Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS 439. News: Wirecard fallout - fintech’s Enron moment?
Our expert hosts, Sam Maule 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:
- Erika Lucas - CEO of StitchCrew
- Gerti Dervishi - Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Flybits
- Jillian Williams - Investment Principal at Anthemis and head of BLCK VC NYC
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:
- Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing and have now filed for insolvency (03:48)
- The US banking sector is seeing huge growth, despite (or because of) the pandemic (18:34)
- Global payments space hots up (36:00)
- Stories we didn’t have time to cover (52:23)
- Goldman traders mock CEO’s ‘cringeworthy’ cameo on TV show ‘Billions' (57:58)
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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 into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
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Special Guests: Erika Lucas , Gerti Dervishi , and Jillian Williams .
Links:
- Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing and have now filed for insolvency
- The US banking sector is seeing huge growth, despite (or because of) the pandemic
- Mastercard to purchase open-banking company Finicity for $825 million
- Verizon's new Visa card gives wireless customers more ways to save
- Samsung Reveals the new Samsung Pay Card, powered by Curve
- Brex hint at a team up with Apple
- Checkout.com triples valuation to $5.5 billion, making it one of Europe's top fintechs
- Brazil Central Bank ices Facebook's WhatsApp payment service
- Robinhood had an another outage following a tumultuous week
- Zopa primes credit card as long-awaited full banking licence granted
- Goldman traders mock CEO’s ‘cringeworthy’ cameo on TV show ‘Billions
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