Fintech Insider By 11:fs

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