PCN Podcasts

Is manual invoice reporting a thing of the past? This week, our CEO, Rogier Rouppe van der Voort hosted Rom Lakritz, Co-Founder & CEO at Anchor. Together, they delved into the need for the automation of billing processes and the payments challenges that small companies face nowadays. Throughout the episode, Rom also explained how Anchor is redefini…

Here at Ockham, we are always keen to explore how we deliver high quality content to our audiences and this week Ben is trialling something new. In a change to our usual format, Ben has recorded a solo, “bite size” episode offering his thoughts and advice for practices about the implications of the changing healthcare landscape. Starting from the t…

It has not escaped our notice that the regularity of our (now almost resident) pensions expert Paul Gordon’s appearances on the podcast is increasing as further changes to the NHS pension (and our wider entitlements) are introduced. Thankfully, with the wisdom of Paul, now Sanlam Wealth’s Head of Medical Specialist Wealth Planners, leading on the N…

Can rule-based solutions beat the new types of fraud? Find out about that and much more on this week’s episode of In Check With Fintech. This week, our CEO, Rogier Rouppe van der Voort, hosted Hubert Rachwalski, CEO at Nethone. Together, they discussed the evolution of fraud attacks, and how companies can deal with the continuous development of fra…

Episode 311 – Podcast – Practice Index – Credit where accreditation is due… We at Ockham Healthcare have closely followed the journey of the Institute of General Practice Management (IGPM) since its inception at the beginning of 2021. Its four founding Directors, Robyn Clark, Nicola Davies, Kay Keane, and Jo Wadey have worked hard to establish the …

Many practices and networks up and down the country are already aware of the benefits that pharmacists and pharmacy technicians can offer however in Suffolk Primary Care, they have taken this to a whole new level with the establishment not only of a centralised Pharmacy team, but in also embedding a standardised pathway across a so-called super PCN…

On this episode of In Check with Fintech, our CEO, Rogier Rouppe van der Voort, was joined by Faysal Oudmine, CEO & Co-Founder at Fintecture. During their chat, they discussed payments digitization, collaborations with banks and regulators, opportunities within the B2B payments market, and more. Enjoy listening! 🎧…

Here on the Ockham podcast, we are proud to have been able to feature many inspiring success stories where utilisation of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme funding and the introduction of new roles into Primary Care. This week’s is no less thought-provoking. Our guests, GP, and Clinical Director Dr John Stevenson, PCN Development Manager An…

The year 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the disturbing song “Timothy.” Banned by radio stations and called "the worst song ever recorded," its lyrics about cannibalism in a Pennsylvania coal mine eerily parallel the real-life Sheppton disaster. Written by playwright Rupert Holmes, the Billboard hit launched the career of The Buoys. They went on…

We are all aware that the practice workload balance is already, or about to, tip over and with this in mind, it is more important than ever to regularly take stock, check in on our colleagues, proactively plan ahead, take our leave (even if it’s not necessarily when we want to!), and if need be, reach out to others for support. With this in mind, o…

We’re back with a very special episode of In Check with Fintech, recorded at the Money20/20 Money Pot during the biggest fintech event in Europe! On this episode, our CEO, Rogier Rouppe van der Voort, hosted Anthony Oduwole, CTO, CPO & Co-Founder at Verto. Together, they discussed cross-border payments, emerging markets, the future of Verto, and mo…

In 1973, Western music was banned in the People’s Republic of China. But in a remarkable breakthrough cultural exchange, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted a tour of closed-off China, becoming the first American orchestra to visit the communist nation. Jennifer Lin’s "Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journe…

In another episode documenting general practice preparations for integrated care, we welcome back Dr Jon Griffiths, GP Advisor for Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership, NHS North West Leadership Academy board member, RCGP Mersey Faculty Board deputy council rep and Cheshire LMC member. As part of his GP Advisor role, Jon has worked w…

When Connecticut Yankees began to settle the Wyoming Valley in the 1760s, both the local Pennsylvanians and the powerful native Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) strenuously objected. The Connecticut Colony and William Penn had been granted the same land by King Charles II of England, resulting in the instigation of the Yankee-Pennamite Wars. In 1788, durin…

