395. News: Has Open Banking failed?

Jan 27, 2020

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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)

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Special Guests: Megan Cooper, Olivia Vinden, and Zihao Xu.

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