London Fintech Podcast
258 episodes - English - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsInsights, stories & inspiration from a Golden Age of Creativity, Opportunity and Innovation
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LFP10th Anniversary Special! A Deep Dive: Demystifying LLMs, How They Work & the Amazing 81yr Timeline to their Creation!
June 20, 2024 04:05 - 50.2 MBLLMs, 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 if not all of us will have used ChatGPT. However an understanding of how they work is for most people either totally missing or totally misled by anthropomorphic […]
LFP 10th Anniversary Special! The Story of a Decade Of Fintech Evolution As It Happened at the Time
June 06, 2024 04:05 - 58.3 MBThe past decade has seen the most extraordinary innovation in any business sector in the UK and thence world since the industrial revolution . An amazing outburst of creativity and independent players emerged on the oldest and stodgiest sector of all – FS. The LFP was the first, and most blue-chip podcast to cover this […]
LFP251 – WARNING Re Mugging & Banking Apps
May 16, 2024 04:05 - 10 minutes - 9.43 MBThis 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 transfer under duress large sums of money to the thieves bank account. This is apparently on the increase in London and is well-known in countries such as Brazil and South […]
LFP250 – Guide to using PR in Tech Firms w/Ben Goldsmith CEO Goldsmith Communications
May 02, 2024 04:05 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBIf 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 out to relevant audiences. PR is an essential component in the modern world to help you refine and target that message and to get you […]
LFP249 – Radical Innovation in a Cross-Domain Fashion w/Ani Sane co-founder Terrapay
April 18, 2024 04:05 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBOne 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 radical change yet naturally produces equally obvious challenges. In this episode we look at how 4 co-founders created a payments infrastructure Fintech that now connects an amazing 7.5 billion bank accounts, […]
LFP248 – The Challenges of FS/Fintech Boards esp in the 21stC w/Neil Holden Serial FS NED
April 04, 2024 04:05 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBThe 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 clients money. In our digital age virtually all of our money is digital and next to no-one sees a share certificate any more so all of […]
LFP247 – The Long Slow Path To Tech Success, Issues Involved and Moral Choices w/Ruzbeh Bach CEO City Falcon
March 21, 2024 05:05 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBThe 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 cannot handle slower models but is also as the tech press loves the hype/condemn cycle implicit in this. However generally most businesses do not follow […]
LFP246: The Crucial Role of Venture Accelerators – NEDs, Advisors, Mentors, Mentors of Mentors, Angels et al – w/Nic Lenz
March 07, 2024 05:05 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThe 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 entice and hire a team below them but also, less well understood, a team around them. The surround will at some point coalesce into a formal Board (as […]
LFP245 – Fintech in France w/Louis Carbonnier Co-Founder Hokodo
February 22, 2024 05:05 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBAs always there is a fascinating phenomenon when the globalised world of tech meets the localised worlds of custom, people, rules and regulations. As recently as LFP243 we dived in to the world of tech as a whole in Berlin and today we dive into Fintech in France. Needless to say France is a massive […]
LFP244 – The Use Of Multiple Models Across The Lending Process w/Jerome Le Luel CEO Triver
February 08, 2024 05:05 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBIn 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 One through managing Barclay’s £40 bn portfolio, being CRO at Funding Circle to now founding his own Fintech to mechanise further short term SME liquidity […]
2024 New Year Special: A Deeeep Dive Into Creativity and Its Importance In Creating a New World not a New Order
January 25, 2024 20:20 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThis 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 – are changing us directly for the better (read huge software upgrades) in order to overcome, in a velvet revolution, empowered tyrants. I said […]
LFP243 – The Berlin Tech Scene: A Deep Dive w/Ivan Maryasin CEO Monite
December 28, 2023 05:05 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBIn 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 scene having spent many years in the Ur-tech hub of San Francisco/Silicon Valley. This also means that he understands both the outsiders perspective […]
LFP242 – Fintech in Saudi Arabia and Collective Savings w/Naif AbuSaida CEO Hakbah
December 14, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBSaudi Arabia is a country that increasingly confounds stereotypes and expectations – an example being a YouTuber who has visited every country in the world choosing it for his honeymoon. At the same time it has undergone a phenomenal journey literally in a lifetime from a very low economic standard of living to super-high. As […]
