Money makers: The power of the alumni

For Shachar Bialick, the support network from his university in Paris proved invaluable when it came to starting a business.

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Shachar Bialick: never underestimate the importance of alumni

"We have too many cards, too many accounts, and too many products and services we use to manage our money," Shachar Bialick tells Jonathan Moules in the Financial Times. In 2012, the Israeli took a year off from starting businesses to study for an MBA at Insead, on the outskirts of Paris. He then took a job at an online payments venture called Checkout.com in London. But before long, he had started his own fintech company: "Curve is my biggest, most ambitious business so far," he says. "We are aiming to create an entirely new category in the banking system."

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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