Motive Insights - the podcast

Matt Brown, Founder and CEO at CAIS, following the recently announced investment from Motive Partners and Apollo Global Management into CAIS.

After the recently announced investment from Motive Partners into Trumid, an electronic credit trading platform, we hear in a conversation with Jason Quinn, Chief Product Officer about the growing opportunity for digitizing credit trading.

In an exclusive first interview, we hear in a conversation between Rob Heyvaert, Founder and Managing Partner at Motive Partners and newly appointed Jeff Yabuki, Chairman and Founding Partner at Motive Partners what the opportunity ahead for financial technology looks like and why Jeff is excited about joining Motive Partners.

Dan Globerson, Head of Open Banking at Natwest, joins the podcast to discuss the opportunity ahead in Open Finance and the role NatWest among other leading banks play to develop new digital banking services.

Kelly Rodriques, CEO at Forge, joins the podcast after announcing the SPAC merger with Motive Capital Corp (“MOTV”) led by Blythe Masters, Industry Partner and CEO of MOTV. Forge is a leading global private securities marketplace.

Snejina Zacharia, Founder and CEO at Insurify, joins the podcast after announcing a $100 million Series B financing led by Motive Partners.

Tom Wipf, Vice Chair, Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group, and Chair of the New York Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee (“ARRC”), on the transition away from the LIBOR standard and the introduction of the new SOFR.

Mark Makepeace, Founder and Former Chief Executive, FTSE Russell and Former Group Director of Information Services, London Stock Exchange Group (LSE), talks about his new book, FTSE - The Inside Story — how a small start-up created by the Financial Times and the LSE launched in the mid-1990s to provide financial information, became a world leader and one of the UK’s most trusted and famous brands.

Alastair Lukies, CEO and Founder of Pollinate and Herman Spruit, CEO of Pollinate International talk about the state of the global SME landscape.

Simon Haslam, Group CEO of Network International, and our own Sam Tidswell-Norrish discuss the significant changes taking place in the payments industry, and the transformation of Network International through Africa's largest tech acquisition.