As ever, here at Ockham, we are fortunate to have been able to have taken some time out from business as usual to put our feet up and properly digest, review, and summarise the recent Fuller report publication on integrated Primary Care (and what this might look like in the context of the wider Integrated Care world). As with everything, our conclu…

What is the key to the development of a company? Find out about that and much more on our latest episode of In Check With Fintech. This week, our CEO, Rogier Rouppe van der Voort, hosted Yuval Ziv, President at Nuvei. Together, they delved into the ins and outs of the payments industry. Yuval also shared interesting insights regarding the trends wi…

Over the years, many top historians have cited Major General Robert E. Rodes as the best division commander in Robert E. Lee’s vaunted army. Despite those accolades, Rodes faltered badly at Gettysburg, which stands as the only major blemish on his otherwise sterling record. Although his subordinates were guilty of significant blunders, Rodes shared…

We are in full countdown to ICS mode here on the podcast and in recognition of the existing issues of workload, pressures, and targets – and of the upcoming challenges General Practice is facing as we transition into the new, larger scale networks, we felt it was about time we welcomed back Dr Rachel Morris, GP, executive trainer, coach and all-rou…

Chester County was home to a diverse patchwork of religious communities, antislavery activists and free Black populations, all working to end the blight of slavery during the Civil War era. Kennett Square was known as the “hotbed of abolitionism,” with more Underground Railroad stations than anywhere else in the nation. Reverend John Miller Dickey …

Going into partnership and realising success as a GP Partner can be a difficult enough landscape to navigate but when you are from a black, Asian, or other minority ethnic background, simply finding the opportunity to apply and establish yourself within a partnership can be a challenge in itself, for a variety of reasons. In this week’s episode, Be…

Dive into the ins and outs of Risk Management with our 3-part video series in collaboration with Netcetera — the market leader in the DACH region for 3-D Secure authentication. In the second episode, our host and CEO Rogier Rouppe van der Voort speaks with Vlado Galevski from Netcetera - Software matters and Dewald Nolte from Entersekt. Together, t…

The Eastern Professional Basketball League (1946-78) was fast and physical, often played in tiny, smoke-filled gyms across the northeast and featuring the best players who just couldn’t make the NBA—many because of unofficial quotas on Black players, some because of scandals, and others because they weren’t quite good enough in the years when the N…

How do you manage expenses within your company?On this week’s episode of In Check with Fintech, we were delighted to host Rodolphe Ardant Co-Founder & CEO at Spendesk, who joined Rogier Rouppe van der Voort, for an insightful discussion about spend management within companies, entrepreneurship and Spendesk’s unicorn status. Rodolphe also gave an ov…

In "Philadelphia’s Germans: From Colonial Settlers to Enemy Aliens," Richard N. Juliani examines the social, cultural, and political life, along with the ethnic consciousness, of Philadelphia’s Germans, from their participation in the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania to the entry of the United States into World War I. This book focuses on the…

Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of three major floods to claim lives and wreak havoc in the region. The destruction in…

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! In this week’s episode, we were happy to host Ernst van Niekerk, Founder & CEO at Payaut, who joined Rogier Rouppe van de Voort, CEO at PCN, for an interesting chat about multi-PSP setup, payment orchestration, building a company from scratch, as well as Payaut’s recent investment, and the company’s plans for the f…

"American Workman" presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane’s life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh in the early twentieth century, …

In 1675, eastern North America descended into chaos. Virginia exploded into civil war, as rebel colonists decried the corruption of planter oligarchs and massacred allied Indians. Maryland colonists, gripped by fears that Catholics were conspiring with enemy Indians, rose up against their rulers. Separatist movements and ethnic riots swept through …

🎧 Welcome to In Check with Fintech! Michael Santner, Head of PSP DACH by Nets, joins PCN Head of DACH Morten Laufer to discuss his move to Nets, the merging of Nets and Nexi, and the commercial teams at Nets. He also discusses the developments unfolding within the industry and shares his insights into how he sees the future of e-commerce. Enjoy lis…

