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Credit can be a lifeline in times of crisis but the credit risk models banks rely on are simply no longer fit for the realities of today. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on everyone’s finances, apart from the lucky few, and post pandemic the need for credit has never been greater. Simon Taylor is joined by some fantastic guests to discuss how the current system of credit is in dire need of an overaul and how Open Banking can help lenders to provide financial products and services that meet the needs of customers. Joining this week's show we have: Freddy Kelly - CEO, Credit Kudos Paul Harrald - Head of Curve Credit Francesca Carlesi - Co-founder and CEO, Molo Finance 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 Pento - the UK’s first automated payroll pla

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: Daniel Lanyon - Editor in Chief, Altfi Shaun Puckrin - Chief Product Officer, GPS We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Google moves into Venmo and bank territory with checking accounts and updated payment app Starling hits profitability for the first time Daylight launches LGBT+ digital banking platform JPMorgan pushes ahead with UK digital bank plans From a UK challenger to a US one: Current snags $131 million in Series C funding The Queen expresses interest in blockchain technology 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

In the midst of a second national lockdown in England, Adam Davis and guests take a look back at what's happened during and since the last, larger lockdown and the lessons we’ve learned as an industry that can help us going forward. This week's guests include: Jana Lvova - Head of Fintech Europe, Visa Simon Cureton - CEO, Funding Options James Smith - Director of Digital, Nationwide Building Society 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 Pento - the UK’s first automated payroll platform. Say goodbye to clumsy spreadsheets, endless emails with external payroll providers and manual payments. Pento lets you run payroll in just a few clicks. It calculates taxes, integrates with platforms like Xero and makes all the payments and reports to HMRC & pensi

Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski 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: David Jarvis - CEO of Griffin Anna Irrera - Fintech Correspondent, Reuters Ginger Schmeltzer - Senior Analyst, Aite Group We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Santander buys Wirecard’s core European business for €100m Staying with BaaS: Griffin and Railsbank raise funds, and Marqeta and Uber team up on cards PNC to buy BBVA US Brazil launches instant payments platform; expects WhatsApp to return soon Lanistar is a “first in fintech” according to Forbes, but the FCA warn consumers against using its services Rooster Money predicts what all the kids want for Christmas 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 the

The path to profitability for many fintechs has not been an easy one. Much like disruptive technology and media companies, for the vast majority of challenger banks, their number one objective has been growth and building a loyal customer base, rather than prioritizing making a profit. However, as the UK plunges into the deepest recession on record, challenger banks are under renewed pressure from both inside and outside of the industry to start making a profit. In today’s show, David Brear is joined by some great guests to explore the topic: Adam Davis - Head of Delivery, 11:FS Lianna Brinded - Head of Yahoo Finance UK Alexandra Frean - Head of Corporate Affairs, Starling Tune in for an exploration for why profit has evaded some banks, why it’s such a hot topic in the media and if the goal of profit is even necessary at this stage. This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategicall

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Adam Davis 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: Babs Ogundeyi - CEO of Kuda Sharon Kimathi - Editor of FinTech Futures Rune Garborg - CEO at Vipps We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: WhatsApp gets approval for payments in India (03:00) Kuda raises $10m to be the mobile first challenger bank for Africa (14:39) HSBC to launch “Transferwise rival” (28:25) Cash payments plummet to just four percent of transactions in Norway as central bank weighs up their options (39:28) US Department of Justice, challenges Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid (49:13) Klarna gets sued by Pablo Escobar’s brother (1:02:10) 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 of

During the pandemic reports of financial and economic abuse have been on the rise. According to the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, 95% of people who experience domestic abuse are also experiencing some form of economic abuse. With many of us now spending the vast majority of our time in our homes, the home can be an even more dangerous place for survivors – and banks now need to step up to deal with the problem. To dive into this topic, Sam Maule is joined by: Natalie Ledward - Vulnerability Manager, Monzo Bank Jane Barratt - Chief Advocacy Officer, MX Dr. Nicola Sharp-Jeffs - Founder And Chief Executive, Surviving Economic Abuse Tune in for a fantastically insightful conversation about how economic abuse functions and the role that financial institutions can play in preventing it. 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 tho

