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Initiatives

Four things we run, on a schedule.

Convening only works if it is repeated. These are the four recurring formats, each with its own room, its own rules, and its own reason to exist.

Every other Friday

Friday FinTech Circle

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The come as you are counterpart to the Roundtables. Anyone working in or around fintech can walk in. It exists because most useful introductions do not happen at a scheduled session, they happen when the same people keep turning up until they trust each other.

Format
Open, two hours, no programme for the first half hour
Middle hour
Two or three people talk for five minutes each, no slides
RSVP
A name and an email, nothing more

Monthly, by topic

Roundtables

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Structured sessions built around one question at a time, with the people who can actually answer it in the room. Most run closed door under Chatham House, which is the only way some of these conversations happen at all.

The standing topic bank

  • Bank and Fintech Partnerships

    Where partnership talks actually stall, procurement, risk sign off and integration timelines, discussed with the people who own each step.

  • Deal Room 2026

    Founders and investors in one room with a short format and no panel. Mandates stated up front, introductions made on the day.

  • Diaspora Capital

    How remittance flows and diaspora investors could fund the sector, and what currently stops them from doing it.

  • Digital Assets Regulation, Risk and Reality

    What a workable digital assets framework looks like from the compliance desk, not the conference stage.

  • The Policy Roundtable

    A standing session between operators and the regulators who write the rules they work under. Chatham House, on the record only by agreement.

  • Inclusion and the Last Mile

    Agent networks, cash in and cash out economics, and what it really costs to reach the customer nobody else has reached.

Termly, with partner universities

Academia

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Academia is where the research side of the mission becomes other people's material. It covers formal partnerships with universities, joint studies run with faculty on how the market actually operates, guest teaching and curriculum input, and open access to the data behind our published work. The point is that findings do not stop at a report, they end up in a syllabus.

Partnerships
Formal agreements with universities, renewed by term
Research
Joint studies with faculty, published open access
Teaching
Guest sessions and curriculum input, so findings reach a syllabus rather than stopping at a report

Fortnightly

Podcast

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One guest, one hour, no panel. We record the conversation people usually only have off the record, with someone who has done the thing rather than commented on it.

Format
One guest, one hour, no panel
Guests
People who have done the thing, not commented on it