Alastair Clarke, Senior Equity Trader at Capital Group and FinTech Intrapreneur, joins Matthew Cheung and Josh Lavorini to discuss what makes a good trader, the future of careers in FinTech and the uncertainty that he faced upon graduating and going out into the world of work.

Alastair began his career on the sell-side, working in corporate finance and research before finding his niche in Sales and Trading. He worked at ABN AMRO and then JP Morgan on equities desks before moving to the buy-side at Capital Group, one of the biggest asset managers in the world with over $2 trillion USD under management. 

Alongside his responsibilities as a senior equity trader, Alastair is also the project lead for Capital Group’s trading and analytics platform for execution (TAPE), an innovative new platform that helps the firm’s traders worldwide to further explore investment decisions and streamline their decision-making processes. With very limited coding skills and some interest in technology, he describes the learning curve that he has experienced whilst working on TAPE and the importance of clear communication between project leaders and developers. 

He touches on the necessary skills for working in FinTech and finance more broadly, with a particular focus on advice for young people and generalists. With a wealth of wisdom under his belt as a result of an impressive and varied career, Alastair’s insights and perspectives are of great value to anyone interested in FinTech and innovation. 

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Alex Struc, Founder and CEO of GoalsFirst and former Head of ESG Portfolio Management at PIMCO, gives an introduction to impact investing, where Fixed Income is going with technology, and how students can begin their career in markets. 

Alex is the founder and CEO of GoalsFirst – a specialist fixed income firm with a disruptive investment approach and the vision of mobilizing finance for change.  He is a fixed income investor and a portfolio manager with deep credit expertise.  For nearly 15 years he managed PIMCO’s leveraged loans, corporate debt and the firmwide exposure to financials, including the world largest capital securities fund, making the FN’s 40 under 40 asset managers list in 2014.  

Alex is also known as an innovator in impact investing – he led the industry-wide efforts on engagement as the Chair of the inaugural PRI Bondholder Engagement Committee in 2017. Having founded and led PIMCO’s first dedicated ESG investment platform, he originated large and liquid bonds linked to the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Today Alex joined Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Ben Ford to help unravel impact investing and how young professionals can make their mark on the industry. 

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In an exclusive interview held with Benyamin Ahmed and his father Imran Ahmed, we learn how 12 years old Benyamin first got into NFTs, what inspired him to create the Weird Whales collection which led him to amassing a small fortune of $450k just in a few weeks, and his journey to becoming an "overnight success".

Benyamin explains how to create coding superpowers that will enable you to do great things in crypto and the metaverse and also shares his ideas for future billion dollar opportunities in the digital world. Imran Ahmed, Benyamin's father, talks about how he encouraged curiosity, creativeness and entrepreneurship with his sons, and how he feels about the journey they have been on. 

In this episode, the pair joined Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Jagraj Singh to discuss the growing fascination with NFTs, explain what they are, along with their potential purpose and use cases.

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0:00 Current Feelings
0:41 Creating Wealth with Weird Whales
1:19 The Journey to Achieving the Wealth
4:36 The Success of Weird Whales
5:16 Benyamin being Bankless
5:32 Imran's Feelings about the Success
8:37 Routines and Habits
10:30 Benyamin's Interest in Coding
11:28 What is an NFT and why are they valuable?
13:52 Clunky Experiences with NFTs
18:35 Benyamin's Future Plans
20:11 The World in 10/20 Years Time
23:15 Going to University
26:29 Advice for Fellow Young People
29:00 What have you both learned over the summer?

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Toby Babb, Founder and CEO of Harrington Starr, shares what you need to know for an interview how students can beat the tough competition to landing your dream job in Fintech.

Toby is the founder and CEO of the Harrington Starr Group. Harrington Starr was launched in 2010 and focuses on the Financial Technology sector with offices in London and New York. The Group also owns The North Starr, a specialist Technology Sales talent acquisition business. He hosts the Fintech Focus podcast and Fintech Focus TV, edits the Financial Technologist Magazine and is the Chairman of the Fintech Influencers networking community.  He had been in the recruitment industry for 21 years having spent the first 10 in leadership roles for 2 listed recruitment groups. He has been named Agency Leader of the Year and the Entrepreneur of the Year by Recruiter Magazine.

Toby Babb joins Work in Fintech Founder, Matthew Cheung, and Founder Member, Ben Ford, to help our listeners better understand the necessities for landing a role in any career, the 4 soft skills every recruiter looks for, and how students can come out of the pandemic with the job of their dreams!

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Christian Frahm, Founder and CEO of United Fintech, joins Matt Cheung and Helene Lipp to discuss his entrepreneurial career path, having founded e.g. CFH Group in 2007 and United Fintech in 2020. 

Christian Frahm started off his career at Bloomberg and Saxo Bank before focusing on founding own businesses in the Fintech space. He set up CFH Group in 2008, exited for $120m to Playtech (a £1.35bln firm) in 2016. CFH has $20m revenue.

