On this special Fintech Insider Insights episode, host David M. Brear is joined by Boe Hartman, Co-Founder and CTO at Nomi Health. After a distinguished career in financial services, Boe left the industry to co-found Nomi Health, a company on a mission to fix the US healthcare system and make it accessible to millions of Americans who feel unable to get the help they need. We last spoke to Boe back in 2021 when Nomi was still new, so we’re catching up with him to find out how it’s going and how ...
May 30, 2024•58 min•Ep. 861
Join hosts Kate Moody, Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein and some great guests as we discuss the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. Topics include: Ember and HSBC team up to launch tax tools for UK businesses, Stripe announce plans to expand their UK presence alongside new credit options for businesses, Visa unveil loads of new products at their annual payments forum and Bank Muamalat are launching an Islamic finance super app. This week's guests include: Dan Ho...
May 27, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 860
David Barton-Grimley is joined by some great guests to discuss how fintech has grown in LATAM over the past 2 years. We last covered this market in a dedicated insights show in February 2022 (episode 603 if you want to listen back). At the time Brazilian fintech giant Nubank had 48 million customers, now they have a whopping 100 million. So, what else has happened since then? This week's guests include: Juan Pablo Ortega, Co-Founder and CEO at Yuno Cinthia Merlos - Co-Founder and COO at Vexi Ana...
May 23, 2024•53 min•Ep. 859
In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Matthieu Altwegg, Vice President, Head of Product and Solutions for UK & Ireland, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In this half of the series we are looking closer at Europe, and in each episode we will explore a particular country or region within Europe to explore each topic in more detail. On today’s episode we want to start with a look at t...
May 22, 2024•47 min•Ep. 858
Join hosts David Barton-Grimley, Will Jones and some great guests as we talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including: TabaPay pull out from buying bankrupt Synapse, Chime's new advance wage product, and the rise in ultra-long mortgages. This week's guests include: Jason Mikula, Publisher, Fintech Business Weekly Aditi Subbarao, Global Financial Services Lead at Instabase We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial servic...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 857
Rachel Pandyan is joined by some great guests to discuss how how Islamic financing works, what Western banks can learn from Shari’ah compliant services and the challenges of launching and scaling Islamic financial services in Western or non-Muslim countries. Since the turn of the century, Muslim populations across Europe and North America have increased massively, with 44 million in the former, and over 5 million across the US and Canada. As the needs of the population become more diverse, how d...
May 16, 2024•47 min•Ep. 856
Benjamin Ensor and Jamie Campbell are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including: Zopa reach profitability and £4bn in deposits, Chime get fined for late refunds, iwoca reach £1bn in total funding and Ant Financial enter Saudi. And we discuss whether you should join an online community to help you save. This week's guests include: Sam Maule, Head of Business Development at Moov Kate Drew, Director of Resea...
May 13, 2024•59 min•Ep. 855
Our expert host Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein is joined by some great guests to discuss how wealth management continues to provide value to the estimated 15 million High Net Worth Individuals around the world. It’s a small market, but a highly valuable one, and as wealth services become more democratised, and more mass market solutions are rolled out, we discuss how wealth management can continue creating value to younger HNWIs with ever-changing needs. What do high net worth individuals expect from ...
May 09, 2024•46 min•Ep. 854
In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Malak Hisham El Baba, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode they take a closer look at Egypt, one of the most populous countries in the world, and one of the largest economies in Africa. However, a ...
May 08, 2024•49 min•Ep. 853
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, including Ramp's recent $150m funding, which it will use to enhance its AI capabilities, and Goldman Sachs selling its Marcus Invest accounts to Betterment. Plus, UniCredit roll out Mastercard's Touch Card to 12 markets, and ComplyAdvantage purchase American company Golden. This week's guests include: Jonathan Vaux , Head of Partnerships an...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 852
Our expert host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests in the second of our two part special, 'How to Buy a Bank'. In the previous episode, David Brear and guests covered what actually happens when one bank decides to buy another. So in this episode we are diving deep inside banks, to uncover what really goes on in the organisations themselves during a merger or acquisition, once the ink is dry and the businesses now have to work together. The process of actually combining two banks can take ...
May 02, 2024•45 min•Ep. 851
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, including Ramp's recent $150m funding, which it will use to enhance its AI capabilities, and Goldman Sachs selling its Marcus Invest accounts to Betterment. Plus, UniCredit roll out Mastercard's Touch Card to 12 markets, and ComplyAdvantage purchase American company Golden. This week's guests include: Charles Delingpole , Chairman and Co-fo...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 850
Our expert host David Brear is joined by some great guests in the first of our two part special, 'How to Buy a Bank'. We have already seen headlines on both sides of the pond this year; in the UK, Nationwide have bid £2.9 billion to take over Virgin Money, while in the US, Capital One hope to acquire Discover in a deal worth over $35 billion. Fintech funding may be going down, but big money M&A is here to stay. So in this episode, we want to take a closer look at why and how banks do it. Wha...
Apr 25, 2024•55 min•Ep. 849
In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Hasan Kazmi, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode they take a closer look at Bahrain, a country which has championed open banking in the Middle East. They explore the fintech landscape in Bahrain a...
Apr 24, 2024•42 min•Ep. 848
Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including Revolut's new banking licence in Mexico, just as Nubank also ramp up in the region. Plus, the launch of Project Nemo, a new 12 month initiative aimed to improve disability inclusion in fintech. This week's guests include: Sophie Vo , This Week in Fintech Joanne Dewar , Project Nemo Lead We cover the fo...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 847
Our expert hosts Rachel Pandyan is joined by some great guests to talk about how ESG is being championed by financial services to create meaningful change, not just for our industry, but for the whole world. ESG is a term most of us have heard, and it became a buzz word, a catch-all term to represent climate-conscious action and social responsibility. However, it's not just a cultural zeitgeist. Issues around climate change, gender parity, and corporate culture have also become key political bat...
