592. News: Anne Boden comments anger fintech bosses and Tencent invests in Monzo

Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Deepa Anikhindi , 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:

• Abba Newbery, Chief Marketing Officer, Habito
• Wiza Jalakasi, VP, Developer Relations, Chipper Cash

We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:

• Fintech bosses accuse Starling Bank’s Anne Boden of stifling innovation 2:57
• Chinese giant Tencent joins backers of £3.3bn digital bank Monzo 15:16
• Habito offers mortgages for up to seven times person's salary 27:03
• Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained 37:39
• ING announces exit from French retail banking market 49:41
• Hong Kong Fintech Unicorn WeLab To Enter Increasingly Crowded Indonesian Digital Banking Market 50:56
• Fintech-focused Ribbit Capital raises $1.15B 52:30
• BlackBerry: End of an era as company pulls plug on iconic handsets 53:50

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Special Guests: Abba Newbery and Wiza Jalakasi.

Links:

• Fintech bosses accuse Starling Bank’s Anne Boden of stifling innovation
• Chinese giant Tencent joins backers of £3.3bn digital bank Monzo
• Habito offers mortgages for up to seven times person's salary
• Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained
• ING announces exit from French retail banking market
• Hong Kong Fintech Unicorn WeLab To Enter Increasingly Crowded Indonesian Digital Banking Market
• Fintech-focused Ribbit Capital raises $1.15B
• BlackBerry: End of an era as company pulls plug on iconic handsets

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