Mike McCudden, CEO, InfinitX, why Scotland is bucking the equity market trend & IPO transition, Investing Matters Podcast, Episode 46

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 forty-six with Mike McCudden, a former Senior Market Maker, Head of Products, Institutional Sales, multi-skilled business professional and now CEO of InfinitX and JP Jenkins.

Mike attended Glasgow Caledonian University where he attained a BA Honours Degree in Risk Management, and this whetted his appetite for financial risk management. His first job was working for McDonald’s before gaining a job with Aitken Campbell & Co assisting the Market Maker, before gaining his own book as a Market Maker, setting prices and creating liquidity. Aitken Campbell & Co was taken over my Charles Schwab and Mike held a role as a Senior Market Maker.

After earning a reputational as a hugely successful Senior Market Maker, executive positions as Regional Head of Scotland for CMC Markets, Institutional Sales at IG and Head of Products with Interactive Investor followed before Mike joined technology company Crowdx now known as InfinitX, which exists to power private markets.

It this hugely informative Investing Matters interview you will hear of Mike’s passion for technology, his “best job ever”, insights of being a Market Maker, learnings from across the markets, institutional relationship management, sales team management, corporate strategy, specialist products, public markets, working for an online broker. His journey with the pure technology play, private market financial trading ecosystem of InfinitX, helping companies raising finance, transition towards the IPO process, their purchase of JP Jenkins a public market but for private companies venue and their vast potential regarding enabling investing alongside entrepreneurs, startups and unlisted companies, corporate financing for a multi-trillion-dollar market including creating liquidity for the global behemoth Private Equity entities as a matched bargain facility. His personal investing strategy, patient capital dividend investing style, decision making process, thoughts on Artificial intelligence, Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange investments in secondary markets and much more.

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