Apr 18, 2024•51 min•Ep. 846
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Jamie Campbell, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon comparing AI with the invention of the steam engine, AND the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia go to quite dramatic lengths to name and shame their naughty customers. This week's guests include: Veronica Glab, Head of Partnerships, Investment Lead at Innovate Finance Chris Skinner, ...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 845
"The incumbent banking industry is built on customer ignorance, customer vulnerability, or customer inertia. We have set out to change all of that..." In this special Insights episode, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear sat down for an exclusive chat with the CEO of Monzo, TS Anil, in which they discuss TS' own career and the future of Monzo as it breaks out of the UK and plots expansion in the US and beyond. This week's guests include: TS Anil, CEO at Monzo Highlights from this episode: How does Monzo's ...
Apr 11, 2024•44 min•Ep. 844
Our expert host David Brear is joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including the new groundbreaking agreement between the UK and US to regulate AI models, and Ryan Reynolds backed payments company Nuvei sells to Advent for $6.3 billion. And, how can someone be given an 11,000 year jail term? This week's guests include: Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond Andrew Brown, CEO of Check Mariela Hunter, a Fractional COO W...
Apr 08, 2024•55 min•Ep. 843
Our expert host, 11:FS CEO David Brear, is joined by some great guests, live from J. P. Morgan Payments ' e-commerce and fintech forum in London, to talk about digital identities, regulation and innovation. The EU have announced plans to launch an e-Identity, which would make a digital wallet available to all citizens and businesses in the EU. But how will this work? How will PSD3 and other major regulations support or hinder the potential of digital IDs? And what does this mean for the merchant...
Apr 04, 2024•46 min•Ep. 842
In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Hasan Kazmi, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode we discuss the UAE, looking specifically at creating financial hubs in the region and the roles the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) &am...
Apr 03, 2024•50 min•Ep. 841
Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Rachel Pandyan, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including the $30 billion settlement with Visa and Mastercard that has been nearly 20 years in the making. This week's guests include: Jason Mikula , Founder of Fintech Business Weekly Doug Mackenzie , Journalist and Presenter, formerly Head of Content at FF News We cover the following stories from the fintech and financi...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 840
Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to talk about fintech hubs and how difficult or otherwise it is to create them globally, and we will hone in on the importance of government and regulator support to achieve this. Around the world, whether it’s in Canada lobbying for open banking, or Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 programme, harnessing the combined power of a whole sector and community can achieve extraordinary results, and the same can be said for fintech hubs. So we a...
Mar 28, 2024•52 min•Ep. 839
Our expert host David Brear presents Fintech Insider News live from the Village Underground in London, to discuss all the latest news from the world of fintech and finance, including Nationwide's £2.9bn acquisition of Virgin Money, and how old do you need to be to own a house? Listen and find out... This week's guests include: Jamie Campbell, Head of VC at 11:FS Georgie Frost, Presenter and Personal Finance Expert Alex Rivas-Gale, Head of Product, Europe at ClearBank We cover the following stori...
Mar 25, 2024•47 min•Ep. 838
Our expert host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to talk about community banks, and how they can get the edge and win on the banking battlefield. It might seem at first glance that these small to mid tier banks serving only a certain region or niche of customers might have the odds against them, and yet - community banks are often uniquely positioned to serve their customers in ways the bigger banks can’t, won’t, or don’t. We're going to dig into all of this to try and put together a gu...
Mar 21, 2024•48 min•Ep. 837
Fintech Insider Focus is back for season two, in collaboration with Visa, and in the first half of this season we are diving deep into the Middle East's booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode, host Rachel Pandyan discusses the banking industry in Saudi Arabia alongside a panel of esteemed guests. The country’s finance industry is making huge strides, thanks in part to a concerted effort by the government and the Saudi Central Bank. They explor...
Mar 20, 2024•55 min•Ep. 836
Our expert host, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to discuss the most notable fintech, financial services, and banking news from the past week. This includes Stripe's annual letter, announcing they have surpassed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023, Tide's expansion into Germany with a warm 'guten tag', CFIT's Open Finance report, which claims open finance could boost the UK GDP by £30.5 million, as well as some significant raises from Griffin and PPRO. This week's guests i...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 835
Our expert host Laura Watkins, Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS, is joined by a stellar panel to discuss wealth. Whether you want it, have it, or inherit it, wealth affects us all, but as we’re recording this just after International Women’s Day, we want to zoom in on how the wealth space is serving women. Women have been traditionally underserved in this space, but as wealth management solutions move into the digital world, we want to know what opportunities this creates to provide effe...
Mar 14, 2024•47 min•Ep. 834
Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, returns on 20th March 2024! In the first season we embarked on a virtual world tour, exploring how fintech and finance is being harnessed in different continents, but in brand new season we are zooming in further. Part one explores how countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt are putting the Middle East on the map as a major financial powerhouse. In part two we set off on a European adventure and find out how different countries acros...
Mar 13, 2024•55 sec
To celebrate recording this just before International Women's Day 2024, our expert hosts, Laura Watkins and Rachel Pandyan, are joined by a stellar all-women panel to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including the feel good fintech story of the year so far, and Monzo are lining up a second crack at the US market. This week's guests include: Sarah Kocianski, CEO at Fintech Wales Phoebe Kitchen, Vice President of Growth Equity at Inovia A...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 833
