Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3 - From Investment Bank Trading Floor to Working in Fintech: Graduate Advice from Former NatWest Markets Trader Neil Weatherall

From Investment Bank Trading Floor to Working in Fintech: Graduate Advice from Former NatWest Markets Trader Neil Weatherall

03/03/21 • 37 min

Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3

Before teaming up with founder of Work In Fintech, Matt Cheung at ipushpull, Neil Weatherall amassed 16 years worth of experience at prestigious banks such as NatWest Markets & RBC Capital Markets where he ran Inflation Trading. Throughout this period, Neil experienced how technology revolutionised the trading floor.
Neil Weatherall is now Head of Technical Sales at ipushpull. Neil, alongside Matt is an example that you can forge a successful career within Fintech without having software skills such as coding.
Neil Weatherall joins Work in Fintech founder Matt Cheung and founder member Daniel Taiwo as they discussed Neil's careers, important skills to break into Fintech and the future of Fintech.
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(00:53) - Introduction
(1:20) - Getting into the Financial World
(6:07) - Neil's advice to graduates who are joining the financial industry
(11:08) - Neil's advice to graduates about building relationships in a WFH environment
(15:52) - How technology impacted Neil's trading career
(20:27) - Neil's definition of Fintech
(23:33) - How Neil sees Fintech evolving in the next 3-5 years
(27:22) - Neil's thoughts on VR solving the communication issue on the Trading Floor
(28:43) - Skillsets needed to succeed in Fintech
(33:09) - How Neil would go about his career in this environment if he was 21

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Break into Investment Banking & Big Tech: Graduate Advice from Google Director James Tromans

James Tromans discovered coding from a young age then later studied psychology at Oxford. Learning a combination of qualitative, quantitative and analytical thinking helped set up James for a career spanning start-ups, financial markets and big tech as well as earning a PhD in Computational Neuroscience of Vision.
Learn how having a technology background is not a prerequisite to work in fintech and discover how people skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, proactivity, passion and a thirst for knowledge will help you to accelerate your career.
James is now a Technical Director within the Office of the CTO at Google Cloud specialising in data engineering and machine learning. Prior to joining Google, James worked in capital markets at Citi in various front-office currency trading and technology leadership roles, most recently as Head of Data Science. Before Citi, James was a Fintech co-founder and started the first regulated (UKGC) business on a public cloud called Trade Chase.
James Tromans joins Work in Fintech founder Matt Cheung and founder member Amrit Khatkar and they discuss the importance of fintech, cloud, data and machine learning while James offers lots of career advice to people who would like to work in fintech.
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(00:03) - Introduction
(00:39) - What was it like having your own start-up?
(03:17) - Why did you study Experiment Psychology at University?
(05:11) - Within your degree what elements sort of helped you later on in life?
(06:40) - Is a technology degree necessary to work in Investment Banking, Fintech & Big Tech?
(08:15) - Why did you choose Investment Banking?
(12:57) - How did you stand from the crowd in Investment Banking?
(15:58) - What does AI and Machine Learning look like in Investment Banking?
(18:41) - Is Fintech the future of finance?
(21:20) - What does the Cloud do and why is it the future?
(25:42) - How should a student learn Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?
(28:19) - How should a student stand out from the crowd in Big Tech?
(30:22) - Why move to Google and what is the culture like?
(33:11) - What are the differences between Google and Investment Banking?
(35:09) - What is your advice for your 18 year old self?

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The Road to Automation: Graduate Advice with MIT Global Panellist and RegTech Sector Pioneer Nirvana Farhadi

Nirvana Farhadi, global influencer and RegTech pioneer discusses the future of finance, sharing her thoughts on technology and its best attempt to disrupt regulation and finance.

Nirvana started her career on the trading floor, after graduating with a degree in Law. She quickly rose to strength realising her ability to spot where financial companies are exposed to compliance issues! Nirvana emerged as a global influence in RegTech, heading Regulatory Transaction Reporting at KPMG UK before becoming Global Head of RegTech, Risk & Regulatory Compliance Affairs at Hitachi Vantara.

Aside from full-time work, Nirvana has had a continued influence on the sector becoming a MIT Technology Review Global Panellist, and Non-Executive Board Member for 5 modern regulatory companies.

Nirvana Farhadi joins Work in Fintech founder Matthew Cheung and founder member Ben Ford to elaborate on the evolving force of regulatory technology, explaining how law, finance, and technology students can dominate a career in the sector.

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(00:34) - Who is Nirvana Farhadi
(02:01) - What is Fintech?
(04:37) - What are the main drivers of Regtech?
(08:37) - Where are we on the road of automation?
(11:17) - Is automation startup led or dominated by the bigger incumbents firms?
(13:45) - What skills are needed to work in Regtech?
(19:17) - How can I set myself up for an evolving job market?
(22:35) - What opportunities are there in Regtech for someone in financial services?
(28:05) - How does a student get into Regtech?

Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3 - From Investment Bank Trading Floor to Working in Fintech: Graduate Advice from Former NatWest Markets Trader Neil Weatherall

Transcript

Matthew Cheung 0:05
Hi, I'm Matthew Cheung, and I'm the founder of Work in FinTech. I'm also CEO of a FinTech called ipushpull and former COO of another FinTech called Newsquawk. And what I want to do in these episodes is teach you all about FinTech. Today, we're joined by Work in FinTech founding member, Daniel Taiwo, who is a recent Masters in Finance graduate from Lancaster University. And we're delighted to welcome Neil Weatherall who's head of Technical Sales at a fast growing capital