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Joining Toby on this episode of FinTech Focus TV is Scott Lucas, Co-Founder & CCO at Monavate. Monavate are committed to revolutionising global payments. Scott shares Monavate's vision for enhancing financial transactions worldwide through their cutting-edge tech solution. The pair uncover the importance of relationships and Monavate's customer-centric approach to problem-solving. An...

Joining Toby on this episode of FinTech Focus TV is Chris Albrecht, VP at OpenFin.  OpenFin are no strangers to FinTech Focus TV — and we take this as an opportunity to trace their growth since their last appearance on the show two years ago. In financial technology, two years can be witness a lifetime of innovation. And OpenFin have been key drivers of this extensive change.  OpenFin's intel...

On this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby is joined by Salisa Britton and Lottie Westerling — two individuals that are planning one of North America's most exciting finance events: MoneyLIVE! After immense success in Europe and Asia, the team are taking MoneyLIVE to North America for the first time. Hosted in Chicago, this promises to be an event that is intentional, focussed and strategic. S...

Joining Toby on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV is Roger Vincent, Global VP of Product & Marketing at Trade Ledger.   Trade Ledger's mission is to bridge the gap between invoicing and payments, supporting businesses that lack funding, and facilitating their growth. Roger shares how this feeds into his personal mission of working with developing banks — offering more firms the chanc...

Welcome back to another episode of FinTech Focus TV. Today, Toby is joined by Matt Sutika, Chief Insurance Officer at Obie. This episode touches on the progression from InsureTech 1.0 to 2.0, 2.5 and now InsureTech 3.0, which focuses on integrating insurance within existing platforms and enhancing the customer journey.  Matt emphasizes that the aim of Obie and InsureTech 3.0 is not merely to save...

Joining Toby on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV is Matt Kassel, COO and Brian Andreyko, CPO at Edgewater Markets. In this episode, we explore product development and the journey of Edgewater, a leading liquidity and technology aggregation expert. Over the past 13 years, they have integrated these two areas, bridging the gap between people and technology. Edgewater's main aim is to help...

Joining Toby on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV is Jo Bower, Leadership & Executive Coach and Founder of Beckhuson. In this episode, we explore Jo's personal journey into executive coaching and its incredible ability to bring about transformative change in both individuals and teams. While technical skills are important for success, Jo uncovers the increasing importance of behaviou...

Joining Toby on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV is James Hickman, CCO at Ecospend. We gain an exclusive look at a firm going from strength-to-strength: from their newly established partnership with HMRC and GOV.UK , to the industry-defining work they are doing to transform open banking. Ecospend is driving an evolution in financial technology, one that surpasses even yesterdays innovation....

Live from the FIX Trading Community EMEA Trading Conference at Old Billingsgate, Toby welcomes Gonçalo Lima, Capital Markets Ecosystem Lead at R3, to FinTech Focus TV. The pair talk failures. Whilst success is plentiful in financial technology, we can't negate the shortcomings. And for Gonçalo, the failings don't lie in the technology but rather in governance. The technology that has bee...

Joining Toby live from the FIX EMEA Trading Conference is an old friend of FinTech Focus TV: Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull. With ChatGPT truly beginning to disrupt our day-to-day lives, Toby and Matt explore the history of chatbots and AI in financial technology. It isn't a new concept so why only now are people beginning to pay attention? The pair go on to discuss exponential technologies...

Live from the FIX Trading Community EMEA Trading Conference at Old Billingsgate, Toby welcomes Matt Rafalski, Global Head of Enterprise Sales at Genesis Global, to FinTech Focus TV. The two discuss Genesis’ growth over the years and how they have positioned themselves at the fore of industry innovation through their work to modernise the trading desktop. A desire to build, and build brilliantly, s...

Live from the Fix EMEA Trading Conference at Old Billingsgate, Toby is joined by James Poole, Executive Director of Technology Sales at Aquis Exchange. James states, "Aquis was born out of FinTech", resulting in an agile and nimble infrastructure built on the best technology to aid their clients in building modern regulatory and institutional-grade platforms. One of the main highlights o...

Joining Toby on this episode of FinTech Focus TV is Marco Santos, CEO Americas at GFT Group. Marco shares with us his vision for exponential growth, showcasing the ingredients that are catalysing GFT Groups significant expansion throughout North and South America. The pair hone in on the future of Digital Transformation, exploring how all banks need to move to optimise their work to better serve f...

