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Sean Murphy

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Editor-in-Chief, FinanceX Magazine

Sean Murphy is Editor-in-Chief of FinanceX Magazine and the voice behind most of the publication's interviews, sitting down with the founders, executives, and innovators shaping the global financial industry. His conversations bring out the human side of the businesses driving change in FinTech, lending, open finance, and beyond.

Sean has been part of the financial services industry since 2015, when he founded the Open Banking start-up Ajen. That venture laid the groundwork for Simpler Mortgages, Ireland's first digital mortgage broker, where he served as CEO for nearly five years until the company's acquisition in 2022. He now also works with The Connector, helping financial services companies innovate and adapt to emerging technologies, shifting markets, and evolving customer expectations.

A Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) and Compliance Officer (LCI), Sean's editorial focus tends to gravitate toward open finance, lending, compliance, and anything customer-facing or UX-driven - the areas where, in his view, the industry's most interesting stories are still being written.

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Oct 15, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Location, Location, Location: The Signal Fraud Struggles to Fake
An interview with André Ferraz by Sean Murphy The property trade has a mantra, that the three things which determine the value of a home are location, location and location. It has always described houses. It now describes, in André Ferraz's account, one of the more effective tools in the fight against online fraud, although the benefit of location is probably not what you expect. André Ferraz is the co-founder and chief executive of Incognia, a company that sells fraud detection built on...
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Oct 12, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Singapore regulator sets AI rules for banks and insurers
Singapore’s financial regulator has put banks and fintechs on a fixed timetable to get their AI risk controls in order. On 7 October 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued its Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, setting supervisory expectations for how financial institutions govern AI. The MAS AI guidelines take effect on 7 October 2027, with phased implementation allowed until 7 October 2028, giving firms a hard compliance horizon rather than an open-ended...
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Oct 8, 2026 ∙ 4 min
A Video is Worth a Thousand Words
An interview with David Morrica by Sean Murphy A wealth adviser will happily talk for two hours across a lunch table, build a relationship over decades, and read a client's mood without thinking about it. Put the same person in front of a camera and they clam up. David Moricca has seen this happen enough times to treat it as the central problem of his business rather than a quirk. Being conversational with someone in the room is one thing; recording alone, with no one to react to, is a...
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