The Governance of FS as a whole affects all of our lives as we saw in 2008 let alone in many individual examples of FS/Fintech businesses failing and losing clients money. In our digital age virtually

The tech world focuses heavily on the succeed fast or fail fast model of tech growth. In part this is as VC firms generally have limited life funds and hence cannot handle slower models but is also

The Founder(s) is(are) at the heart of creating something new that literally never existed before. However they very much do not do this in vacuo needing to entice and hire a team below them but also

As always there is a fascinating phenomenon when the globalised world of tech meets the localised worlds of custom, people, rules and regulations. As recently as LFP243 we dived in to the world of tec

In this episode we take the opportunity to talk to one of the most credit risk experienced men in Fintech who has ranged from a dozen years at seminal Capital One through managing Barclays 40 bn por

This 2024 New Year Special forms the sixth and final in a series of six (there will be no more) about how technology and in this episode way wider forces are changing us directly for the better (r

In this Xmas special we zoom out from Fintech to Tech as a whole in one of Europes coolest capitals Berlin. Ivan is a great person to guide us through the scene having spent many years in the Ur-te

Saudi Arabia is a country that increasingly confounds stereotypes and expectations an example being a YouTuber who has visited every country in the world choosing it for his honeymoon. At the same t

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

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