MoneyNeverSleeps

MoneyNeverSleeps

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  • 066: Major Distribution | Sorcha Mulligan and SMEChain
    This episode is kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here. Sorcha Mulligan is an expert in driving business development strategies from a blank canvas, raising the profiles of the brands she works with in new markets by building reciprocal relationships through her global network. Sorcha has broad and deep experience in working with small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in a financial and broader business capacity, and has an excellent understanding of their everyday challenges.Through her awakening to the potential for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies to enable significant changes to how SMEs do business, especially in the context of supply chains, she came across a problem. While many big corporates have people working on digitalizing elements of their business (or their entire business!) and how they engage with customers and suppliers, SMEs with more modest technology budgets are at risk of falling behind. So, Sorcha is taking on the challenge of moving SMEs up the curve and helping them to get involved with the multiple consortia engaged in digitalizing supply chains. If you would like an intro to Sorcha, please click here.To listen to more, please visit https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on Twitter @MNSShow for updates and more information. Â
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  • 065: Money Talks #5: Anne Boden, Chris Skinner and the Myths of Fintech

    We once again get inside the minds of entrepreneurs by diving deep into a recent piece of content that struck a chord, and Chris Skinner's recent blog post on Starling's Anne Boden and her recent talk on the myths of fintech.

    This episode is kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.


    In this episode, Pete Townsend and Paul Smyth (filling in for Eoin Fitzgerald) unpack the November 6th post from Chris Skinner's daily blog where he steps through a talk from Anne Boden, the CEO and Founder of Starling Bank on November 5th, 2019 at the New Statesman's Fintech Summit in London.

    During her talk, in addition to talking about the path to profitability for Starling Bank, Anne Boden presented her view on the 'seven myths of fintech'. Anne's seven myths are a blend of social, demographic, competitive and technology themes, and Chris Skinner took a different view on most of them in his blog post the following day. 

    In a world where society's collective grasp on myths and truisms tighten and loosen daily, the different perspectives always make for a better conversation, and we addressed the following questions during this episode:

    -Why is fintech heavily populated by young white men?

    -Are most banks truly run by old white guys?

    -Are people changing their bank accounts for better tech, services and experiences?

    -What kind of banking services are the challenger banks / neobanks providing?

    -What kind of banking experience do small businesses need?

    -Can big banks catch up with the tech prowess of challenger banks?

    -Are challenger banks going to achieve profitability?

    To listen to more, please visit https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on Twitter @MNSShow for updates and more information.

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    30 min
  • 064: I Can Transform Ya | Eddie Dillon and CreditLogic

    Eddie Dillon from CreditLogic joins us on the show to talk digital transformation, making the move from corporate to entrepreneur...and his love of skiing!

    This episode is kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.


    Eddie Dillon is the founder and CEO of CreditLogic who are powering simplified and scalable mortgage origination. CreditLogic is a mortgage origination platform for both customer-facing advisors and lenders which reinvents application processing. The platform streamlines application data capture, validation, review and integration for compliant scalable origination.

    If you would like an intro to Eddie, please click here.

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    46 min
  • 063: Money Talks #4: Coinbase and the Crypto Economy

    Recorded live in Dublin at the BFC EU 2019 conference on DLT and emerging tech, Zeeshan Feroz from Coinbase and Pete Townsend took the stage for a fireside chat on Coinbase's institutional presence, custody as a building block of the crypto economy and crypto regulation.

    This episode is kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.


    Our MoneyNeverSleeps co-host Pete Townsend from Norio Ventures and Zeeshan Feroz, CEO of Coinbase in Europe, sat down on October 9th, 2019 at BFC EU 2019 for a half-hour chat on:

    How Coinbase are connecting institutions with the crypto economy.

    Trends in institutional crypto and custody as a building block of the crypto economy.

    Financial institutions' ongoing acknowledgement that the backbone of the financial system is changing.

    The infrastructure to support the widespread institutional adoption of digital assets.

