London Fintech Podcast

Although this episode is entitled “innovation in insurance” – there is much food for thought of far wider applicability. Fintech narratives often slip into “disrupting banking” – whereas this is just a part of Financial Services – insurance is another vast part. There is another narrative that assumes innovation is the preserve of the “t-shirts” […]

There are some huge misunderstandings in the Fintech scene right now.  Innovation is (often) misunderstood. The importance of domain expertise and experience is (often) misunderstood.  Also what’s happening with emerging market currencies and the London Fintech scene as a whole? On this show today I am delighted to welcome a serial FX entrepreneuer – Jon […]

In LFP001 – Fintech The 30,000 Feet Overview I mentioned that the first reference I had seen of the word Fintech in its modern sense was by a man in a pub 3yrs ago,  Eddie George was that man (and you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out which pub

Hysteria The Daily Mail hasn’t yet written about how Bitcoin causes cancer. I’m rather surprised given the hysterical tone of much Bitcoin coverage. “It’s going to a million dollars!”. “It’s going to zero!”. “It’s the future of money!”. “It’s a scam!”. “It’s for drug dealers and terrorists!” .  And those comments are just from the […]

This week I have the great pleasure of being in conversation with Warren Bond, co-founder of matchi.biz. It’s a great way to start the London Fintech Podcast interviews as both this podcast and matchi.biz are about bridging the worlds of suits and t-shirts, of incumbents and innovators. If matchi.biz continue to deliver on their promise […]

When I told folks I was going to be launching a FinTech Podcast the most common reply was “What’s FinTech?”  and “What’s a Podcast?”.  Hardly auspicious beginnings