Finance Episodes

Feb. 5, 2021

122: Fast Lane | Yoann Turpin and Wintermute

Yoann Turpin, co-founder and Head of Business Development at Wintermute, joins the show to talk about the parallels between competitive swimming, derivatives trading and crypto, creating liquid markets for digital asset trading platforms, cross-pollination of business opportunities across the digital …

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Jan. 15, 2021

119: Words of Advice, Pt 2 | Brian McDonald and Bay Advisory | Entrep…

Brian McDonald from Bay Advisory joins the show for Part 2 of a 2-part series on M&A and raising capital for entrepreneurs and talks through the logic of exit plans, focusing on outcomes rather than actions when taking money off …

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Jan. 8, 2021

118: Words of Advice, Part 1 | Brian McDonald and Bay Advisory

Brian McDonald from Bay Advisory joins the show for Part 1 of a 2-part series on M&A and raising capital for SMEs and talks through the intersection of experiences that drove him to launch Bay Advisory, market trends impacting early-stage …

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Dec. 31, 2020

117: Money Talks #27 | Big Valuations | Stripe | Bitcoin Scarcity | T…

In this special year-end Money Talks segment, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend wax lyrical on big valuations in the 'Fintech Year in Review', Stripe and the next stage of B2B financial services, the long-term economic impact of bitcoin, optimism for …

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Dec. 4, 2020

114: Changes | Mick Sweeney on Markets, Society, Leadership and Digit…

Mick Sweeney, CEO of PineBridge Investments in Ireland, joins the show to talk about what triggered his early interest in the financial markets, the nascent opportunity to transform the fund management industry in Ireland, the outcome of his long-term commitment …

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Nov. 27, 2020

113: Find Ya' Wealth | Elisabeth Dana and Infinity Circle

Elisabeth Dana from Infinity Circle joins the show to talk about how a career in wealth management inspired her to start all over again to build a business centered on client needs, how to be be both digital and transformational, …

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Oct. 22, 2020

108: Alphabet | Emmett Kilduff and Eagle Alpha

Emmett Kilduff, founder and CEO of Eagle Alpha, talks with Pete Townsend about alternative data, launching his first startup at the same time as the Lehman collapse, pairing his conviction on the ‘problem-to-solve’ with staying power while waiting for the …

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Sept. 4, 2020

101: Digital Underground: Ambre Soubiran and Kaiko

Ambre Soubiran, CEO of Kaiko, joins the show this week to talk about how the pioneers of crypto and blockchain laid the foundation for the transformation of capital markets, Kaiko’s role beyond crypto as a financial market data provider…and the …

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Aug. 28, 2020

100: Money Talks #22: Challenges of the Challengers and Top 10 Episod…

For the 100th episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Eoin and Pete dive into their favorite topic – the challenges of challenger banks – and look back to the first 99 episodes to build out a list of their Top 10 episodes.

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Aug. 21, 2020

099: Money Talks #21: Peter Geoghegan and Democracy for Sale

Peter Geoghegan joins us on the show to talk about his new book 'Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics', his love of cricket and a remarkable story about Longford/Argentina emigration!

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July 31, 2020

096: The Trilogy: Elaine Deehan, Starling Bank and EWPN

Elaine Deehan is back on the show with Pete Townsend to talk about "the trilogy" of her earlier career as the perfect foundation for her well-timed leap into Starling Bank, analogies to chocolate, startups, the London Underground and big bank …

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July 24, 2020

095: Money Talks #19: Twitter Hacked | Ant Goes Marching | Instagram …

In this week's Money Talks segment, Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald dig into the recent Twitter Hack and how it might have been much worse, the Ant Group IPO and their status as the 'online mall for everything', Instagram's opportunity …

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July 3, 2020

092: Money Talks #18: Wirecard & BaaS | Circit as a Panacea | Diffus…

In this week's Money Talks segment, Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald look ahead to the impact of Wirecard on Banking-as-a-Service, how the Irish tech startup Circit could have prevented the Wirecard audit mess, and Diffuse's take on startups looking over

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June 5, 2020

088: Money Talks #15: Digital VC, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and El…

IIn this week's Money Talks segment, Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald dive into the difference between video and live interactions between startups and their investors, the role of Twitter and Facebook as arbiters of the truth, a look back at …

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May 8, 2020

084: Money Talks #12: Challenger Bank Brands - Bó, Revolut & N26

In this Money Talks segment, Pete and Eoin riff on the shutdown of the RBS challenger bank brand 'Bo', Revolut's M&A ambitions, what N26's latest fundraising means in the great universe of challenger banks.... and their latest reads!

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