Author Archives: Tony Clark

Decision intelligence in the AI era: How Quantexa turns data to decisions

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As AI accelerates across financial services, the real competitive advantage is no longer just analytics — it’s decision intelligence.

In this episode of the London Fintech Podcast, Tony Clark is joined by Jamie Hutton, Chief Technology Officer of Quantexa, to explore how organisations are moving beyond dashboards and manual analysis toward context-driven, automated decision-making.

Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, Quantexa is one of the UK’s standout post-pandemic unicorns, scaling globally with over $100m+ ARR and recognised as a leader in the Decision Intelligence category by Gartner.

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How real is quantum risk for crypto?

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While much of the financial world is racing to keep up with AI and the rapid institutionalisation of blockchain and crypto, another powerful technology has been quietly advancing in the background for decades — quantum computing.

In this episode of the London Fintech Podcast, Tony Clark is joined by Christopher Jensen, Portfolio Manager & Director of Digital Asset Research at Franklin Templeton, to explore what quantum computing really is — and why it could have profound implications for digital assets, cryptography, and financial infrastructure.

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LFP 258 – Robinhood comes to the UK – with Jordan Sinclair

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In this episode of the London Fintech Podcast, Tony Clark sits down with Jordan Sinclair, President of Robinhood UK, to explore Robinhood’s ambitious global expansion, with a particular focus on its UK market entry.

Jordan brings a wealth of experience from his diverse career, and is now leading Robinhood’s mission to democratise finance by offering commission-free trading, fractional shares, and innovative 24/5 trading access to a broader audience.

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LFP 257 – Risks, Regulations & Remedies – a FinCrime deep dive with Paul Caulfield

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In this episode Tony Clark sits down with Paul Caulfield for a deep dive into the troubling world of Financial Crime.

Paul is a practising attorney. He’s been a chief legal officer and a chief risk officer at major Financial Institutions, and he’s worked with pretty much all the market regulators in the sector, including the Department of Justice, the OCC, OFAC, and the Fed. Paul is also an adjunct professor at Fordham Law in New York.

This is a ‘must-listen’ for anyone in the Risk, Compliance or Legal space.

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LFP 256 – Technology and the Law – with Louis Glass, Board Member, CMS

 

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In this episode of the London Fintech Podcast, Tony Clark is joined by Louis Glass, the head of CMS’ TMT-sector M&A group in the UK, Managing Partner of the firm’s Tel Aviv office, and a member of the management board.

Louis brings a wealth of experience as a corporate lawyer with specialist expertise in tech, internet, and e-commerce transactions. His career spans over two decades, including extensive cross-border work for multinationals, startups, and venture capital funds. Louis’ journey into the world of law and fintech is as unique as it is impressive.

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LFP255 – Wealth management for the Zillenial Generation with Sarah Levy, CEO of Betterment

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In this episode of the London Fintech podcast, Tony Clark talks to Sarah Levy.

Sarah has over 25 years of experience launching and growing new brands, however Sarah’s journey to FS is an unconventional one, having crossed over only 4 years ago from a super successful career with Disney, Nickelodeon and Viacom, to leading one of the fastest growing and most progressive digital wealth management firms in the US. 

There are approximately 60,000 wealth firms globally of all sizes offering propositions that span pure advisory, self-directed, robo-advisory and hybrid models in a market characterised by shifting demographics, consolidation and new asset classes.  So how do firms differentiate and get ahead?

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LFP254 – Changing the game – the new era in banking with ClearBank. A conversation with Charles McManus, CEO.

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Which bank was the first UK clearing bank in 250 years, grew income 91%, last year despite the fintech downturn, doubled its deposits and provides banking services to 250 companies, including 16 other banks?

In this episode of the London FinTech podcast, Tony Clark is joined by Charles McManus, Founding CEO of ClearBank.

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LFP 252 – the forensic AI that can predict corporate collapse! – The Transparently Story

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In his inaugural episode of the London Fintech Podcast, host Tony Clark takes over from Mike Baliman and takes a deep dive into the world of AI powered forensic accounting.

Research shows that 1 in 10 US firms are cooking the books and that accounting manipulation is a $4.7Tn industry problem, in the US alone.  Transparently has built an AI platform that can detect and score accounting manipulation, often years ahead of corporate collapse!

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