At the Forefront Podcast
by Forefront Communications
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About this podcast
Launched in 2020, At the Forefront: Fintech Conversations is meant to help you stay informed as we highlight key industry developments and delve into the people, companies and thought processes that keep the capital markets and fintech industries humming.
Episodes
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- At the Forefront, Episode 100: Tracing the Industry’s Biggest Conversations · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 100In this milestone episode, released as Forefront celebrates its 10th anniversary, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden presents a highlight reel from six years of At the…
- Episode 99: Putting Market Structure Change into Practice ft. FIX Trading Community · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 99In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden is joined by George Rosenberger, Americas Regional Committee Co-Chair at the FIX Trading Community and SVP, General Manager…
- Episode 98: Surveilling the New Capital Markets ft. Eventus · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 98In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden is joined by Jeff Bell, Co-Founder of Eventus, which provides at-scale trade surveillance software across all lines of…
- Episode 97: Scaling a Market Maker Across Asset Classes ft. Old Mission · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 97In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden is joined by Andrew Lekas, Partner at Old Mission, a global multi-asset market maker. Andrew traces the firm's evolution…
- Episode 96: Building a Scalable Outsourced Model for Emerging Managers ft. CAPIS & STP Investment Services · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 96In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden is joined by Chris Hurley, Senior Vice President and Director of Institutional Sales at CAPIS, and Jeff Hooks, Senior Vice…
- Episode 95: The Future in Focus ft. STA · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 95In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with Jim Toes, President and CEO of the Security Traders Association (STA), ahead of the organization's 93rd…
- Episode 94: The Case for Active Management · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 94In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with David Choate, Chief Operating Officer at CAPIS, to discuss the long-term implications of passive investing on…
- Episode 93: The New Shape of Financial Media · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 93In this episode, Forefront Managing Partner Mark Dowd sits down with Ben Wood of InfoPro Digital (publisher of Risk.net, WatersTechnology and Chartis Research) to explore how the…
- Episode 92: Modernizing Private Market Infrastructure ft. Corastone · Season 1 Episode 92In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with Rashad Kurbanov, CEO of Corastone. Together, they explore the operational and infrastructure challenges…
- Episode 91: The Evolution of Trading Infrastructure ft. Pico · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 91In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with Ian McIntyre, Managing Director and Global Head of Market Data at Pico. Together, they explore how evolving…
- Episode 90: An Introduction to Open Finance ft. FDATA · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 90In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with Steve Boms, Executive Director of FDATA, the Financial Data and Technology Association. FDATA is a trade…
- Episode 89: From Raw Data to Actionable Insights – Data Differentiation in ECM ft. CMG · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 89In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with William Wilson, Senior Securities Analyst at CMG, to explore what truly differentiated data looks like in…
- Episode 88: Preparing For the Next Era of Oversight: Unifying Trade Surveillance and Best Execution Analytics ft. Trillium Surveyor & Tickrs Clearing · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 88In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with Melissa Watras, Director of Product at Trillium Surveyor, and Ann Cendejas, Chief Compliance Officer at…
- Episode 87: The Front Ends That Power Finance featuring Sebastian Good, Expero · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 87In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with Sebastian Good, CEO and Co-Founder of Expero, to discuss how the firm is helping financial institutions…
- Episode 86: Turning Access into Impact with Andrew Kaufmann, Time to Give · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 86In this episode, Forefront Head of Content Sam Belden sits down with Andrew Kaufman, Founder and CEO of Time to Give Network, to explore how his not-for-profit platform is…
- Episode 85: Smarter Finance Through Agentic AI · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 85In this episode, Forefront Managing Partner Eric Soderberg sits down with Bin Ren, Founder and CEO of SigTech, to discuss how artificial intelligence and human expertise are…
- Episode 84: Redefining the Market - STA's 92nd Annual Conference · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 84STA President & CEO Jim Toes previews the 92nd Annual Market Structure Conference, covering tokenization, regulation, Women in Finance, and more.
- Episode 83: CAPIS Acquires TD Securities' Plan Sponsor Services · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 83In this episode, Forefront VP and Head of Content Sam Belden is joined by David Choate, Chief Operating Officer at CAPIS, and Tim Conway, Director of Plan Sponsor Services at…
- Episode 82: The Trade Surveillance Revolution · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 82In this episode, Forefront VP and Head of Content Sam Belden is joined by Martina Rejsjö, Head of Product Strategy at Eventus, and Vinod Jain, Strategic Advisor at Datos…
- Episode 81: The Evolution of AI for Financial Research · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 81In this episode, Forefront VP and Head of Content Sam Belden is joined by Mike Conover, Founder and CEO of Brightwave — the AI-powered research platform helping institutional…







