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Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed

Welcome to the Searching for Mana show in association with the London Stock Exchange, the leading podcast that interviews tech's most influential leaders, innovators and disruptors to discover their mana – the superpower that has helped them to succeed. Hosted by Lloyd Wahed, co-founder of the Mana group, which is focused on building the future of work via their search, lab and venture business, the podcast is a must-see/listen for industry insiders, established or budding entrepreneurs, or anyone with an interest in the most exciting and dynamic sector in the world.

Embedded finance to the moon | Rob Straathof, Liberis

40 mins; May 11, 2021

Raising the stakes in finance | Jed Rose, Airwallex

45 mins; May 04, 2021

And the Oscar Goes To... | Jacqueline Dewey, British Bank Awards (Smart Money People)

31 mins; April 28, 2021

The Currency Cold War | Dave Birch, author, advisor and commentator

45 mins; April 20, 2021

The finance community with one million subscribers | Max Rofagha, Finimize

47 mins; April 13, 2021

Post-Easter Economic Outlook for Q2 2021 | Michael Brown, Caxton FX

38 mins; April 06, 2021

Life insurance that inspires life and employee wellbeing | Sammy Rubin, YuLife

46 mins; March 30, 2021

The VC that sold iZettle for 2.2 Billion to Paypal | Josh Bell, Dawn Capital

50 mins; March 23, 2021

Earnings on demand and financial wellbeing | James Herbert, Hastee

48 mins; March 16, 2021

What is SPAC? #IWD special | Betsy Cohen, FinTech Masala

40 mins; March 09, 2021

Why do startups fail? | Tom Eisenmann, Harvard University

53 mins; March 01, 2021

World’s first climate-aware net zero pension | Ben Pollard, Cushon

47 mins; February 22, 2021

Innovation delivered | Lukasz Marczyk, Accenture

44 mins; February 15, 2021

Improving founders' mental health | Matus Maar, Talis Capital

55 mins; February 08, 2021

How Google nailed innovation in the mid-2000s | Vaughn Tan, University College London

43 mins; January 18, 2021

Blockchain investing: what you need to know | Andrea Bonaceto, Eterna Capital

44 mins; January 11, 2021

Best Of 2020 Part Two | Romi Savova, Zihao Xu, Alf Rehn, Christian Busch

27 mins; January 04, 2021

Best Of 2020 Part One | Conrad Ford, Joe Parkin, Ned Phillips, Adam French

25 mins; December 28, 2020

Digital currencies: are they inevitable? | Andrzej Horoszczak, Billon

38 mins; December 21, 2020

Can blockchain solve financial inclusion? | Morten Christorp Nielsen, Aryze

37 mins; December 14, 2020

The right way to hire product managers | Ayman Jawhar, INSEAD and Rockwae

38 mins; December 07, 2020

Will crypto end traditional finance? | Alex Mashinsky, Celsius Network

47 mins; November 30, 2020

How the best CEOs make their own luck | Christian Busch, NYU and World Economic Forum

46 mins; November 23, 2020

Is innovation killing your company? | Alf Rehn, University of Southern Denmark

48 mins; November 16, 2020

The future of work is multiple jobs | Louise Beaumont, techUK

50 mins; November 09, 2020

The traits that make founders successful | Zihao Xu, Octopus Ventures

52 mins; November 02, 2020

Will ESG revolutionise pensions? | Romina Savova, PensionBee

43 mins; October 26, 2020

Are big banks embracing open banking? | Georg Ludviksson, Meniga

59 mins; October 19, 2020

Why do so many Goldman Sachs alums start FinTechs? | Adam French, Scalable Capital

61 hours 19 mins; October 12, 2020

Why every bank wants a robo advisor | Ned Phillips, Bambu

57 mins; October 05, 2020

Faster SME loans are on the way | Julie Ashmore Dann, Rapid Cash at NatWest

58 mins; September 28, 2020

Brexit, BoE and big changes in Q4 2020 | Michael Brown, Caxton FX

31 mins; September 23, 2020

How to make it in fintech | Richard Davies, Allica Bank and Revolut

58 mins; September 21, 2020

The one trait financial consultants need to have | Gregory Pastore, Baringa

57 mins; September 14, 2020

The best leaders are master psychologists | Beatriz Carrillo Garcia and Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon, University of Sydney