His incredible and  career path is an inspiration for everyone who is interested in the startup space and how to learn important skills  which are needed for an entrepreneurial career. His career and captivating lessons are essential for all students, graduates or young professionals looking to get a foot into the startup environment, becoming a founder themselves or to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Ying Cao, Fintech Entrepreneur, Board Member of several prominent Fintechs, and Former Head of Digital Products at Barclays Investment Bank, shares her experiences of the Fintech ecosystem and how her perspective on the work-life balance has changed during her illustrious career.
 
Initially starting out as a Strategy Consultant at the Oliver Wyman Group advising Fortune 500 companies, Ying helped launch several key business models and products. After OWG, Ying's work led her to Barclays Investment Bank, working on digital products, workflow automations and data science.

Being an entrepreneur herself, she has built businesses and products which attract hundreds of millions of funding and now serves as a mentor and business ambassador for Barclays Open Innovation Platform (Rise) to coach Fintech companies for business growth and product development. She has also set up her own business called Liyt Coaching, which focuses on mentoring individuals to accelerate their growth and development.
 
In this episode, Ying joins Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Jagraj Singh to discuss emerging Fintech technologies, motivation for work, and how students/graduates can get into and make their mark on the industry.

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Andy Mosson, Director at JP Morgan joins Matt Cheung and Helene Lipp to discuss his uncommon career path which ultimately led to finance and trading technology, the experiences he made and how students can impress in the finance industry. He explains how important it is to be resilient and not being scared of failing. Furthermore he emphasises the significance of networking properly.

Andy Mosson was Lieutenant at the Royal Air Force for a few years, he studied Physiology and Marketing before doing an MBA in Strategy & Finance. After that, he moved onto a sales desk and ultimately into trading technology at JP Morgan.

His incredible and uncommon career path is an inspiration for everyone who is interested in learning new skills and trying different things out. His career and captivating lessons are essential for all students, graduates or young professionals looking to make progress in their career.

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The Lord Mayor William Russell,  joins to discuss;  his vision for the City of London,  London being the next Silicon Valley, the importance of returning to the office and why Green Finance might be a once in a generation opportunity.

Being the first Lord Mayor in nearly 200 years to have 2 consecutive years in office and with over 30 years of experience across Investment Banking and multinational institutions, the Lord Mayor is well equipped to provide insight and advice into the future of finance and the next generation of opportunities for young professionals.

In this episode, Lord Mayor William Russell joins Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Amrit Khatkar to discuss the future of finance, how to make an impact in your career and what makes London so special as well as many more topics.

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Mark Martin, founder of Urban Teacher & UKBlackTech shares why he feels diversity is important in the technology industry, his journey from being a teacher to being a founder of two companies as well as how he is equipping the next generation with technology skills.

Mark works with industry, including Google, Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, and the education sector, including the University of Hertfordshire and South Bank Engineering UTC.

Mark started off as a teacher, teaching young children how to use desktop skills. After realising that there was a disconnect between what was being taught and what the industry wanted, Mark went out to invite tech start-ups into schools to try and bridge this gap.

In this episode, Mark Martin joins Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Daniel Taiwo to unpack the important skills needed to break into the technology industry as well as many more topics.

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(1:08) - Mark Martin's Journey 
(4:16) - Why Mark founded UK Black Tech 
(6:14) - Why diversity is important in the technology industry 
(8:14) - What needs to be done to drive diversity within the UK 
(10:27) - Tech skills being taught within schools 
(13:01) - How COVID has affected teaching 
(15:33) - Future of Edtech 
(17:20) - How students/employees can deal with sitting in front of the screen for long periods of time
(19:16) - Convincing a student without a technology background to take up computer science 
(21:44) - How Mark Martin developed relationships with big companies 
(24:22) - Important skills needed to break into technology 

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In today's episode, we were joined by serial FinTech Entrepreneur, Max Rofagha. Before starting up Finimize, Max founded DeinDeal.ch, which became the biggest e-commerce platform in Switzerland after Amazon. After selling DeinDeal.ch to one of the biggest Media players in Europe, Max went on to start Finimize in 2016. In today's episode, Max explains to us how he grew Finimize to become one of the largest Fintech's in Europe. Max also shares some tips on what graduates can do to maximise their chances of working in fintech. 

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(00:33) - Max' journey before he founded Finimize 
(2:52) - The influences that turned Max into a serial entrepreneur 
(4:17) - What Finimize is and how it started
(7:06) - How Finimize built a community of over 1 million people 
(11:04) - How Finimize maintain a high quality with their newsletter 
(13:33) - The real story behind being an entrepreneur 
(19:51) - How Finimize convince their analyst to leave big banks to join a Fintech 
(21:23) - Where Max sees Fintech going in the next 5 years 
(23:17) - Important skills needed to succeed in Fintech
(26:00) - Tips for new investors 
(28:00) - How young graduates can have a successful career 

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