LFP241 – A Deep Dive Into Alternate Asset Investment via Fintech w/Dan Harman CEO Darksquare
November 30, 2023 11:38 - 46 minutes - 37.2 MBWhy buy alternative assets? Well in extremis what else would you buy? 😀 Bonds have finished their ca. 40yr bull market and yield well below the rate of inflation. The FTSE to pick one has gone sideways over the past 5 yrs and is not greatly ahead after a decade. And as for UK property […]
LFP240 – Mortgage Decisions In Days Or Even Hours Not Weeks w/Stuart Cheetham CEO Mpowered Mortgages
November 16, 2023 00:50 - 5 MBBack 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 restraining insane bull markets in residential property). Fast forward and the median mortgage in the UK is granted in 19 business days which is still a […]
LFP239 – The Latest In Payments Tech – Curation Trumps Orchestration? w/Aran Brown CEO Paytrix
November 02, 2023 00:05 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThe speed of change is super-rapid and nowhere more than in payments where advance rapidly leapfrogs advance. For the past two years “orchestration” has been The Thing (see eg LFP213 a deep dive into that topic). However now we have the latest greatest kid on the block the idea of curation. If orchestration solved the […]
LFP238 – Global Real Time Payments in 2023 w/Craig Ramsey Head G/R/T/P ACI Worldwide
October 19, 2023 04:05 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBThe world is quite a large place but who better to cover the situation and trend in real-time payments than Craig Ramsey Head of Global Real Time Payments at ACI Worldwide who process around a billion payments per day with total value in the trillions of dollars. In this episode we dive into real time […]
LFP237 – Avoiding Operational Challenges in Emerging Markets w/Tosin Eniolorunda CEO Moniepoint
October 05, 2023 04:05 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBScaling any successful technology firm (who can expand so much faster than ~”bricks and mortar” firms) involves considerable challenges. These challenges are only compounded by challenges with surrounding infrastructure which, shall we say, aren’t even around the world. What may be taken for granted in the world’s leading tech hubs may be conspicuously absent in […]
LFP236 – Making Business Loan Decisions in Minutes w/Chirag Shah CEO Nucleus Commercial Finance
September 21, 2023 04:05 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBIt was not that long ago that business lending decisions took days, weeks, or even months. This lengthy period – and then need to perhaps apply to multiple banks was a severe challenge for many organisations, many of whom over time have gone bust whilst going through such processes. But what if using the best […]
LFP235 – Fintech in China, Super-Apps and Alipay w/Eva Zhang CEO Alipay UK
September 07, 2023 04:05 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBAlthough the title is apparently three-fold re episode topic the Chinese Fintech market is very different from other markets we have touched upon so far and one that we definitely need to dive into. You will have heard of Alipay but may not know that as long as a decade ago they overtook Paypal to […]
LFP234 – Managing Your Insurance Portfolio w/Goncalo de Vasconcelos CEO RNWL
August 24, 2023 04:05 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBOver a decade into the Fintech revolution its a rare episode that covers something entirely fresh and furthermore a show that I end up thinking I should check out downloading the app – and not just me – everyone who uses insurance (that’ll be everyone) may well do too. Rnwl promise to take the hassle […]
LFP233 – Radical Innovation in B2C Lending Using Open Banking Data w/Gerald Chappell CEO Abound
August 10, 2023 15:10 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBThis is a super-rare episode on a fundamentally different way of assessing consumer loan risk so far into the Fintech Age focusing on an area which is bizarrely massively undercovered namely that of utilising Open Banking Data for credit assessment of personal loans. Furthermore this is a rare example of a Fintech – the parent […]
LFP232 – Learning from Entrepreneurial/Business Failure, Three Case Studies w/Jovi Overo MD BAAS Unlimit
July 27, 2023 04:05 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThis is a very unique (sic) in the long history of the podcast in that I have finally found a guest brave enough and kind enough to talk about the experience of business failure as well as the human journey through it. Naturally the LFP focuses on proven successes if only to provide North Stars […]
LFP231 – Accelerating Monetary and Banking Change inc Debanking, Gold Repatriation & BRICs Gold Plans w/Mario Innecco
July 14, 2023 09:25 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBSo 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 months later. Mario (YouTube Channel) first joined us in Feb22 for the gargantuan LFP197 “Money in the 21stC: Ballooning Printing of Fiat/QE/”MMT”/Govt […]
LFP230 – Islamic Finance, Fintech & Broader Issues for Ethical Investment w/Umer Suleman CRO Wahed
