

Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS
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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Oct 28, 2019 • 1h 18min
369. News: Startups growing up
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:
Diana Parades - CEO and founder, Suade Labs
Daniel Hegarty - CEO and Founder, Habito
Oliver Smith - Editor at AltFi
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:
Revolut to launch in the U.S. by year-end with Mastercard deal (03:26)
Santander Rolls Out US Digital Deposits To Rival Goldman (10:24)
PayPal is launching a Venmo credit card to help monetize the payment app (15:27)
AmEx joins the corporate card for startups world (28:56)
Fintech API builder Galileo to go global on $77 million capital injection (36:19)
CYBG to relaunch as Virgin Money (47:30)
Denizen shuts up shop (54:29)
Women At EY Instructed On How To Dress and Act Nicely Around Men (1:00:20)
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Daniel Hegarty, Diana Paredes, and Oliver Smith.Links:
Fintech Revolut to launch in the U.S. by year-end with Mastercard deal - Reuters
Santander Rolls Out US Digital Deposits | PYMNTS.com
PayPal's Venmo is launching a credit card
AmEx Takes Aim at Brex With New Corporate Cards for Startups - Bloomberg
Fintech API builder Galileo to go global on $77 million capital inj...
CYBG to relaunch as Virgin Money
Denizen shuts up shop
Women At Ernst & Young Instructed On How To Dress, Act Nicely Around Men | HuffPost UK
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Oct 25, 2019 • 52min
368. News: 2008 throwback special
Our expert hosts, David Brear, Jason Bates and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the week of the financial crisis in 2008! This week's guests include:
Caroline Plumb - CEO Fluidly
Nick Ogden, most recently - and excitingly - Founder RTGS
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space from 2008:
Lehman Brothers File for Bankruptcy (03:23)
Bush Wants Bailout for Banks (08:15)
The UK Nationalises Bradford & Bingley… to sell them to Santander (19:58)
Stocks Take Record Tumble, Down 777 points (27:27)
Bernard Madoff Arrested over alleged $50 billion fraud (36:12)
Sale of PPI with Loans ‘To be banned’ (41:04)
Man’s ‘Pants’ password is changed (48:10)
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Caroline Plumb and Nick Ogden.Links:
BBC NEWS | England | Shropshire | Man's 'pants' password is changed
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Administration Is Seeking $700 Billion for Wall Street - The New York Times
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Stocks Take Record Tumble, Down 777 Points - CBS News
Fireside
Sale of PPI with loans 'to be banned' - Telegraph
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Oct 21, 2019 • 55min
367. News: The holy grail of the unbanked
Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Adam Davies, 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:
Josh Bottomley - Global Head of Digital at HSBC - welcome to the show!
David McHenry - Head of Global Treasury & Payments Advisory - EMEA - Silicon Valley Bank - thanks for joining us!
Mark Walker Co-Founder and COO of The Fintech Power 50 - great to have you with us!
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:
Pension cash could bankroll start-ups (01:56)
HSBC plans First Direct relaunch to compete with digital rivals (08:45)
Robinhood makes second attempt at launching a high-yield account similar to banks (16:04)
The UK just unveiled a $23,000 payment card made from solid gold (24:41)
Revolut in bid for $1.5 billion debt and equity round (30:02)
Nubank now has 15M customers (37:03)
True Balance continues its Indian takeover following a funding round (42:42)
Man loses wallet and the person who found it notified him via a series of bank transfer references (48:25)
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Adam Davis.Links:
Pension cash could bankroll start-ups | Business | The Sunday Times
HSBC plans First Direct relaunch to compete with digital rivals
Robinhood makes second attempt at launching a high-yield account similar to banks
UK Royal Mint unveils a $23,000 payment card made from solid gold
Finextra Research: Latest FinTech (financial technology) news, analysis, interviews and features.
Brazilian fintech Nubank has grown to 15 million users: CEO | Article [AMP] | Reuters
True Balance raises $23M to bring its payments app to more small cities and towns in India | TechCrunch
Tim Cameron on Twitter
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Oct 18, 2019 • 36min
366. Insights: The Future of UK Fintech
On this weeks insights show, David Brear is hosting a live panel at the premiere of 11:Years, our documentary about the rise of UK fintech! Our fantastic panel consists of:
Eric Van der Kleij - CEO and founder of Frontier network as well as the founder of Tech City UK (now Tech Nation) and Level 39
Ashok Vaswani - Global Head of Consumer Banking & Payments, Barclays - former APAC CEO at Citi Bank among other things
Anne Boden - CEO and Founder of Starling Bank, former COO of AIB
Nick Ogden - Founder of the brand new of RTGS.Global, founder of ClearBank and Worldpay and the father of e-commerce among many others!
This live panel covers the following topics:
The key take aways from the film
Why London such a successful fintech ecosystem?
How has the landscape changed with having new competitors?
How can regulation enable development?
How can the UK maintain its leading position?
How can the UK help accelerate ecosystem around the world?
Will the next 11 years move the dial for FiServ as much as the last 11?
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Anne Boden, Ashok Vaswani, Eric Van der Kleij, and Nick Ogden.
