Ross Gallagher is joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss the transformation of finance in the Middle East and how fintechs are gaining traction in the region. Here to discuss the matter are: Mike Cunningham - Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, Banque Saudi Fransi Amir Fardghassemi - Founder and CEO, JinglePay Kate Moody - Senior Customer and Product Lead at 11:FS In recent years financial technology has been transforming the delivery of financial services across the Middle East. Wit...
Oct 16, 2020•51 min
Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Sarah Kocianski, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Maia Bittner - Voice of the Member, Chime Oscar Williams-Grut - Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance We also hear soudbites from: Jeff Kelisky - CEO, Seedrs and Luke Lang - Co-founder, Crowdcube Francesca Hopwood-Road - Head of Regtech and Advanced Analytics, FCA Marcell King - Chief Inn...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 1 min
There is no question 2020 has been a tough year for most. With the recent coronavirus outbreak, both our finances and mental wellbeing have been tested and strained in ways they never have been before. With World Mental Health Day around the corner, we wanted to take a closer look at how finance interacts with the mental health problems that affect 1 in 4 of us and how the pandemic is putting additional pressure on our mental and financial wellbeing. To dive into this topic, David Brear is joine...
Oct 09, 2020•58 min
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Ross Gallagher, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Imran Gulamhuseinwala OBE - Trustee of the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) Loral Quinn - Founder and CEO, Sustainably We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Open Banking doubles its user-base to 2m Brits in just six months (04:12) China’s Pi...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Sustainable finance is nothing new, but could it be finance's new normal? This week host Simon Taylor is joined by a couple of great guests to talk about the growth of ESG and sustainable finance. This week's guests include: Kat Mann - Head of PR & Saving and Investments Specialist, Nutmeg Damian Payiatakis - Head of Impact Investing, Barclays ESG funds are consistently outperforming the broader market with more than half beating the MSCI World index, but how did we get here and where is thi...
Oct 02, 2020•45 min
Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Ross Gallagher, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Olly Betts - Co-Founder and CEO at OpenWrks Valentina Kristensen - Director, Growth and Communication at OakNorth We also hear sondbites from: Shane Riedel - Founder and CEO at Elucidate. Formerly Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Financial Institutions at Standard Chartered and Deputy M...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 10 min
If you're looking for the next big thing in fintech, then look no further than Latin America. With fintech investments in the region leaping from USD 700 million in 2018 to USD 2.118 billion in just the following year, it's clear to see that things are heating up in fintech's next hottest market. To discuss the growth, impact and evolution of digital finances services, host Sam Maule is joined by some great guests. In this episode, our panel of guests include: Ximena Aleman - Co-Founder & Ch...
Sep 25, 2020•46 min
Our expert hosts, Jason Bates and David Brear, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Victoria Roberts - Director of the Fintech Delivery Panel, Tech Nation Anna Irrera - Chief Fintech Correspondent, Reuters We also hear soundbites from: Alex Marsh - UK Country Lead, Klarna John Natalizia - CEO, Snoop We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Al...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 5 min
If you’re building products from scratch, cloud is where you start, it’s no longer a question. Banks need to adopt this mentality and learn how to act with this level of speed and agility but how can they get there? IBM launched public cloud for financial services in June and they are working with their banking clients to bring them onto the cloud - and to make cloud overall more accessible for their clients. David Brear is joined by some great guests to discuss this: Corey Hamilton, Partner, IB...
Sep 18, 2020•44 min
Our expert hosts, Sam Maule and Sarah Kocianski, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Andrew Smith, Co-founder RTGS Global Joe Bloemendaal - VP, head of Sales & BD at Mitek Systems EMEA We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: RTGS Global rolls out stage 1 of liquidity visibility network in collab with Microsoft (02:11) Banks work with fi...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Our host and resident blockchain expert, Simon Taylor, is joined by some great guests to talk about the growth of cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance and fintech. This week's guests include: Jamie Burke - CEO and Founder, Outlier Ventures Kevin Beardsley - Head of Pro Trader Experience, Kraken Cyril Mathew - Head of Business Development, EMEA, Coinbase Rhian Lewis - Author, The Cryptocurrency Revolution Once a shadowy figure of the dark side of the internet, in recent years cryptocurrencies h...
Sep 11, 2020•50 min
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Mel Stringer, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Alex Latham - CMO at Chip Daniel Lanyon - Editor in Chief at AltFi We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: UK savings fintech Chip is raising a Series A round that will value it at more than $130 million (02:45) PayPal introduces interest-free buy-now-pay-la...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Simon Taylor hosts this episode and is joined by some great guests to talk about banking as a service with a particular focus on the US market. This week's guests include: Nigel Verdon - CEO of Railsbank Omri Dahan, Chief Revenue Officer at Marqeta Sankaet Pathak, CEO of Synapse Melissa Stringer, Product Lead 11:FS Kicking the discussion off, the panel recaps the market and establishes what banking as a service actually is, what it allows customers to do and how it differs from banking services....
Sep 04, 2020•48 min
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Jason Bates, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Shefali Roy - COO and CCO at TrueLayer Rachel Green - Research Analyst for Insider Intelligence We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Railsbank to buy Wirecard UK (01:54) JPMorgan to challenge UK banks with digital launch in early 2021 (12:00) Under loc...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Jason Bates, are joined by some of the brightest minds in the fintech industry for our first ever Truly Digital After Dark. Anne Boden , CEO of Starling Bank Nick Ogden, Founder and Chief Executive, RTGS Limited Maia Bittner, Voice of the Member, Chime Together they bring you a deep dive in to what Truly Digital really means, and how it has helped shape the face of the industry we are a part of. We will take a look at what it looks like both in the businesses, p...