June 29, 2023 04:05 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBIn 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 investment” tradition. In particular in an ever-changing world there is always the need to extend and interpret any given set of “ethical finance” guidelines for new circumstances. The […]
LFP229 – Key Themes in US Fintech, Past, Present & Future w/Michael Fanfant Runa Capital
June 15, 2023 04:05 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBThe 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 Fintech founder himself turned VC at Runa Capital had just returned from a three week trip all around the region. Like all regions the US has its […]
LFP228 – Does Regulation Need a Phase Shift? w/Alistair Cotton co-founder Integrated Finance
June 01, 2023 04:05 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBIs 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, inefficiency and indeed regulations stretched beyond their original purpose? In this episode Alistair and I discuss some specific examples that would indicate that after as […]
LFP227 – Fintech in the Middle East and North Africa w/Said Murad Partner Global Ventures
May 18, 2023 04:05 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThe 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 and globalisation of Fintech. As always when covering vast territories containing many nations, “regions” contain widely differing conditions, not least of which background of FS structure and infrastructure in the first place. […]
LFP226 – How To Trade Sell Your Business w/David Genn CEO Goji
May 04, 2023 04:05 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBThe 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). Furthermore the percentage of companies that list on an exchange is falling meaning, that along with the economic circumstances, private companies and remaining in the unlisted space is becoming ever […]
LFP225 – A Case Study in Managing Astronomically Rapid Growth – 5 Years from Startup to Trade Sale w/James Hickman CCO Ecospend
April 20, 2023 04:05 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBIt 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 fascinating Case Study of Ecospend who went from startup to trade sale to world open-banking payments leaders Trustly in five years. Along the way they beat off incumbent […]
LFP224 – Early Stage Investment & VC Winter or Simply a Correction? w/Ric Schaefer Target Global
April 06, 2023 04:05 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBIn 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 early stage founders who want to raise funds maximise their chances of doing so? Few VCs go down to early stage investing but what factors do […]
LFP223 – Fintech in India with Naveen Bindal CEO of Enkash
March 23, 2023 05:05 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBFintech 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 discuss Fintech in India which was one of the first movers in Fintech worldwide and is now by some measures the world’s third largest Fintech marketplace. Naveen started his career some […]
LFP222 – Share Schemes & Equity Management: Opportunities & Pitfalls for Founders and Employees w/Ifty Nasir CEO Vestd
March 09, 2023 05:05 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThere 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 – whether funding or staff – he will be giving away his creation on the cheap and losing control fast. Vice versa hoarding it to himself […]
LFP221 – AI/ML: Generative AI, Excess Data, AI-API-isation, Quantum Computing & AI w/Tristan Fletcher CEO ChAI
February 23, 2023 05:05 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBAI/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 attracts users faster than any other tech ever. If Generative AI is the hot topic of the day though what is happening behind the scenes with […]
LFP220 – 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)
February 09, 2023 05:05 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBFinancial 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 gravity. Which is an odd thing if you think about it. Most of the time this wouldn’t matter but at turning points such as we are at […]
LFP219 – Automating Intelligence Gathering from GCHQ to Scanning 18bn News Articles for Credit/Reg/Biz-Relevance w/Jeremy Annis CEO Ripjar
January 26, 2023 05:05 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBIncreasing automation is what the tech revolution is about – by definition. In this episode we dive into this topic starting at the highest levels – Government intelligence community quality tech at GCHQ (where Jeremy and his four co-founders had been long-term employees) and the immense value of technology transfer between state and private sectors. […]
2023 New Year Special: Fleeing Plato’s Cave, Escaping the Matrix in Search of Love, Light and Healing
January 12, 2023 17:55 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBThis 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 the most ambitious, empowering and positive of all suggesting that we use the insanity as a spur in our sides to seek to flee Plato’s cave, escape […]
LFP218 – The Role of a Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel in Tech Firms w/Harj Gill GC at the LiiV Group