Joining Toby on this episode of FinTech Focus TV is Hristo Borisov, Co-Founder & CEO at Payhawk. Silicon Valley Bank's recent collapse underpins today's conversation. Affected by events, Hristo shares his personal experience and Payhawk's role in addressing the immediate and pressing needs of those affected- particularly start-ups. What the collapse truly served to demonstrate i...

Joining Toby on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV is Simon Dewsbury, Managing Partner at Zannogen. With a clear 2023 vision and exciting plans for his company, Simon offers us an exclusive insight into the development of solution-orientated Zannogen, and the work they are doing to enhance the growth of businesses globally. As a consultancy, Simon holds a unique marketplace position, and so is...

Joining Toby on this episode of FinTech Focus TV is John Greenan, FIX Subject Matter Expert at Alignment Systems. Having joined us on FinTech Focus TV during the height of the Pandemic, we trace John's journey since, including his recent exciting appointment as Co-Chairman to the Continuous Markets Working Group at the FIX Trading Community. Offering his informed industry commentary, John sha...

Joining Toby on this episode of FinTech Focus TV is Gavin Marcus, Head of Global Regulatory Reporting Sales Americas at S&P Global. Gavin discusses his recent move to America to help S&P build a high-performance team, accelerating growth  in an ever-exciting region. S&P is brilliantly set to expand upon their 2022 successes, and their efforts to attract and retain the most exceptional...

Ahead of this weeks FIX EMEA Trading Conference, Toby is joined by Jim Kaye, Executive Director at the FIX Trading Community, on this exclusive episode of FinTech Focus TV. Following on from a highly successful series of events in 2022, the FIX EMEA Trading Conference return to Old Billingsgate on Thursday 9th of March- with an agenda that is truly industry-leading! Jim shares the community-driven...

Joining Toby on this episode of FinTech Focus TV is Raymond Kahn, Head of Markets at USREM. This is a fantastic exploration of current marketplace evolution, honing in on the merge of the tradition and digital worlds of finance. Raymond shares his expertise on "tradigital markets" and offers an exclusive look at the Show Me System- work that is revolutionising our engagement with digital...

Having shared the stage at the FIX Americas Trading Conference, Toby and Kate reunite on this episode of FinTech Focus TV to discuss the ever-evolving nature of interoperability. Starting with Kate's journey through the industry, we learn how she pivoted her professional approach to better seize the opportunities on offer in the technology space. Kate's career thus far has been fascinati...

Welcome to another episode of FinTech Focus TV, where today Toby is delighted to welcome Lorna Van Zyl, Head of Event Content at A-Team Group, to the show. Lorna and the team are curently in the final preparation stages for this year's TradingTech Summit! Speaking to sell and buy-side capital market financial institutions, the pair discuss the influences behind TradingTech's brilliant ag...

Join Toby Babb as he chats with Vuk Magdelinic, Co-Founder and CEO of Overbond, to discuss the future of AI in institutional fixed-income capital markets. Overbond provides data aggregation solutions and a comprehensive suite of AI algorithms for bond pricing, trade workflow automation, pre-trade signals, and market surveillance. With their new UK-based office in London, Vuk shares his thoughts on...

Joining Toby live from FinTech Connect for this episode of FinTech Focus TV is Claire Conby, Co-Founder and CRO at OneStep-Financial. Claire is working to refine the financial services industry, heightening efficiency and improving often clunky, complex corporate payments. We're guided through the fantastic work of her firm, OneStep-Financial, and how they are truly aligning payments with dat...

Welcome back to another episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded live at FinTech Connect 2022. Today, Toby is joined by Emma Landriault, Product Lead @ Big 5 bank in Canada. Bringing her international experience of the marketplace to the show, Emma shares her thoughts on how the global banking industry can embrace the movement towards digital assets. Exploring DeFi and the adoption of distributed led...

Welcome back to another episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded live at FinTech Connect 2022. Today, Toby is joined by Alfonso Fernandez Stuyck, Founder and CEO of QoKoon.  Alfonso's career in investment management and private banking exposed him to the many inefficiencies within businesses' finance teams and how they record their financial analyses. For years he has been appealing for aut...