Over the past 14 years, Chris Scott, Senior Manager at TP ICAP gained various valuable experiences in product management of equities, derivatives and trading systems. 

Throughout this period he has played a leading part of the electronification of financial markets and fintech.

In this episode Chris Scott joins Matt Cheung and Helene Lipp as he shares his experience of starting off as a credit and fixed income broker at ICAP, moving into a front office business analyst role and finally moving into product management. He gives valuable advice for graduates in developing the right hard and soft skills for getting a job in managing products in Fintech organisations. He outlines the importance of patience and where most students fail in getting their dream job. Furthermore, he explains how his MBA at CASS Business School helped him to expand his skills and approach new challenges to pioneer in product management.

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00:30: What is product management? 

02:51: Why embrace technology and automation? 

04:24: How does technology affect brokers and trading in the next 5, 10, 20 years? 

05:27: What excites you mostly about product management? 

06:34: Was your career path planned? 

08:34: How did you approach learning new skills in each different area? 

09:46: Which hard skills and soft skills are valuable to succeed? 

12:15: How important is curiosity and how can negotiation skills help to argue a good idea? 

18:05: How have internal processes and the interaction with small startups changed? 

21:04: Why did you decide to do a MBA? 

26:08: Can you harness creativity? 

27:18: What advice would you give a younger version of yourself? 

29:29: Outro 

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Nirvana Farhadi, global influencer and RegTech pioneer discusses the future of finance, sharing her thoughts on technology and its best attempt to disrupt regulation and finance.

Nirvana started her career on the trading floor, after graduating with a degree in Law. She quickly rose to strength realising her ability to spot where financial companies are exposed to compliance issues!  Nirvana emerged as a global influence in RegTech, heading Regulatory Transaction Reporting at KPMG UK before becoming Global Head of RegTech, Risk & Regulatory Compliance Affairs at Hitachi Vantara.

Aside from full-time work, Nirvana has had a continued influence on the sector becoming a MIT Technology Review Global Panellist, and Non-Executive Board Member for 5 modern regulatory companies.

Nirvana Farhadi joins Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Ben Ford to elaborate on the evolving force of regulatory technology, explaining how law, finance, and technology students can dominate a career in the sector.

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(00:34) - Who is Nirvana Farhadi
(02:01) - What is Fintech?
(04:37) - What are the main drivers of Regtech?
(08:37) - Where are we on the road of automation?
(11:17) - Is automation startup led or dominated by the bigger incumbents firms?
(13:45) - What skills are needed to work in Regtech?
(19:17) - How can I set myself up for an evolving job market?
(22:35) - What opportunities are there in Regtech for someone in financial services?
(28:05) - How does a student get into Regtech?

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Before teaming up with founder of Work In Fintech, Matt Cheung at ipushpull, Neil Weatherall amassed 16 years worth of experience at prestigious banks such as NatWest Markets & RBC Capital Markets where he ran Inflation Trading. Throughout this period, Neil experienced how technology revolutionised the trading floor.

Neil Weatherall is now Head of Technical Sales at ipushpull. Neil, alongside Matt is an example that you can forge a successful career within Fintech without having software skills such as coding.

Neil Weatherall joins Work in Fintech founder Matt Cheung and founder member Daniel Taiwo as they discussed Neil's careers, important skills to break into Fintech and the future of Fintech.

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(00:53) - Introduction
(1:20) - Getting into the Financial World
(6:07) - Neil's advice to graduates who are joining the financial industry
(11:08) - Neil's advice to graduates about building relationships in a WFH environment
(15:52) - How technology impacted Neil's trading career
(20:27) - Neil's definition of Fintech
(23:33) - How Neil sees Fintech evolving in the next 3-5 years
(27:22) - Neil's thoughts on VR solving the communication issue on the Trading Floor
(28:43) - Skillsets needed to succeed in Fintech
(33:09) - How Neil would go about his career in this environment if he was 21

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James Tromans discovered coding from a young age then later studied psychology at Oxford. Learning a combination of qualitative, quantitative and analytical thinking helped set up James for a career spanning start-ups, financial markets and big tech as well as earning a PhD in Computational Neuroscience of Vision.
 
Learn how having a technology background is not a prerequisite to work in fintech and discover how people skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, proactivity, passion and a thirst for knowledge will help you to accelerate your career.
 
James is now a Technical Director within the Office of the CTO at Google Cloud specialising in data engineering and machine learning. Prior to joining Google, James worked in capital markets at Citi in various front-office currency trading and technology leadership roles, most recently as Head of Data Science. Before Citi, James was a Fintech co-founder and started the first regulated (UKGC) business on a public cloud called Trade Chase.
 
