StreetsTalksTo

In this episode of #StreetsTalksTo we talk to Nicola Anderson, CEO of Fintech Scotland.

In this conversation we learn more about FinTech Scotland, their key objectives to help the community of fintech entrepreneurs, the ambition of the economic contribution, strategic relationships, and the development of an inclusive environment to enable FinTech innovation to really thrive.

We outline the opportunities that fintech collaboration and innovation bring to us all, with an update on the FinTech Research and Innovation Roadmap, one year on since it was launched. The Roadmap was published with a very specific question, what should the future of finance look like? It was developed in close coordination with fintech entrepreneurs, the financial services sector, academia, regulators, Government bodies and consumer groups, and provides a framework to increase the positive impact of FinTech Innovation across Scotland and the UK.

We discuss the significance of fintech in our digital economy and how its evolving innovation and problem solving in the current economic and climate. We talk about how the Kalifa Review and research and development (R&D) in Scotland along with data, can advance business and help economic development in the UK and beyond. And lastly Nicola shares her favourite piece of regulation!

In this episode of #StreetsTalksTo we are joined by Dani Lipkin, Delilah Panio from the TMX Group. We delve into the global listings landscape, the TSX and the TSX Venture exchanges and their support for earlier stage firms and established companies in their journey to going public.

We touch on Canada's history of supporting innovative, early stage companies and discuss TSX Venture's unique value proposition in helping scale-ups access growth capital, reduce the burden and cost of going public. We look at lessons we can learn from Canada as the UK and other jurisdictions are assessing their IPO rules to attract more junior listings.

We discover the 4 Rs – reason, readiness, requirement and reality – that can help decide whether your company is ready to go public and the benefits of being aligned. And we look ahead on the listings journey, as many firms have successfully graduated from the TSX Venture Exchange to TSX and gone on to dual list in the US and other major exchanges.

In this episode of #StreetsTalksTo we are joined by Mark Schaedel, CEO and Brandon Baker, Principle of DataBP. We discuss the fascinating world of market data and how the impact of innovation and technology can be used to help make sense of the huge amounts of data and harvest unique insights. We talk about the genuine common goal across the industry for ultimate compliance, the importance of using The Cloud and how DataBP are empowering and connecting the community of data providers to gain efficiencies, reinvent how they manage their market data and ultimately realise and commercialise the full potential of their often unexploited data assets.

DataBP is a global provider of software and managed services for managing market data and index commercialisation. They provide tools that run business lines in one easy to use platform and a whole suite of purpose built tools, allowing data businesses of all sizes to increase their revenue, reduce their risk, and provide an improved customer experience without having to increase any staffing footprint.

In this episode of #StreetsTalksTo we are joined by Stéphane Rio, CEO & Founder of Opensee, and Senior Sales Executive, Julie Louvrier. We discover the challenges of big data, the increased demand for more granular information and how Opensee is transforming this data into a competitive advantage. We talk about different regulations, how ESG is bringing a new dimension to finance and how Opensee is helping its clients to unlock the full potential of their data by removing complexity.

Opensee is a Paris-based FinTech that is helping financial institutions turn their big data challenges into a competitive advantage, by unlocking vital business, user led opportunities. Its solutions allow financial institutions to harness 100% of their vast quantities of data instantly, on demand and for deeper and faster analysis than before. It was started by a team of financial industry and technology experts who were frustrated because they couldn't find a simple, big data analytics solution that enabled them to deep dive into all of their data or to run risk scenarios with the data that they were handling. They built their own instead. Opensee now gives banks, asset managers and other financial institutions the analytical tools for regulatory reporting, risk management, operational efficiencies and business development.

In this episode of #StreetsTalksTo we are joined by Ian Taylor, Executive Director and Su Carpenter, Head of Community at CryptoUK. We delve into the topic of regulation, what the current crypto regulatory landscape looks like and the challenges around ad regulation. We talk about how CryptoUK are trying to help develop policies, processes and standardisation to help crypto providers and institutions and how they are in regular conversations with the FCA. We cover taxation, legislation and so much more in this fascinating conversation.

