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Welcome back to another episode of FinTech Focus TV. Today, Toby is joined by George Toursoulopoulos, CEO of Synetec. Synetec are a tech and data consultancy working mostly with buy-side asset managers in the UK, Europe and now the US. In this episode, George shares his learns from his extensive career and the challenges that Synetec are tackling to help their customers. Some argue that the buy-si...

We're bringing you a special episode of The Recruitment Round-Up as Nadia is joined by our Marketing Team: Georgia, Lydia and Alexandra! Following on from the launch of our most successful magazine to date, Nadia discusses with the team the vision that lay behind this edition, and the planning, strategy and people that helped ensure The Financial Technologist became the ultimate industry play...

Joining Toby in the FinTech Focus TV Studio is Chris Burke, CEO of Brickendon Consulting. The regulatory landscape is currently manic, to put it lightly. With increased digital transformation, the fallback of Brexit, and subsequent increased regulatory changes, firms such as Brickendon have never been more relevant. Despite a stigma sometimes existing around consulting, the USP that Brickendon can...

Welcome back to another episode of the Recruitment Round-Up. This week, Toby is joined by our COO, Rob Grant, while Nadia enjoys a well-deserved week off! It's been an exciting week for Harrington Starr as we released our highly-anticipated magazine, The Financial Technologist, on Monday. Named "FinTech Pathways", we wanted to equip our readers with the knowledge and ideas of other...

Welcome to another episode of FinTech Focus TV. Today, Toby is delighted to be joined by Soheel Haque-Everding and Fred Tingey of DeQuantifi.  Both come from a background of traditional finance (TradFi) but have returned to the industry because they feel there is a gap in the market around trading tools for institutions with crypto. That, and also Soheel wanted to "play with the latest tech!&...

This is very much a celebratory episode of The Recruitment Round-Up, as Toby and Nadia celebrate Harrington Starr reaching 100,000 followers on LinkedIn! From a small office in Waterloo, to a now international business with uncapped growth opportunities, the Harrington Starr team have been on quite the journey. Having hit such an incredible milestone, Toby and Nadia take time to reflect on the exp...

​We're back in the FinTech Focus Studio, and this time Toby is delighted to welcome Alasdair Haynes, CEO of Aquis Exchange PLC, to the show.  Alasdair and his team have built a truly impressive business, one that is handing over a legacy to the next generation of our industry. Alasdair explains why they have assumed the role of  'a next-generation stock exchange'- a role they execut...

Welcome back to another episode of The Recruitment Round-Up with Toby and Nadia, where today we discuss the current market conditions, inspired by our upcoming magazine release, The Financial Technologist.  As Toby gained a sneak peek of our upcoming magazine, the pair share their excitement for the release on Monday 25th July. This issue is a definitive guide to building an empowered industry, an...

On this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby is delighted to welcome back Mark Beeston, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Financial Management.  With macroeconomics shifting at rates that we have never seen before, Mark joins us on the show to share his key insights into the current and upcoming market.  We gain an exclusive look at what a good business model consists of, and the type of peo...

Welcome to this weeks episode of the Recruitment Round-Up. Today's conversation is centred around change and Toby starts by talking about the upcoming documentary, The Era of Convergence, which we are producing to analyse the merging of traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralised finance (DeFi). It's a really exciting time for the finance world and we're thrilled to be producing...

We're back in the FinTech Focus Studio, and this time Toby is delighted to welcome Ali Mashoofi, CEO and Co-Founder of Alfo Deep Tech, to the show. Ali and his team have founded a truly impressive business that is breaking access barriers to transformative AI technology, catalysing development across our industry at an impressive space. Providing unique solutions to global clientele, Ali shar...

This week on The Recruitment Round-Up, Toby and Nadia address the evolution of recruitment. How far has the sector progressed? How far do we still have to go? It' always fascinating to reflect on the past 20 years (even the past 20 months!) and consider just how much the practice of recruitment has changed. From digitalisation, to hyper-personalisation, FinTech has become a people-focused ser...

We return to the FinTech Focus Studio, and this time Toby is joined by the brilliant Chaim Hack, Head of Business Development at Coremont. Chaim will be familiar to many across the industry, being a prominent and successful networker, building fruitful relationships across the space. This has served him well since joining Coremont, and his innate personable nature has aided the business in growing...

