At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 977
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jul 03, 2025•49 min•Ep. 976
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jun 30, 2025•48 min•Ep. 975
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jun 26, 2025•46 min•Ep. 974
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 973
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- On t...
Jun 19, 2025•42 min•Ep. 972
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 971
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jun 12, 2025•50 min•Ep. 970
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Jun 09, 2025•48 min•Ep. 969
About this episode: On this week’s episode of Fintech Insider Insights, recorded live at Money20/20 Europe in partnership with Adyen, host David Barton Grimley is joined by some great guests to take a deep dive into the pain points of spend management - and how embedded finance can help solve them. Now, we’re all aware of spend management, but how important is it, exactly, for small and medium-sized businesses in particular? At the forefront of addressing some of these challenges is a new partne...
Jun 05, 2025•40 min•Ep. 968
About this episode: Host Laura Watkins, Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS, is joined by a fantastic panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week. Stories covered on the podcast: Curve launches Curve Pay to compete with iOS in Europe. Google pushes ahead with its AI offering with an agnostic shopping experience. We talk through what the CFPB’s ruling means for the future of banking in the US. We also...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 967
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
May 29, 2025•54 min•Ep. 966
About this episode: On this episode of Fintech Insider, host David Barton-Grimley sits down with Matej Pfajfar, Group CTO at Monzo Bank, to talk about one of the fintech industry's least glamorous - but most critical - topics: outages. With banking apps now at the core of how we manage money, a few minutes of downtime can spark serious disruption. Back in February 2025, a wave of UK bank outages affected millions and it feels like the problem is only getting worse. So, how is Monzo planning to s...
May 28, 2025•28 min
About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor, Director of Research & Strategy at 11:FS , is joined by a fantastic panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week. Stories covered on the podcast: Revolut, Europe’s largest digital bank, has announced plans to invest over €1 billion in France over the next three years, including establishing new headquarters in Paris and securing a French banking licence. Meanwhi...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 965
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- On t...
May 22, 2025•52 min•Ep. 964
About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor, Director of Research & Strategy at 11:FS, is joined by a fantastic panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week. Stories covered on the podcast: Monzo eyes up a potential IPO on the UK market whilst Chime announces their listing on the US market. Stripe and Ramp team up to enhance cross border payment solutions using Stablecoins. The Nordic countries are looking...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 963
About this episode: In this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host David M. Brear is joined by Richard Davies, CEO of Allica Bank - the UK’s fastest-growing fintech focused on serving established small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Richard shares how his unique background at traditional giants like HSBC and Barclays, combined with his time at fintech innovators like Revolut and OakNorth, has shaped his mission to build a better bank for UK businesses. We dive into Allica’s rapid rise, ...
May 15, 2025•48 min•Ep. 962
About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS, is joined by a fantastic panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week. Stories covered on the podcast: Tide is expanding its B2B offering, rolling out its Credit Flex feature for all its customers following a $100million debt raise. Paypal launches its first contactless wallet in Germany, its biggest product development i...
May 12, 2025•59 min•Ep. 961
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Ab...
May 08, 2025•50 min•Ep. 960
About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS is joined by a fantastic panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week. Stories covered on the podcast: Robinhood publishes its Q1 results showing an increase in both revenue and profit as it launches its latest offering, Robinhood Gold , to the wealth management market. Mexico’s National Banking and Securities Commission (...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 959
On this special edition of Fintech Insider Insights, David M. Brear, Group CEO at 11:FS, is joined by Ian Rand, CEO of Monument Bank - a pioneering digital private bank designed for mass affluent individuals. Ian took the helm at Monument in 2022, bringing extensive experience from Barclays to lead the bank through a period of rapid growth. We dive into the key ingredients behind Monument’s success and explore what’s next for the future of high-end banking. -- Advertisements: Sign up for a new a...
May 01, 2025•47 min•Ep. 958
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 957
For those listening in GCC and Turkey, this episode is sponsored by XM. https://bit.ly/ClaimBonusFintech -- About this episode: Host David Barton-Grimley is joined by some great guests to explore what fintech product leaders are doing to combat fraud. Fraud isn’t going away anytime soon. Scammers now use artificial intelligence, deepfake video calls, and emotionally manipulative tactics - like romance scams - to exploit a growing population of digital-first but fraud-naive users. For bad actors,...
Apr 24, 2025•44 min•Ep. 956
For those listening in GCC and Turkey, this episode is sponsored by XM: https://bit.ly/FintechCopyTrade About this episode: Host Laura Watkins , Director of Media & Marketing, 11:FS is joined by a fantastic panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week. Stories covered on the podcast: Revolut is currently developing a new points-based credit card. South African fintech Stitch has just raised USD 55 mill...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 955
For those listening in GCC and Turkey, this episode is sponsored by XM. https://bit.ly/ClaimBonusFintech -- About this episode: On this week's Fintech Insider Insights, hosts Ross Gallagher and David Barton-Grimley are joined by some great guests to dive into funding. Some have argued that the fintech industry was born in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, fuelled by low interest rates, abundant capital, and the promise of building something better than what came before. For years, the p...
Apr 17, 2025•47 min•Ep. 954
For those listening in GCC and Turkey, this episode is sponsored by XM. https://bit.ly/ClaimBonusFintech About this episode: Host Ross Gallagher, Head of Ventures, 11:FS is joined by a fantastic panel of returning guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week. Stories covered on the show: Tariff turmoil: what might be the impact of the changing international tariffs on fintech and IPOs? Research from HSBC Innovation...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 953
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the strategy, research, design, and delivery to make it real. Less talk, more impact.Proud winners of the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year - five times and counting. 👉 Learn more at 11fs.com/ventures -- Abou...
Apr 10, 2025•50 min•Ep. 952
For those listening in GCC and Turkey, this episode is sponsored by XM. https://bit.ly/ClaimBonusFintech -- About this episode: Host David Barton-Grimley is joined by an expert panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services. Stories covered on the podcast this week include: Robinhood is expanding beyond stock trading, introducing wealth management, private banking, and an AI investment tool. UK challenger bank Monzo h...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 951
About this episode of Fintech Insider: Benjamin Ensor is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the state of financial literacy - an increasingly crucial topic amid inflation, economic uncertainty, and rising living costs worldwide. Who should take the lead in teaching financial literacy: the government, the industry, parents, or individuals themselves? And what role does fintech play in shaping financial education? Tune is as we discuss! This week's guests Elisabeth Prager - Co-founder of Aila...
Apr 03, 2025•55 min•Ep. 950
About this episode: Host Ross Gallagher is joined by an expert panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services. Stories covered on the podcast this week include: The worlds of TradFi and crypto merging once again as Kraken buys NinjaTrader, Lumber securing $15.5M to boost workforce management with agentic AI, Project Nemo teaming up with HSBC Innovation Banking to enhance disability inclusion in fintech, Robinhood laun...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 949
