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Attracting AI talent in FinTech is no longer about who pays the most.
In this episode, Toby sits down with two AI-native FinTech leaders, Cyrus Lyons, Head of Engineering at Tunic Pay, and Neal Lathia, Co-Founder and CTO at Gradient Labs, to explore how AI-native teams are rethinking hiring, retention, and engineering culture, and what leaders need to understand to compete in a rapidly evolving market.
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What if legacy systems aren’t holding banks back, but actually giving them an edge?
In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded live at FinTech Connect 2025, Carl Charlson sits down with Ohad Kotler, Co-Founder and CEO of Tweezr, to challenge some of the biggest assumptions in bank modernisation.
From why rip-and-replace programmes fail, to how AI is making it possible to evolve even the most complex legacy environments, this conversation explores what it really takes for large financial institutions to move at speed—without sacrificing stability, resilience, or regulatory confidence.
If you’re curious about the future of banking technology, AI-driven transformation, and why 2026 could be a turning point for the industry, this episode is well worth your time.
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In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby sits down with Tamsin Hobley, Group Head of Partners and Alliances at SIX, to unpack what high performance culture really looks like inside a global financial market infrastructure leader.
They explore psychological safety, leadership accountability, goal-setting, learning through failure, and how SIX maintains engagement and performance through growth, transformation, and acquisition, without losing its people along the way.
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In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, recorded live at FinTech Connect 2025, Toby is joined by Sharif Bouktila (CEO)and Adam Bouktila (CSO) of RWA.io to explore how real-world asset tokenisation is quietly reshaping how capital moves, trades, and settles.
They dig into why the debate is shifting beyond TradFi vs DeFi, how institutions are already using stablecoins at real scale, and why we may be closer to a tipping point than most people realise. 
If you want to understand where financial infrastructure is heading, and what “gradually, then suddenly” really means for markets, this episode is a must-listen
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Clearing was built for a different era. Is it time for a reset?
On this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby is joined by George Davis, Co-Founder & CEO at Lorum (formerly Fuse), to unpack what’s broken in global clearing, and what modern infrastructure should look like instead.
From correspondent banking bottlenecks to scaling clearing across the Middle East, US, Europe and Asia, this conversation goes deep on:
·       Why legacy clearing models are holding FinTech back
·       What reliable, modern clearing actually requires
·       Why infrastructure, not just innovation on top — is the real unlock
If you’re building, scaling, or relying on payments infrastructure, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
FinTech Focus TV is powered by Harrington Starr, global leaders in Financial Tech Recruitment. For more episodes or FinTech recruitment advice, please visit our website: www.harringtonstarr.com