Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and David Barton-Grimley, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Open banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer lending platform - 5:35 BaaS platform Griffin secures UK banking licence with restrictions - 16:05 Woman, 91, loses account and pension after Barclays declares...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Has financial services only been built for half the population?" This week's guests include: Alexia de Broglie, Co-Founder, Juno Becky George-David, Executive Director - Product, JP Morgan Chase Daniela Raffel, Vice President, Dawn Capital In the same week as International Women’s Day, we’re taking the time to look at the impact of a financial services system traditionally dominated by men. But these conversations are not just ...
Mar 10, 2023•41 min
Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Record 150,000 new firms founded by women last year, Natwest report reveals - 5:16 JP Morgan restricts staff from using AI bot ChatGPT - 16:40 French bank BNP Paribas sued by NGOs over Amazon deforestation link - 29:55 Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz invested mo...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Our expert host, David Barton-Grimley, is joined by some great guests to ask: "“How does embedded finance make money?” This week's guests include: Tui Allen, Vice President of Product, Ampla Sophie Guibaud, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial & Growth Officer, Fiat Republic Nadya Hijazi, Global Head of Wholesale Digital Channels, HSBC Embedded finance has the ability to bring financial inclusion to those previously excluded and provide genuinely helpful services at the point of need. But, revenu...
Mar 03, 2023•46 min
In the newest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we’re taking a burning question from financial services across the globe - and really putting it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews all to bring the global community into focus. In this episode, David Barton-Grimley sat down with Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, CEO of M-Pesa to continue exploring the question set out in our previous Focus episode: What is stopping Super Apps from succeeding outside As...
Mar 01, 2023•31 min
Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Benjamin Ensor, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Digital bank Vexi raises millions to offer young Mexicans lower interest rate credit cards - 5:50 Gig workers denied equal opportunity to financial services - 20:00 Welcome to the bank branch where you can’t even deposit cash - 35:30 Which Europ...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to ask: "How does financial services make it all about the customer?" This week's guests include: Diego Zaks, Head Of Design, Ramp Peter Collingridge, EMEA Head, D10x, Citi Will Jones, Executive Creative Director, 11:FS No matter what variation of fintech, financial service, bank, B2B, or B2C that you’re building or growing – there’s always the all-important end user. While we may think that’s a given, many businesses get lost in other ...
Feb 24, 2023•51 min
Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Amy Gavin, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: US fintech unicorn Alloy launches in UK - 5:10 Britain sets out legislation to regulate buy-now-pay-later credit - 16:20 RBC buys AI-powered real-estate company OJO Canada - 30:50 US fintech FIS to spin off Worldpay payments business - 41:15 Natw...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Our expert hosts, David Barton-Grimley, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Would you buy your home through a Super App?" This week's guests include: Justin Herlick, CEO and Co-founder, Pine Maria Harris, Director, Digital Cat Consultancy Vadim Toader, CEO & Co-founder, Proportunity No matter where you’re listening to this podcast - the steps to buying a home is an administrative nightmare! From estate agents, to mortgage advisors, to solicitors, to service providers – there's so many pa...
Feb 17, 2023•43 min
Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests for this latest edition of Fintech insider Focus! In the newest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we’re taking a burning question from financial services across the globe - and really putting it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews all to bring the global community into focus. In this episode, we set the scene on Super Apps so far, the possibilities on offer, and the challen...
Feb 15, 2023•45 min
Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is 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: Ahmed Mohsen, Chief Technology Officer, MNT-Halan Christer Holloman, Founder, Divido Kate Drew, Director of Research, CCG Catalyst With soundclips from: Clare Gambardella, Chief Customer Officer, Zopa We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Monzo automatically opts in custo...
Feb 13, 2023•57 min
Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to ask: "how will financial crime evolve in 2023?" We can’t predict the crimes of the future - but experts do incredible work to keep on top of growing practices in financial crime and money laundering in the hope of keeping businesses, finances, and people safe. In today's episode, in association with ComplyAdvantage, we're looking at how 2023’s economic landscape impact financial crime, what emerging trends is the industry seeing, and...
Feb 10, 2023•43 min
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Kate Moody, is 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: Tom Renwick, Head of Business Lending, Atom Bank Douglas Mackenzie, Chief Content Officer, Fintech Finance With soundclips from: Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech Nation Gabby MacSweeney, Head of Communications & Public Policy, Codat We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial servic...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to ask: 'Do parents need better financial services?' Growing families have previously been considered as baked into the fabric of joint accounts and wealth management - but there’s actually a lot of gaps in which new players are looking to address the needs of new parents directly. Like the children themselves, this industry is very much still in its infancy. So, in this show, we’ve put together a panel of experts to discuss what the ma...
Feb 03, 2023•45 min
Our expert host, David Barton-Grimley, Global Strategy Director - Embedded Financial Services here at 11:FS, is joined by a fantastic guest to continue the deep-dive into the question posed by David M. Brear and Visa's Dan Roesbery in the inaugural episode of this new Fintech Insider strand: "Can Open Finance ever be truly global?" In this second instalment of Fintech Insider Focus (catch up on the first episode here ), in association with Visa, we’re taking a burning question from financial ser...
