James Deal, Co-founder & Head of UK at PrimaryBid, how PrimaryBid have brought finance and technology together, Investing Matters Podcast - Episode 35

Investing Matters

Welcome to this brand-new investing podcast from the London South East. My name is Peter Higgins, you can find me on Twitter @conkers3 and I will be your host for this series of Investing Matters podcasts.

What can you expect from the Investing Matters podcasts? A great question. You will find long form interviews with noteworthy veterans and experts from the investment and fund management industry. During these interviews each interviewee will share and impart their knowledge, learning and insights on what aspects of Investing truly matters to them and what in their view should matter to investors. We hope this knowledge exchange benefits all and enables all those accessing and listening to these podcasts to achieve even greater investing success.

With that in mind, welcome to episode thirty-five, which is with the hugely talented James Deal, the co-Founder and Head of UK of the awarding winning FCA-regulated online platform PrimaryBid.

James attained his Business Economics BA Honours Degree at Durham University. During his degree he was very fortunate to have spent a placement with Hoare Govett’s Bank in Hong Kong.

Before joining PrimaryBid, he spent 14 years in UK Equities and Investment Banking at JP Morgan Cazenove in London (Canary Wharf). He had 10 years as Head of UK Small/Mid Cap Sales before moving from the public to the private side of the business to work in Equity Capital Markets and to run UK Corporate Broking. Previously, a Director at Numis Securities helping to build a leading Mining franchise within a UK focused business at the small and mid-cap end of the markets. Prior to this James worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as part of their leading Broking and Advisory franchise.

In this Investing Matters interview, James provides an overview of PrimaryBid, its rapidly growing technology driven global solutions, importance of meeting management, importance of people, important of liquidity, nurturing the retail element, partnerships ethos with all distribution partners, technology led growth, Capital Markets, raising capital, Stakeholder inclusion, Public markets, B2C solutions, B2B / Institutional solutions, companies worked it, challenges faced, bringing finance and technology together. PrimaryBid’s USA and global ambitions. His stellar career prior to PrimaryBid, Public equity markets, Corporate broking, thriving during adversary, his personal investing style/strategy and much more.

We hope you enjoy this podcast, and we look forward to hearing your feedback.

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