    Engaging with regulators, welcoming crypto regulation and operating as a qualified custodian of digital assets.

    We'd like to extend our thanks to Hannah Kitchen and Dean Murphy at Fintech Network for sharing the audio track of Zeeshan and Pete's chat so that we could create this episode!

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    39 min
  • 062: Money Talks #3: Joining a Startup, Scaling It and 'Adminovate'
    Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.

    Ciaran Walshe joined Fund Recs in early 2016 after 8 years in the investment funds industry, taking his leap into fintech with a business that many refer to as a startup. But after 6 years of operations, Fund Recs are now scaling into an international player in the investment funds industry with clients such as Deloitte, MUFG Investor Services, Link Asset Services and Apex Group. If you would like an intro to Ciaran Walshe, please get in touch here.

    Along with our MoneyNeverSleeps co-host Pete Townsend from Norio Ventures, FundRecs organize and deliver the Dublin-based annual Adminovate conference for the investment funds industry. Tickets for the 2020 edition are on sale now here!

    Fund Recs was founded in 2013 when the company founders were approached by a large bank to develop a new reconciliation platform for it's Fund Administration unit. With over 25 years operational and technology experience between them the team are building a platform to transform how data is managed, processed and leveraged by the Funds Industry.

    Taking the latest technology and approaches from the best loved consumer software applications, the Fund Recs team are combining consumer user experience and interfaces with enterprise accuracy, security and availability. The team at Fund Recs believes that the software we use in day-to-day business activities should be as well designed and easy to use as the consumer applications we enjoy every day in our personal life.

    By combining ease of use with powerful processing, flexible data import and key Industry knowledge we have set out on our mission towards developing the most efficient, powerful and cost effective reconciliation software available.

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    27 min
  • 061: Anything is Possible | Paul Smyth from Possible.ie

    We get back into the interview format this week as Paul Smyth returns to the show to talk about his new coaching venture (Possible.ie), getting to the lightbulb moments, the importance of trust and fairness in business relationships....and channeling Wendy Rhodes from Billions!

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.


    In 2016, Paul co-founded Top Tier Recruitment, and over the last three years, he and his co-founder Laura Smyth successfully built the business through excellent client relationships in Ireland. In 2019, he undertook a coaching skills course spread out over five months and 135 training hours. Paul's idea was to add coaching to Top Tier's overall service offering, and having experienced the transformative power of coaching first-hand and completing the course, he launched Possible Coaching this year.

    If you would like an intro to Paul Smyth, please click here.


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    25 min
  • 060: Money Talks #2: Startup Marketing and Raising Capital from VCs

    We continue this week with our second edition of Money Talks - Rachel Kenny from HubSpot covers the basics of startup marketing and Bernadette Wijnings from Blanco tells her story about digital asset management and raising capital from VCs.

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.


    In this episode, we continue with Part II of 'How to Survive and Thrive with Your Investors', and you can check out Part 1 in Episode 58.

    Featured in Part II are:

    - Rachel Kenny from HubSpot - if you would like an intro to Rachel, please click here.

    - Bernadette Wijnings from Blanco - if you would like an intro to Bernadette, please click here.

    You'll also hear Ian Dalton from Flagship Marketing moderating the discussion, with Jo van de Velde from Euroclear, Koen Vanderhoydonk from Blanco and Pete Townsend from MoneyNeverSleeps and Norio Ventures all piping in.


    The genesis of this episode is a Flagship Marketing webinar, and they kindly shared the audio track with us. Flagship Marketing supports fresh-thinking fintech companies with inbound marketing services which generate qualified leads and delighted customers for socially motivated, innovative, financial scale-ups. Flagship have tons of incredibly useful marketing guides and workbooks on their website, so log in and learn.


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    38 min
  • 059: Money Talks #1: Libra vs. Sovereigns, WeWork vs. the World, Uber vs. London

    In a new format we're trying with MoneyNeverSleeps, we try to get inside the minds of three entrepreneurs by riffing on recent tech news and venture stories. This episode includes a look at central bank ambitions of the sovereigns pushing back on Mark Zuckerberg's crypto project, Adam Neumann's WeWork legacy, and Uber's London problem.

