833. News: Monzo and PensionBee target the US, while J.P. Morgan doubles down in France

To celebrate recording this just before International Women's Day 2024, our expert hosts, Laura Watkins and Rachel Pandyan, are joined by a stellar all-women panel to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including the feel good fintech story of the year so far, and Monzo are lining up a second crack at the US market.

This week's guests include:

• Sarah Kocianski, CEO at Fintech Wales
• Phoebe Kitchen, Vice President of Growth Equity at Inovia

And featuring soundbites from:

• Romi Savova, CEO at PensionBee
• Patricia Brolly MD, Head of Merchant Acquiring for EMEA at J.P. Morgan
• Sophie Winwood, Co-Founder and CEO at WVC:E

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

• New research from Mastercard reveals just a quarter of women feel financially supported in the workplace (04:22)
• Online pension provider PensionBee and challenger bank Monzo announce US expansion plan (11:24)
• JPMorgan joins France's payments network CB to skirt Visa & Mastercard (28:30)
• UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt reverses changes to angel investment rules (40:12)
• Indonesia fintech Wagely makes bank while helping the unbanked (54:15)
• Top fintech chiefs join Innovate Finance 'Unicorn Council' (56:26)
• Southampton-based dementia debit card wins £125k Dragons' Den investment (58:28)

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