Fintech Insider By 11:fs

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and David Barton-Grimley, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Goldman is looking for a way out of its partnership with Apple - 4:35 Visa $1 billion buyout of Brazil's Pismo eases fintech M&A slowdown - 14:35 UK banks warned against closing accounts - 26:35 Open Banking education a must in Canada as only 9% have heard of it - 36:50 Taylor Swift fans caused 45% surge in UOB card applications across Southeast Asia - 47:50 Office plant potted 14 years ago is now a 600ft monster that covers ceiling and walls - 50:00 This week's guests include: Bruno Diniz, Managing Director, Spiralem Jason Mikula, Publisher, Fintech Business Weekly Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts includi

Our expert host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to ask: "Can financial services change how people think about money?” This week's guests include: Jason Bates, Co-Founder, 11:FS Rajan Lakhani, Head Of Public Relations, Plum Stephen Bowe, Director - Digital Experience & Innovation, Nationwide The way we manage money is incredibly complicated. Spend, save, invest, borrow, lend, pay-off – user journeys in financial services are all over the place So – can financial services smooth out the journey and make it more effective for consumers, and is it the place of banks and fintechs to change how users prioritise and budget? We put together a panel of experts to discuss: the status quo on services offered, how to build more intuitive options, and what the future could look like with more joined up thinking. Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brea

Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests for this latest edition of Fintech insider Focus! In this episode, we're looking at the turmoil in the VC space, what has changed in 2023, and what the next half of the year might look like for investment in fintech. This week's guests include: David Rolf, Head, Visa Ventures Sasha Pilch, Principal, Fin Capital Vivek Krishnamurthy, Principal, Commerce Ventures In the latest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we taking a burning question from financial services across the globe and put it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews – all to bring the global community into focus. This episode is sponsored by Visa Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program is streamlining the onboarding process for fintechs – enabling them to gain access to Visa’s powerful capabilities and network. Visa and their enablement partners help fintechs launch and scale cards, virtual credentials, and disbursem

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Benjamin Ensor, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: PSD3: The European Union unveils new open banking rules - 4:50 Wise sees profits soar amid customer boost and rising interest rates - 22:05 Robinhood acquires credit card startup X1 for $95M - 35:10 UK fintech TreasurySpring raises $29 million to scale its cash investment platform - 44:00 Integrated surveillance demand increases - 51:40 Checkout.com launches AI-powered optimisation engine to increase merchant revenue - 54:45 Cops arrest man for taping photos to a dummy to trick mobile banking facial recognition - 56:48 This week's guests include: Nilan Peiris, Chief Product Officer, Wise Sarah Kocianski, Independent Fintech Consultant With soundclips from: Jan van Vonno, Head of Industry & Wallets, Tink Kevin Cook, CEO & Co-Foun

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask: "“How do we get to the holy grail of cross border payments?” This week's guests include: Sara Castelhano, EMEA Payments & Commerce Solutions Product, JP Morgan William Artingstall, Global Co-Head Cross Border Payments and Receivables, Citi Cheap, universal, speedy, and secure – is that too much to ask for when moving money internationally? Moving money across the world is one of the biggest spaces in financial services and just keeps getting bigger. But, there’s still lots of issues and technical challenges still to overcome – even for the biggest players in the market. We've put together a panel of experts to discuss: the progresss made in cross-border payments to date, where the friction remains, and the next steps towards the holy grail of seamless cross border payments! Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 1

Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Ross Gallagher, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: European banks are putting "AI" in 30% of their job ads - 6:10 Majority, a digital bank for US migrants, grabs $9.75M amid expansion in Texas - 18:40 Revolut to launch Ultra, a new subscription plan - 32:05 UK Mortgage rates: Average two-year fix now above 6% - 41:20 Starling Bank renews sponsorship of Southampton FC women's football team - 49:10 Gen-Z is taking courses on how to send an email and what to wear in the office - 50:30 This week's guests include: Jonas Lornell, Commercial Director, Majority Nadia Edwards-Dashti, Chief Customer Officer, Harrington Starr Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including Da

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask "How does Big Tech shake up the payments industry?" This week's guests include: Alexandra Rivas-Gale, International Payments Product Lead, Clearbank Jim McCarthy, EVP of Product & Sales, Thredd Jorn Lambert, Chief Digital Officer, Mastercard It’s often said that, with every new feature launch, Apple can wipe out 100+ startups trying to do the same thing. But actually the relationship between financial services and Big Tech is way more complicated than that! Between partnerships, acquisitions, back-end processes, and public fallouts - there’s a lot of ways these two industries cross over and influence each other. In this show, we’ve put together a panel of amazing experts to discuss: how the relationship has developed to date, the challenges in that relationship, and what the future looks like for Big Tech and the payments industry. This episode is sponsored by Thredd Global Processing Services (GPS), the payments

