Our expert hosts, David Brear and debutante co-host Benjamin Ensor, Director of Research at 11:FS, 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: Pablo Viguera, CEO and co-founder of Belvo Aisling Finn, Reporter at Altfi We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Belvo, Latam’s Plaid, raises $43M to scale it’s API for financial services (03:41) Crowdcube...
Jun 07, 2021•55 min
Our expert host, David Brear, is joined by some great guests to talk about mortgages and how the industry has evolved in the last few years. The government announced a stamp duty holiday during lockdown, the property market boomed despite a shaky financial landscape - but how have mortgages evolved during this time? Joining us today are: Francesca Carlesi, Co-Founder & CEO of Molo Finance Richard Hayes, Co-Founder & CEO of https://mojomortgages.com/ We also hear from Daniel Hegarty, Foun...
Jun 04, 2021•59 min
Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Kate Moody, are joined by some great guests to talk about the at the evolution of Super Apps. How did the Super App come about in the first place, what constitutes a Super App and will all fintechs become a Super App? The panel also takes a look at some geographical, cultural and technical differences when it comes to Super Apps, and some of the reasons as to why they are more established in some geographies than others. . This week's guests include: Neri Tollard...
May 28, 2021•45 min
Our expert host, David Brear, is joined by some great guests to talk about all things embedded finance. What are the benefits of embedded finance, what it looks like, why it’s a good thing for both businesses and consumers, and what tech actually makes embedded finance possible. Looking ahead to see what the future of embedded finance could be - we’re only scratching the surface right now. With a space full of opportunity and potential of growth, David Brear and his guests unpack embedded and op...
May 21, 2021•56 min
Our expert host, David Brear is joined by some great guests to dig into what constitutes as progressive regulation and how fintechs work with regulators. We also look at some geographical differences when it comes to regulation, what do fintechs want and expect from a regulator and how can fintechs work to help regulators. All of this and much more on today's epispde! This week's guests include: Deniz Güven, CEO and Executive Board Director of Mox Bank Jo Ann Barefoot, CEO & Cofounder at All...
May 14, 2021•58 min
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Melissa 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: Livia Benisty, Global Head of Business AML at Banking Circle Natasha Jones, Early Stage investor at Octopus Ventures We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Fintech logs a record breaking Q1 of 2021 for VC investment globally 03:01 Wealthsimple raises C$...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Sarah Kocianski, are joined by some great guests to talk about insurtechs and fintechs. The panel take a deep dive into what the current UK insurtech market looks like, why fintechs should be aware of insurtechs, and how fintechs are paving the way for insurtech innovation. All of this and more on this episode! This week's guests include: Nigel Walsh, Managing Director, Insurance, Google David Vanek, Co-Founder & CEO, Anorak Sophie Winwood, Investor, Anthemi...
May 07, 2021•54 min
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Kate Moody, 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: Jasper Martens, CMO at PensionBee Andy Wiggan, VP Product Management at GoCardless Stuart Sopp, CEO and founder of Current We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: PensionBee’s IPO and listing on the London Stock Exchange 2:54 Current triples its valuation ...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Our expert host, Sarah Kocianski, is joined by some great guests to talk about Open Finance. Earlier this year we produced an After Dark event which focussed on Open Finance, but since then the FCA have released the feedback they got from the industry from the call for input that they issued in December 2019. We have now gathered some of the greatest minds in the industry to discuss the outcome of that, talk about the concerns the FCA identified, but also how we maximise the potential . All of t...
Apr 30, 2021•48 min
Our expert hosts, Melissa Stringer 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: Ellen Moeller - Head of EMEA Partnerships at Stripe Anna Irrera, Fintech Correspondent, Reuters We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Stripe Issuing launches in Europe 1:50 Venmo launches crypto buying and selling 14:03 FintechOS nabs $65.5M for a low...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Our expert host, Adam Davis, are joined by some great guests to talk about sustainability in the financial services industry. After covering what products are available for climate aware customers, Adam and the guests now want to look at the bigger and talk about what the financial industry is currently doing, what they could do more of and what a sustainable approach might be for hiring in the future. All of this and much more on today's episode. This week's guests include: Matt Rees of the Eur...
Apr 23, 2021•49 min
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski 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: Geoff Charles, Head of Product at Ramp Myles Stephenson, CEO at Modulr We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Two-year old Ramp joins fintech Unicorn club 2:36 Modulr received strategic investment from the venture arm of FIS 14:41 China Creates Its Own ...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Jason Bates, are joined by some great guests to talk about how you can get to market quickly. What is the next iteration of banking as a service? How can you overcome certain issues and what is a better solution than BaaS? All this and much more. This week's guests include: Ray Brash, CEO PPS Tui Allen, Senior Producer Leader, at Shopify Aadeel Peerally, Director of Product Management at Delivery Hero Brands looking to embed financial services in their products ...
Apr 16, 2021•55 min
Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Melissa 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: Keith Grose, Head of Europe, Plaid Emily Nicolle, Fintech Correspondent, Financial News We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Plaid raised $425 million in a Series D funding round for a global financial data network 51:40 Coinbase Posts Record $1.8 Bill...
Apr 12, 2021•55 min
Our expert host Sarah Kocianski is joined by some great guests to talk about building and maintaining trust in digital financial services. Right now, trust in the FS industry is rising and trust in the tech industry is decreasing — how can we balance the two and create financial products and services that customers trust? We have published a research report with Mitek on this exact topic and we leant on the framework of that report for today’s discussion to look at 4 areas of focus today: capabi...
