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LFP111 – The Role and Purpose of P2P Aggregators with Iain Niblock CEO Orca
Using “P2P loosely there are over fifty to invest in, all with different standards and approaches. It’s a “fragmented and complex” market. Professionals do much due diligence before investing. How is...
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LFP112 – FCA Proposes Undemocratisation: Taking the “P” Out of P2P with Ryan...
You may not be rich, you may not be “sophisticated” but what kind of Stalinism is it that means The State can order you re what you can and cannot do with your money?!? The entire ethos of “P2P” – the...
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LFP010 – 3,000 Feet Overview of Alternative Finance with Rupert Taylor of AltFi
Alternative Finance is, in essence, Finance not provided by banks (and in a Fintech context, finance provided by “Fintechs”). As such it is one of the sexier sectors in terms of being a direct...
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LFP011 – 5 Key Challenges to the Success of UK Fintech plc with Dr Louise...
GLI FInance’s Platforms The Economist has described the emergence of huge numbers of Fintechs as a Cambrian Explosion. Will this be followed by a Mass Extinction? I am delighted to be joined on the...
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LFP013 – Kicking the Tyres of Alt. Finance P2P (Online Lending/Borrowing)...
For me Alternative Finance is the most exciting sector in Fintech by far in terms of near term impact as competition for the “Old FS” and as choice for both borrowers and lenders. In this episode I am...
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LFP015 – Special Episode! The Amazing Story of US P2P With Peter Renton of...
This is a mega-episode Xmas present special for London Fintech Podcast listeners The world of Fintech has changed forever with this month’s successful twin IPOs on the NYSE of Lending Club and On...
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LFP016 – New Year’s Special – Behind the Scenes, UK Fintech 2015 and Occupy...
The New Year is a time of reflection, a time for looking forwards and a time to take stock. So in this light this will be a special, somewhat off-piste episode with just me at the microphone. This...
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LFP019 – Special Episode! P2P – Beyond the Metaphors with Rhydian Lewis CEO...
Peter Behrens on the left, Rhydian Lewis on the right. Ratesetter have done 25% of P2P volumes in the UK year-to-date. They don’t normally look so severe P2P (online lending and borrowing) is plagued...
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LFP020 – UK SME Finance Referral Scheme with Conrad Ford CEO of Funding Options
In essence the (prosaically named) “UK SME Finance Referral Scheme” basically means that soon banks wont be able to tell SMEs to bugger-off any more (which was the reality behind the prosaic (and...
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LFP021 – Special Episode! Consumer Credit and P2P Deep Dive with Giles...
Giles and friends have really set one of the all-time Financial Services innovation high water marks with their invention of P2P – online lending and borrowing without a bank. They literally created...
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LFP023 – FX In The Fintech Age with Philippe Gelis CEO Kantox
On this show we have an ideal guest to guide us through “FX in the Fintech Age”. Philippe Gelis is the CEO of Kantox a B2B FX Fintech who recently passed the $1bn of business done mark. At that level...
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LFP024 – Lessons from my 25yrs in Fintech, #oldFS, #newFS and VC with Nigel...
I am delighted to be joined on the show today by Nigel Verdon founder and Chairman of Currency Cloud (who have always been my “Fintech insiders” Fintech of choice and have now done over $10bn of...
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LFP026 – Special Episode! “The Future of Banking” with Mike Laven CEO...
I am delighted to be joined on the show today by Mike Laven CEO of Currency Cloud (who have always been my “Fintech insiders” Fintech of choice). Currency Cloud has done $10bn of business which is a...
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LFP028 – Alternative Finance as an Asset Class with David Stevenson...
David Stevenson is a journalist extraordinaire and writes for a number of leading publications including the Adventurous Investor Column in the FT, the Investors Chronicle, Money Management and...
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LFP029 – Secured & Insured Lending/Borrowing with Angus Dent CEO ArchOver
New entrants into Fintech need a twist. ArchOver has an innovative (a word oft used but rarely accurate) and very interesting innovation of combining Credit Insurance with Secured SME marketplace...
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LFP030 – A Deep Dive into Invoice Financing in the Fintech Age with Anil...
As this is London Fintech Podcast episode thirty and as it’s a big round number I am especially delighted to be joined by one of the giants of the London Fintech scene Anil Stocker, CEO and co-founder...
