David Hall (@DavidHall) is the Co-Founder of Tapaas and former Principal Architect across numerous financial institutions including Westpac, Macquarie Bank and Citigroup. David made his way into the industry through a unique opportunity at Salomon Brothers, an organisation that had a lasting impact on David. Twenty years later, and many runs on the board with institutions as a financial systems architect, David now runs his own business - Tapaas.

Tapaas is an analytics platform that accelerates profit from insights for finance markets enterprises. The platform provides analytical power to growing companies, that was only previously available to the premier financial institutions that David used to work for.

David has a fascinating background and life experience as an expat. We covered a vast array of topics, including:

• What he misses about America and loves about Australia
• His father and lessons learnt from him
• Experience travelling as an expat, particularly in Japan
• Financial innovation at organisations like Salomon Brothers
• Tapaas and its work with retail brokers
• Principles for applying risk & technology

 

SHOW NOTES

01:33 - Introduction

03:25 - What he misses about America

04:28 - His father and lessons learnt from him

08:12 - Accounting

09:18 - Finance tech

11:42 - Japan

13:01 - Salomon Brothers

14:01 - What he loves about Australia

17:41 - His role and what fin tech systems are

22:36 - Greatest insight of his work experience

26:50 - Foreign exchange retail brokers, risk and exposure

32:31 - Principles for applying finance solutions

36:22 - Daily routine

37:56 - What book he would gift

38:47 - Words he lives by

 

LINKS (IN ORDER OF EPISODE)

• Tapaas website, Twitter
• Salomon Brothers
• J.P. Morgan
• Goldman Sachs
• Macquarie Group
• Westpac
• Citigroup
• Peter Drucker
• Python (programming language)
• Q (programming language)
• Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister