“We were fintech before there was fintech!”  I hear this claim all the time and it usually is BS.  Not so with Steve McLaughlin, the founder of FT Partners.  Steve left a successful career at Goldman Sachs, where he led what today would be called an internal fintech team, and started FT Partners back in 2002.  For the past decade and a half FT Partners, an investment banking firm focused exclusively on the financial technology sector, has been recognized as one of the top firms to partner with.