Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3

What if we could move money without Visa or Mastercard? In this episode of Work in Fintech, we sit down with Francesco Simoneschi, Co-founder and CEO of TrueLayer, to explore how he's building an alternative to traditional card payment networks. TrueLayer is building payment infrastructure powered by Open Banking, enabling businesses to accept direct bank payments without relying on traditional card networks. The company has processed $150 billion in payments, with ambitions to reshape how ...

How did the UK help shape open banking, and what comes next for the future of fintech? In this episode of the Work in Fintech Podcast, Matt sits down with Hugh Davies, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Ozone API, to explore the evolution of open banking, his journey through some of the world's biggest financial institutions, and the opportunities emerging across fintech and AI. After spending 17 years at Barclays, followed by roles at Mastercard and HSBC, Hugh helped shape the UK's open banking ecos...

"I thought, I'll just hand it off to my team to go and build. And I realised I didn't have a team." In this episode of Work in Fintech, Mattew Cheung sits down with Antony Jenkins, Founder, Chair and CEO of 10x Banking and former Group CEO of Barclays, to explore why he walked away from running one of the world's biggest banks to start a fintech in his mid-50s. 10x Banking started with a frustration Antony lived for decades. Even as a senior executive, launching a simple new mortgage or cre...

Alvin Wang Graylin, Digital Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) a, returns to Work in Fintech to explain why the AI jobs shock is years away, not decades. He puts it plainly: most thinking work could be replaceable within 3 to 10 years, and around 1.5 billion people worldwide will be affected in the near term. With host Matthew Cheung, Alvin explains why new graduates are hit first, why 10 to 40% unemployment would push society into chaos, and what the GI Bill teaches ...

Before Blockchain.com became one of the biggest names in crypto, Nicolas Cary was just a curious entrepreneur experimenting with technology. He started making money as a kid mowing lawns and selling clams. Later, he built websites as a teenager, including one he traded for lifetime sandwiches. Then came the 2008 financial crisis. Watching the financial system collapse changed how Nicolas thought about money. When Bitcoin arrived, he saw something different: the possibility of building an e...