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Hello, I'm Robert Harbish, the managing
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editor of City AM. I'm here with Robert
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Brown, the co-founder of MAS Marcus at
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the Growth 500 Awards by Business
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Leader. Robert, thanks for joining us.
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Yeah, no, thanks for for having us.
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Um, so could you just give us a bit of
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an overview of what your business does?
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Yeah, absolutely. So, uh, Mass Markets,
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uh, we're an FCA regulated broker. Uh,
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we provide multi-asset liquidity, uh, to
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professional clients. So, we have a very
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very simple business model. We aggregate
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tier one bank liquidity and we
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distribute that to to clients. So,
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that's kind of our a summary of what we
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So, you you give the smaller players
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access to what the big boys are doing
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Yeah, exactly. We we're a kind of a
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middle gap between uh like a big large
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institution uh and smaller professional
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clients. So sort of asset managers,
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professional traders, those that don't
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have access to credit intermediary, we
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Yeah. And as a as a fast growing
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business in fintech business in in
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London, what are you really excited
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about in the London fintech scene? Well,
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look, I think firstly like we're quite
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privileged to uh to actually have been
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listed on the uh as the 32nd fastest
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growing company uh in the UK. We've only
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been operating for about 3 years. Uh so
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that's really a big testament of all the
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team that we've got in London uh which
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is really focused on helping drive the
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vision that we've got. Uh we've seen a
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gap in the market uh where we can excel.
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We've got really good partners behind us
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has really helped us to support what
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we're doing. Uh and I think the
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challenge really is making sure for us
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is is finding the right people to help.
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But in London there is a lot of people
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there. So from that perspective I think
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the you know we've seen today some of
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the massive unicorn businesses set up in
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the UK. Uh you know they they bring a
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lot of really good people uh to London.
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So from our perspective I think it is
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really exciting to be a part of that.
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We're still really small as a business,
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but I think having the opportunity to be
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able to be part of what we're seeing is
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quite a good growth phase in the fintech
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it's really good to be a part of that.
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And yeah, near the other side of the
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equation, what are some of the main
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challenges you're having to deal with
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So, look, like every uh small business,
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I think one of the biggest challenges we
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have is resources. Like, we really want
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to grow quickly. we can see the
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opportunity but you know we have to
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prioritize what we think is more
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important you know time frames so I
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think for us that's probably our biggest
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challenge we can see where the
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opportunities are and we need to make
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sure internally we we allocate the
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resources to where they need to be based
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on what our client demands are really so
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I think yeah like every small business
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that's kind of the probably the you know
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the where where we where we have a lot
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of challenges Yeah. And what would you
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like to see from some policy makers in
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the UK to help stimulate that growth?
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Look, I tried to stay away from like the
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politics side and you know, obviously
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from where we are based, you know, we
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can only work within the framework
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that's actually given to us. Uh, you
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know, I think they do do a good job to
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some extent to try and extend uh, you
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know, opportunities to be part of uh,
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you know, the grants. So there's lots of
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schemes to help small businesses. So I
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think they do a really good job there.
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You know, other areas I think, you know,
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it's really difficult to work out,
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you know, you know, we concentrate on
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what we do. We can't change what the
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policies are being made. So we just try
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and do what we can and we hope that, you
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know, the UK government can start
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continuing to support businesses like us
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to to continue to drive forward really.
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yeah. So what are you most excited about
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in the business over the next 5 and 10
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years? Yeah. So, uh, you know, we've got
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massive plans. You know, we're really
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excited about, you know, lots of the
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opportunities that are available. You
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know, we look at crypto space. It lends
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itself very similar to what we do. The
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technology that we have, the proprietary
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technology we use is very complimentary
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to multi-assets. We're excited about
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crypto. We're excited about, you know,
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continuing to grow our business. uh and
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we think you know within the next I
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don't know five to 10 years
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we may not know it but I think a lot of
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the activities are happening the onchain
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part of the market's going to come
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forward and people are not going to be
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talking about are you in crypto or are
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you not it's just going to be part of
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operation so I think I'm more excited
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about seeing what those opportunities
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bring and hopefully in the next 5 to 10
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years you know we can be listed as what
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we see as some of these unicorns there
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from all the hard work that we do now.
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Okay, that's great. Well, Robert, thank
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you very much for your time today.
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Congratulations on being the fast
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Yeah. No, really, thank you very much.
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Yeah. No, thank you very much.
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Okay, great. All right, cheers.
