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London Fintech Podcast
Interviews with key players shaping Fintech. Every episode helps you stay ahead as technology and regulation change how money moves and financial services are built, so you don't have to spend hours researching every development yourself. Every other Thursday, Tony Clark brings you a focused conversation about one important shift in FinTech: what is happening, what it means and whether it will last. You finish each episode knowing what deserves your attention and what doesn’t. The London…
Episodes
London Fintech PodcastThe forensic AI that can predict corporate collapse! – The Transparently Story
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j5HZhwSuVy4 In his inaugural episode of the London Fintech Podcast, host Tony Clark takes over from Mike…
London Fintech PodcastLFP 10th Anniversary! The Future of the Global System, FS, Fintech and the LFP! w/Tony Clark CEO Next Wave
This is the 4th and final episode in the mini-series celebrating the LFP’s 10th anniversary. Having looked at the past decade in Fintech, dived into how an LLM…
London Fintech PodcastLFP10th Anniversary Special! A Deep Dive Into the Realpolitik of AI Risk – Are We All Doomed or Is That Sci-Fi Fantasy?
In this episode we discuss the super-hot and super-important topic of what Risks AI poses to humanity and society. There is perhaps not a hotter and more…
London Fintech PodcastLFP10th Anniversary Special! A Deep Dive: Demystifying LLMs, How They Work & the Amazing 81yr Timeline to their Creation!
LLMs, of which ChatGPT is the most well-known, are perhaps the most awesome tech invention of all time. Even experienced AI folk didn’t see this coming. Most…
London Fintech PodcastLFP 10th Anniversary Special! The Story of a Decade Of Fintech Evolution As It Happened at the Time
The past decade has seen the most extraordinary innovation in any business sector in the UK and thence world since the industrial revolution . An amazing…
London Fintech PodcastLFP251 – WARNING Re Mugging & Banking Apps
This is a super-short extraordinary LFP outside the usual programming schedule to alert listeners to the crime of mugging folks and then getting them to…
London Fintech PodcastLFP250 – Guide to using PR in Tech Firms w/Ben Goldsmith CEO Goldsmith Communications
If you invent the world’s greatest Fintech App in your garden shed that’s impressive – but something only known to you. At which point you need to get the word…
London Fintech PodcastLFP249 – Radical Innovation in a Cross-Domain Fashion w/Ani Sane co-founder Terrapay
One major way of innovating is to move into a domain with transferable and out of the box skills/ideas/technology. This presents obvious opportunities for…
London Fintech PodcastLFP248 – The Challenges of FS/Fintech Boards esp in the 21stC w/Neil Holden Serial FS NED
The Governance of FS as a whole affects all of our lives as we saw in 2008 let alone in many individual examples of FS/Fintech businesses failing and losing…
London Fintech PodcastLFP247 – The Long Slow Path To Tech Success, Issues Involved and Moral Choices w/Ruzbeh Bach CEO City Falcon
The tech world focuses heavily on the “succeed fast or fail fast” model of tech growth. In part this is as VC firms generally have limited life funds and hence…
London Fintech PodcastLFP246: The Crucial Role of Venture Accelerators – NEDs, Advisors, Mentors, Mentors of Mentors, Angels et al – w/Nic Lenz
The Founder(s) is(are) at the heart of creating something new that literally never existed before. However they very much do not do this in vacuo needing to…
London Fintech PodcastLFP245 – Fintech in France w/Louis Carbonnier Co-Founder Hokodo
As always there is a fascinating phenomenon when the globalised world of tech meets the localised worlds of custom, people, rules and regulations. As recently…
London Fintech PodcastLFP244 – The Use Of Multiple Models Across The Lending Process w/Jerome Le Luel CEO Triver
In this episode we take the opportunity to talk to one of the most credit risk experienced men in Fintech who has ranged from a dozen years at seminal Capital…
London Fintech Podcast2024 New Year Special: A Deeeep Dive Into Creativity and Its Importance In Creating a New World not a New Order
This 2024 New Year Special forms the sixth and final in a series of six (there will be no more) about how technology – and in this episode way wider forces –…
London Fintech PodcastLFP243 – The Berlin Tech Scene: A Deep Dive w/Ivan Maryasin CEO Monite
In this Xmas special we zoom out from Fintech to Tech as a whole in one of Europe’s coolest capitals – Berlin. Ivan is a great person to guide us through the…
London Fintech PodcastLFP242 – Fintech in Saudi Arabia and Collective Savings w/Naif AbuSaida CEO Hakbah
Saudi Arabia is a country that increasingly confounds stereotypes and expectations – an example being a YouTuber who has visited every country in the world…
London Fintech PodcastLFP241 – A Deep Dive Into Alternate Asset Investment via Fintech w/Dan Harman CEO Darksquare
Why buy alternative assets? Well in extremis what else would you buy?
