Vasile Alecsandru Strat is a PhD associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Econometrics at the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, while also occupying the position of Dean of the Bucharest Business School. Vasile Alecsandru Strat was also member of several national and international research projects funded by Horizon 2020 grants or by the business environment. He also coordinated the dissemination and communication WP of the Fintech Horizon 2020 Project (www.fintech-ho2020.eu, PODCAST) which created a knowledge exchange platform for assessing and managing the risks associated with fintech, regtech, and suptech activities. Vasile is also a member of the Network of the Cost Action 19130 and was over the last year the Virtual Network Manager and created, among others, with the help of several colleagues the series of PODCAST of the CA Network.