Our expert hosts, Sam Maule 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: Emily Nicolle, Fintech Correspondent, Financial News Mike Douglas, VP Strategy, Galileo We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: This is Goldman’s bet to break into a $32 billion industry serving the world's biggest corporations (03:00) Banks stay bullish despite worsening pandemic (12:04) Ant Group IPO is blocked in Shanghai (23:35) Fast, a Startup Backed by Stripe, Discusses Billion-Dollar Valuation (33:49) Barclays launches accelerator for black-founded tech firms (40:32) Mesut Ozil joins US venture capital firm Class 5 Global (53:41) 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 Me

For many, 2020 has proven to be a year of struggle. Between a pandemic, widespread social unrest and a recession, Black and Latinx communities in the US are amongst those who have been hit the hardest - not just by the country's growing Covid-related death toll, but also in terms of financial loss. In today's episode of the show, we are talking about the US’ racial wealth gap. Differences in income and income losses - like those experienced as a result of the coronavirus lockdowns - is one factor, but that doesn’t tell the full story about why the United States' racial wealth gap is widening. To dig into this topic, Sam is joined today by : Jennifer Tescher - President and CEO, Financial Health Network Yemi Rose - Founder of OfColor Reese Giddins - President and CTO at Greenwood 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, Ross Gallagher 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: Clare Gambardella - Chief Customer Officer at Zopa Chris Skinner, author, speaker - CEO at the Finanser and fintech guru We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Ant Group to raise $34.5 billion, valuing it at over $313 billion, in biggest IPO of all time (02:43) PayPal allows cryptocurrency on their platform, and JPMorgan creates new unit for blockchain projects (16:14) Afterpay teams up with Westpac to offer savings account for Australians (28:02) Zopa’s long-awaited credit card is here (38:14) UBS to invest $200 million in fintech startups (49:00) Hand over the trash: raccoons break into California bank (01:05:37) This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community finan

As the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak began to be recognised by world leaders, a wide-scale shift to remote working and social distanced interaction rapidly increased the pressure on cybersecurity teams. As October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, in this episode of Fintech Insider, Sarah Kocianski is joined by some great guests to dive into the topic of cybersecurity in the financial services and fintech space! Exploring the biggest threats and best solutions, our guests for this episode are: Joe Bloemendaal - Head of Strategy, Mitek Oliver Rooney, CTO, Voxsmart Ewan Silver - CTO, 11:FS 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

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: Shaun Puckrin, Chief Product Officer, Global Processing Services Chris Maddern - Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Button We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack. We also hear a soundbite from Matt Henderson, EMEA Lead for Stripe. (02:06) Marqeta: Covid-19 has forced three-quarters of banks to change their future banking strategy (14:18) Visa invests in GPS (26:16) Robinhood warns users about margin calls and nearly 2000 accounts breached by hackers (37:00) ESG funds forecast to outnumber conventional funds by 2025 (46:05) How Captain Tom started an open banking revolution (1:00:42) This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community

Our expert hosts, Sam Maule 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: Alice Tapper, Founder and Author - Go Fund Yourself Gwera Kiwana, Ops Analyst - 11:FS We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Killer Mike’s new Black owned bank receives ‘tens of thousands’ of account requests in less than 24 hours (03:54) Klarna’s email that prompted data privacy and security backlash (17:00) Former Barclays execs to launch digital bank (29:11) Square invests $50m in bitcoin (37:00) Soundbite Simon Taylor, 11:FS Head of Ventures (37:55) FCA turns the screws on compliance in work-from-home environment (44:06) Coronavirus can survive up to 28 days on paper banknotes (55:37) This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically

Ross Gallagher is joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss the transformation of finance in the Middle East and how fintechs are gaining traction in the region. Here to discuss the matter are: Mike Cunningham - Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, Banque Saudi Fransi Amir Fardghassemi - Founder and CEO, JinglePay Kate Moody - Senior Customer and Product Lead at 11:FS In recent years financial technology has been transforming the delivery of financial services across the Middle East. With the pandemic still disrupting our day-to-day in-person interactions, fintech is seeing an unprecedented surge in popularity in a land where cash is king. Sitting down with both sides of the digital transformation game, Ross and the group discuss the unique character of the Middle East financial ecosystem, how social media is shaping customers' expectations and the challenges that fintechs face when entering into a market where traditional legacy banks rule supreme. This podcast is brought to you by Jack Hen

