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Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Melissa Stringer, 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: Keith Grose, Head of Europe, Plaid Emily Nicolle, Fintech Correspondent, Financial News We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Plaid raised $425 million in a Series D funding round for a global financial data network 51:40 Coinbase Posts Record $1.8 Billion In Revenue As Crypto Market Shoots Past $2 Trillion 13:10 Revolut to launch major US blitz as it targets a million users this year 23:49 Brazilian Central Bank Gives Green Light To WhatsApp Payments as Facebook US tests P2P payments 35:50 Snoop partners with Accepty for 'hyper-personalised' lending tool 43:40 Clubhouse partners with Stripe to let you send money directly to creators by tapping on their profile 45:24 Former banking lobby chief Jones joins shared branches start-up OneBanks 47:30 Coin-

Our expert host Sarah Kocianski is joined by some great guests to talk about building and maintaining trust in digital financial services. Right now, trust in the FS industry is rising and trust in the tech industry is decreasing — how can we balance the two and create financial products and services that customers trust? We have published a research report with Mitek on this exact topic and we leant on the framework of that report for today’s discussion to look at 4 areas of focus today: capability, competence, care and purpose when it comes to building trust. This week's guests include: Stephen Ritter - Mitek CTO Andy Moore - Design Director, ANNA Money Becky Danks - Product Manager at Yapily To find out more, download the report with Mitek here: http://bit.ly/digitaltrustreport2021 This episode is sponsored by Banking Circle A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Financial Institutions and large corporates direct access to clearing in multiple countries, enabling them

Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Melissa Stringer, 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: Daniel Lanyon, Editor in Chief at Altfi. Nuno Sebastao - CEO Feedzai We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Regulator applies brakes to Crowdcube and Seedrs merger, we also heard from CEO & co-founder of Crowdcube Darren Westlake to give us their perspective (3:10) Feedzai achieves Unicorn status on $200 million fund raise (15:03) Santander UK to close 111 branches and overhaul office space as Nationwide allows employees to “work from anywhere” (29:11) Stripe invests in Ramp at $1.6 Billion Valuation (37:10) FS giants join $40m Greenwood funding round (44:08) US fintech Sincere to target “pet parents” with debit cards (52:47) This episode is sponsored by Banking Circle A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Financial Insti

Our expert host Simon Taylor is joined by a panel of great guests to talk about payroll APIs. Fintech enablers and infrastructure has been one of the most important catalysts for recent growth in the financial services. In recent months we’ve seen new platforms pop up that give fintechs access to more data, using payroll APIs. But what is it, how does it work and what problems does it really solve? This week's guests include: Kurt Lin, Co-Founder & CEO of Pinwheel Ahmed Siddiqui, VP Product, Branch Katie Neal, Outreach and advocacy manager, Plaid This episode is brought to you by Banking Circle. A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Financial Institutions and large corporates direct access to clearing in multiple countries, enabling them to deliver global payments faster and more cost-effectively for their customers. Bypass legacy systems, enable global banking services for your customers and grow your business. Find out more at bankingcircle.com Fintech Insider by 1

Our expert hosts Adam Davis 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: Charles McManus, CEO of Clear Bank Babs Ogundeyi, Founder and CEO of Kuda Bank We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: The dark side of BaaS: One third of European fintechs have faced regulatory intervention because of their partner bank 02:31 Nigerian challenger Kuda Bank raises $25m in Series A funding 20:12 OakNorth profits surge to £77.6m despite pandemic 36:22 Comment from Valentina Kristensen, Director of Marketing and Comms at OakNorth 37:29 Freetrade raises £50M 45:25 Zopa raises £20 million after exceeding bank performance targets 53:25 Comment from Jaidev Janardana, CEO of Zopa 54:27 Monty Python gets in on NFTs 01:04:23 This episode is sponsored by Banking Circle A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Fina

Simon is joined by some great guests to talk about to talk about banking architecture and how banking technology is structured. We’re looking at how bank tech works today, how it's typically and histrocially been strucutred and why that playbook doesn't necessarily work in a digital age. We discuss the challenges the big banks currently face but also the opportunities that they could take advantage of and how to get there. This week's guests include: Ewan Silver, 11:FS CTO Simon Van-Colina, CTO and Co-founder of Fronted Peter Hazlehurst, Co-founder and CEO and Synctera Christin Brown, Global Financial Services Strategy & Solutions Lead, at Google Cloud. *This episode is sponsored by Banking Circle! * A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Financial Institutions and large corporates direct access to clearing in multiple countries, enabling them to deliver global payments faster and more cost-effectively for their customers. Bypass legacy systems, enable global banki

