Fintech Insider By 11:fs

The podcast is back in the Big Apple with hosts Will White and Sam Maule! This week they are joined by some of fintech's finest to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Monica Murthy - Business Development at Alloy & Co-Founder at #HowSheWorks Sabrina Lamb - Founder & CEO at WorldofMoney, Founder & CEO at Wekeza Inc. Andres Garcia-Amaya, CEO at Zoe Financial We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Visa acquires Plaid for $5.3 billion (03:06) Banks announces fourth-quarter earnings (13:20) Amazon tells users to uninstall Honey (22:30) Goldman finally gets a Marcus app (27:18) Hong Kong’s first digital bank offers killer rate (34: 52) German savings fintech plans US launch (39:15) Challenger bank vies for the over 60 set (47:55) This episode is brought to you by FinovateEurope in Berlin on 11th – 13th February. Built around live, 7-minute demos of the latest fintech inno

In this week's insights show our host extraordinaire, Simon Taylor, is joined by some great guests to discuss the future of fintech VC investment. Joining Simon to talk about one of the industry's hottest topics is: Nick Sando - Fintech Investor at Octopus Ventures Yann Ranchere - Partner at Anthemis Vinoth Jayakumar - Principal and Investment Director at Draper Esprit Simon starts from the very beginning: where did fintech come from? What made it so attractive to investors? And why does it continue to be so popular? The guys rattle through these basic questions before taking a deep dive into investment thesis, talent, new opportunities and the changing investment space. Our guests have a wealth of experience in this subject area and spend the episode dissecting where fintech VC investment has been in the past and where it's going in the future. This episode is brought to you by FinovateEurope in Berlin on 11th – 13th February. Built around live, 7-minute demos of the latest fintech innovations,

Our expert hosts, David Brear and Simon Taylor, 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: Tram Anh Nguyen - Co-Founder of the Centre for Finance Technology and Entrepreneurship Shafali Gupta - VP Strategy & Ops at Fluidly Nathalie Oestmann - COO of Curve We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: The bids are in for Singapore’s digital banking licence (03:01) Banking errors open the new year (16:35) Hackers hold Travelex to ransom (27:11) UK regulators at work on digital data strategies (31:20) Monzo allegedly meeting with large investors to raise between £50 and £100 million in early 2020 (40:23) Australian Prudential Regulation Authority begins full investigation into Westpac over earlier child exploitation allegations (40:45) Citi starts recruitment drive to hire 2,500 coders from around the world (41:26) PayPal will acquire shopping rewar

Our expert host Sarah Kocianski is at Fintech Connect 2019 where she is joined by Marta Krupinska, Head of Google for Startups UK. Together they talk about how Google for Startups came about, what role it plays in the industry and what opportunities a company like this can offer to marginalised fintech founders! This episode is brought to you by FinovateEurope in Berlin on 11th – 13th February. Built around live, 7-minute demos of the latest fintech innovations, FinovateEurope is the continent’s premier fintech event. Network with more than 1200 senior-level attendees – with more than 50% from financial institutions. And gain insights from 150 expert speakers, who will be sharing their insights on the future of finance. For more information visit finovateeurope.com, and quote VIP Code 11FS for a 20% discount on your registration. Love fintech? Then sign up for our newsletter, Fintech in Five. A snack-sized selection of the week's biggest stories, longer reads, soundbites and more. Just visit this link

In today's episode, we bring you an interview with Kosta Peric, Deputy Director of Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Laura Watkins caught up with Kosta at Fintech Connect 2019 and the pair discuss the foundation, its open-source banking code project, and the growth of fintech to help underserved communities. Tune in for industry insights, a wealth of experience and much much more! Love fintech? Then sign up for our newsletter, Fintech in Five. A snack-sized selection of the week's biggest stories, longer reads, soundbites and more. Just visit this link to sign up! 11fs.com/newsletter 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, Leda Glyptis 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 in subject

In this Fintech Insider show Sarah Kocianski and Adam Davis are joined by some returning guests to look into their crystal balls and discuss their fintech predictions for the new year. Joining Adam and Sarah are: Melanie Palmer - Chief Marketing Officer at Nucoro Ed Maslaveckas - Chief Executive Officer at Bud Simon Vans-Colina - Co-founder at Fronted Will challenger banks become a present threat? Will open banking become the default? And will we see the widgetization of financial services? No one knows for certain, but there's all this and so much more on this week's episode of Fintech Insider! Love fintech? Then sign up for our newsletter, Fintech in Five. A snack-sized selection of the week's biggest stories, longer reads, soundbites and more. Just visit this link to sign up! 11fs.com/newsletter 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, Jaso

Season's greetings from 11:FS! As it's the most wonderful time of the year, David takes a few minutes to look back at all we've achieved in 2019. It's been quite a busy year! We've chatted to some of the biggest names in fintech, including will.i.am for the second time, we've done four After Dark shows as well as other live shows all around the world, and we’ve continued to have fantastic guests on the show week on week to dissect the latest news from across the industry. 11:FS has gone from strength to strength and we would like to thank every listener for supporting and contributing to our content this year. From everyone here at HQ, have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Love fintech? Then sign up for our newsletter, Fintech in Five. A snack-sized selection of the week's biggest stories, longer reads, soundbites and more. Just visit this link so sign up! 11fs.com/newsletter Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial servic

