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: QED closes on $925M to back fintech startups globally - 5:10 UK banks shortchanging savers with ‘measly’ rates, says Which? - 17:10 Klarna's losses halve as Swedish fintech predicts return to profit - 30:00 Plenty’s new wealth-building app targe...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Our expert host, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to discuss how not to launch a bank! This week's guests include: David M. Brear, Group CEO, 11:FS Ewan Silver, Group CTO, 11:FS Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director, 11:FS Nas Ahmad, General Counsel, 11:FS At 11:FS, we’ve launched products in different markets, continents, and economic conditions across the globe. But, we often see many of the same challenges popping up again and again. So, we’re giving our experts the Tony Sopran...
Jun 02, 2023•47 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. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Bank of England plans to reject Revolut's bid for banking licence - 5:00 Brite Payments launches instant payments network - 17:20 Daylight, the LGBTQ+ neobank, calls it quits - 30:40 Fifth Third acquires Rize Money - 39:50 Jia, a blockchain-base...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Our expert host, Ross, is joined by some great guests to discuss how not to build a bank! At 11:FS, we have experience building financial services products all over the world, with differing budgets, scales, target demographics, and functions. But, we often see many of the same challenges popping up again and again. Today we’re opening up the podcasting version of a rage room - to vent on the biggest hurdles to overcome when turning an idea from nothing into something. This is the first part of ...
May 26, 2023•49 min
In the latest 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 Surendra Chaplot, Global Head of Product at Wise to continue exploring the question set out in our previous Focus episode: "Will great UX keep European fintechs ...
May 24, 2023•34 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 cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: London pension fintech Smart gears up for deals after $95m funding injection - 5:00 Robinhood launching 24-Hour weekday stock trading - 17:45 Tiger Global looks to cash in part of $40bn portfolio of private companies - 28:40 M-KOPA snaps up $250...
May 22, 2023•1 hr
Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Could 'mortgages as a service' mark the future of homebuying?" This week's guests include: Andrew Lloyd, Chief Customer Officer, Pexa UK Ewan Silver, Group CTO, 11:FS Francesca Carlesi, Co-Founder & CEO, Molo Finance We see embedded finance and banking as a service (or BaaS) as one of the next big evolutions in financial services - whether that’s embedded lending, payments, or insurance. But buying a house remains the ...
May 19, 2023•41 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. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Skipton launches deposit-free mortgage aimed at renters - 6:10 Apple attracts nearly $1 billion in deposits within a week of high yield savings account launch - 19:50 WhatsApp now allows Singapore-based users to pay businesses within the app - 3...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to discuss: "Will the future of KYC be truly digital?" This week's guests include: Emma Lindley, Managing Director International Expansion, CAF / Co-founder and Chair, Women in Identity Joe Robinson, Co-founder & CEO, Hummingbird Will Jones, Executive Creative Director, 11:FS As banking technology evolves, so too must the methods for verifying who customers are and keeping them safe. Financial services is embracing new technolog...
May 12, 2023•46 min
Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests for this latest edition of Fintech insider Focus! In the latest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we taking a burning question from financial services across the globe and put it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews – all to bring the global community into focus. In this episode, we're looking at how great UX spurred on a whole generation of fintechs in Europe, how the banks...
May 10, 2023•48 min
Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Benjamin Ensor, are joined by a great guest 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: First Republic: JP Morgan snaps up major US bank - 4:00 Revolut takes on Nubank with Brazil launch and LatAm push - 13:55 An investment fund created by ChatGPT is “smashing” the UK’s top 10 most popular funds - 23:50 Australian gamblers to be banned...
May 08, 2023•45 min
Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to ask: "How important is trust to financial services in 2023?" This week's guests include: Barb MacLean, SVP, Head of Technology Operations and Implementation, Coastal Community Bank Cinthia Merlos, Co-Founder, Vexi Mark Mullen, CEO, Atom Trust is often considered to be the most important currency a financial institution can hold - but how it’s earned, how it’s lost, or even how it’s defined is much more difficult to determine. In...
May 05, 2023•49 min
Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director at 11:FS 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: Sophie Guibaud, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial & Growth Officer, Fiat Republic and Co Author of the Embedded Finance Book: When Payments Become An Experienc Hussein Fazal, CEO, Super.com Tui Allen, VP of Product at Ampla We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services ...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Is the future of SME banking specialisation?” This week's guests include: Atif Siddiqi, Founder/CEO, Branch Lara Gilman, Head of New Ventures, Iwoca Peter Beckman, CEO, Treyd Whether you prefer the abbreviation ‘SME’ or ‘SMB’ - the truth is that there is a vast collection of businesses wrapped up in those three letters. The World Economic Forum estimates that 90% of businesses globally can be categorised as SMEs. That’s a l...
Apr 28, 2023•43 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 Pranav Sood, GM, EMEA at Airwallex to continue exploring the question set out in our previous Focus episode: “Can APAC’s travel sector spur on its financial serv...