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Oct 14, 2019 • 1h 3min
365. News: Free money!
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Will White, 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:
Nicolas Kopp - US CEO, N26
Asya Bradley - VP Partnerships, Socure
Collin Galster - Head of Business Development at Nova Credit
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:
Samsung Pay launches US international money transfers (04:24)
Credit Karma moves into savings (07:37)
Brex’s launches its Cash management account (17:06)
OakNorth appoint ex Google exec as their platform business CEO (27:42)
NatWest trials UK's 'first' biometric credit card (37:54)
HSBC to axe up to 10,000 jobs in cost-cutting drive (41:13)
Stocks and Scares: Financial jargon brings Brits out in a sweat (48:19)
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Asya Bradley, Collin Galster, and Nicolas Kopp.Links:
Samsung Pay gets international money transfers and virtual debit ca...
Credit Karma moves into savings
Brex Launches a New Cash Management Account to Nab More of the Traditional Lenders' Market Share | PaymentsJournal
OakNorth appoints Google exec Sunil Chandra CEO, platform business
NatWest trials UK's 'first' biometric credit card
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Stocks and Scares: Financial jargon brings Brits out in a sweat
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Oct 11, 2019 • 51min
364. Interviews: SIBOS 2019 Industry leader special
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Simon Taylor bring you two fantastic interviews from SIBOS 2019 in London. This week we bring you insights from two industry leaders and on this episode they bring you industry knowledge, a wealth of experience and what the future might look like for our industry. This week you will hear from:
Paul Stoddart, President of new payments platforms at MasterCard
Soren Mortensen, Director of global financial markets at IBM
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Paul Stoddart and Soren Mortensen.
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Oct 7, 2019 • 56min
363. News: Banking isn’t a side hustle
Our expert hosts, David Brear and Leda Glyptis, 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:
John Erik Setsaas, VP of Identity and Innovation at Signicat
Kathryn Harris, Product and Design Lead, Lloyds Banking Group
Daniel Lowther, Head of Fintech at CCGroup
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:
TransferWise signs US partners for trans-Atlantic expansion (03:40)
Revolut reveals new agreement with Visa to help push their global expansion (14:36)
Monzo’s salary sorter (25:42)
Sainsbury’s becomes the latest British supermarket to pull out of the mortgage market (32:33)
PayPal gets Chinese payments license (39:48)
Marijuana Banking Bill Passes House in Historic Vote (43:41)
Louis Theroux grants permission to man who wants to use his face on bank card (49:54)
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Daniel Lowther and Kathryn Harris.Links:
British fintech start-up TransferWise signs US partners for trans-Atlantic expansion
Revolut reveals new agreement with Visa, set to hire 3,500 – FinTech Futures
Two new Monzo features will help you save like a pro | WIRED UK
Sainsbury's joins Tesco in axing mortgages to end supermarket bank dream | This is Money
PayPal gets Chinese payments license
Marijuana Banking Bill Passes House in Historic Vote | National News | US News
Louis Theroux grants man permission to use his dreamy face on bankcard | Metro News
(17) Louis Theroux on Twitter: "Permission granted. https://t.co/zM1sXFe293" / Twitter
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Oct 4, 2019 • 1h
362. Interviews: International deep tech special
Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Leda Glyptis are at SIBOS 2019 where they get to sit down with some successful international companies focussing on deep tech and infrastructure. This week's guests include:
Anna Brailsford, CEO of Code: First Girls
Bharat Bhusan, CTO Banking and Financial Markets, IBM
Jacqueline Keogh, SVP at Western Union
Nikhil Kumar, Co-founder of Setu
Tune in to hear industry insights, the current state of the international fintech market and the best career advice that our guests have ever recieved. All this and much more on today's Fintech Insider Interviews.
Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS.
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: Anna Brailsford, Bharat Bhushan, Jaqueline Keogh, and Nikhil Kumar.
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Sep 30, 2019 • 1h
361. News: Listen to your customers!
Our expert hosts, Leda Glyptis and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests at SIBOS 2019 in the Excel, London, to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include:
Niall Cameron - Global Head of Corporate and Institutional Digital at HSBC
Ali Paterson - Editor in Chief at Fintech Finance
Chris Truce - Head of Fintech at Saxo Bank
We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:
SWIFT discuss the adoption of gpi and impact on global payments (01:21)
RBS appoints Alison Rose as chief executive (12:07)
Monzo replaces entire Monzo Plus team and refunds customers after admitting premium service “didn’t go according to plan” (21:04)
Starling opens online banking option for business customers (29:55)
Alibaba acquires a third of Ant Financial (38:47)
American Express taps Open Banking for account-to-account payments (42:11)
Over a third of UK bank branches closed in past five years (49:27)
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: Ali Paterson, Chris Truce, and Niall Cameron.Links:
Sibos 2019: The adoption of SWIFT gpi and impact on global payments
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Monzo replaces entire Monzo Plus team and refunds customers after admitting premium service “didn’t go according to plan” - AltFi News
Starling opens online banking option for business customers
Alibaba acquires a third of Ant Financial
American Express taps Open Banking for account-to-account payments
Over a third of UK bank branches closed in past five years
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Sep 27, 2019 • 1h 14min
360. Interviews: SIBOS 2019 London fintech special
On this episode of Fintech Insider interviews we bring you a series of interviews with some of the most interesting players on the fintech scene, straight from SIBOS in London. They bring you insights, a wealth of industry experience and share the best career advice they have ever been given! This week's guests include:
Andrew Bud - Founder and CEO of iProov
Simon Cureton - Commercial Director at Funding Options
Todd Latham - CMO and Head of product at Currencycloud
Simon Winchester - VP Sales at Jumio
We also have a very special announcement for you, from OakNorth and Shieldpay that was given on the first day of SIBOS!
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: Andrew Bud, Simon Cureton, Simon Winchester, and Todd Latham.
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