London Fintech Podcast
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LFP241 – 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? Bonds have finished their ca. 40yr bull market and yield well below the rate of inflation. The FTSE to pick one has gone sideway
LFP240 – 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 restraining insane bull markets in resid
LFP231 – 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 months later. Mario (YouTube Channel) first j
LFP230 – 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 investment” tradition. In particular in an ever-c
LFP229 – 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 Fintech founder himself turned VC at Runa C
LFP228 – 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, inefficiency and indeed regulations stretche
LFP227 – 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 and globalisation of Fintech. As always wh
LFP226 – 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). Furthermore the percentage of companies that list
LFP225 – 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 fascinating Case Study of Ecospend who went from s
LFP224 – 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 early stage founders who want to raise f