Fintech Insider By 11:fs

Welcome to the latest installment of After Dark, called Starting from Scratch. We are joined by the best and the brightest in fintech and financial services industry to talk all about starting from zero, and building better financial systems. What do we mean by that? Well, just imagine… The year is 2040. We have exhausted nearly all of the earth’s natural resources. Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos/Richard Branson and others like them have won the space race and the first colony has now arrived on Mars. Billions will follow over the weeks and months. There is much to be done. We are getting on our rocket to head off to Mars, tasked with building the planet’s first banking ecosystem. There are no rules, no regulations and no limits. We have the opportunity to shed the baggage of the existing systems on Earth and completely start again. To build a whole new banking system from scratch: What do you do? Where do you begin? Our fantastic panel conists of; Hosts: David Brear, 11:FS Group CEO Jason Bates, 11:FS

Our expert host, David Brear, is joined by some great guests to talk about Australian fintech. The market has grown exponentially over the last few years, with the pandemic pushing Austailians further into digital and providing a major catalyst for tech companies. But what does the market look like, what technologies are paving the way, and what opportunities does the market offer fintech founders? This week's guests include: Dexter Cousins, Founder, Tier One People Simone Joyce, CEO & Co-Founder, Paypa Plane & Chair of Fintech Australia Matt Baxby, Country CEO of Revolut Australia All of this and much more on today's episode! This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper

Time for a bonus episode! Our expert host, David Brear, is joined by Lotanna Ezeike, Co-Founder and CEO at XPO, to talk all things social media influencers, the creator economy & banking. Join us for some myth-busting about influencers, challenge David's opinions from a few episodes back, and shed some light on the subject for our listeners. All of this and much more on today's episode! Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates and Sarah Kocianski and joined by a range of brilliant guests, we cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Gwera Kiwana, 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: Frederick Lavoie, co-founder and COO, Flinks Sharon Kimathi, Inclusive Economies Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Amazon partners Affirm to offer customers BNPL option 4:32 National Bank of Canada invests $103M in Flinks, including $30M in growth capital 15:45 Alpaca raises $50m; moves into crypto trading 28:32 Wombat to raise £10 million to expand into Europe 38:52 Nubank seeks $55bn valuation in IPO 47:12 Invest at PayPal could compete with Robinhood and Square’s retail stock trading 48:34 Railsbank and Status Money create credit card with crypto investment rewards 50:27 Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k 52:25 This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in ban

Our expert hosts, David Brear, Simon Taylor and Jason Bates, come together to answer all of your burning question in this Ask Me Anything episode. How surprised are they by the rise of the neobanks in the US? Is there a grave danger all the best engineers get sucked into and away from traditional FS businesses? When Hollywood decides to make 11:FS The Movie, who would David, Simon and Jason want to play them? Tune in to hear so much more, and hey - maybe next time, we'll be answering your questions! This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are

Our expert hosts, David Brear and Pierre Legrand, 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: John Waupsh, CEO and founder, Nerve Colin Kennedy, Chief Business Officer, Ramp We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Ramp raises $300M and acquires Buyer to offer "negotiation-as-a-service" 3:30 Revolut introduces salary-advance feature in the UK 13:25 Nerve, World’s First Neobank Created for Musicians Launched 24:49 World Remit rebrands as Zepz and raises £292M 36:49 Socially conscious fintech Aspiration to go public via a SPAC merger 41:45 Balance raises $25 million in Series A funding 42:51 African fintech OPay valued at $2bn after a $400m raise 43:50 Hargreaves Lansdown creates confusion with ad campaign citing a Monzo IPO 45:00 Al of this and much more more on today's episode! This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s

Our expert hosts, David Brear and Amy Gavin, are joined by some great guests to talk about innovation in the buy now pay later products. Most people think of huge players such as Klarna & Afterpay, but increasingly we are seeing more and more specialised providers entering the market, and in new geographies. We wanted to revisit this topic, to find out where the innovation is really coming from. This week's guests include: Arad Levertov, CEO & Co-Founder, Sunbit Timothy Davis, CEO & Co-Founder, Butter.co.uk All of this and much more on today's episode! This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are

Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Gwera Kiwana, 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: Rod Lockhart, CEO at LendInvest Sam Maule, Key Account Exec at Google Cloud We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Chime raises $750m at $25bn valuation 3:04 LendInvest secures £150m partnership with Barclays and HSBC 16:01 JP Morgan and AmEx invest in Plaid 30:27 UK banks plan to share branches as regulator seeks to block closures 41:35 Brex buys Israel’s Weav 50:45 'Personalised credit' startup Keebo raises £5 million in seed funding 52:00 Starling tops CMA ratings for business banking quality 53:45 HSBC joining the bank card accessibility push with new ‘vertical’ designs 54:44 This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make bank

Our expert host, Simon Taylor, is joined by some great guests to talk about AI and machine learning in the context of financial services. We cover how AI/ML will change financial services, what the difference between AI & ML in Financial Services is, what the biggest benefits of AI/ML are, how do we work with bias and how far can we take it? This week's guests include: Amanda Cercas Curry, PhD student Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and co-host of the podcast Let's Chat Ethics Teddy Flo, General Council, Zest AI Dorel Blitz, VP Strategy & Business development, Personetics All of this and much much more on today's episode! This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-e

Our expert hosts, David Brear and Lindsey Kistler, are joined by some great guests to talk about designing products for fintech & insurtech. We cover how to make design in the context of Fintech & insurtech stand out, gamification, getting information across to users seamlessly, the role of the UX designer, and much much more. This week's guests include: Dominic Holton, COO, DeadHappy Edoardo Moreni, Co-Founder & CEO, Emma All of this and much much more on today's episode! This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are twice better than th

Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Nick Funnell, are joined by some great guests to talk about the role of the engineer in the context of Fintech. Engineers are essential to any software company, large or small, but they may not always be the most front-facing figures in a product build. Engineers are traditionally seen as builders, and what we will get into today is how the face of the engineer has changed since the birth of fintech, what are some challenges they face, and how do they go about explaining technical processes to their stakeholders? This week's guests include: Simon Vans-Colina, Co-Founder at Fronted Chris Margonis, Senior Developer, Plum Amber Goldberg, Software developer at Curve All of this and much much more on today's episode! This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individ

Our expert hosts, David Brear and Gwera Kiwana, 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: Layla Qassim, Head of Strategy and Shareholder Relations at Solarisbank Alex Frean, Head of Corporate Affairs at Starling Bank We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Solarisbank raises $224M and acquires its competitor 4:19 Starling Bank makes their first acquisition as they buy Fleet Mortgages for $50m, while flying high in account switching race 9:40 Visa to acquire CurrencyCloud 23:10 Lloyds and Mastercard aim to take A2A payments mainstream 27:51 Gojek integrates with Jago for digital banking push 40:20 Tesco Bank to close all its current accounts 41:30 Goldman Sachs boosts transaction banking biz with Fiserv tie-up 43:10 Chicago Bulls team up with Shopify to launch an NFT series 44:30 This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the

Our expert host, Simon Taylor, is joined by some great guests to talk about what is happening in the world of payments. The world is moving away from traditional payment methods - what now? This is not only on the consumer side, there is a lot of innovation on the B2B side as well. Is this movement only a good thing, is there a financial inclusion angle here and will our wallets get completely swapped out for our mobile phones? Listen in to find out more about this and much much more! This week's expert guests include: Myles Stephenson, CEO, Modulr Keith Grose, Head of UK, Plaid Sophie Guibaud, Chief Growth Officer, OpenPayd Vegar Wikhammer Heir, Chief Commercial Officer, Vipps This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software bank

Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Adam Davis, 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: Carlo Gualandri, Founder and CEO at Soldo Kate Drew, Director of Research at CCG Catalyst Consulting We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Revolut raises $800 million to become UK's most valuable fintech 5:20 Soldo raises $180M for its business expense platform 17:51 Square launches small business banking 32:10 IPO roundup: Robinhood is seeking a market valuation as high as $35 billion from their upcoming IPO and Paytm look to IPO in India with a raise of $2.2bn 42:55 Yapily raises $51M for its open banking API 52:59 Serena Williams invests in credit building startup Esusu 55:16 Treasury Prime announce Customizable Card Controls to Increase Transactions While Reducing Fraud 57:10 FCA loses £300k worth of electronic devices, this news arises a year aft

Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Mariette Ferreira, are joined by some great guests to dive into all things influencer marketing. Influencer marketing is something common in travel, fashion and beauty, but it’s also become a common phenomenon in the financial industries. We want to look at what influencer marketing looks like in the context of finance, how it is executed but also some of the barriers that surround it. Listen in to find out more about this and much much more! This week's expert guests include: Alexandra Frean, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Starling Bank Adam Hadi, VP Marketing at Current AJ Coyne, Head of Marketing, Klarna This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital exper

Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski 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: Ali Niknam, Founder & CEO, Bunq Nigel Verdon, CEO, Railsbank We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Bunq celebrates $228 million funding! 2:40 Railsbank raises $70m in global expansion plans 12:21 NatWest launches carbon footprint tracker for its mobile banking app 26:06 The BuyNowPayLater roundup, starting with: Apple partners Goldman Sachs for BNPL play 35:30 US proptech Better HoldCo has acquired UK mortgage provider Trussle 45:18 NAB invests A$160m in branch revamp 46:38 Tide banking valued at $650m, after securing $100m in funding 48:20 Nude lets couples ‘Team-up’ to see each other’s savings progress 50:36 This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion pe

Our expert hosts, David Brear and Tim Heard, are joined by some great guests to dive into all thing new banking business models. We start by looking at what the industry looks like now. Where are we, what are the banking models that we’ve seen come out and how has the industry changed due to them? What is driving transformation and new business models, is it new tech, or is it that banks are trying to keep up with others, or is it down to customer expectations? The second part of this conversation focuses on looking at digital transformation in the financial industries, and how we best take advantage of these and what the bank of the future will look like. How do we best take advantage of new business models? Listen in to find out more about this and much much more! This week's expert guests include: Janine Hirt, CEO, Innovate Finance Sam Sidhu, President & CEO, Customers Bank This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks ser

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Gwera Kiwana, 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: Billie Simmons, CCO and co-founder, Daylight Peter Lord, CEO of Codat Soundbite: Daniel Marovitz, Senior Vice President of Fintech, Booking.com We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Robinhood files to go public 2:40 Daylight raises millions to build a digital banking platform designed for and by the LGBTQ+ community 14:58 Codat raises $40M from Tiger for its SMB-focused API service 27:54 Booking.com creates fintech unit 37:00 Nigeria's FairMoney raises $42m 48:02 Pleo raises $150M for managing expenses for SMBs 49:06 Barclays stops UK clients from sending funds to Binance 50:11 Chase customers become instant billionaires 51:26 This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks s

Our expert host, Sarah Kocianski, is joined by some great guests to dive into the gig economy. The gig economy is en route to generate $455 billion globally by 2023, and in 2020 gig workers represented around 35% of the US workforce. There currently is no universal definition of a gig worker, but one common explanation is that gig workers are independent contractors or freelancers who typically do short-terms work for multiple clients. Why is it so difficult for financial services companies to cater to gig workers? Are the workers' financial needs too unusual? What impact does a growing gig economy have on the financial services industry — does it force providers to look for ways to serve the market to avoid being left behind? These are some of the questions we try to answer on today's episode. This week's expert guests include: Craig Lewis, Founder & CEO, Gigwage Oona Rokyta, Co - Founder & CEO, Lance Atif Siddiqi, Founder & CEO, Branch This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the wo

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher 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: Gabriel le Roux, Co-founder of Primer.io Joakim Sjöblom, Co-founder and CEO of Minna Technologies Soundbites: Oliver Prill, CEO Tide We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Visa to buy Swedish fintech Tink for $2.2 billion 3:51 Nordic mobile wallets Vipps, MobilePay and Pivo to merge 15:20 Tide prepares to enter India with a 5 year strategy 27:04 Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK 41:45 Mastercard and Ant back effort to get a billion people to take green action 49:52 Killer Mike's bank has to postpone its launch again to catch up to high customer demand 51:33 SoftBank shrinks robotics business, stops Pepper production 53:10 Fed official warns CBDCs could be an “embarrassing fad”and compares them to MC Hammer’s trousers 5