In her concise history Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania, Beverly Tomek corrects the long-held notion that slavery in the North was “not so bad” as, or somehow “more humane” than, in the South due to the presence of abolitionists. While the Quaker presence focused on moral and practical opposition to bondage, slavery was ubiquitous. Nevertheles…

Welcome to in Check with Fintech! This week we were delighted to have @Andrea Fernandez, Co-founder & CEO at @Vitamin, who joined Petula Marbler, Recruitment Consultant at PCN, to discuss female finance empowerment, financial literacy, and Vitamin’s goal to change the lives of women through financial independence. She also shared her personal story…

Italian arts and culture have been a significant influence on Philadelphia dating back to Thomas Jefferson and colonial times. Throughout the ensuing decades, Italian art and architecture styles flourished, and wealthy Philadelphians traveled to Italy and brought back objects to display in emerging institutions of art and culture. New immigration f…

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! Nabil Naimy, CEO at NORBr, joins PCN CEO Rogier Rouppe van der Voort to discuss Nabil's career trajectory and building the NORBr team. He shares his insights after 20 years working in payments and how fintech evolved out of payment. He also discusses payment as a critical part of e-commerce strategy and future inno…

Authors Jim McClure and Scott Mingus team up again to present more than two dozen perspectives and articles on the Civil War history of York County, Pennsylvania. That area was a key source of troops and supplies for the United States Army's war efforts, as well as a transportation hub. During the Gettysburg Campaign, one out of every seven soldier…

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobs’s First City vividly reveals how this influential thinker and writer’s classic works germinated in the once vibrant, mid-size city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Jane spent her initial eighteen years. In the…

Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill–the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many ne…

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! Felix Gerlach is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Passbase, a privacy focused identity infrastructure company. Launched in 2018, Passbase has since raised over $17 million in funding from Cowboy Ventures, Eniac & Lakestar with offices in Berlin and New York. Prior to Passbase, Felix worked in leading pro…

Horses are one of the many unsung heroes of the American Civil War. These majestic animals were impressed into service, trained, prepared for battle, and turned into expendable implements of war. There is more to this story, however. When an army’s means and survival is predicated upon an animal whose instincts are to flee rather than fight, a bond…

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! This week, PCN CEO Rogier sat down with Niels van Daatselaar, Co-founder & CEO of TreasurUp, to discuss how banks have struggled to keep up with online commercial banking and how TreasurUp's white label offerings to banks fills the gap. He also discusses TreasurUp's new Cash Visibility & Forecasting module. Niels s…

America's first international hero, the Marquis Lafayette, risked his life and spent his fortune in the fight for American independence from England. Without Lafayette and the assistance of France, America would never have been victorious during the American Revolution. While being celebrated in America in the 18th and 19th century – including a gr…

Albert Saniger is the founder and CEO at nate, the first app with the technology to enable mobile checkout on behalf of a user for any item at any online retailer. Albert worked briefly on Amazon’s Fashion Retail platform and in 2018 founded nate with a mission to simplify and transform the online shopping experience into a social one. By April 202…

This was a time unlike any other in our lifetime. The Coronavirus pandemic hit hard and affected every aspect of our lives, from sports to politics and religion. This book contains all kinds of stories about Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and national figures and events and how the hospitalizations and deaths changed things forever. Tiger Woods, …

Welcome back to In Check with Fintech! We're kicking off the new season with Tom Greenwood, Founder & CEO of Volt, a technology developer and product innovator company with a focus on new generation real-time payments infrastructure and open banking. Tom is is responsible for managing strategic relationships, developing strategy and planning, and d…

George Washington’s rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined his own military career thanks to an outrageous ego. But by his mid-forties, that headstrong, unwise young man had evolved into an unassailable leader chosen as the commander in chief of …

Pastor B.J. Thelander

Christmas Sunday - Family Church

Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in solitary confinement at night, and the Pennsylvania system, where prisoners faced 24-hour solitary confinement for the duration of their sentences. By the close of the Civil War…

Pastor Greg

Welcome to In Check with Fintech! This week we have Richard Doherty, Founder & CEO at ScaleUp Consulting and host of the Fintech Scaling Show podcast. He will share his insights on how budding companies and entrepreneurs can scale up their businesses strategically and position themselves as industry leaders.…

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