Our expert hosts, David Brear and Mel Stringer 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: Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior City Correspondent at Yahoo Finance Miguel Armaza, Co-President & Podcast host, Wharton Fintech We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Stripe raises $600 million at a $95bn valuation BlockFi Completes $350 Million Series D Funding Round New challenger Ikigai (ee-key-guy) combines digital banking and wealth management CommBank steps into BNPL fray Tencent Loses $62 Billion, Wiping Out Value of Fintech Business And Elon Musk now identifies as Technoking of Tesla *This episode is sponsored by Banking Circle! * A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Financial Institutions and large corporates direct access to clearing in multiple countries, enabling them to deliver global payments faster and more cost

Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski & Adam Davis are back leading another Fintech Insider After Dark event! This time we are focussing on Open Finance. Open Finance is easily one of the hottest topics in the financial services industries at this moment, but how much do we actually know about this technology? The panel takes a look at what the differences and similarities are compared to the PSD2 implementation, and what some of the concerns are in regards to GDPR and customer security. We also talk about what opprtunities this technology opens up, bust some common myths and answer the burning question: Should we be excited about the possibilities of Open Finance? Joining us to talk about this are: Dan Kahn, Open Finance Lead at Plaid Jack Wilson, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, TrueLayer Nilixa Devlukia, Founder, Payments Solved This podcast is brought to you by Mitek. Digital Identity Verification trusted the world over - secure more high-value customers while reducing risk and costs with Mit

Welcome to Fintech Insider 'In conversation with", recorded live on Clubhouse. In this very special episode, David and Jason spoke to Boe Hartman, CTO at Nomi Health, and one of the lead architects behind Marcus by Goldman Sachs to discuss whether banks can really build tech? Boe shares some key learnings from his career to date; how he created change within some of the biggest banks in the world, the challenges he faced and how he overcame them; and also insights into his brand new start up in the insurtech space, Nomi Health. Come and join the conversation next time we're live! Search 11:FS Fintech Insider on Clubhouse to join our club! 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 int

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Adam Davies, 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: Alex Frean - Head of Corporate Affairs, Starling Bank Alan Ainsworth, Head of Policy for Open Banking We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Starling eyes M&A as it is valued at £1.1bn in £272m funding round OBIE and UK Finance set out the future model for Open Banking Passion Capital invites the general public to join venture fund SoFi to buy community lender to accelerate bank charter application Africa’s Flutterwave banks $170 million in fresh capital And finally - the Winklevoss twins' crypto company to sponsor Oxford and Cambridge boat race *This episode is sponsored by Banking Circle! * A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Financial Institutions and large corporates direct access to clearing in multiple countries,

This Monday was International Women’s day, and theme of the day is #ChooseToChallenge. So on today’s show we’re choosing to challenge why fintech app assistants are overwhelmingly female, what this means for the industry and particularly for the view of women in the industry, and whether app assistants should have a name or a gender at all. Sarah Kocianski hosts a fantastic panel of guests to dig deep into this. We were joined by: Emily Nicolle - Fintech correspondent, Financial News Soledad Abad - UX and content designer, BBVA Elise Nunn - Head of Product Data at Plum Amanda Cercas Curry, PhD student Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and co-host of the podcast Let's Chat Ethics As always, if you want to join the conversation, find us on social media just search for 11:FS or Fintech Insider or email podcasts@11fs.com 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

Our expert hosts, Ross and Mel, 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: Asya Bradley, Founder and COO First Boulevard Anna Irrera, Fintech Correspondent, Reuters We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Square Financial Services Begins Banking Operations First Boulevard raises $5m for Black community-focused neobank FCA hires top team of women to stem financial scandals Revolut, Starling Bank and Wise bosses among 15 CEOs joining Bulb’s Tech Zero taskforce Money for Nothing as Crowdcube funding record is smashed Banking as a Service is deconstructing the banking stack. It's enabling brands to embed finance more easily, and to tailor financial products to specific customer needs. This is presenting new opportunities for specialised providers and offers banks extra revenue streams. Download our report for a comprehensive, no BS view of w

Our expert hosts, David Brear 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. This week's guests include: Ron Kalifa, OBE, Chairman of Network International and Future Learn Charlotte Crosswell, CEO of Innovate Finance We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: The Kalifa Fintech Review 03:22 Basiq brings Open Banking to bear on consumer BNPL debt as AfterPay teams up with Stripe 31:58 Former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney joins the board of Stripe 39:21 Brex files for bank charter 48:18 Michael Bolton wants you to break up with your brokerage 1:03:19 Banking as a Service is deconstructing the banking stack. It's enabling brands to embed finance more easily, and to tailor financial products to specific customer needs. This is presenting new opportunities for specialised providers and offers banks extra revenue streams. Download our report for a comprehe