Aug 28, 2020•46 min
Simon Taylor and David Brear, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Caroline Plumb, CEO of Fluidly Adam Moulson, CCO at Form 3 We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Robinhood snags third mega-investment of the year, boosting valuation to $11.2 billion (02:30) Form3 raises $33 million with support from Nationwide and Lloyds (12:01) BCR Pool ...
Aug 24, 2020•56 min
Simon Taylor is joined by some great guests to talk about digital wealth managers. The panel will be looking at how digital wealth managers have disrupted the market and the corporate responsibility that comes along with it. This week's guests include: Jannick Malling - Co-founder and co-CEO, Public.com Adam Dodds - CEO and Founder, Freetrade Mel Stringer, Product Lead, 11:FS Starting off, the panel takes a look at what the market space looked like prior to the current digital offerings we have ...
Aug 20, 2020•53 min
Sam Maule and Sarah Kocianski, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week in the US and beyond. This week's guests include: Rob Blackwell, Chief Content Officer of Promontory Network, Host of Banking with Interest podcast & former Editor-in-Chief of American Banker Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Fac...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to dig into exactly what we think constitutes BaaS, and why it's a super hot industry right now that's a game changer for any brand wanting to offer financial services to their customer base. Guests this week are: Joanne Dewar, CEO GPS Mike Douglas, VP of Strategy at Galileo Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Lead at 11:FS We cover: who is doing it and how; the impact of embedded finance; and what this could unlock for the future of Financial Services. * B...
Aug 14, 2020•54 min
Ross Gallagher and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Philippa Girling, Chief Risk Officer, Varo Money Emily Nicolle, Technology Editor, CityAM We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Varo Money granted national bank charter - 02:32 Google to offer co-branded accounts with eight US banks - and we spoke to Shayan Khwaja, Head o...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 8 min
In this week's Insights show, Simon Taylor is joined by a panel of great guests to talk all about digital banking in the Asia Pacific region. With a special focus on Australia, Simon and guests take a look at how far the industry has come, competition from Australia's 'big four' incumbents, and what the future holds for digital banks in the region. To help explore this topic, this week's guests include: Van Le - Co-Founder, Xinja Bank Stuart Houston - Financial Services Industry Lead, Google Clo...
Aug 06, 2020•42 min
Simon and Sarah, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Charlotte Crosswell, CEO, Innovate Finance Viktor Nebehaj, CMO and co-founder, Freetrade We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Fintech industry “firing on all cylinders” despite VC investment in UK fintechs down 39% Barclays profit halves as it sets aside another £1.6bn to cover COVID-1...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Our expert host Simon Taylor is joined by some great guests to talk about the digitalisation of banking we've seen over the last few months and what this might mean for the future of bank branches. Banks around the world have for some time reduced the amount of bank branches available for customers, and during COVID-19 all banks were forced to shut their branches and adopt a truly digital way of working. But what will happen when we are past this? Joining us this week are: Stephen Dury - Directo...
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Simon and Ross are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Alex Marsh, Senior Analytics Director at Klarna Anna Irrera, Fintech reporter, Reuters We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Robinhood scraps UK launch amid mounting scrutiny of trading platform (1:16) Klarna: We tightened our lending in lockdown (16:36) Monzo (re)launch Monzo Plus (29:28...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Sarah Kocianski is joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss digital payments innovation the global shift away from cash. Here to discuss the matter are: Jennifer Duncan - Vice President of Global Government Innovation at Mastercard Chirag Patel - Global Head of Payments at Santander Mario Shiliashki - CEO of Payments at PayU Even before the pandemic, the use of cash was on the decline. Countries like the UK and Sweden were already heading towards cashless futures, and the current pandemi...
Jul 24, 2020•55 min
Sam Maule and Jason Bates, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the US in the past week. This week's guests include: Nick Sando, Fintech investor at Octopus Ventures Krystal Hu, M&A Reporter, Reuters We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: US bank results are in: and trading helps mask significant problems (01:56) Marqeta eyes IPO (16:50) SoFi files banking charter application wi...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Simon Taylor is joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss the transformation of finance in Africa and how fintechs are building up the industry. Here to discuss the matter are: Benjamin Fernandes - CEO, NALA Fara Ashiru Jituboh - Co-Founder & CEO/CTO, Okra Akeem Lawal - Divisional Chief Executive Officer for Transaction Processing and Enablement Business, Interswitch In the past couple of decades, the introduction of mobile money, digital payments channels and APIs has started to resh...
Jul 17, 2020•53 min
Simon and Jason are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Alex Frean, Head of Corporate Affairs at Starling Mike Dudas, Chairman of the Board at The Block We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Square Rally Sends Valuation Into Ranks of Biggest U.S. Banks EU banks to take on Visa, Mastercard with new payments system Starling do all the things in...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Simon Taylor is joined by some great guests to talk about the future of fintech hubs. Up until now, London has been known as a global fintech hub where talent and business come to work in this booming fintech industry. As we've all gone remote, theoretically we are no longer constrained to offices and industry hotspots, so will the industry spread out more internationally after this? To talk about this, Simon Taylor is joined by a range of amazing guests, dialing in from all over the world: Fred...
Jul 10, 2020•52 min
Our expert hosts, Simon and David, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Joe Bloemendaal, Head of Strategy at Mitek Nathalie Oestmann, COO, Curve Emily Nicolle, Tech Editor, City AM We also hear from: Daljit Singh, Chief Design Officer, Marketing Director and Co-founder at Anna Money, and Michael Ducker, co-founder of Pinch who is the Director of Product at Chime We cover the fol...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 6 min