Happy holidays and season's greetings from 11:FS! To give you one last laugh before the end of the year we've rummaged through the archives to bring you a collection of stumbles, fumbles and absurdly mispronounced names from all the recordings this year. Thanks to all our guests who have contributed to the shows over the past year, and thank you for listening! Enjoy! Love fintech? Then sign up for our newsletter, Fintech in Five. A snack-sized selection of the week's biggest stories, longer reads, soundbites and more. Just visit this link so sign up! 11fs.com/newsletter 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, Leda Glyptis 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 in subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If

In the last Fintech Insider News show of the year expert hosts, David Brear and Simon Taylor, are joined by a panel of awesome guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. Making his Fintech Insider debut: Bradley Riss - Chief Commercial Officer at Checkout.com. And we also have some familiar faces returning to the show: Tom Blomfield - Cheif Executive Officer at Monzo Louise Hill - Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer at gohenry We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: RBS to pay £40m penalty for foreign exchange rigging (02:44) WeLab raises $156 million ahead of virtual bank launch (11:01) OakNorth sees first loan default (19:23) Incumbents and challengers hike overdraft rates (25:34) Venmo and PNC feud over glitch (34:06) Volt’s onboarding process begins (38:17) Three more payday lenders fold (46:50) Mastercard launches mobile gift card (57:12) Love fintech? Then sign up for our n

Joined by returning guests, David Brear and Simon Taylor are on hosting duties for this week's insights show. As 2019 draws to a close, the panel takes a look back at the most memorable and intriguing fintech stories from the past 12 months. This week's guests include: Valentina Kristensen - Director of Growth & Communications at OakNorth Ali Patersen - Editor in Chief at Fntech Finance Emily Nicolle - Technology Editor at City AM It was no easy feat narrowing down an entire year of fintech news, however, we revisited the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: That time RBS hid Natwest data breach from their customers (03:38) The RBS remedies fund (12:02) That time TFL and fintech went very very wrong (21:32) A busy year for Monzo (28:40) Honourable mentions that didn't quite make the cut (37:58) Bank of England finally welcomes fintechs (40:10) The 10 biggest US mergers and acquisitions in 2019 (43:17) K-Swiss' CEO sneakers (50:06) Love fintech? Then sig

This week David Brear is back in the Big Apple and is hosting today's Fintech Insider news show alongside Will White. Our expert hosts 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: Lindsay Davis - Senior Intelligence Analyst at CB Insights Arno Castanet - Director of Solution Marketing, Americas at Finastra Jon Zanoff - Managing Director at TechStars We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Chime quadruples valuation in less than a year (03:30) Robinhood tops 10 million accounts (15:48) Goldman to bring wealth management to the masses (31:32) Paul A Volcker, Former Fed Chairman, Dies at 92 (37:57) SoFi founder raises $100 million for new company (40:40) Andreessen-backed fintech’s ‘abusive’ boss sued for gender bias (49:50) One-digit sort code error costs Cambridge man his inheritance (59:27) Love fintech? Then sign up for our newsletter, Fin

In today's episode, we bring you an interview with Des McDaid, UK MD at Marcus by Goldman Sachs. Sarah Kocianski caught up with Des at Fintech Connect 2019 and the pair discuss Marcus' first year in the UK, its newest product offerings and the future of the Goldman Sachs online bank. Tune in for industry insights, a wealth of experience and much much more! Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS. 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, Leda Glyptis 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 in subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow u

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Adam Davis, are joined by some new and returning guests to talk about the latest goings-on in the world of fintech, financial services and banking. This week's guests include: Andrew Bud - Founder and CEO, iProov Livia Benisty - Global Head of Business AML at Banking Circle Jamie Campbell - CEO of Fronted Together, they cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Natwest and RBS suffer outages on Black Friday (04:37) Goldman taps the brakes on Marcus expansion in the UK (10:55) Zopa secures last-minute licence renewal (15:45) First Direct tops the charts twice in a week (24:26) Apple Pay speeds up payments on the tube (35:20) Monzo announce their US CEO (40:40) Roger Federer coins make a mint (46:30) Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS. Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech,

For our winter instalment of After Dark, we took over Revolut HQ to bring you 'A Fintech Christmas Carol' - an exploration of the past, present and future of financial services. Getting us into the spirit of giving, we were first joined by Lauren Murray, Humanitarian Child Protection Advisor from Save the Children who are working to repair 11 schools that were destroyed by a devastating cyclone in Mozambique. Kicking off the fintech fun, David Brear took to the stage as our narrator for the evening and was joined by a panel of three scrooges : Richard Davies - COO at Revolut Scott Abrahams - SVP of Business Development & Fintech at MasterCard Megan Caywood - Head of Digital Strategy at Barclays Joining them on stage and taking up hosting duties, David and guests were also visited by Simon Taylor, the Ghost of Christmas Past (04:53), Sarah Kocianski, the Ghost of Christmas Present (20:30), and Jason Bates, the Ghost of Christmas Future (36:25) and together they took a festive journey through the