London Fintech PodcastLFP240 – Mortgage Decisions In Days Or Even Hours Not Weeks w/Stuart Cheetham CEO Mpowered Mortgages
Back in the 70s getting mortgages took months – there was a mortgage queue (&before techies get over-excited about how “bad” this was it was one of the factors…
London Fintech PodcastLFP231 – Accelerating Monetary and Banking Change inc Debanking, Gold Repatriation & BRICs Gold Plans w/Mario Innecco
So rapid is the rate of change in banking and the nature of and control of money right now that today we set a record and have a returning guests a mere 6…
London Fintech PodcastLFP230 – Islamic Finance, Fintech & Broader Issues for Ethical Investment w/Umer Suleman CRO Wahed
In this episode we dive not just into the world of Islamic Finance and Fintech but the practical lessons we can learn from the world’s oldest “ethical…
London Fintech PodcastLFP229 – Key Themes in US Fintech, Past, Present & Future w/Michael Fanfant Runa Capital
The next in our geographic coverage series on global Fintech past present and future with a special bonus of a taste of Fintech in Asia as Michael, a former…
London Fintech PodcastLFP228 – Does Regulation Need a Phase Shift? w/Alistair Cotton co-founder Integrated Finance
Is the structure of regulation in need of refactoring? Do we have a kind of Reg Debt situation – cf Tech Debt – where organic growth has led to complexity…
London Fintech PodcastLFP227 – Fintech in the Middle East and North Africa w/Said Murad Partner Global Ventures
The latest in the LFP’s coverage of Fintech in geographical regions and this fascinating balance between the bottom-up and the top-down, between localisation…
London Fintech PodcastLFP226 – How To Trade Sell Your Business w/David Genn CEO Goji
The majority of successful exits for companies are via trade sale (not that given the media hype you’d necessarily imagine it was anything but IPOs)…
London Fintech PodcastLFP225 – A Case Study in Managing Astronomically Rapid Growth – 5 Years from Startup to Trade Sale w/James Hickman CCO Ecospend
It is a well-known trope that although failure is a challenge rapid success, though more desirable lol, can be too. In this episode we dive into the…
London Fintech PodcastLFP224 – Early Stage Investment & VC Winter or Simply a Correction? w/Ric Schaefer Target Global
In this episode we discuss VC early stage investment and whether there is a “VC funding winter” as some have called it or whether just a correction. How should…
London Fintech PodcastLFP223 – Fintech in India with Naveen Bindal CEO of Enkash
Fintech is a Big Thing. India is a vast sub-continent. Naveen Bindal, the co–founder of Enkash which is India‘s largest spend management Fintech, joins us to…
London Fintech PodcastLFP222 – Share Schemes & Equity Management: Opportunities & Pitfalls for Founders and Employees w/Ifty Nasir CEO Vestd
There is a real art to how a founder manages his companies equity. If he gives it, or its derivative, share options, away too fast for too little value –…
London Fintech PodcastLFP221 – AI/ML: Generative AI, Excess Data, AI-API-isation, Quantum Computing & AI w/Tristan Fletcher CEO ChAI
AI/ML has been around for a long time but recently hit the headlines with ChatGPT which has broken every tech record in the book for a piece of tech that…
London Fintech PodcastLFP220 – Has A Century Of The Federal Reserve and 50 Years Off The Gold Standard Directly Led To Monetary and Social Disaster for the West? w/Mario Innecco (@maneco64)
Financial Services is all about Finance which is all about money. However almost all FS employees just accept “money” as a thing in the same way they accept…
London Fintech PodcastLFP219 – Automating Intelligence Gathering from GCHQ to Scanning 18bn News Articles for Credit/Reg/Biz-Relevance w/Jeremy Annis CEO Ripjar
Increasing automation is what the tech revolution is about – by definition. In this episode we dive into this topic starting at the highest levels – Government…
London Fintech Podcast2023 New Year Special: Fleeing Plato’s Cave, Escaping the Matrix in Search of Love, Light and Healing