James Tromans joins Work in Fintech founder Matt Cheung and founder member Amrit Khatkar and they discuss the importance of fintech, cloud, data and machine learning while James offers lots of career advice to people who would like to work in fintech.
 
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(00:03) - Introduction
(00:39) - What was it like having your own start-up?
(03:17) - Why did you study Experiment Psychology at University?
(05:11) - Within your degree what elements sort of helped you later on in life? 
(06:40) - Is a technology degree necessary to work in Investment Banking, Fintech & Big Tech?
(08:15) - Why did you choose Investment Banking?
(12:57) - How did you stand from the crowd in Investment Banking?
(15:58) - What does AI and Machine Learning look like in Investment Banking?
(18:41) - Is Fintech the future of finance?
(21:20) - What does the Cloud do and why is it the future?
(25:42) - How should a student learn Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?
(28:19) - How should a student stand out from the crowd in Big Tech?
(30:22) - Why move to Google and what is the culture like?
(33:11) - What are the differences between Google and Investment Banking?
(35:09) - What is your advice for your 18 year old self?

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Lewis Tuff, VP of Engineering at Blockchain.com and a Business Insider ‘35 under 35’ shares career advice, thoughts on crypto, blockchain and what has made him successful.
 
The former UBS graduate and Goldman Sachs developer made his first move into fintech by being one of the first employees of fintech giant Revolut. There, Lewis pioneered the cryptocurrency feature in the payments app and scaled the team to 50+. He built the first of its kind crypto offering within a challenger bank over the course of a couple of months was responsible for bringing $300M+ trading revenue in due course.
 
Now Lewis runs engineering at Blockchain.com, one of the most successful crypto wallets with 67 million users and counting.
 
In this episode, Lewis Tuff joins Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Jagraj Singh to help unravel where cryptocurrency is headed, and how students/graduates can get into and make their mark on the industry.
 
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(00:37) - How do you define Fintech and it's importance?
(01:34) - What skills did you learn at UBS/Goldman Sachs that have helped shape your career the most?
(03:15) - What prompted the decision to leave Goldman Sachs for Revolut?
(07:20) - Are there any key differences you noticed between the working cultures at Revolut and Blockchain.com and the likes of Goldman Sachs and UBS?
(11:09) - What advice would you give to students/graduates who want to get involved in the blockchain space?
(13:27) - What 3 things on a CV/application/cover letter would you say help a graduate stand out from the competition when applying for a job?
(16:58) - How do you see cryptocurrency evolving in the form of payments with the recent news that Tesla are now going to be accepting Bitcoin?
(22:44) - How has your perspective on blockchain technology changed from when you first got introduced to it, and how do you see it developing in the future?
(25:59) - How can blockchain technology be more widely adopted in the near future, and are there any certain industries that will benefit the most from the tech?
(29.24) - How do you feel about regulation in the cryptocurrency space?
(30:50) - What areas and opportunities do you see in the blockchain space in the next 3, 5, 10 years?
(34:11) - What advice would you give to your younger self if you could?

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Learn how Damian Sutcliffe went from developer to Partner and EMEA CIO at Goldman Sachs.
 
Damian shares his thoughts on fintech, ideas for start-ups and advice to those looking to excel in their careers in fintech, data and financial markets.
 
Damian started off life as a management consultant at Accenture and was seconded to Goldman Sachs. Damian liked Goldman so much that he moved to his former client, first, as a developer and then rose through the ranks across London, New York and Tokyo to become a Partner and managing thousands of people.
 
Now retired, Damian is a PhD student at Cambridge studying Computational Biology. He is also an advisor to McKinsey and start-ups including ipushpull.
 
In this episode, Damian Sutcliffe joins Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Jagraj Singh to learn why fintech is important and how to get ahead in a career in financial technology.
 
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(00:53) - Introduction
(01:51) - Early Career as a Consultant
(05:38) - Development at Goldman Sachs
(12:23) - How important is it to understand technology in a banking environment and to what extent?
(15:12) - Do you believe coding is a necessary or certain skill that's needed to be successful in FinTech or Finance?
(17:57) - What advice would you give to graduates who joined banks in the early stages of their careers?
(21:05) - Is there any advice that you'd give to those who start their own start-ups? 
(26:43) - What would you define as a Fintech?
(28:18) - Do you think there are any specific areas of the financial industry in general which have advanced more as a result of FinTech? 
(30:32) - What opportunities do you see in FinTech in say the short, near term and long term future? So three, five, 10 years?
(35:54) - Have you got any advice around what people should read or what they should listen to or any good routines that you may have?

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