Asia is becoming structurally easier to access. AI is becoming structurally embedded in trading desks.

In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded in our studio, Toby Babb sits down with Rob Lane (LSEG), Himesh Soneji (Tech Advocates) and Asim Farooq (Proprietary Trading Firm) to unpack what global markets could look like in 2026.

We explore the growing accessibility of Asian markets, the shift in liquidity across regions, the rise of zero-DTE options, cost discipline inside multi-strategy hedge funds, and the reality of AI in portfolio construction.

Is AI replacing traders? Not quite.

Is Asia becoming strategically unavoidable? Increasingly so.

If you work in capital markets, trading infrastructure, quantitative finance, market data, or infrastructure, this episode offers practitioner-level insight into how global trading is evolving, and what it means for firms building for 2026.

Listen now to understand where markets are actually heading.

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£89 billion is sitting in the UK, and families don’t even know it exists.

In this episode, recorded live at FinTech Connect 2025, Carl Charlson speaks with Varun Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of Know Your Dosh, about the structural problem behind dormant wealth and how Open Banking may offer a scalable solution.

Varun shares the personal experience that led him to build Know Your Dosh, and explains why so many families lose visibility of financial information when one person manages everything. We explore how Open Banking and Open Finance APIs can help centralise asset information, improve financial continuity, and create new partnership opportunities for banks and financial institutions.

The conversation also examines the global scale of the issue, with hundreds of billions of dollars sitting dormant beyond the UK, and what this means for the future of customer-centric financial services.

If you’re interested in Open Banking, digital wealth infrastructure, regulatory innovation or the evolution of financial technology, this episode offers practical insight into a problem hiding in plain sight.

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FinTech Focus TV is powered by Harrington Starr, global leaders in Financial Tech Recruitment. For more episodes or FinTech recruitment advice, please visit our website: www.harringtonstarr.com

What FinTech Gets Wrong About Digital IdentityIn this episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded live at FinTech Connect, Toby Babb sits down with Chloe Coleman, CEO of Vouchsafe, to unpack what FinTech still gets wrong about digital identity.

They explore why trust and regulation are now competitive advantages, how digital ID is already operating inside financial services, and why founders can’t afford to outsource customer understanding too early.

If you’re building, scaling, or hiring in FinTech, this conversation will change how you think about identity, compliance, and product-led growth.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts

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Attracting AI talent in FinTech is no longer about who pays the most.

In this episode, Toby sits down with two AI-native FinTech leaders, Cyrus Lyons, Head of Engineering at Tunic Pay, and Neal Lathia, Co-Founder and CTO at Gradient Labs, to explore how AI-native teams are rethinking hiring, retention, and engineering culture, and what leaders need to understand to compete in a rapidly evolving market.

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What if legacy systems aren’t holding banks back, but actually giving them an edge?

In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded live at FinTech Connect 2025, Carl Charlson sits down with Ohad Kotler, Co-Founder and CEO of Tweezr, to challenge some of the biggest assumptions in bank modernisation.

From why rip-and-replace programmes fail, to how AI is making it possible to evolve even the most complex legacy environments, this conversation explores what it really takes for large financial institutions to move at speed—without sacrificing stability, resilience, or regulatory confidence.

If you’re curious about the future of banking technology, AI-driven transformation, and why 2026 could be a turning point for the industry, this episode is well worth your time.

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In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby sits down with Tamsin Hobley, Group Head of Partners and Alliances at SIX, to unpack what high performance culture really looks like inside a global financial market infrastructure leader.

They explore psychological safety, leadership accountability, goal-setting, learning through failure, and how SIX maintains engagement and performance through growth, transformation, and acquisition, without losing its people along the way.

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In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded live at FinTech Connect 2025, Toby is joined by Sharif Bouktila (CEO)and Adam Bouktila (CSO) of RWA.io to explore how real-world asset tokenisation is quietly reshaping how capital moves, trades, and settles.

They dig into why the debate is shifting beyond TradFi vs DeFi, how institutions are already using stablecoins at real scale, and why we may be closer to a tipping point than most people realise. 

If you want to understand where financial infrastructure is heading, and what “gradually, then suddenly” really means for markets, this episode is a must-listen

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Clearing was built for a different era. Is it time for a reset?

On this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby is joined by George Davis, Co-Founder & CEO at Lorum (formerly Fuse), to unpack what’s broken in global clearing, and what modern infrastructure should look like instead.

From correspondent banking bottlenecks to scaling clearing across the Middle East, US, Europe and Asia, this conversation goes deep on:

·       Why legacy clearing models are holding FinTech back

·       What reliable, modern clearing actually requires

·       Why infrastructure, not just innovation on top — is the real unlock

If you’re building, scaling, or relying on payments infrastructure, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.

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FinTech Focus TV is powered by Harrington Starr, global leaders in Financial Tech Recruitment. For more episodes or FinTech recruitment advice, please visit our website: www.harringtonstarr.com