Apr 26, 2023•36 min
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher 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. This week's guests include: Nilixa Devlukia, Chair, Open Finance Association Tim Chong, Co-Founder and CEO, Yonder With soundclips from: Alvaro Castillo, Innovation Manager, Caixabank We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Apple launches high-yield savings account with Goldman in...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Kate Moody, are joined by some great guests to discuss: "How do community banks stay relevant in 2023?" This week's guests include: Rohit Mathur, Head, Bridge built by Citi Josh Williams, Chief Banking Officer, Seattle Bank Community banks, as a concept, are everything customers often say they want from a financial institution. But, between 2000 and 2020, the total number of community banks in America decreased from over 8,300 to 4,277. That’s a steep decline...
Apr 21, 2023•48 min
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher 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: Love Island's Sharon Gaffka teams up with FCA in clampdown on 'get rich quick' schemes promoted by influencers - 6:00 Verto claims a quarter of SVB customers operating in Africa are opening accounts on its platform - 18:25 Visa partners PayP...
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Is debt the last taboo of financial services?” This week's guests include: Karen Andres, Director, Policy & Market Solutions, Aspen Institute Neil Costello, UK Marketing Director, Lowell Siamac Rezaiezadeh, VP of Product Marketing and Insight, GoCardless As an industry, we can talk endlessly about positive user journeys and financial enrichment. But, when it comes to the tough topics it’s a little more challenging to o...
Apr 14, 2023•51 min
Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests for this latest edition of Fintech insider Focus! In the latest 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're looking at how lockdowns impacted the Asia Pacific's travel sector, how fint...
Apr 12, 2023•41 min
Our expert host, Ross Gallagher, 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: Crowdcube and Octopus Investments are opening up retail investments in a new partnership - 5:20 Apple Pay Later is finally launching - 16:35 Investing app Acorns acquires kid-focused fintech GoHenry to expand in Europe - 28:50 The Meltdown of a Gay Bank: What we...
Apr 10, 2023•51 min
Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Are SMEs being served globally?” This week's guests include: Bruno Diniz, Co-Founder, Spiralem Dani Lima, Executive VP of Infrastructure , Novo Rob Pearce, Technical Advisor - CEO's Office, OakNorth Said Murad, Partner, Global Ventures No matter where you’re tuning in from - at some point, you’re likely to have heard that independent small businesses are the backbone of your economy. But to date, that backbone of entreprene...
Apr 07, 2023•50 min
Live on stage at our recent After Dark: London Calling event, in association with GPS. Our expert hosts, David M. Bear 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 cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Silicon Valley Bank: Collapsed US lender bought by rival - 5:10 Klarna plugs ChatGPT into its platform for faster product recommendations - 14:20 Latitude Fina...
Apr 03, 2023•48 min
Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask: "How do you choose the right investment path for your business?" This week's guests include: David T Frank, CEO & Founder, Stonehaven LLC Joshuah Lebacq, Director at NA Ventures, National Bank Of Canada Ruth Foxe Blader, Partner, Anthemis Investment has been the rocket fuel in the jetpack of fintech’s success to date. But it might be time for fintechs to think strategically about where and who signs the cheques which hel...
Mar 31, 2023•42 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 Amber Buker, CEO of Totem to continue exploring the question set out in our previous Focus episode: “What does effective financial inclusion look like in the USA...
Mar 29, 2023•35 min
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher 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 cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: UBS is buying Credit Suisse in bid to halt banking crisis - 4:55 FCA warns payment firms over ‘unacceptable risk of harm to customers’ - 17:40 Stripe now valued at $50B following $6.5B raise - 33:10 Final Tech Nation report: What UK tech needs t...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Is FinOps the key to ride out the economic storm?” This week's guests include: Ewan Silver, Group CTO, 11:FS Stathis Onasoglou, Principal Architect, Google Regina Lau, Chief Financial Officer, Weavr Fintechs and the wider financial services are currently in a stress test - with all sorts of costs suddenly being put under scrutiny. Cloud-based services can be one cost put under the microscope – but would it be wise to move a...
Mar 24, 2023•50 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: Silicon Valley Bank closed by regulators, FDIC takes control - 4:55 HSBC buys Silicon Valley Bank's UK unit for £1 in rescue deal - 18:30 Under legal threat from GOP lawmakers, Mastercard and Visa pause plan to track gun sales - 31:10 Iwoca intr...
Mar 20, 2023•59 min
Our expert hosts, David M. Brear and Mauricio Magaldi, are joined by some great guests to ask: "Why should governments embrace new payment technologies?” This week's guests include: Chris Holmes, Baron Holmes of Richmond Janay Eyo, Director of Financial Policy, Chamber of Progress Innovation can often move a lot faster than the bureaucracy - and sometimes that’s a good thing when it comes to risk and regulation. But with payments technology growing, evolving, and offering solutions to some of th...
Mar 17, 2023•46 min
Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests for this latest edition of Fintech insider Focus! In the latest 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 financial inclusion and exclusion in America historically, the...
Mar 15, 2023•44 min
