David Hall (@DavidHall) is the Co-Founder of Tapaas and former Principal Architect across numerous financial institutions including Westpac, Macquarie Bank and Citigroup. David made his way into the industry through a unique opportunity at Salomon Brothers, an organisation that had a lasting impact on David. Twenty years later, and many runs on the board with institutions as a financial systems architect, David now runs his own business - Tapaas.
Tapaas is an analytics platform that accelerates profit from insights for finance markets enterprises. The platform provides analytical power to growing companies, that was only previously available to the premier financial institutions that David used to work for.
David has a fascinating background and life experience as an expat. We covered a vast array of topics, including:
SHOW NOTES
01:33 - Introduction
03:25 - What he misses about America
04:28 - His father and lessons learnt from him
08:12 - Accounting
09:18 - Finance tech
11:42 - Japan
13:01 - Salomon Brothers
14:01 - What he loves about Australia
17:41 - His role and what fin tech systems are
22:36 - Greatest insight of his work experience
26:50 - Foreign exchange retail brokers, risk and exposure
32:31 - Principles for applying finance solutions
36:22 - Daily routine
37:56 - What book he would gift
38:47 - Words he lives by
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