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LFP033 – A Deep Dive into Legal Risks in Fintech with Jon Segal Partner at...
In a world where Fintechs are on a rapid startup-scaleup-mature company growth curve how does legal risk look? In a totally new scene how can we know how well legal structures may, or may not survive...
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LFP034 – SME Lending in the Fintech Age with Andrew Mullinger Co-Founder of...
Co-founders Samir, James and Andrew Funding Circle need no introduction being the heavyweight SME marketplace lender in the UK and the only global player to have a large footprint in both the UK and...
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LFP035 – A Deep Dive Into Stress Testing P2P Portfolios with John Goodall...
On the show today I am delighted to be joined by John Goodall CEO and co-founder of Landbay, a member of the P2PFA of leading UK P2P/marketplace lending platforms. Landbay connect retail and...
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LFP036 – The Direct Lending Model with Chris Rieche CEO of iwoca
I am delighted to be joined by Chris Rieche CEO and co-founder of iwoca. Iwoca is a Fintech lender but not a P2P. They raise finance and then can lend it out themselves – a direct lending model which...
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LFP037 – Special Episode – Dealing with Crises and The Platform Black Story...
Platform Black is the UK’s second largest invoice discounting marketplace having traded over 2,000 invoices and recently passing the £100m mark. On the show John Regan an Angel Investor who...
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LFP038 – Highlights from Lendit 2015 Europes Largest P2P Conference with...
The road goes on forever – the next Lendit is already lined-up I am delighted to be joined by Peter Renton to discuss some key highlights from the Lendit Europe 2015 conference, especially for those of...
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LFP040 – The 7 Strategies of Banks in Response to the Fintech Revolution with...
In episode 40 it’s a good time to turn to the response of the banking sector (used here as a proxy for all FS incumbents) to the Fintech revolution – both Fintech’s #newFS and its #newTech/#newIT...
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LFP042 – Bumper Fun-Packed New Years Show On Fintech & Star Wars, Beer,...
source: focusrs.org This is London Fintech Podcast episode 42, the answer to life, the universe and everything. Well a bit of everything anyway. And I have the pleasure to be joined today by – er –...
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LFP044 – How can Fintechs Scaleup, get more Robust yet preserve their...
Today I am delighted to welcome Alex Langridge Director of The Up Group on the show to talk about the very hot topic of whether Fintechs can grow up without, as it were, turning into their parents....
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LFP047 – The Impacts of the UK IFISA on P2P with Jake Wombwell-Povey CEO Goji
I am delighted to welcome Jake Wombwell-Povey co-founder and CEO of Goji to dive into the fascinating subject of –the Innovative Finance ISA. Goji’s aspiration is to take P2P into new investor markets...
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LFP053 – Innovating In P2P with Cormac Leech Co-founder Liberum Alternative...
Cormac Leech is co-founder of Liberum Alternative Finance who are a (the?) specialist strategic adviser and development partner to the UK Alternative Finance sector, focusing on online direct and...
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LFP054 – Special Episode! Do we need Fintech 2.0? What are Brexit’s impacts?...
Less than a week ago the UK voted to leave the EU. This comes against a background of severe problems for listed US marketplace lenders, a worlwide tailing off of institutional capital into the sector...
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LFP055 – How Fintech Could Become Far Greater by Re-Forming FS with Professor...
I am delighted to be joined this week by Professor John Kay – one of the UK’s leading economists and outstanding authority on Financial Services to discuss the truly vast potential that still exists...
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LFP056 –“Everything You Wanted to Know About Fintech Venture Capital But Were...
I am delighted to welcome Rob Moffat, Partner at Balderton Capital to dive into the topic of Venture Capital and Fintech. As I aim to present London Fintech in the round I have been – for a long time...
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LFP057 – Five Reasons Corporate Governance is Essential for Fintech with...
I have the pleasure to be joined today by Geoff Miller, CEO of Afaafa and former CEO of GLI Finance which he built from having no presence in AltFi to having over two dozen share stakes and loan...
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LFP062 –“Hard Fail” Provision Funds Revisited with Rhydian Lewis CEO Ratesetter
I am delighted to be joined on the show today once again by Rhydian Lewis CEO at Ratesetter to talk about the ultra-hot topic of provision funds in p2p/marketplace lending. Rhydian was on in the early...