71 hours 56 mins; September 07, 2020

Using design to understand customers' needs | Jyothish Nair, McKinsey

58 mins; August 31, 2020

What is Boris Johnson's superpower? | Nicky Morgan, former UK Education Secretary

61 hours 53 mins; August 26, 2020

How crypto is boosting financial inclusion | Teana Baker-Taylor, Binance

58 mins; August 24, 2020

Why culture is the future for financial consultancies | Joseph George, Dufrain

90 hours 11 mins; August 17, 2020

What FinTech can learn from academia | Dr Karen Elliott, Newcastle University

82 hours 47 mins; August 10, 2020

How to raise $50-million rounds | Charles Delingpole, Comply Advantage

59 mins; August 03, 2020

From Y Combinator to dominating the lending industry | Freddy Kelly, Credit Kudos

69 hours 57 mins; July 27, 2020

Issuing £1 billion on funding SMEs | Lara Gilman, iwoca

58 mins; July 20, 2020

How tech promotes financial inclusion | Joe Parkin, BlackRock

55 mins; July 13, 2020

Is the Middle East a tech goldmine? | Fiona Ghosh, Addleshaw Goddard

66 hours 48 mins; June 29, 2020

The tech advantage in investments | Christian Faes, LendInvest

70 hours 10 mins; June 23, 2020

Digitising equity management | Christian Gabriel, Capdesk

90 hours 26 mins; June 18, 2020

Holding FinTech accountable | Isabel Woodford, Sifted

63 hours 45 mins; June 15, 2020

Does FinTech lending have an SME problem? | Conrad Ford, ex-Funding Options

75 hours 50 mins; June 10, 2020

Empowering women in data science | Anna Brailsford, Code First Girls

64 hours 19 mins; June 08, 2020

42 mins; June 04, 2020

Changing the fabric of financial services | David Brear, 11:FS

76 hours 18 mins; May 12, 2020

Meet the inventor of e-commerce | Nick Ogden, Funding Options

79 hours 32 mins; May 05, 2020

FinTech with a social purpose | Peter Briffett, Wagestream

64 hours 10 mins; April 29, 2020

FinTech's machine learning revolution | Husayn Kassai, Onfido

50 mins; April 15, 2020

Will COVID-19 accelerate digital transformation? | Charlotte Crosswell, Innovate Finance

77 hours 30 mins; April 14, 2020

What government can learn from the tech industry | Ed Vaizey, House of Lords

61 hours 59 mins; April 07, 2020

Pivoting from FinTech to TechFin | Melanie Palmer, Nucoro

50 mins; April 06, 2020

What VCs want in a founder | Rory Stirling, Connect Ventures

75 hours 40 mins; April 05, 2020

The UK's first licensed crypto bank | Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, BCB Group

74 hours 47 mins; March 10, 2020

The API giant worth $5 billion | Keith Grose, Plaid

61 hours 27 mins; March 03, 2020

From Goldman Sachs to the UK's homegrown API platform | Shefali Roy, TrueLayer

51 mins; February 26, 2020

Why FinTechs need to be more like Spotify than HSBC | Julian Sawyer, Gemini

66 hours 58 mins; February 19, 2020

The backend solutions behind the UK's biggest neobanks | Ray Brash, PPS

76 hours 1 min; February 11, 2020

How to create a simplified culture | Richard Wagner, Cashplus

42 mins; February 06, 2020

How side projects can drive new business | Sasha Yanshin, Strategy Desk

70 hours 32 mins; January 30, 2020

The journey from big tech into FinTech | David Keene, Funding Options

54 mins; January 13, 2020

Moving money around the world for less | Dora Ziambra, Azimo

55 mins; January 08, 2020

This company is killing paper receipts | Roisin Levine, Flux

59 mins; December 26, 2019

From start-up to 600 employees worldwide | Valentina Kristensen, OakNorth

40 mins; November 26, 2019

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