This 2023 New Year Special forms the fifth is a series of five about how technology is changing us directly and indirectly by empowering tyrants. It is by far…
London Fintech PodcastLFP218 – The Role of a Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel in Tech Firms w/Harj Gill GC at the LiiV Group
So yet another fresh topic we haven’t covered so far
London Fintech PodcastLFP217 – Fintech in Central and South America w/Ricardo Josua CEO Pismo
Ricardo is a Brazilian serial entrepreneur who joins us in this show to give us an overview of the key features of Fintech in Central/Southern (aka Latin)…
London Fintech PodcastLFP216 – A Guide to Due Diligence: Overview & Looking Good When It Happens To You w/Barr Blanton CEO of Crosslake Technologies
What actually is due diligence? How does it work and how should you if you find yourselves approaching one best prepare for it? Barr Blanton CEO of Crosslake…
London Fintech PodcastLFP215 – Plugging The Holes In Security Systems With Adaptive AI w/Martin Rehak CEO Resistant.AI
All sane Fintechs will have a security system to try and keep out as many attacks and fraudulent would be clients. However the nature of the attacks and frauds…
London Fintech PodcastLFP214 – Improving the “Dating and Mating” Process Between Fintechs and Incumbent FS w/Katka Letzing CEO Kickstart Innovation
Swiss Kickstart Innovation are highly active in enabling deals between Fintechs and incumbent FS – when we recorded the podcast for example they had…
London Fintech PodcastLFP213 – A Deep Dive Into Payment Orchestration, Saving & Generating Money w/Kristian Gjerding CEO Cellpoint Digital
Payments orchestration is all the rage. But what is it, and amidst all the hype is it all it’s cracked up to be? Good questions and who better to ask than…
London Fintech PodcastLFP212 – Fintech in Africa, A Tour D’Horizon w/Gbenga Ajayi Partner QED Investors
Africa in general narratives is all too often treated – like many matters – as a super-low-res jpeg, more as if it were a place, one which is complex and…
London Fintech PodcastLFP211 – The Thinking Behind Being A Challenger Bank for SME Lending w/Conrad Ford Chief Product&Strategy Officer Allica Bank
Incumbent banks – as Fintech has found in the past decade are rather safer from having huge slices of their business nicked than many Fintechs have imagined…
London Fintech PodcastLFP210 – West Africa’s First Digital Savings and Micro-Investment Fintech w/Odun Eweniyi co-founder PiggyVest
Africa is one of the lynchpins of Fintech’s origins – key origins being Zopa’s invention of P2P borrowing/lending in 2005 and mPesa’s mobile money+ in 2007. In…
London Fintech PodcastLFP209 – Making Chargebacks Work For You Whether Consumer, Retailer or Bank/Fintech w/Monica Eaton CEO Chargebacks911
Chargebacks – the ability to retrieve your money from your bank spent when spent via a card in case of dissatisfaction after a purchase and an inability to…
London Fintech PodcastLFP208 – Managing the Growth Curve, Funding and Phases w/Dileep Thazhmon CEO Jeeves
Many founders establish businesses and only later realise they are hard to fund. Others aim to create “fundable businesses” yet lack the passion for a long…
London Fintech PodcastLFP207 – Intrapreneurship & How Fintech is Revolutionising Retail Financial Markets w/Nicky Maan CEO Spectrum Markets
The Fintech wave spreads ever wider – and in the case of retail financial markets as Nicky puts it if you can buy a book at midnight why can’t you buy a share?…
London Fintech PodcastLFP206 – Rearchitecting Trust: FS, Crypto and CBDCs w/Omid Malekan
Financial services – whether mainstream or alternative – depend entirely on Trust – trust that the pieces of paper and coins in your pocket will be taken in…
London Fintech PodcastLFP205 – Fintech and FX Hedging for SMEs w/Seth Phillips CEO Bound
Over time the Fintech wave reaches ever more complex topics. FX per se was one of the earlier low-hanging fruits to be digitised – a simple, near immediate…
