is 29:36 long.

This episode was published on Jan 4, 2026.

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