Our CEO interviews are designed to give you some insight into the leadership of the companies you may potentially become clients of.
Since this interview Global Reach has been acquired by Corpay How did you get started in foreign exchange? In 2005 four of us founded FC Exchange, then in 2010, I bought out two of the others. From then, my business partner, Martin Steenkamp, and I ran the business together until 2016. For 11 years, we […]
James Pinkney, CEO of Key Currency tells us about what makes them different, the biggest mistakes he has seen people make over the years, and what they can do about them. Plus what they should look for when choosing a currency broker. What’s makes Key Currency different from other currency brokers? Key Currency is owner-operated.
One of the major frustrations for private investors is that it’s hard to invest in early-stage fintech firms. Sometimes by the time a company has listed on the stock exchange, a large part of the exponential growth has already taken place. There is of course equity crowdfunding, but most of those companies are either pre-revenue
There is a big push at the moment for investing for good. Not just ethical investing, where you try not to invest in bad things, but rather only investing in good things. Being responsible and sustainable is hard, the CMA has reported that 40% of green claims companies make on their websites are not true
With currency brokers seemingly growing on trees thanks to the advance of fintech solutions we talk to Cedric Menager, the seasoned tech entrepreneurs about why PagoFX does things better. What separates PagoFX from all the other currency transfer providers out there? PagoFX is an international payment service for customers now in the UK, Belgium and
What better way to find out about one of the most visible stockbrokers and wealth managers in the UK than from the man who founded it. Unfortunately COVID, meant I couldn’t travel to Barbados for the interview so we spoke to Paul Killik via Zoom about the history of Killik & Co. How did you
Paul Killik, tells us about the history and evolution of Killik & Co. Read More »
Mark Slater, Chairman of Slater Investments tells us about the highs and lows of being a fund manager, his best and worst investments and what private investors can do to become better investors. How did you get into fund management? I was always interested in investment from a young age because my father would talk
There is a lot happening with pensions at the moment. The imminent introduction of the “pensions dashboard” will give people a clearer vision of their retirement investments than ever before and every day a new challenger brand is launching to democratise the pensions industry. In this interview, we speak to Lindsey Rix, the CEO of
As CFDs and leveraged trading continues to come under fire from the regulators for being inappropriate for the majority of inexperienced investors I have a chat with José Carlos Gonzalez, the founder and CEO of Leverageshares.com on why his ETFs are different. His Leverage Shares are ETFs that allow investors to get 2x and 3x
At what point do robo-advisors become wealth managers? We have a chat with Giovanni Daprà the co-founder and CEO of Moneyfarm to find out what it’s been like to set up and run one of the largest new fintech investment platforms and what he hopes the business will eventually become. Why did you found Moneyfarm?