Apr 09, 2021•42 min
Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Melissa 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: Daniel Lanyon, Editor in Chief at Altfi. Nuno Sebastao - CEO Feedzai We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Regulator applies brakes to Crowdcube and Seedrs merger, we also heard from CEO & co-founder of Crowdcube Darren Westlake to give us their per...
Apr 05, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Our expert host Simon Taylor is joined by a panel of great guests to talk about payroll APIs. Fintech enablers and infrastructure has been one of the most important catalysts for recent growth in the financial services. In recent months we’ve seen new platforms pop up that give fintechs access to more data, using payroll APIs. But what is it, how does it work and what problems does it really solve? This week's guests include: Kurt Lin, Co-Founder & CEO of Pinwheel Ahmed Siddiqui, VP Product,...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min
Our expert hosts Adam Davis 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: Charles McManus, CEO of Clear Bank Babs Ogundeyi, Founder and CEO of Kuda Bank We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: The dark side of BaaS: One third of European fintechs have faced regulatory intervention because of their partner bank 02:31 Nigerian chal...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Simon is joined by some great guests to talk about to talk about banking architecture and how banking technology is structured. We’re looking at how bank tech works today, how it's typically and histrocially been strucutred and why that playbook doesn't necessarily work in a digital age. We discuss the challenges the big banks currently face but also the opportunities that they could take advantage of and how to get there. This week's guests include: Ewan Silver, 11:FS CTO Simon Van-Colina, CTO ...
Mar 26, 2021•56 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: Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior City Correspondent at Yahoo Finance Miguel Armaza, Co-President & Podcast host, Wharton Fintech We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Stripe raises $600 million at a $95bn valuation BlockFi Completes $350 Million Series D Fun...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski & Adam Davis are back leading another Fintech Insider After Dark event! This time we are focussing on Open Finance. Open Finance is easily one of the hottest topics in the financial services industries at this moment, but how much do we actually know about this technology? The panel takes a look at what the differences and similarities are compared to the PSD2 implementation, and what some of the concerns are in regards to GDPR and customer security. We also...
Mar 19, 2021•54 min
Welcome to Fintech Insider 'In conversation with", recorded live on Clubhouse. In this very special episode, David and Jason spoke to Boe Hartman, CTO at Nomi Health, and one of the lead architects behind Marcus by Goldman Sachs to discuss whether banks can really build tech? Boe shares some key learnings from his career to date; how he created change within some of the biggest banks in the world, the challenges he faced and how he overcame them; and also insights into his brand new start up in ...
Mar 17, 2021•57 min
Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Adam Davies, 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, Starling Bank Alan Ainsworth, Head of Policy for Open Banking We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Starling eyes M&A as it is valued at £1.1bn in £272m funding round OBIE and UK Finance set out the future model ...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr
This Monday was International Women’s day, and theme of the day is #ChooseToChallenge. So on today’s show we’re choosing to challenge why fintech app assistants are overwhelmingly female, what this means for the industry and particularly for the view of women in the industry, and whether app assistants should have a name or a gender at all. Sarah Kocianski hosts a fantastic panel of guests to dig deep into this. We were joined by: Emily Nicolle - Fintech correspondent, Financial News Soledad Aba...
Mar 12, 2021•46 min
Our expert hosts, Ross and Mel, 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: Asya Bradley, Founder and COO First Boulevard Anna Irrera, Fintech Correspondent, Reuters We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Square Financial Services Begins Banking Operations First Boulevard raises $5m for Black community-focused neobank FCA hires top team of women t...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Kate Moody, 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: Ron Kalifa, OBE, Chairman of Network International and Future Learn Charlotte Crosswell, CEO of Innovate Finance We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: The Kalifa Fintech Review 03:22 Basiq brings Open Banking to bear on consumer BNPL debt as AfterPay teams u...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Simon Taylor is joined by some great guests to talk about cashless societies. In recen years the popularity of cash has dwindled as digital payments have become faster, cheaper and more convenient. In the UK, Sweden, China and many parts of the world we’re moving closer and closer to a cashless economy. The panel explores what would happen if we started from scratch now: What would our ideal financial system look like and how can we get from where we are now to where we want to be - and would we...
Feb 26, 2021•40 min
Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor 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: Jamie Campbell, CEO and co-founder, Fronted Tom Renwick, Business Banking Propositions Manager at Atom Bank Jonas Templestein, CTO and co-founder of Monzo We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Atom signs Open Banking deal with Plaid A big week for Monzo F...
Feb 22, 2021•55 min
On the surface, the world of payments is constantly evolving. With the likes of PayPal, Venmo and a multitude of other consumer fintechs, peer-to-peer payments and consumer-to-business payments have seen rapid and innovative advancements in recent year. The same, however, cannot be said for business-to-business. Although global B2B payments dwarf any other kind, they still seem to dwell in a relative Stone Age of innovation and efficiency. So how can B2B payments be better? Are stablecoins the a...
Feb 19, 2021•39 min
Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Kate Moody 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: Rhian Lewis - Author of the Cryptocurrency Revolution & Co-developer of altcoin portfolio tracker CountMyCrypto Nicolas Weng Kan - CEO of Yolt and Yolt Technology Services We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Tesla says it has bought $1.5 billion worth ...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min
