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Love is in the air at 11:FS HQ. In our 400th instalment of Fintech Insider, your hosts Leda Glyptis, David Brear, and Jason Bates get together to talk about their favourite industry partnerships. Whether that's big banks merging, fintech team-ups or collaborations between fintechs and incumbents, we spend this episode digging into the best relationships in this industry and our hosts' personal favourites. Plus, for the first time on Fintech Insider, we open up the phone lines and invite some guests to share their favourite partnerships too. Joining us over the airwaves are: Caroline Plumb - Founder & CEO at Fluidly Ali Paterson - Editor in Chief at Fintech Finance Dave Cunningham - Director of Business Development at Trūata We discuss Monzo and IFTTT, Barclays and Flux, Apple and Goldman Sachs and much much more. Did your favourite fintech partnership make our list? Tune in to find out! This podcast is brought to you by Stake, the digital brokerage app bringing you unrivalled access to the US market

Our expert hosts, Leda Glyptis and David Brear, 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 Rosa, Co-Founder at Neat Lois Ollerenshaw, Ventures at Nationwide Sam Lathey, Co-Founder and CEO of Bippit We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Goldman Sachs in talks with Amazon about small business loans (05:16) Worldline to buy Ingenico for $8.6 billion (13:09) Revolut moves European payments to Ireland and Lithuanian (20:10) Remitly starts US banking service aimed at immigrants (33:44) Australian fintechs split on screen scraping ban (43:05) Texas Capital Bank reveals account that pays air miles (54:17) Trader suspended for allegedly stealing sandwiches (56:54) FinovateSpring is happening in San Francisco on May 27th to 29th. Built around live, 7-minute demos of the latest fintech innovations, FinovateSpring is the West Coast’s pr

In today's Insights show, we reflect on the past 4 years of Brexit and discuss the future of fintech in post-Brexit Britain. This week's guests include: Emily Nicolle - Technology Editor at City AM James Hurley - Enterprise Editor at The Times Before diving into it, we revisit our very first episode of Fintech Insider. That show was a Brexit special, where David Brear, Jason Bates, Simon Taylor and Chris Skinner talked about their predictions for the implications of Brexit. Almost four years on, how do they hold up? Are fintechs fleeing the UK for greener pastures in the E.U.? Conversely, is Brexit attracting more fintech talent to the UK? Startup life is full of uncertainty and Brexit has been much the same. So, what can fintech companies do to protect themselves now that Brexit is upon us and how will the industry shift in the coming months and years? All this and much more on this week's Fintech Insider Insights show! FinovateSpring is happening in San Francisco on May 27th to 29th. Built aro

Ross Gallagher and Adam Davis are in the hosting seat this week and 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: Ian Fuller, CTO and Co-Founder of Freetrade Jonathan Lister Parsons, CTO at Pensionbee Roisin Levine, Head of Banks at Flux We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: N26 nabs 250,000 US customers in six months (02:53) FCA questions new overdraft rates (10:24) OakNorth brings former Chancellor onto advisory board (18:19) Community banks inject $9.5 million into Neocova (25:26) RBS CEO to fund women-led businesses (31:24) Goldman to deny IPOs to companies with non-diverse boards (37:20) New York City to ban cashless stores (42:59) 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

In today's Insights show, Sarah Kocianski is joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss the past 2 years of Open Banking. This week's guests include: Shefali Roy - COO and CCO at Truelayer Olly Betts - CEO and Chief Product Officer at OpenWrks Simon Vans Colina - CTO at Fronted Kieran McHugh - Open Banking Lead at Monzo It's been two years since Open Banking first arrived in the UK and in today’s Insights show we discuss the past, present and future of Open Banking. Starting with the basics, we ask how far has Open Banking come and how is it continuing to grow in the UK? Our panel of guests are all already putting Open Banking to use, but are customers aware of it yet and are they embracing the possibilities? Third-party service providers certainly have been and are driving innovation in this sector, however the same cannot be said for incumbent banks. So, what can banks do to better take advantage of Open Banking, when will we see it being embraced in other parts of the world, and will 2020

Our expert hosts, David Brear 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: Megan Caywood - Managing Director, Barclays Zihao Xu - Investment Manager, Octopus Ventures Olivia Vinden - Head of Innovation UK, Alpha FMC We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Open Banking surpasses one million customers (04:17) Bo chief executive to step down (16:04) Revolut announces new savings account (27:15) UK SMEs chasing £50 billion in late payments (39:23) Ministers detail financial wellbeing plan (46:58) Tink raises an additional €90 million (53:46) BlackRock to shift away from fossil fuels (1:01:00) 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 t

In today's Insights show, Adam is joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss the future of retail investing. This week's guests include: Viktor Nebehaj - CMO & Co-Founder at Freetrade Joe Parkin - Head of Banks & Digital at Blackrock UK Adam French - Founder at Scalable Capital Following on from our last wealth show the conversation starts with the democratisation of investing: is it moral and is it for everyone? The investment landscape has changed dramatically over the years, and the group explores how disruptive products in this space has opened the doors to younger investors and allowed for social impact to become a greater factor in investment decisions. Newer investment platforms have been crucial to these changes but could incumbents catch up to the fintechs in the future? All this and much more on this week's Fintech Insider Insights show! This episode is brought to you by FinovateEurope in Berlin on 11th – 13th February. Built around live, 7-minute demos of the latest fintech in

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,