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor 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: Maia Bittner - Voice of the Member, Chime Oscar Williams-Grut - Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance We also hear soudbites from: Jeff Kelisky - CEO, Seedrs and Luke Lang - Co-founder, Crowdcube Francesca Hopwood-Road - Head of Regtech and Advanced Analytics, FCA Marcell King - Chief Innovation Officer, Payveris We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Crowdcube and Seedrs to merge: their CEOs say the move is about growth not survival FCA sets coronavirus challenge for new sandbox applicants Venmo launches its first credit card with scannable QR code and personalised cash-back rewards Goldman Sachs reportedly just landed General Motors’ credit card business for roughly $2.5 billion With its new checking account, Credit Karma wants to get int

There is no question 2020 has been a tough year for most. With the recent coronavirus outbreak, both our finances and mental wellbeing have been tested and strained in ways they never have been before. With World Mental Health Day around the corner, we wanted to take a closer look at how finance interacts with the mental health problems that affect 1 in 4 of us and how the pandemic is putting additional pressure on our mental and financial wellbeing. To dive into this topic, David Brear is joined by: Jamie Clements - Account executive, 11:FS & host of the Man Down: The Anti-Man-Up Movement podcast Nikki Bond - Senior Research Officer, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute Garry Evans - Chief Innovation Officer, OpenWrks & Chief Product Officer, Tully The group also discusses how this period of time is potentially influencing our future financial decisions and how fintech firms and banks alike can embed socially responsible features into their products. This podcast is brought to you by Jac

Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski 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. This week's guests include: Imran Gulamhuseinwala OBE - Trustee of the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) Loral Quinn - Founder and CEO, Sustainably We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Open Banking doubles its user-base to 2m Brits in just six months (04:12) China’s Ping An Insurance Increases Stake in HSBC to 8% (16:32) Coalition of UK banks launched to standardise carbon accounting (26:43) Amazon introduced the Amazon One - a payment method in the palm of your hand (36:35) Greenlight raises $215m for kids’ debit card (44:05) Coinbase has drawn a line in the sand for activist employees (57:34) This podcast is brought to you by Jack Henry Digital the pioneer and creator of personal digital banking that helps community financial institutions strategically diffe

Sustainable finance is nothing new, but could it be finance's new normal? This week host Simon Taylor is joined by a couple of great guests to talk about the growth of ESG and sustainable finance. This week's guests include: Kat Mann - Head of PR & Saving and Investments Specialist, Nutmeg Damian Payiatakis - Head of Impact Investing, Barclays ESG funds are consistently outperforming the broader market with more than half beating the MSCI World index, but how did we get here and where is this going? In this episode, Simon and guests dive into the world of sustainable finance and probe the drivers behind its consistent rise in popularity. 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

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor 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. This week's guests include: Olly Betts - Co-Founder and CEO at OpenWrks Valentina Kristensen - Director, Growth and Communication at OakNorth We also hear sondbites from: Shane Riedel - Founder and CEO at Elucidate. Formerly Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Financial Institutions at Standard Chartered and Deputy MLRO at Goldman Sachs Georgina Bulkeley - Chief Operating Officer, Personal Banking at NatWest Group We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: The FinCEN file leak (01:50) HSBC moved Ponzi scheme millions despite warning (12.20) Tink continues path to European domination by acquiring OpenWrks' account aggregation platform (23:32) Natwest trials carbon footprint tracker for its customers (32:12) Klarna stands its ground amidst accusations (41:17) Chime is now w

If you're looking for the next big thing in fintech, then look no further than Latin America. With fintech investments in the region leaping from USD 700 million in 2018 to USD 2.118 billion in just the following year, it's clear to see that things are heating up in fintech's next hottest market. To discuss the growth, impact and evolution of digital finances services, host Sam Maule is joined by some great guests. In this episode, our panel of guests include: Ximena Aleman - Co-Founder & Chief Business Developer Officer, Prometeo Juan Pablo Ortega - Co-Founder, Rappi Alexandre Álvares - Head of Product, Neon They dig into what's going on in the region right now, developmental limitations and their underlying social, economic and political factors, and how the future of fintech in Latin America is shaping up. 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 the