On the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby is excited to welcome Mack Gill, COO, Board Member and David Pearson, Product Manager at Torstone Technology. With a lot of excitement in the marketplace at the moment, Mack and David join Toby to give their views and predictions on the ever-increasing revolutionary storm that's out there. From new, cutting-edge Post-Trade Tech, to the rising ch...

Welcome back to another episode of The Recruitment Round-Up with Toby and Nadia, where today we discuss talent experience. Today's episode is inspired by a recent conversation Nadia had in our London office with Hari S, as they discussed a candidate's experience which went viral on LinkedIn. Having great exposure in this topic, Toby and Nadia discuss how we can get better as employers, w...

Toby is joined by Alastair Rutherford, Managing Director at Ascendant Strategy, on this episode of FinTech Focus TV. Ascendant Strategy was established to truly maximise and embed efficiency into the Post-Trade process. The Pandemic revealed flaws in this space; and as FinTech acceleration continued, Post-Trade was placed under increasing demand to keep-up. Alastair's approach to business all...

Welcome back to another episode of the Recruitment Round-Up. This week, Toby and Nadia are talking about how the Financial Technology sector can truly be a force for good. This episode is jam-packed with updates from both the recruitment and FinTech world as the pair dive into recent statistics and articles which address current issues such as the gender pay gap and retention of talent. "How...

Welcome back to another episode of FinTech Focus where Toby welcomes Oliver Rooney, Chief Technology Officer at VoxSmart. With a very exciting growth story, Oliver tells us what it's been like to be part of that journey, exploring recent successes, and where they've come from. As an evident expert in the space, this episode is a brilliant exploration of the evolution of regulatory compli...

We're bringing you the wow factor on this episode of The Recruitment Round-Up with Toby and Nadia. Inspired by Nadia's trip to Money 20/20 in Amsterdam this week, the pair discuss industry shocks and changing headwinds. Having moderated a panel on "The Great Resignation", Nadia and Toby look at what this means for firms and why the lack of a single solution isn't actually...

Welcome back to another episode of FinTech Focus TV. Today, Toby is delighted to be joined by Steve Toland and Tom McKee of TransFICC.  In this episode, we get an insight into TransFICC's journey so far, from a small team in a small office, to a much larger remote-first business. Tom talks about TransFICC's transition to digitise paired programming and overcoming the initial challenges o...

On this episode of FinTech Focus TV, we explore the world of Open Banking with Nicolas Weng Kan, CEO at Yolt. With a career that has seen him present at some of the globe's largest firms, Nicolas traces his fascinating professional journey, and reveals what eventually led him back to an industry close to his heart, FinTech. Yolt holds a fascinating position in the marketplace, and is well poi...

We celebrate another brilliant partnership on this episode of FinTech Focus TV, welcoming back Steve Grob, Founder of Vision57, and we mark the debut of Colm Furlong, Head of SaaS at OSL, on the show.  Are TradFi and DeFi on a fatal collision course?  Or do they represent a brilliant collaborative opportunity? Steve and Colm share OSL's vision for TradFi and DeFi, and how it is their readines...

Welcome back to another episode of the Recruitment Round-Up with Toby and Rob . And this week we delve into the highs and lows of the FinTech market. Both Toby and Rob agree there are many positives and negatives to the current market conditions, but what always stays the same is the fervent search for great talent as many are looking to hire.  Amidst exciting opportunities, the pair reveal recent...

On this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby is delighted to be joined by Ollie Cadman Chief Product Officer at Eventus. Recognised as one of the Most Influential FinTech Firms in Harrington Starr's latest edition of The Financial Technologist magazine, Ollie gives us an exclusive insight into Eventus's incredible journey over the past 12 months. With a central theme of this episode being t...

Welcome back to another episode of the Recruitment Round-Up where, this week, our hosts Toby and Nadia discuss "culture creation" and what it takes for high-performance businesses to thrive consistently.  The "war on talent" is currently a hot topic amongst businesses. Nadia asks us to consider how we can work towards "talent preservation", a term coined by herself, t...