CryptoUK exists as a cohesive, credible voice for the evolving UK crypto industry. As an independent industry body, CryptoUK represents the UK's crypto asset sector, working directly with policy makers and market players to advocate for better education, mutual understanding and fair and balanced policy. It has more than 80 members, including crypto natives, service providers, custodians and institutional investors.

In this episode of StreetsTalksTo we are joined by Vijay Oddiraju, CEO and Co-Founder, and Rachel Hunt, VP Growth Marketing at Volante Technologies. During the discussion we delve into the importance of real-time payments and what this means for financial inclusion and the democratisation of financial services. We consider the impact of COVID-19 across the industry, how this has accelerated the digitisation of payments around the world and how Volante is helping banks and financial institutions adapt quickly and effectively to empower consumers, corporates and economies. We find out more about Volante's ISO 20022 migration project and how Volante is enabling an ever-growing cloud-native payments ecosystem.

Volante Technologies is the global provider of cloud payments and financial messaging solutions. It serves as a trusted partner to more than one hundred banks, financial institutions, market infrastructures, clearing houses and corporate treasury firms in 35 countries. As a result, Volante's customers can stay ahead of emerging trends, become more competitive, deliver superior client experiences and grow their businesses through rapid digital transformation and innovation.

In our latest StreetsTalksTo podcast we are joined by Darshan Vaidya, CEO and Co-Founder of X-Margin, and Matt Ficke, the company's COO. In this episode we delve into the fascinating world of crypto trading. We cover topics such as risk, credit and how they aim to unlock the credit market for trading digital assets with their infrastructure to address demand coming from centralised finance (CeFi) and decentralised finance (DeFi). We discuss the pain points of the crypto market and gain some fantastic insights and advice on how to access credit.

X-Margin has developed a risk engine called X-Margin Credit, featuring privacy preserving software to unlock lending to institutions trading digital assets. It is one of the first solutions to deliver instantaneous credit scoring and risk monitoring across traders' entire portfolios, preserving privacy all the time.

We are delighted to bring you the next episode of StreetsTalksTo, we are joined by Mark Badyra and Greg Bennett from Appital, a platform that enables the buy side community to discover latent liquidity and gain greater exposure to relevant deal flow opportunities.

In this fascinating discussion we delve into the impact of the reduction of liquidity in public equity markets, and how to uncover new liquidity and make that liquidity available to the institutional investors. We discuss the lack of transparency and efficiency across a legacy bookbuilding and deal distribution activity, and how Appital are using automation to address one of the biggest pain points for the buy-side community.

We discover more about Appital's collaboration with Turquoise (part of the London Stock Exchange Group) which provides Appital users with a single point of access and execution, and seamless straight through processing to 20 settlement venues; and we touch on the first EMS integration with FlexTrade, with many more to follow.

In our latest episode of StreetsTalksTo we are joined by Philippe Morel and Marjan Delatinne of SETL, a London-based technology provider with a proven track record in delivering distributed ledger technology for financial markets, asset management and payments.

We discuss some of the transformative technologies of our time: we touch on blockchain, the world of payments, digital identity and digital transformation. We look at how central banks are assessing the feasibility of Central Bank Digital Currencies, dive into tokenisation and the securitisation of tokens and digital currencies. We also discover how SETL has successfully completed the world's first CBDC live funds transaction in collaboration with the Banque de France using the SETL blockchain.

SETL is dedicated to building blockchain-based solutions for Financial Markets, Asset Management and Payments. Their proprietary technology is designed specifically for regulated, high performance, low latency applications, and powers financial market infrastructures that are both active and operational, including IZNES and ID2S.

We kick off Series Three of StreetsTalksTo with a fascinating delve into the world of financial crime compliance with Alan Paterson and Kelly Burgess of Plenitude Consulting, the Financial Crime, Risk and Compliance consultancy.

We explore the high level challenges facing the industry as well as the important granular considerations as clients navigate their financial crime compliance obligations. We discover how RegSight - a cloud-based obligations register - is making an impact on the industry by allowing financial institutions to conduct a detailed and systematic gap analysis of their policies, procedures, and standards and address these in a highly efficient way. We discuss their favourite piece of regulation… and so much more!

Plenitude offers advisory, transformation services and cloud-based RegTech subscription products. They are key contributors and supporters of UK Finance and are currently working on a joint paper understanding and evaluating the risks associated with crypto assets.