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Fintech conversations from the market floor.
FinTech Focus TV is a brisk interview series built around fintech operators, founders, investors, and market specialists. Its best conversations turn product shifts, regulation, capital markets technology, AI, and on-chain finance into practical stories from people inside the work.
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FinTech Focus TV is a high-contact interview show about the people and companies shaping fintech from the inside. The format is direct. A guest arrives with a company, product, career move, market thesis, or conference agenda, and the conversation quickly finds the practical pressure underneath it. That pressure might be sanctions screening. It might be fragmented compliance systems, AI in capital markets, on-chain finance, venture funding, modular trading tools, or the future skills needed in financial services. The show is especially strong when a guest turns industry language into a lived business story. Founder-led companies get room to explain what problem they saw and why they decided to build around it. Market veterans get pushed toward the patterns they are seeing across clients, boards, investors, and regulators. The register is casual, but the topics are not lightweight. Terms like MCP, API-first, blockchain, cross-border settlement, FIX trading, RegTech, financial crime alerts, and cloud adoption sit naturally inside the conversation. Episodes often feel like a fintech event hallway chat that found a microphone and kept going. There is banter, including food-led bits and conference energy, but the show usually circles back to execution. What is the product doing? Where is the market moving? What is slowing teams down? Where does AI actually help? The capital markets conversations are particularly focused on data quality, speed, modular systems, and the changing role of technology vendors. The compliance and RegTech conversations look closely at control, fragmented tools, regulators, and the people stuck between growth and risk. The on-chain finance episodes frame blockchain less as hype and more as infrastructure for payments, settlement, inclusion, and a financial market’s position. It is not an explainer for total beginners. It assumes a listener can keep up with fintech shorthand and enjoys hearing specialists talk in their own operating language. The reward is immediacy: a sense of what founders, investors, consultants, and vendors are saying while the market is still moving.
Made for: Built for fintech operators, founders, investors, sales leaders, compliance teams, and capital markets technologists who already know the vocabulary and want live industry texture.
What sets it apart: The show mixes insider fintech language with informal, guest-led conversation, making market structure, RegTech, AI, and founder strategy feel close to the people doing the work.
FinTech Focus TV is hosted by Harrington Starr’s CEO, Toby Babb. This celebrated podcast invites the industry’s foremost thought leaders to share their role in driving innovation, growth, and technological change. From the merge of TradFi and DeFi, to the current state of FinTech investment opportunities, FinTech Focus TV places the spotlight on the most pressing marketplace conversations.We are always looking for people from across the industry to join us on FinTech Focus TV? Keen to get involved? Or know someone ideal for the show?Get in touch: [email protected]
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Toby Babb connects fintech's technical shifts to the hiring, leadership and market decisions that determine whether they work.
FinTech Focus TV follows financial technology through the people building, selling and managing it. Toby Babb runs conversational interviews that connect technical change to operating decisions, moving from company context into the practical questions behind leadership, hiring…
Chicken wings, deepfake defenses, and sales forecasts: Toby Babb gives your fintech curiosity somewhere useful to roam.
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Chicken wings frame a fintech discussion that keeps enough substance to justify the gimmick.
Chicken wings are the hook, but the discussion stays on fintech. Toby Babb and David Perkins move through market speed, AI, blockchain, cloud adoption, and the way data quality sits underneath all of it.
A lively case for on-chain finance and London's role in FX and cross-border settlement.
The discussion makes a straightforward case for BAB and ReDeFi as a path from cash banking and bank accounts into on-chain money, with Ken Kinsella tying that pitch to faster, safer, cheaper cross-border payments and foreign exchange.
A practical conversation about hiring AI talent that argues culture and working conditions matter more than money alone.
Toby Babb reconnects with Neil and Cyrus after their FinTech Fringe conversation to take another look at the AI hiring race in fintech. The episode works best when it moves beyond the notion that higher pay alone can fix recruiting and instead turns to purpose, autonomy, and the…
Culture, forecasting, and the habits behind a high-performing sales team.
Tamsin Hobley makes high performance feel concrete, from forecasting habits to keeping CRM data alive and making culture show up in day to day sales work.
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Cristina Quinn profiles indie developers, Microsoft researchers, and designers building the next decade of tech.
A wound-down internet-culture show now feeding listeners into Alex Goldman's and Emmanuel Dzotsi's new podcasts.
Inesh Vohra says a typical £200,000 UK mortgage could mean £600,000 in interest, and Sprive aims to reduce that cost.
Aditya Jha, co-founder and CEO of Itoflow, says about 90% of quantitative research is 'fairly scientific' and can be taught to agents, cutting the cost of starting a quant strategy from teams of PhDs to 'a few tens or hundreds of dollars.' He built the founding team with a Google Maps engineer and a Microsoft Azure engineer, deliberately choosing people from outside finance who build for millions of users.
Toby Babb interviews Haider Malin, CEO of Big TXN, about their disruptive data processing for investment screening and sanctions.
Chicken wings first.
BAB on BAB is still the running joke.
Kaja Verhoeven Zupanc says she moved from a computer science PhD and academia into industry seven or eight years ago to work on real-world problems.
Toby Babb interviews Mark Beeson of Illuminate Financial about fintech investment trends, from cloud adoption to venture winter and spring.
Host Toby Babb interviews PJ from RegRisk Legal Solutions about the upcoming RegTech conference and the evolving regulatory technology landscape.
Toby Babb interviews Julia Streets about her MBE for services to entrepreneurship and diversity in financial services and technology.
An interview with Kartik from Comply Stream about solving financial crime compliance challenges in fintech.
Toby Babb interviews Jim from Fixed Protocol about the upcoming Fixed CMA Trading Conference and the organization's role in creating industry standards for financial technology.
Interview with Varun from Know Your Dosh about his app that uses open banking to help families manage and access financial assets after a death.
AI hiring is getting noisy.
An interview with a fintech founder discussing challenges of legacy banking systems and their solution for rapid modernization.
A hoarse Toby Babb goes straight at culture.
Toby Babb interviews Amjad Zoghbi, head of AI at TRG Screen, about his career journey and the role of AI in fintech.
Toby Babb interviews Rupert about his background in equity research and corporate strategy at ICAP, discussing fintech and financial markets.
Toby Babb interviews James Dawson about his background in financial technology sales and his current work with Humble Technologies, focusing on fractional CRO and driving sales performance in fintech.