Simon Taylor is joined by some great guests to talk about cashless societies. In recen years the popularity of cash has dwindled as digital payments have become faster, cheaper and more convenient. In the UK, Sweden, China and many parts of the world we’re moving closer and closer to a cashless economy. The panel explores what would happen if we started from scratch now: What would our ideal financial system look like and how can we get from where we are now to where we want to be - and would we use cash at all? Joining us today are: David Dechamps – Senior Vice President, Digital Payments & Labs for Mastercard in Europe Joseph Hajj - Chief Strategy Officer, Swish Nadia Costanzo - Head of Banking for MEA & Latin America at Wise This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically differentiate their digital offerings from those of MegaBanks, BigTechs and FinTechs. Banking as a Serv

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Mel Stringer, 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: Jamie Campbell, CEO and co-founder, Fronted Tom Renwick, Business Banking Propositions Manager at Atom Bank Jonas Templestein, CTO and co-founder of Monzo We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Atom signs Open Banking deal with Plaid A big week for Monzo Fronted launches to offer loans to cover rent deposits IPOs: Marqeta has filed for one, PensionBee plans to give customers access to their shares when they IPO, and many US fintechs take the SPAC route to going public Build your own bank: Ikea acquires 49% stake in Ikano Bank This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically differentiate their digital offerings from those of MegaBank

On the surface, the world of payments is constantly evolving. With the likes of PayPal, Venmo and a multitude of other consumer fintechs, peer-to-peer payments and consumer-to-business payments have seen rapid and innovative advancements in recent year. The same, however, cannot be said for business-to-business. Although global B2B payments dwarf any other kind, they still seem to dwell in a relative Stone Age of innovation and efficiency. So how can B2B payments be better? Are stablecoins the answer or does the solution lie in the existing infrastructure? In this episode, Simon Taylor and guests try to answer just that. Joining the show this week are: Jeremy Allaire - Co-founder and CEO at Circle Rita Liu - Chief Operating Officer at Mode Robert Leshner - Founder & CEO, Compound This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically differentiate their digital offerings from those of M

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor 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. This week's guests include: Rhian Lewis - Author of the Cryptocurrency Revolution & Co-developer of altcoin portfolio tracker CountMyCrypto Nicolas Weng Kan - CEO of Yolt and Yolt Technology Services We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Tesla says it has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin Yolt brings Open Banking to mortgage lending Monzo on course to raise a further £50 million Klarna opens first bank account; eyes $500 million fund raise Anonymous fintech start-up Millions raises $3 million and gives away cash on Twitter This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically differentiate their digital offerings from those of MegaBanks, BigTechs and FinTechs. Bank

In this episode of Fintech Insider, David Brear and guests delve into all things cloud. Focusing on how banks and financial services can migrate to the cloud and remain compliant along the way, we also examine how technology and regulation can work together as cloud technology evolves. Joining David to discuss the topic are: Howard Boville - Head of IBM Hybrid Cloud Platform Jo Ann Barefoot - CEO & Cofounder at Alliance for Innovative Regulation; Cofounder at Hummingbird Regtech Together they explore the regulatory challenges in financial services and how cloud implementation can help, the ways in which technology and regulation can work symbiotically, and their predictions on what will come next in the cloud and finance space. This episode is sponsored by IBM. Want to check out the IBM Public cloud offering? Check it out here! http://ibm.co/36eJOnC Banking as a Service is deconstructing the banking stack. It's enabling brands to embed finance more easily, and to tailor financial products t

Between various office moves, company growth and of course, the pandemic, 4+ years and 500 episodes has whizzed by. In honour of the momentous occasion, David Brear, Simon Taylor and Jason Bates have come back together to look back on the biggest fintech and financial services topics from our time in your podcast feed. We take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of our key episodes and catch up with some of our favourite guests. Joining us for this special episode are: Anna Irrera - Chief Correspondent at Reuters Jack Gavigan - Executive Director at the Zcash Foundation Nick Ogden - Founder of RTGS.Global and Clear Bank Sam Maule - Key Account Executive at Google This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically differentiate their digital offerings from those of MegaBanks, BigTechs and FinTechs. This podcast is also brought to you by Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK). Mitek is a global l

Between BaaS and SaaS, cloud and core banking it seems like every company is involved in outsourcing in some way. In this episode, we lift the lid on how outsourcing works in the banking ecosystem from an integration, risk and compliance standpoint, and explore the opportunities and challenges that come along with it. Joining David to discuss this week are: Latha Katam - COO, RFT at Deutsche Bank Andreas Wolf - Chief Commercial Officer at Raisin Bank and Head of Banking at Raisin Joanne Dewar - CEO at Global Processing Services This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically differentiate their digital offerings from those of MegaBanks, BigTechs and FinTechs. This podcast is also brought to you by Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK). Mitek is a global leader in mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions built on the latest advancements in computer vision, artificial intelligenc