Motive Partners

With the changes discussed in previous episodes in our Forming the Future of Finance limited series – the growth of AI, coupled with changes in portfolio construction – business models will need to change. This fourth and last episode features how GPs will be running their businesses in the future. Cornelia Andersson – Chief Product Officer at With Intelligence moderates this dynamic discussion. A...

Is the 60/40 portfolio a thing of the past? Is it fair to consider private markets an “alternative” part of an investment allocation? What is the appropriate allocation to alternatives? 10%? 20%? More? This third episode in our Forming the Future of Finance limited series podcast will bring clarity to these points. Leading this discussion is Andrew Tarver , key architect of InvestCloud ’s Private...

This second episode of our Forming the Future of Finance limited series podcast is a hot topic: the transformative power of AI. Our experts look at the promise of AI, its risks, and where we are in tapping AI’s potential. Featured in this episode are: Ramin Niroumand , Partner and Head of Ventures at Motive Partners , leading the conversation, an entrepreneur and a native of Germany. Ramin founded...

Welcome to Forming the Future of Finance – a special limited series podcast focused on reshaping the financial landscape.  Our first episode features Natalya Guseva , Head of Financial Markets and Resilience at the World Economic Forum . In her role, Natalya focuses on retail investors’ access to capital markets and the longevity economy. Prior to that, she led the Forum’s community of asset owner...

This podcast features Nandan Sheth , CEO at Splitit , a financial technology company that powers the next generation of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) through their merchant-branded Installments-as-a-Service platform. Splitit solves the challenges businesses face with traditional BNPL by unlocking BNPL at the point of sale for card networks, issuers and acquirers - all through a single network API. In...

Edwin van Bommel, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at ABN AMRO discussed with Ramin Niroumand, Partner at Motive Partners and Head of Motive Ventures, on the recently announced strategic partnership, where Motive Ventures, the early-stage venture arm of Motive Partners, will manage the ABN AMRO Ventures Fund (AAV), consisting of 15 early-stage companies, and ABN AMRO will become a significa...

Heather Bellini is an Industry Partner at Motive , and a President and Chief Financial Officer at InvestCloud , a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader in digital transformation for the wealth management industry and portfolio company of funds advised by Motive. Heather Bellini has previously served as a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs for nearly 10 years, leading the Technolog...

Motive has recently completed a majority investment, alongside ICG, in With Intelligence. With Intelligence is a leading provider of investment data and intelligence for allocating, fund-raising and business development in the public and private market. The investment is intended to serve as an accelerant for With Intelligence's growth, as the platform focuses on delivering leading connectivity, d...

Nick Leopard and Richard Lumb discuss how Accordion thinks about the Office of the CFO , with the help of Motive. Nick Leopard is CEO at Accordion , and Richard Lumb is an Industry Partner at Motive Partners . Accordion is a private equity-focused financial and technology consulting firm. Working at the intersection of sponsors and management teams, Accordion partners with clients at every stage o...

An investigation with Stephen Daffron into how Motive and BetaNXT are helping drive the industry transformation in Wealth and Asset Management. Stephen Daffron is Co-Founder and Industry Partner at Motive Partners. He also serves as the CEO, Chairman and Board member of BetaNXT. BetaNXT aims to create the interconnected wealth management experience of the future. the next wave in wealth management...

Adrian Durham (Founder & CEO of FNZ) and Rob Heyvaert (Founder & Managing Partner of Motive Partners) discuss how FNZ is opening up wealth through the power of technology, empowering customers through innovative products, with an extraordinary growth trajectory. As an introduction, Corey Rainbow, Head of Due Diligence and Value Creation at Motive Partners, and Worth Newman, Vice President...

Jouk Pleiter is the CEO & Founder at Backbase , a financial technology company on a mission to re-architect banking around the customer. We discuss how to service the customer holistically, by leveraging the power of a cloud-based engagement banking platform to create frictionless customer journeys, rather than stitching legacy applications together and trying to rework banking around outdated...