Feb 01, 2023•30 min
Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Amy Gavin, 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: Collin Galster, VP - International, Nova Credit/Non-Executive Director, Nova Credit UK Umer Suleman, Global Head of Risk, Wahed Invest With soundclips from: Mauricio Magaldi, Global Strategy Director of Crypto, 11:FS We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: N...
Jan 30, 2023•57 min
Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to ask: "What will define the user experience in financial services this year?" No matter how amazing your financial services product may be, if the UX isn’t up to scratch, then no one is going to find out. But there’s no set-in-stone rules for these journeys and experiences, and there’s many external factors which may shape a product from one year to the next. So what were the successes of 2022, what were the challenges of the last twe...
Jan 27, 2023•44 min
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and David Barton-Grimley, 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: Irina Chuchkina, Chief Marketing Officer, Thunes Natasha Jones, Early-Stage Investor, Octopus Ventures We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Apple Card has cost Goldman Sachs over $1bn in losses - 5:00 Cashed-up banks ready to buy UK fintech fir...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr
Our expert host, Nicole Perry, is joined by some great guests to discuss the potential of social media networks becoming banks. At the end of 2022, Elon Musk held a meeting with Twitter employees laying out plans to turn the social network into a bank - complete with a high-yield money market account, debit cards, checks, and loans. Musk is not the first social media mogul to see the power of combining banking and social networks – but, to date, that melding of likes and filters with APIs and KY...
Jan 20, 2023•41 min
Our expert host, David M. Bear, is joined by some great guests to get deep-dive into the question: "Can Open Finance ever be truly global?" In this new strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we’re taking a burning question from financial services across the globe - and really putting it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews all to bring the global community into focus. In this episode, we set the scene on the journey from Open Banking to Open ...
Jan 18, 2023•40 min
Our expert host, Kate Moody, is 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: Benjamin Fernandes, CEO, NALA Charlie Conchie, Investment Editor, City AM Wiza Jalakasi, VP of Global Merchant Business, Chipper Cash With soundclips from: Tom Burton, Director of External Affairs and Public Policy, GoCardless We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: African pay...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Can financial services ever be sustainable?” From the carbon cost of everyday payment transactions, data servers, plastic credit cards, and investments in polluting industries - not to mention the international conferences that require some serious jet-setting – it’s safe to say that our industry has never looked to put its environmental impact front and centre. But, with global temperatures rising and climates across the g...
Jan 13, 2023•40 min
David M. Brear is here to tell you about Fintech Insider Focus, the latest podcast strand joining your weekly News and Insights shows. Focus will take all the burning financial services questions from across the globe and put them under the microscope – with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews with decision-makers. We’re hopping continents and crossing borders to delve into the biggest subjects in the industry. Whether Open Banking in Africa, or Super Apps in the Middle East, thes...
Jan 11, 2023•2 min
Our expert hosts, Kate Moody 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: Lindsay Davis, Head of Markets, Atomic Geri Cupi, CEO and Founder, Twig With soundclips from: Paul Lloyd, CMO and Co-Founder, Snoop We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Millions of Brits would struggle to cover extra £20 a month as the cost-of-living cri...
Jan 09, 2023•58 min
Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, Ross Gallagher and Kate Moody, have come together to ask: "What do we predict for financial services in 2023?” No matter how big or shiny your crystal ball was, there’s no way anyone predicted the sheer chaotic energy that was financial services in 2022. So, for the opening Fintech Insider of the year, we’ve put together a panel of Elevens to discuss: how right or wrong we got last year's predictions, what our panel hope to see this year in financial services, a...
Jan 06, 2023•49 min
Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor 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. We’ve seen some of the biggest tests of financial services in living memory – with global conflicts, economic downturns, and industry layoffs. But…it’s not all been doom and gloom! So, for the last Fintech Insider of 2022, we’ve put together a panel of experts to discuss: The biggest stories in financial services in 2022,...
Dec 23, 2022•48 min
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher, is 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: Janay Eyo, Director of Financial Policy, Chamber of Progress Sarah Kocianski, Independent Fintech Consultant Bruno Diniz, Co-Founder, Spiralem We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with defrauding investors - 4:20 Brazil's Nubank ann...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask: "What would happen to financial services if we put the engineers in charge?" The whole fintech industry is built on top of complex tech stacks, constructed and maintained by engineers. Their value to the industry has never been in doubt, but where they sit in the business structure changes from company to company. We've put together a panel of experts to discuss how the role of engineers has changed in financial services, t...
Dec 16, 2022•40 min
Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nicole Perry, 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: Andrea de Gottardo, CEO, Kroo Emily Man, Investor, Redpoint Ventures We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Kroo banks on winning new customers with 2% interest - 04:35 Wells Fargo launches new commercial banking platform - 19:10 Robot landlords are buying u...
Dec 12, 2022•57 min
Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Is financial services equipped to serve digital nomads?" It’s estimated that there are some 35 million people worldwide who packed in the office and the 9-5 hours in favour of a life of travel and working from across the world armed with a laptop. While this lifestyle has boomed post-pandemic, financial services is still looking to play catch-up when it comes to wages, taxes, compliance, and payments. In today's show, our panel...
Dec 09, 2022•44 min