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and David Brear are joined by some returning guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Olly Betts - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at OpenWrks Aman Kohli - Chief Technology Officer Banking and Capital Markets, DXC Technology Isabel Woodford - Fintech Journalist, Sifted Together, they cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Plaid expands further across Europe (02:24) - and we also hear from Plaid's Head of UK, Keith Grose, to tell us more. Goldman Sachs may be acquiring E-Trade or merging with US Bank (12:29) Westpac chief quits amid money laundering scandal (21:36) India’s Paytm raises $1 billion (30:40) Nationwide opens API sandbox for mortgage industry (37:28) Revolut launches GBP direct debits (44:17) Brazilian fintech says it’s the world’s first LGBT+ bank (50:26) RBS’s Bo moo-ves into the market (54:11) Check out our

Sam Maule is hosting today's Fintech Insider Interviews all the way from New York City! In this episode, Sam is joined by MarketSnacks co-founders Jack Kramer and Nick Martell, now Managing Editors of News and hosts of the rebranded Robinhood Snacks podcast and newsletter. Together they talk about how the brand came about, the power of podcasts with millennials and the ethics of democratising our financial systems. We're also given an insight into Jack and Nick's backgrounds, their take on emerging fintech markets in Latin America, and what the future holds for Robinhood Snacks. All this and much much more on today's Fintech Insider Interviews! Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS. 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, Leda Glyptis

Sam Maule and Will White are hosting this week's news show in New York and, as always, they're joined by some great guests. To talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, today's guests are: Phillip Rosen - CEO at Even Financial Ramona Ortega - Founder and CEO at My Money, My Future Charley Ma - NYC Growth Manager at Plaid We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Paypal acquires coupon browser Honey for $4 billion (02:50) Digital bank Chime will quadruple its revenue In 2019 (06:12) HSBC USA offers Real-Time Payments network to business clients (16:20) 88% of companies unprepared for California consumer privacy regulations (22:36) Elavon to acquire Sage Pay gateway (32:11) Alipay aims to serve 10 million European SMEs by 2024 (39:42) “Bark-lays” invites stressed students to puppy session (43:15) Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to wat

Recorded live from the Big Apple, our expert hosts, David Brear and Sam Maule, are joined by some fantastic guests at our After Dark event in New York to talk about all things fintech and banking in the US. For this After Dark show, David and Sam were joined by: Melissa Stevens - Chief Digital Officer Fifth Third Bank Angela Galardi Ceresnie - CEO of Climb Credit Chris Maddern - Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Button In our pun-filled show, we kick things off by discussing some of the biggest apples in the Big Apple. We dive into Marcus by Goldman Sachs, Silicon Valley's expansion into New York, Apple Pay, and much much more. (03:55) Next up, it's all about new skins and legacy cores. What are American fintechs’ secret sauce? What is their advantage over big banks, even if they’re not licensed? And, are fintech players even making a dent? (27:18) To round things off, we look towards the future - forbidden fruit and the next big apple. We discuss OCC being denied fintech charters, fas

Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Simon Taylor, are back to bring you up to speed with the fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. Joining them to discuss the latest headlines and most recent developments are some great guests including: Will Carmichael - CEO of Rooster Money Smriti Vicari - Executive Director of Fintech and Strategic Partnerships at Visa Europe Roisin Levine - Head of Banks at Flux This week we cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next year (01:50) Facebook launches Facebook Pay (08:19) Apple Card tweets lead to Goldman gender discrimination probe (14:33) HSBC and RBS set to launch new digital banking platforms (20:42) Starling tops one million accounts (28:49) Australian neobank 86 400 rolls out digital mortgage offering (35:13) Nationwide customers will see overdraft interest more than double to almost 40% (39:50) Harrods limits Christmas

On this week's combined news and insights show, David Brear hosts a live panel at Xerocon London 2019! On the first part of the show, David is joined by a couple of special guests to discuss some of the announcements that were made at Xerocon: Xero Pay partners with Transferwise for bill and reconciliation payments (03:32) Craig Walker - Co-founder and Executive GM of Payments & Billing Solutions at Xero Nilan Peiris - Vice President of Growth at TransferWise Iwoca and Xero working together to improve SME lending solutions (08: 52) Ben Johnson - Payments & Lending Partnerships Lead at Xero Lara Gilman - Chief Product Officer at iwoca Later in the show, things get heated at the F'in Debate where 4 teams go head-to-head to debate which is the most valuable or impactful aspect of cashflow to SMEs! (15:13) Divided into their debate teams, our special guests include: Team Spending: Carlo Gualandri - CEO of Soldo Frankie Kay - Director of Farnell Clarke Team Payments: Pranav Sood - Vic