Rob Heyvaert , Founder & Managing Partner at Motive Partners, and Bob Brown , Founding Partner & Head of Investor Relations, discuss the successful final close of Motive Partners' second flagship fund, Motive Capital Fund 2 , and the continuation of Motive's mission to build a leading fully integrated private equity firm focused on technology-enabled financial and business services industr...

Blythe Masters, Founding Partner at Motive Partners, talks to Matt Brown , Founder and CEO at CAIS , following the recently announced investment from Motive Partners and Apollo Global Management into the company. CAIS is a leading alternative investment platform for financial advisors who seek improved access to, and education about, alternative investment funds and products.  --- The information...

After the recently announced investment from Motive Partners into Trumid , an electronic credit trading platform, we hear in a conversation with Jason Quinn , Chief Product Officer about the growing opportunity for digitizing credit trading. With the pandemic prompting a rapid shift into electronic trading, Trumid has seen an explosive growth in adoption. Tune in to hear Jason and Trumid's unique...

In an exclusive first interview, we hear in a conversation between Rob Heyvaert , Founder and Managing Partner at Motive Partners and newly appointed Jeff Yabuki , Chairman and Founding Partner at Motive Partners what the opportunity ahead for financial technology looks like and why Jeff is excited about joining Motive Partners. Jeff joins Motive having been Chief Executive Officer of Fiserv, Inc...

Dan Globerson , Head of Open Banking at Natwest , joins the podcast to discuss the opportunity ahead in Open Finance and the role NatWest among other leading banks play to develop new digital banking services. Dan shares some unique insights on the development of open banking, where we are at on the innovation cycle and what is next for fintechs and financial institutions deploying APIs to create...

Kelly Rodriques , CEO at Forge , joins the podcast after announcing the SPAC merger with Motive Capital Corp (“MOTV”) led by Blythe Masters , Industry Partner and CEO of MOTV. Forge is a leading global private securities marketplace. Kelly shares some unique insights on the high growth private markets, why companies choose to stay private longer and what the competition looks like. Forge powers an...

Snejina Zacharia , Founder and CEO at Insurify , joins the podcast after announcing a $100 million Series B financing led by Motive Partners. Snejina shares her unique insights on the insurance industry after starting her company at MIT and what the next year of growth will look like with the new capital acceleration. Insurify is reimagining the way consumers compare, buy, and manage insurance onl...

Tom Wipf, Vice Chair, Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group, and Chair of the New York Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee ("ARRC"), on the transition away from the LIBOR standard and the introduction of the new SOFR. The conversation touches upon the need for global cooperation from financial institutions and trade groups, how ARRC identified risk-free alternative re...

Mark Makepeace , Founder and Former Chief Executive, FTSE Russell and Former Group Director of Information Services, London Stock Exchange Group (LSE), talks about his new book, FTSE - The Inside Story — how a small start-up created by the Financial Times and the LSE launched in the mid-1990s to provide financial information, became a world leader and one of the UK’s most trusted and famous brands...

Alastair Lukies , CEO and Founder of Pollinate and Herman Spruit , CEO of Pollinate International talk about the state of the global SME landscape and Pollinate's recently announced partnership with Australia's NAB. Tune in to hear two industry titans' unique perspectives that among many things touch upon the history of innovation and disruption in the financial services industry. --- The informat...

Simon Haslam , Group CEO of Network International , and our own Sam Tidswell-Norrish discuss the significant changes taking place in the payments industry, and the transformation of Network International through Africa's largest tech acquisition. --- The information contained in this podcast is intended for discussion purposes only. It is not a recommendation, offer, or a solicitation for the purc...

Cheryl Nash , CEO at Tegra118 , and our own Miguel Tejeda discuss the changes impacting wealth management through the Great Wealth Transfer as well as Cheryl's successful efforts in creating a diverse and inclusive Tegra118. Apart from catalysing internal objectives to reach diversity goals, Cheryl has also mentored many women on early-career building and on thriving in the wealth management indus...

Christine M. Ciriani , CEO at Finantix and Industry Partner at Motive Partners gives her insights on the digital transformation in the wealth management industry. Emma Glyn also discusses how Christine has been a driving force behind Finantix’s evolution, creating a diverse culture, geographic expansions and recent acquisitions. --- The information contained in this podcast is intended for discuss...