In the latest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we’re taking a burning question from financial services across the globe - and really putting it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews all to bring the global community into focus. In this episode, Benjamin Ensor sat down with Eduardo Novillo Astrada, CEO & Co-Founder, Agrotoken to continue exploring the question set out in our previous Focus episode: "How do agriculture and fintech collide in LatAm?” Join us to hear about Agrotoken's approach to tokenising real-world assets, what this changes for farmers, and the importance of bartering to economy. This episode is sponsored by Visa Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program is streamlining the onboarding process for fintechs – enabling them to gain access to Visa’s powerful capabilities and network. Visa and their enablement partners help fintechs launch and scale cards, virtual credentials, and disbursement programs. To learn more visit, partner.visa

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Benjamin Ensor, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Andreessen Horowitz to open its first international office in London - 6:00 HSBC builds innovation division from the bones of collapsed SVB UK - 20:28 Citizens Bank and Wisetack announce partnership to expand embedded ‘pay over time’ solutions - 32:42 Nasdaq to buy financial software company Adenza in $10.5 billion cash-and-stock deal - 45:40 Desperate for dollars, Argentina just gave digital nomads another advantage over locals - 53:38 Oaknorth boss: Immigration barriers are threatening the UK’s fintech sector -56:00 Snoop Dogg's NFT tour pass lets fans 'travel the world' with him virtually - 57:45 This week's guests include: Anna Irrera, Senior Editor, Crypto, Bloomberg News Bobby Tzekin, CEO, Wisetack This episode is sponsore

Our expert host, David M. Brear, is asking: "What is Anne Boden’s legacy in fintech?" This week's guests include: Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank The fintech world has been rocked by the news that Starling Bank’s Founder and CEO, Anne Boden, is stepping back nine years after founding the company. A self-described “5ft tall Welsh woman”, who started a challenger bank in her mid-50s, Boden has been one of the sector’s most passionate and vital voices for the last decade. To give you a glimpse of that drive and determination, we are opening up the archives and we’re bringing you an interview from April 2020 on the 11:FS Breakfast Show. Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brear, Ross Gallagher, Benjamin Ensor, and Kate Moody - as well as a range of brilliant guests. We cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep d

Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the Money20/20 conference in Amsterdam! We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Open finance fintech Fabrick raises €40m, expands partnership with Mastercard - 6:30 Lucinity unveils generative AI-powered financial crime compliance copilot - 14:55 UK's newest bank Griffin secures £11m in funding round as it plots expansion - 27:15 Dutch fintech Klearly raises €2.1 million and officially launches its payments app in the Netherlands - 40.40 Our panel gives their highlights from Money20/20 - 49:10 This week's guests include: Jimmy Fong, CCO, SEON Katrina Beckwith, VP - Sales and Business Development, Episode Six Paolo Zaccardi, Co-Founder & CEO, Fabrick WIth soundclips from: Adam Moulson, CCO, Griffin Sam Koekoek, CEO And Co-Founder, Klearly This episode is sponsored by Thredd Global Processing Ser

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, are joined by some great guests at Money20/20 to ask: "How do we make back office payments processes sexy?" This week's guests include: Ben Morfoot, Director of Product, GoCardless Abid Mumtaz, Commercial Lead for Wise Platform, Wise With soundclips from: David Singleton, CTO, Stripe We get it – the stuff that gets into consumer’s hands is bound to get the most attention from the wider world. But, as certified fintech nerds, should we all be doing more to the bang the drum of the back-end of financial services - the oil in the machine that makes the whole thing operate? In this show, our expert panel discusses: Why do the back-office processes often get overlooked? What are the biggest challenges to shining a light on this niche? Could AI make back-end payments a hot industry topic? Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including D

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests for this latest edition of Fintech insider Focus! In this episode, we're looking at the relationship between agriculture and financial services in Latin America, the historical importance to economies across Latin America, and how this space is developing. This week's guests include: Pamela Ceballos, Senior. Director, Digital Partnerships, Fintech & Ventures, Visa Etienne Gillard, Head of Ventures, Mana Tech Juan Fantoni, CCO & Co-Founder, Pomelo In the latest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we taking a burning question from financial services across the globe and put it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews – all to bring the global community into focus. This episode is sponsored by Visa Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program is streamlining the onboarding process for fintechs – enabling them to gain access to Visa’s powerful capabilities and network. Visa and their enab