London Fintech PodcastLFP204 – What Can We Learn From Nearly Twenty Years Of The P2P Experiment? w/Jaidev Janardana CEO Zopa
“P2P”, invented by Zopa in 2005, was one of the main unique business models that was at the core of the early success of Fintech businesses in…
London Fintech PodcastLFP203 – Fintech in Scandinavia/Nordics – Deep Origins and Reasons for Success w/Erik Bennerhult, CEO Naktergal
Scandinavia (Sweden/Norway/Denmark) and the Nordics as a whole (Scandinavia +Finland +Iceland) have massively outperformed most parts of the world in Tech and…
London Fintech PodcastLFP202 – Fintech Corporate Finance w/Aman Behzad Managing Partner Royal Park Partners
The fact that today we are talking to Aman, the co-founder of specialist Fintech Corporate Finance boutique Royal Park Partners which has done over 30…
London Fintech PodcastLFP201 – Rethinking Investment Risk & Deep Dive Into Investing in VC w/Alan Vaksman co-founder Digital Horizon
Investment risk has changed radically from what regulators and the media propound. A prime example is that with negative real interest rates and at the end of…
London Fintech PodcastLFP200! The Philosophy of Technology & Technique & their Existential Impact on People, Society and Civilisation w/Oswald Spengler & Jacques Ellul
Technology pervades our world more than ever and conditions us and our existence ever more. But I believe it is not well-understood at a philosophical level…
London Fintech PodcastLFP199 – Gold, Have a Personal Gold Standard & Pay in Gold #Fintech #GoldTech w/Jason Cozens CEO Glint
Gold has been much in the news recently with Russia putting a Gold-floor under its currency to spectacular effect (almost as if desire for infinitely printed…
London Fintech PodcastLFP198 – Tech/Fintech in Central and Eastern Europe w/Adam Niewinski co-founder OTB Ventures
There are at least 70 cities in Europe which have at least one unicorn in them – a very different pattern from the US/UK ecosystems. Over 20 of these cities…
London Fintech PodcastLFP197 – Money in the 21stC: Ballooning Printing of Fiat/QE/”MMT”/Govt Debt, CBDCs, Crypto, Dedollarisation, Hyperinflation, Gold w/Mario Innecco (@maneco64)
Where money in major economies is and where it is going is very concerning right now – look at the list of issues in the episode title, let alone the impact of…
London Fintech PodcastLFP196 – Making Combatting Online Fraud a Truly Digital Experience w/Bence Jendruszak co-founder SEON
Fraud is sadly as old as humanity. However the digital age has created a huge arms race – on the one hand a massive increase in fraudulent attempts, on the…
London Fintech PodcastLFP195 – How The Changing World (esp. Tech) Is Changing The Nature of Boards w/Patrick Dunne, Four-Time Board Author
In this show Patrick Dunne joins us to discuss how Boards changed in the 80s/90s/00s as a prelude to the significant shifts in Boards happening, and needing to…
London Fintech Podcast2022 New Year Special: How The World Is Governed – An Exploration Of The Nature Of Globalism, The Ne Plus Ultra Issue Of Our Time
Civilisation I believe is at a crossroads. The globalists’ road has a stench that we can smell from the crossroads. Their dystopian future has been designed…
London Fintech PodcastLFP194 – Do We Need a Radically Decentralised Approach to Identity & is Tim Berners-Lee Right? w/Kirill Slavin CEO Reputation Transfer
With the long-planned centralised ID (via pretext of “medical passports”) juggernaut bowling down the road towards us and ushering in a Western version of the…
London Fintech PodcastLFP193 – GovernanceTech: Changing Companies for the Better w/Antoine Argouges CEO Tulipshare
In the hundreds of incoming requests to be on the LFP there are few that truly stand out as something fresh and innovative that I haven’t heard of countless…
London Fintech PodcastLFP192 – From Startup To Global Without Raising Equity w/Ben Richmond CEO CUBE
Creating a global firm without raising equity is rare but possible and an important route with many advantages for certain types of business. which many young…