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    In this episode, Pete Townsend and Paul Smyth (artfully filling in for Eoin Fitzgerald) riff on three developments this week in the world of tech and venture capital to try to get inside of the minds of the entrepreneurs behind the stories. Here they are:

    How Facebook's Libra fueled push for central bank-run digital currencies - Financial Times - Monday, 23rd September, 2019 (paywall)

    -France, UK, Sweden, Japan, China all weigh in with their views

    -KEY POINT: To consumers it would feel very much like the electronic payment and transfer solutions that are already available today through their banking apps or a service such as PayPal.

    -Why is this important, where could it all go and what's going through Mark Zuckerberg's mind?

    -Pete Townsend's recent blog post, "My Thoughts on Libra"

    WeWork's Adam Neumann to step down as chief executive - Financial Times - Wednesday, 25th September, 2019 (paywall)

    -Neumann will no longer hold majority voting rights and becomes non-executive chairman

    -Finance chief Artie Minson and WeWork vice-chair Sebastian Gunningham will take over as co-chief executives

    -Comparison to Travis Kalanick, whose former advisor Bradley Tusk was on episode 27 of Money Never Sleeps.

    -Threat of lob losses (up to 6K of 15K workforce) reported.

    -What's still good about WeWork though amidst all of the negativity? Where could this go? What's next for Adam Neumann?

    Uber gains London licence for just 2 months - BBC News - Tuesday, 24th September, 2019

    -Reported: Concerns over safety, identification and insurance.

    -From the FT - spokesperson for the Mayor's office: "[London Mayor] Sadiq [Khan] has been crystal clear that in London it doesn't matter how powerful and how big you are, you must play by the rules."

    -What's one market where Uber just didn't work at all (Ireland)? Why is this important? What's going through Dara Khosrowshahi's mind?

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  • 058: Talk Up | Jo Van De Velde And Pete Townsend | Working With Your Investors

    In an excerpt from Flagship Marketing's webinar "How to Survive and Thrive with Your Investor", Jo van de Velde from Euroclear and our own Pete Townsend talk about how important it is to communicate with your investor to maximize the value they can add.

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    In this episode, our friends Ian Dalton and Jamie Dalton at Flagship Marketing kindly shared the audio track from a recent webinar entitled "How to survive and thrive with your investor". Flagship Marketing supports fresh-thinking fintech companies with inbound marketing services which generate qualified leads and delighted customers for socially motivated, innovative, financial scale ups. Flagship have tons of incredibly useful marketing guides and workbooks on their website, so log in and learn.

    As the webinar was over an hour long, we split it into two parts, and this is Part One. Featured in Part One is Jo van de Velde, Global Head of Strategy, Product and Innovation at Euroclear, who has partnered with several startups and has great experience on how institutions and nimble startups can best work together.

    Also featured in Part One is Pete Townsend, and he talks about talking - literally, as in how important it is for startup founders to talk to their investors to get at the true value-add of their relationship. As startups and their investors can be moving a hundred miles a minute in different directions on most days, it's critical to slow things down in the context of the board, make sure you've got your governance right, and communicate effectively with the people whose job it is to help unlock value for your business.

    Pete points to two great reads that helped him form some thoughts around this in addition to his experience as an independent director and advisor on startup boards.

    Angel by Jason Calacanis
    The Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor

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    30 min
  • 057: The Prediction | Andrew Mullaney and Premind
    Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment. Andrew Mullaney is the CTO and co-founder of Premind.ai, a stealth mode start-up focused on 'predicting the mind of the markets'. You can follow Andrew on Twitter @AndrewMull.
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    51 min

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A weekly podcast that looks inside the minds of entrepreneurs and at the crossover of startups, enterprise, finance, technology and life as we know it. Co-hosts Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald.…