What is LFP?

For a decade, the London Fintech Podcast has been providing an overview of the dominant influences and initiatives across FS. Mike Baliman, who launched the podcast in 2014, created a remarkable catalogue of over 250 high-quality episodes, which you can watch here. 

The LFP, which was launched in July 2014, is the longest running and most blue-chip Fintech podcast in Europe, with gravitas and respect in both Fintech and incumbent Financial Services. Guests include Lord Turner the former head of the FSA, Sir Paul Tucker former Deputy Governor Bank of England, the Lord Mayor of London, the leading economist Professor John Kay as well as blue-chip FS incumbents and Fintechs around the globe. 

The mission of the show is to  educate and entertain, and it has had 800,000 downloads in 202 countries since its launch. More importantly, the aim has never been to produce content that targets audience size at all, rather to produce blue-chip reference material on the many topics within Fintech.

The LFP has a leaning towards the business end of the Fintech spectrum – FinFintech, if you like, rather than technology per se. Its episodes can be seen to fill a pyramidal shape that is at the base a triangle of Entrepreneurialism, Financial Services and Technology.

At the vertex of the pyramid is “Finance and Society”. Whilst Financial Services is a societal construct whose form has varied over space and time – by laws, by regulations, by political design, by the very nature of the definition of money – equally it is a huge influence on the society in which it resides.

As sectors go, Fintech has been by far one of the hottest over the past decade which has had tons of money poured into it and therefore seen evolution on steroids and given us in a decade of insights into what, in more leisurely times, it might have taken fifty years to learn about (such as the nature of entrepreneurialism, what works and what doesn’t).

As the LFP enters it’s second decade, the show now has a new host in long time listener and LFP guest Tony Clark, who is also founder and CEO of NextWave Consulting, a next generation consulting firm in the fintech space.

Tony will continue to foster engaging discussions with industry leaders bringing innovation to the ever-evolving Fintech and FS landscape. As he lives and works at the coalface of the implementation of all these new fascinating technologies, he will be “able to return the LFP to its origins”.

We are looking forward to presenting the most interesting guests in the FinTech space. Join us biweekly for episodes packed with actionable insights, expert analysis, and a fresh perspective dedicated to sharing stories of innovation and success from the world of finance and technology. Share and enjoy!