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LFP064 – P2P in the US, China and UK with Peter Renton
After organising nearly 1,000 folks in the O2 for Europe’s largest P2P conference ever I managed to grab Peter long enough to have a fascinating tour of the globe and P2P sitrep in the three major...
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LFP068 – The London Fintech Podcast’s 2016 Highlights and 2017 Awards
Happy New Year boys and girls May 2017 be a great one for you and yours! This is the New Year Special where I look back at my 9 highlights from 2016, dish out 10 immensely prestigious awards and take...
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LFP069 – IFAs, Fintech & Roboadvisers with Dan Kiernan Research Director...
“Everyone” frets over financial advice in the Fintech Age. Regulators set out to “protect the consumer”, worthy bodies talk no end about the need to protect “people” (never themselves oddly – generally...
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LFP083 – Matchmaking Lending and Borrowing with Conrad Ford CEO Funding Options
Conrad was on the show back in LFP020 since when he has built Funding Options (strapline “your free marketplace for business finance”) into one of the most successful London Fintechs. They were chosen...
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LFP094 – 2018 New Year Special! Fintech Tour d’Horizon, Report Card & Its...
In this New Year Special I’ll survey the state of the art and present a report card for each of the main Fintech sectors – P2P, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Money, App-only banks, Insuretech, Digital I.M.,...
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LFP096 – A Deep Dive into Marketplaces in the Fintech Age with David Mercer...
Which UK FIntech does $3trn of business per annum and are in 7 countries? Well I guess for readers on the website the pic above is a bit of a hint. David Mercer CEO LMAX Exchange joins us today to...
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LFP098 – Financing UK Small Businesses with Anil Stocker CEO MarketInvoice
Since Anil and MarketInvoice were last on the LFP, and no doubt as a direct result, they have gone from having done ~£1/2bn to ~£2bn and remain the Invoice Financing market leaders as well as having...
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LFP101 – How to Make P2P Insurance Work w/Tobias Taupitz CEO Laka
An Insuretch insider said to me “if there is one firm that is doing something truly radical in insurance its Laka”. Aha. So here we are – Laka on the LFP. Laka are re-slicing and dicing the paradigm...
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LFP103 – Online Lending/Borrowing (Formerly P2P), Past, Present, Future with...
Once upon a time P2P was a simple thing. Now it’s more accurate to see it as online lending and borrowing. Models vary, regulation varies, the most successful platform was started by a bank, direct...
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LFP117 – Specialisation & P2P Retail vs Institutional Funding w/John Goodall...
How are the changing tides and winds in newFS vs oldFS lending? How are the incumbents and newbies doing? How is the balance of institutional funding of P2P and retail going? What’s the best way to...
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LFP121 – Litigation Crowdfunding w/Cormac Leech CEO Axiafunder
Creativity springs eternal. Here is yet another new topic, one that no one could have imagined even a couple of decades ago. Litigation crowdfunding gives litigants a new source of funding and...
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LFP130 – Equity Crowdfunding – Past, Present and Future Innovations w/Jeff...
Ten years ago Jeff and his co-founder came up with the idea for Equity Crowdfunding and seven years ago Seedrs became the UK’s (world’s?) first regulated Equity Crowdfunder. In this episode we revisit...
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LFP132 Property Project Finance & Is P2P Becoming Asset Securitisation For...
Britain needs both megabuilds but also a specialised SME property project finance market. Mike Bristow CEO of CrowdProperty a P2P based in Birmingham offers (to both sides) development finance loans...
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LFP143 – Results From Analysing A Decades Profitability Data On One Hundred...
Michael conducts the most in-depth analysis of Companies House data on UK Fintechs that I am aware of. That earlier this year he partnered with KPMG and Google on his Fintech Funding and Financing...
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LFP145 – New Year Special! 2020 Hindsight – A Decade In Fintech
In this show we review a decade in Fintech. Although the earliest Fintechs were formed around 2004/5 (WorldFirst, Zopa) many big names formed around 2010 (Funding Circle, Ratesetter, MarketInvoice)....
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LFP162 – The Past and Future of Fintech w/Vinoth Jayakumar Partner Draper Esprit
Draper Esprit are one of London’s longer-established VCs and with investments in the likes of Revolut, Transferwise, Thought Machine, Seedrs, Crowdcube and Freetrade might know a thing or two about...
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