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This research explores talent and global talent mobility within knowledge-intensive firms, specifically, within London's FinTech community. By reconceptualizing talent as transnational elite talent, this research critically engages with the concept of global talent in FinTech firms to emphasize that global talent mobility is an essential means of achieving knowledge creation and diffusion across transnational elite talent and social networks. This research responds to academic calls to understand the meaning of global talent within a different context by using already established theories. Although there are studies that have explored global talent management, the tendency to refer to talent only based on their knowledge, skills, and experience without considering talent as highly mobile individuals is limited in providing the 'global' approach to the talent management literature. Based on empirical research that includes semi-structured interviews conducted with executives and managers within FinTech firms, the findings of this thesis explore the meaning of talent and its mobility, by distinguishing between Fin and Tech talent. By unpacking the meaning of talent, I contribute to the literature on global talent management by recognising the need for a hybrid approach to managing transnational elite talent within FinTech firms.