“Nearly everybody who touched crypto tried to kill it. Ultimately, it labored – but it surely took 5 years,” mentioned eToro’s Founder and CEO, Yoni Assia, on the current Fintech Junction occasion in Tel-Aviv, earlier this month. He recalled that his firm purchased Bitcoin at $5, including: “The board just about crucified me for coping with crypto, and the regulators additionally acquired offended at us for being a monetary firm working with what appeared very dangerous to them.”
Assia was amongst many high-profile audio system on the occasion, which introduced collectively key figures from Israel’s fintech business.
“I Love These Processes and the Modifications Over Time”
The convention coated a variety of matters, from Israeli enterprise management to the nation’s deep-rooted tradition of entrepreneurship. The star, predictably, was AI. It was additionally one of many largest fintech gatherings in Israel because the outbreak of the nation’s struggle with Iran.
Revealing his long-term imaginative and prescient for certainly one of Israel’s main fintech corporations, Assia mentioned: “I have been doing this for 18 years, and I might be joyful to take eToro to $100 billion and hold doing it for an additional 18 years as a result of I like these processes and the modifications over time.”
The ambiance at Fintech Junction
Different audio system additionally centred their remarks on entrepreneurship. Omer Nagar, Co-founder and CEO of The Storage, commented: “Entrepreneurs are an adaptive species — they know higher than anybody learn how to align their startup with a altering actuality. The power to be ready for each explosive development and main crises is on the core of what’s anticipated from a startup as we speak.”
Whereas Assia and Nagar centered on imaginative and prescient and technique, others addressed synthetic intelligence and cybersecurity—two of essentially the most mentioned matters on the occasion.
Ofir Ben Joseph and Yigal Shamaev, AMD
Panellists explored themes resembling “Israel’s distinctive place within the international AI panorama” and “scaling smarter with unified buyer intelligence.” Representatives from chipmaker AMD additionally mentioned the way forward for high-performance computing.
The viewers was largely composed of revolutionary Israeli startups in information and AI. The Tel Aviv Inventory Change and KPMG Israel additionally took half, together with funds companies like PayU and Payoneer.
Attendees interacting at Fintech Junction
“Now, It’s All about Deepfakes”
As soon as thought of a buzzword, AI has now change into a central matter for innovation—and concern. Discussions mirrored a shift in the direction of sensible and security-related challenges posed by superior AI instruments.
Unsurprisingly, the usage of AI by fraudsters got here below scrutiny.
“Folks use AI for dangerous issues, and we use AI to truly detect these dangerous issues,” mentioned Pavel Goldman-Kalaydin, Head of AI/ML at Sumsub.
Pavel Goldman-Kalaydin, Head of AI-ML at Sumsub
He famous {that a} rising development includes folks promoting fraudulent applied sciences fairly than committing fraud themselves.
“You simply promote deepfakes for money—a small amount of money—after which folks use deepfakes to truly transfer cash,” Goldman-Kalaydin defined. “The issue with deepfakes is that it’s troublesome for us to sort out them. It’s important to do it globally.”
Reflecting on the evolution of fraud, he added: “I began engaged on identification perhaps three years in the past. Again then, it wasn’t about faux paperwork—it was all about actual paper paperwork that folks really acquired and bought to one another. And there have been no deepfakes in any respect. Now, it’s all about deepfakes.”
“Nearly everybody who touched crypto tried to kill it. Ultimately, it labored – but it surely took 5 years,” mentioned eToro’s Founder and CEO, Yoni Assia, on the current Fintech Junction occasion in Tel-Aviv, earlier this month. He recalled that his firm purchased Bitcoin at $5, including: “The board just about crucified me for coping with crypto, and the regulators additionally acquired offended at us for being a monetary firm working with what appeared very dangerous to them.”
Assia was amongst many high-profile audio system on the occasion, which introduced collectively key figures from Israel’s fintech business.
“I Love These Processes and the Modifications Over Time”
The convention coated a variety of matters, from Israeli enterprise management to the nation’s deep-rooted tradition of entrepreneurship. The star, predictably, was AI. It was additionally one of many largest fintech gatherings in Israel because the outbreak of the nation’s struggle with Iran.
Revealing his long-term imaginative and prescient for certainly one of Israel’s main fintech corporations, Assia mentioned: “I have been doing this for 18 years, and I might be joyful to take eToro to $100 billion and hold doing it for an additional 18 years as a result of I like these processes and the modifications over time.”
The ambiance at Fintech Junction
Different audio system additionally centred their remarks on entrepreneurship. Omer Nagar, Co-founder and CEO of The Storage, commented: “Entrepreneurs are an adaptive species — they know higher than anybody learn how to align their startup with a altering actuality. The power to be ready for each explosive development and main crises is on the core of what’s anticipated from a startup as we speak.”
Whereas Assia and Nagar centered on imaginative and prescient and technique, others addressed synthetic intelligence and cybersecurity—two of essentially the most mentioned matters on the occasion.
Ofir Ben Joseph and Yigal Shamaev, AMD
Panellists explored themes resembling “Israel’s distinctive place within the international AI panorama” and “scaling smarter with unified buyer intelligence.” Representatives from chipmaker AMD additionally mentioned the way forward for high-performance computing.
The viewers was largely composed of revolutionary Israeli startups in information and AI. The Tel Aviv Inventory Change and KPMG Israel additionally took half, together with funds companies like PayU and Payoneer.
Attendees interacting at Fintech Junction
“Now, It’s All about Deepfakes”
As soon as thought of a buzzword, AI has now change into a central matter for innovation—and concern. Discussions mirrored a shift in the direction of sensible and security-related challenges posed by superior AI instruments.
Unsurprisingly, the usage of AI by fraudsters got here below scrutiny.
“Folks use AI for dangerous issues, and we use AI to truly detect these dangerous issues,” mentioned Pavel Goldman-Kalaydin, Head of AI/ML at Sumsub.
Pavel Goldman-Kalaydin, Head of AI-ML at Sumsub
He famous {that a} rising development includes folks promoting fraudulent applied sciences fairly than committing fraud themselves.
“You simply promote deepfakes for money—a small amount of money—after which folks use deepfakes to truly transfer cash,” Goldman-Kalaydin defined. “The issue with deepfakes is that it’s troublesome for us to sort out them. It’s important to do it globally.”
Reflecting on the evolution of fraud, he added: “I began engaged on identification perhaps three years in the past. Again then, it wasn’t about faux paperwork—it was all about actual paper paperwork that folks really acquired and bought to one another. And there have been no deepfakes in any respect. Now, it’s all about deepfakes.”