December 21, 2022 10:45 - 42 minutes - 39 MBSo yet another fresh topic we haven’t covered so far 🙂 What is the role of a CLO – Chief Legal Officer – aka General Counsel in a Tech firm in general, as a superset of Fintech? Back in the day, well quite a few days ago most all companies used external lawyers almost entirely. […]
LFP217 – Fintech in Central and South America w/Ricardo Josua CEO Pismo
December 08, 2022 01:01 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBRicardo 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) America. The region includes the worlds highest valued neo-bank which has reached an astonishing 65 million client base in less than a decade – most of whom never had […]
LFP216 – A Guide to Due Diligence: Overview & Looking Good When It Happens To You w/Barr Blanton CEO of Crosslake Technologies
November 24, 2022 01:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWhat 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 Technologies, whose strapline is “private equity and management teams trusted advisor for technology”, and half of whose business is doing due dil joins us to outline what due […]
LFP215 – Plugging The Holes In Security Systems With Adaptive AI w/Martin Rehak CEO Resistant.AI
November 10, 2022 05:05 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBAll 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 is getting ever-more hardcore. As Martin says in the show back in the day to rob a bank you would have to take significant personal risk […]
LFP214 – Improving the “Dating and Mating” Process Between Fintechs and Incumbent FS w/Katka Letzing CEO Kickstart Innovation
October 27, 2022 04:05 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBSwiss Kickstart Innovation are highly active in enabling deals between Fintechs and incumbent FS – when we recorded the podcast for example they had facilitated an extraordinary 300 negotiations in the prior 10 days. As we haven’t dived for many years into the whole challenge of young Fintechs managing to close deals with incumbents whose […]
LFP213 – A Deep Dive Into Payment Orchestration, Saving & Generating Money w/Kristian Gjerding CEO Cellpoint Digital
October 13, 2022 04:05 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBPayments 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 serial entrepreneur Kristian who founded Cellpoint Digital back in 2007 to do precisely what became known today as payments orchestration and indeed their website […]
LFP212 – Fintech in Africa, A Tour D’Horizon w/Gbenga Ajayi Partner QED Investors
September 29, 2022 04:05 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBAfrica 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 widely misunderstood, or not even understood. Africa is, of course, in reality it is a vast continent of a billion people, over 50 countries and […]
LFP211 – The Thinking Behind Being A Challenger Bank for SME Lending w/Conrad Ford Chief Product&Strategy Officer Allica Bank
September 15, 2022 04:05 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBIncumbent 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. However Allica Bank, established by some pretty experienced individuals have a plan. In this episode we dive into that plan along with quizzing Conrad, who was last on […]
LFP210 – West Africa’s First Digital Savings and Micro-Investment Fintech w/Odun Eweniyi co-founder PiggyVest
September 01, 2022 04:05 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBAfrica 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 this episode we take a look at more recent innovation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country with a population of over 200 million. Piggyvest who launched in 2016 and […]
LFP209 – Making Chargebacks Work For You Whether Consumer, Retailer or Bank/Fintech w/Monica Eaton CEO Chargebacks911
August 18, 2022 14:30 - 44 minutes - 41 MBChargebacks – 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 resolve the situation with the seller – are one of those rare items that affects everyone from consumer through to merchant and including naturally the financial system […]
LFP208 – Managing the Growth Curve, Funding and Phases w/Dileep Thazhmon CEO Jeeves
August 04, 2022 04:05 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBMany 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 journey. Somewhere along the spectrum is a happy medium which must be balanced along the growth curve as phases change and different types of funders come and go. In […]
LFP207 – Intrapreneurship & How Fintech is Revolutionising Retail Financial Markets w/Nicky Maan CEO Spectrum Markets
July 21, 2022 04:05 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBThe 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? It’s a good example of how the digital paradigm has changed customer expectations and oldskool ideas about limited “market hours” – there […]
LFP206 – Rearchitecting Trust: FS, Crypto and CBDCs w/Omid Malekan
July 07, 2022 04:05 - 58 minutes - 54 MBFinancial services – whether mainstream or alternative – depend entirely on Trust – trust that the pieces of paper and coins in your pocket will be taken in exchange for goods (no longer 100% true), trust that a piece of plastic in your wallet will “tap and pay”, trust that you do “own” those securities […]