Kicking off season 4 of Digital Transformation & Leadership, Danny Levy talks to Monica Millares who works at BigPay, as Principal, Product. She moved to Malaysia as part of BigPay's founding team to help launch and grow what is now one of the fastest growing NeoBanks in South East Asia with 1.37 million transacting users. Monica is a product leader and women advocate who has spent the last decade building great product in the FinTech space. She believes in Financial Safety for all, and that the future of FinTech is to make FinTech more human. Prior to BigPay, Monica steadily progressed from junior analyst in big brands like Visa and Barclaycard, to being one of the first joiners in UK Challenger, Tandem Bank. She helped build the digital bank from scratch and worked with Tandem's CEO on strategic initiatives and Board management. Monica sits on the Board of PayEd - Education in Payments, and is recognized as Singapore’s #Fintech65 Product Leaders and Women in FinTech. She is also a Podcaster and hosts "Purpose Driven FinTech" podcast, writes the "Innovating FinTech" newsletter, and mentors young professionals. In the episode Monica shares insights at her role at BigPay and how this aligns with the topic of the episode, her views on the growing financial stress that we all find ourselves under, how this impacts quality of life and mental health, insights on underbanked and unbanked, and what role FinTech has to play in all of this. She also shares her top career/life lesson and advice to listeners just starting out in the industry. 👉 You can find Monica here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicamillares/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@moni_millares TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@moni_millares Website: https://moni-millares.mystrikingly.com/ 👉 You can find BigPay here: Website: https://bigpayme.com/ 👉 You can find “Purpose Driven FinTech: Building Products with Impact” Podcast here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ERV2xcvgcuFRkAb4iUOjt Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/purpose-driven-fintech/id1686687931 Website: https://purpose-driven-fintech.captivate.fm/ 🗞️ Newsletter - Innovating FinTech 😎 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7062789745407340544 Substack: Coming soon 📞 Schedule a free “Open Office” call with Monica: https://www.kalendme.com/en/fintechwithmoni-ejoob Are you getting every episode of Digital Transformation & Leadership in your favourite podcast player? You can find us Apple Podcasts and Spotify to subscribe. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/danny-levy/message