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Benjamin Ensor, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: QED closes on $925M to back fintech startups globally - 5:10 UK banks shortchanging savers with ‘measly’ rates, says Which? - 17:10 Klarna's losses halve as Swedish fintech predicts return to profit - 30:00 Plenty’s new wealth-building app targets couples blending finances - 39:45 Property fintech LendInvest sells £243m buy-to-let mortgage portfolio following financing deals - 49:50 HSBC opts for Innovation in rebranding of Silicon Valley Bank UK - 51:30 Amazon ditches Alexa’s celebrity voices and will issue refunds upon request - 53:30 This week's guests include: Jason Mikula, Publisher, Fintech Business Weekly Mike Carter, Head of Platform Lending, Innovate Finance With soundclips from: Emily Luk, CEO, Plenty This episode is sp

Our expert host, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to discuss how not to launch a bank! This week's guests include: David M. Brear, Group CEO, 11:FS Ewan Silver, Group CTO, 11:FS Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director, 11:FS Nas Ahmad, General Counsel, 11:FS At 11:FS, we’ve launched products in different markets, continents, and economic conditions across the globe. But, we often see many of the same challenges popping up again and again. So, we’re giving our experts the Tony Soprano treatment and inviting them to the podcasting therapy couch - to share the biggest hurdles to overcome when launching a product into the world. This is the second part of a two-episode discussion. Last time we focussed on spinning up a product - this time, we’re looking at that all-important launch! Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brear, Ross Gallaghe

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Ross Gallagher, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Bank of England plans to reject Revolut's bid for banking licence - 5:00 Brite Payments launches instant payments network - 17:20 Daylight, the LGBTQ+ neobank, calls it quits - 30:40 Fifth Third acquires Rize Money - 39:50 Jia, a blockchain-based lender of small businesses in emerging markets, raises $4.3 million seed - 50:30 Starling Bank chief Anne Boden to step down amid record profit - 53:40 Amazon's palm-scanning tech now lets you buy beer at a baseball game - 56:00 This week's guests include: Lena Hackelöer, CEO, Brite Payments Tom Bianco, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Embedded Payments, Fifth Third Bank With soundclips from: Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank Zach Marks, Co-Founder, Jia This episode is s

Our expert host, Ross, is joined by some great guests to discuss how not to build a bank! At 11:FS, we have experience building financial services products all over the world, with differing budgets, scales, target demographics, and functions. But, we often see many of the same challenges popping up again and again. Today we’re opening up the podcasting version of a rage room - to vent on the biggest hurdles to overcome when turning an idea from nothing into something. This is the first part of a two-episode discussion - with today’s show looking at that initial stage from idea to spinning up a minimal viable product for market. This week's guests include: David M. Brear, Group CEO, 11:FS Ewan Silver, Group CTO, 11:FS Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director, 11:FS Nas Ahmad, General Counsel, 11:FS Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brear, Ross Ga

In the latest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we’re taking a burning question from financial services across the globe - and really putting it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews all to bring the global community into focus. In this episode, David Barton-Grimley sat down with Surendra Chaplot, Global Head of Product at Wise to continue exploring the question set out in our previous Focus episode: "Will great UX keep European fintechs ahead of their competitors?" Join us to hear Wise' approach to transparency in UX, the challenges in the space still to overcome, and what's next for Wise. All of this, and so much more! This episode is sponsored by Visa Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program is streamlining the onboarding process for fintechs – enabling them to gain access to Visa’s powerful capabilities and network. Visa and their enablement partners help fintechs launch and scale cards, virtual credentials, and disbursement programs. To lea

Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor 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. We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: London pension fintech Smart gears up for deals after $95m funding injection - 5:00 Robinhood launching 24-Hour weekday stock trading - 17:45 Tiger Global looks to cash in part of $40bn portfolio of private companies - 28:40 M-KOPA snaps up $250M+ debt, equity for its asset financing platform - 37:50 More red faces at Revolut after boss accidentally hits the wrong phone button, sparking a probe - 46:55 ZestMoney founders resign in wake of failed sale - 48:55 George Osborne to chair Italian investment firm Lingotto - 51:00 This week's guests include: Dan Barker, Chief Marketing Officer, Smart Sophie Winwood, Investment Principal, Anthemis This episode is sponsored by Thredd Global Processing Services (GPS), the payments platform tr

Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Could 'mortgages as a service' mark the future of homebuying?" This week's guests include: Andrew Lloyd, Chief Customer Officer, Pexa UK Ewan Silver, Group CTO, 11:FS Francesca Carlesi, Co-Founder & CEO, Molo Finance We see embedded finance and banking as a service (or BaaS) as one of the next big evolutions in financial services - whether that’s embedded lending, payments, or insurance. But buying a house remains the biggest and most significant purchase of most people’s lifetimes - and the mortgage process remains a complete headache in most countries. Could partnerships between fintechs, banks, and non-financial players – where mortgage services are embedded at the point of need - be the answer? Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brear, Ross Gallagher, Benjamin Ensor, and