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11:FS
Fintech Insider is your ultimate guide to the world of finance and fintech from 11:FS - the leading independent fintech consultancy, recognised five times with the British Bank Award for Consultancy of the Year.Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including Visa, Monzo, Nationwide, JPMorgan Chase, Wise, the Financial Times, and more to discuss breaking news and deep dive into the biggest topics and trends within the industry.Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories across M&A, open banking, embedded finance, payments, regulation and more. Then, every Thursday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like AI, regulation, Big Tech, the cost of living crisis, and more. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.Want to get involved in the conversation?Connect with us now on LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok
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Feb 10, 2020 • 1h 7min
399. News: Will Goldman Sachs and Amazon conquer the SMB space?
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 premier fintech event. Network with more than 1200 senior-level attendees – with more than 50% from financial institutions - from the Midwest and Western United States, Latin America, APAC, Canada, Australia, and beyond. And gain insights from more than 120 expert speakers on the future of finance. For more information visit finovatespring.com, and don’t forget that the code 11FS will get you 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 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 into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: David Rosa, Lois Ollerenshaw, and Sam Lathey.Links:
Goldman Sachs in talks with Amazon about small business loans
Worldline to buy Ingenico for $8.6 billion
Revolut moves European payments to Ireland and Lithuania
Remitly starts US banking service aimed at immigrants
Australian fintechs split on screen scraping ban
Texas Capital Bank reveals account that pays air miles
Trader suspended for allegedly stealing sandwiches
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Feb 7, 2020 • 40min
398. Insights: Will Brexit break UK fintech?
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 around live, 7-minute demos of the latest fintech innovations, FinovateSpring is the West Coast’s premier fintech event. Network with more than 1200 senior-level attendees – with more than 50% from financial institutions - from the Midwest and Western United States, Latin America, APAC, Canada, Australia, and beyond. And gain insights from more than 120 expert speakers on the future of finance. For more information visit finovatespring.com, and don’t forget that the code 11FS will get you 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 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 into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Emily Nicolle and James Hurley.Links:
The CIty UK - Fuelling Fintech Report
Duff & Phelps’s Global Regulatory Outlook 2020
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Feb 3, 2020 • 51min
397. News: Is N26 challenging the US banks?
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. 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 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 into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Ian Fuller, Jonathan Lister Parsons, and Roisin Levine .Links:
N26 nabs 250,000 US customers in six months
FCA questions new overdraft rates
OakNorth brings former Chancellor onto advisory board
Community banks inject $9.5 million into Neocova
RBS CEO to fund women-led businesses
Goldman to deny IPOs to companies with non-diverse boards
New York City to ban cashless stores
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Jan 31, 2020 • 54min
396. Insights: Do consumers care about Open Banking?
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 be the year of Open Banking?
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 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 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 into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Kieran McHugh, Olly Betts, Shefali Roy, and Simon Vans-Colina.
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Jan 27, 2020 • 1h 16min
395. News: Has Open Banking failed?
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 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 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 into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Megan Cooper, Olivia Vinden, and Zihao Xu.Links:
Open Banking surpasses one million customers -
Bo chief executive to step down
Revolut announces new savings account
UK SMEs chasing £50 billion in late payments
Ministers detail financial wellbeing plan
Tink raises an additional €90 million
BlackRock to shift away from fossil fuels
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Jan 24, 2020 • 52min
394. Insights: The future of investing
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 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 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 matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Adam French, Joe Parkin, and Viktor Nebehaj.
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Jan 20, 2020 • 59min
393. News: Visa buys Plaid - the first megadeal of 2020
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 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 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 matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Andres Garcia-Amaya, Monica Murthy, and Sabrina Lamb.Links:
Visa acquires Plaid for $5.3 billion
Banks announces fourth quarter earnings
Amazon tells users to uninstall Honey
Goldman finally gets a Marcus app
Hong Kong’s first digital bank offers killer rate
German savings fintech plans US launch
Challenger bank vies for the over 60 set
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Jan 17, 2020 • 52min
392. Insights: VC Roundtable: What makes a good fintech investment?
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, 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 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 matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review.
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Nick Sando, Vinoth Jayakumar, and Yann Ranchere.
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Jan 13, 2020 • 1h 7min
391. News: Singapore's big tech banking battlefield
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 rewards company Honey for £4 billion (42:20)
Australia pauses Open Banking over security concerns (43:46)
Tandem causes “Tandemonium” with £6 monthly fee (48:13)
Influencers Bó it for the ‘Gram (57:50)
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 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 matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guests: Nathalie Oestmann, Shafali Gupta, and Tram Anh Nguyen.Links:
The bids are in for Singapore’s digital banking licences
Banking errors open the new year
Hackers hold Travelex to ransom
UK regulators at work on digital data strategies
Monzo allegedly meeting with large investors to raise between £50 and £100 million in early 2020
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority begins full investigation into Westpac over earlier child exploitation allegations
Citi starts recruitment drive to hire 2,500 coders from around the world
PayPal will acquire shopping rewards company Honey for £4 billion
Australia pauses Open Banking over security concerns
Tandem causes a “Tandemonium” with £6 monthly fee
Influencers Bo it for the ‘Gram
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Jan 10, 2020 • 23min
390. Interviews: Marta Krupinska, Head of Google for Startups UK
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 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 matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.
If you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com!Special Guest: Marta Krupinska.
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