Fintech Insider By 11:fs

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