Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

Ross and Sarah sit down with Sameer Gulati, Head of Policy and Regulation at Innovate Finance, Kathryn Harris, Innovation Lead at Lloyds, and James Hurley, Enterprise Editor at The Times. Ross takes the panel through the latest weird and wonderful stories from the fintech world, including: the number of fintechs set to double by 2030, Monese reach the Holy Grail of finance, and Australia's data falls off the back of a truck. All this and so much more on today's episode of Fintech Inisider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a review on iTunes. Share the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.comSpecial Guests: James Hurley, Kathryn Harris, and Sameer Gulati.Links: Supporting UK FinTech: Accessing a Global Talent Pool How Monese, A Challenger Bank For European Migrants, Reached The Holy Grail Of Finance 11:Drive - Financial Inclusion and Why it's Necessary for Everyone - 11:FS Over half of women have never held an investment product Australia's Largest Bank Lost The Personal Financial Histories Of 12 Million Customers Baidu to offload majority stake in financial services unit Canada's stock market set to reopen after rare shutdown GreenSky defies downturn in online lending and files for IPO Subscribe to read BANKER BROS, BEWARE: There's a popular Instagram account mocking your 'Midtown Uniform' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon discusses the card outages in detail with Suresh Vaghjiani, including: what happened, how it was fixed, and what GPS have done to prevent it from ever happening again.Special Guest: Suresh Vaghjiani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon and Ross sit down with Carrie Osman, CEO and founder of Cruxy, Ali Paterson, Editor of Fintech Finance, Amelie Arras, Marketing Director of Adastra Marketing, and Veronique Constans, Programme Manager at 11:FS. Ross takes the panel through the latest interesting and amusing stories from the fintech world, including: Global fintech funding hitting a record high, Revolut's unicorn valuation, Amazon's foray into blockchain and Cryptocurrency means funeral finance? All this and so much more on this episode of Fintech Inisider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a review on iTunes. Share the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.comSpecial Guests: Ali Paterson, Amélie Arras, Carrie Osman, and Veronique Constans.Links: Global fintech funding hits record $5.4bn in Q1 Digital banking startup Revolut raises $250M at a valuation of $1.7B – TechCrunch What does Revolut's Valuation Mean for the Rest of European Fintech? - 11:FS TransferWise launches multi-country bank account Wealthify joins Starling Bank’s Marketplace TSB admits its internet banking woes are not over Amazon’s new blockchain service competes with similar products from Oracle and IBM | TechCrunch World Bank Releases the Latest Global Findex Database Half of all Tube and rail pay-as-you-go journeys across London are now made using contactless payments Over a third of Brits think that 'cryptocurrency' refers to funeral finance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David met with the Deputy Mayor of London, Rajesh Agrawal to talk about how Brexit is set to affect the city, how to encourage entrepreneurship, and how the gender diversity needs to be encouraged to get all we can out of the talent pool.Special Guest: Rajesh Agrawal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon asks Luke about the state of the US housing market today and how fintech is enabling 20 minute mortgage applications. Neat Capital also boasts the ability to bid offer and close on a home in two weeks. Then Simon met with Mutaz to discuss budgeting and saving in the digital economy and how to help customers from overspending. Go to survey.11fs.com to share your views. We hope you enjoy the show! Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode and if you really love us please leave us a review on iTunes! Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at Fintech Insider News.Special Guests: Luke Johnson and Mutaz Qubbaj. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David and Sarah sit down with Lucy Woolfenden, Marketing Director at Yolt, Pol Navarro, Digital Innovation Director and Sarah meets with Alex Park, Digital Director at Metro Bank. Sarah takes the panel through the latest interesting and amusing stories from the fintech world, including Ant Financial’s $150 billion valuation, Revolut launching Vaults, and The One Where Ross Got Mistaken for a Banker. All this and so much more on this Monday episode of Fintech Insider! Go to survey.11fs.com to share your views. Subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a review on iTunes. Share the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.comSpecial Guests: Alex Park, Lucy Woolfenden, and Pol Navarro.Links: Metro Bank to introduce AI-powered money management tool BBVA invests $50m in Chinese AI-focused fund Explainer: Ant Financial's $150 billion valuation, and the big recent bump-up Lloyds Banking Group to cut 305 jobs and close 49 branches across the UK as customers switch to digital banking Lloyds Bank | Banking with us | Mobile Branches An investor in iZettle and Wonga just raised $235 million to fund the next fintech unicorns Revolut launches spare change Vaults Demand for cash is increasing, not decreasing, in most countries TransferWise has become the first non-bank to connect to the Bank of England's payment systems The One Where Ross Got Mistaken for a Banker - BBC News Crypto YouTuber hacked out of $2 million during a livestream Iceland's Bitcoin heist suspect 'flees on PM's plane' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam and Doug sit down with Mike Sigal, VC at 500 Startups, Lisa Gansky, VC at Mosaic, Brit Morin, Founder and CEO of Brit + Co, Mark Jamison, Head of Innovation and Design at Visa, Kate Adamson, Head of Mortgage at Plaid, Tony Morosini, VP Banking at Sofi and Anatoly Kvitnitsky, Head of Growth at Trulioo. Sam takes the panel through the latest and greatest in news stories getting key insights into what's happening and what matters most. Including Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before Congress, Why nobody trusts Facebook, if equal pay is getting any closer and why Silicon Valley Stereotypes are just plain wrong. Guaranteed Fake News free and to teach you at least one thing you didn't already know! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, show us some love and leave a review on iTunes. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.comSpecial Guests: Anatoly Kvitnitsky, Brit Morin, Doug Bobenhouse, Kate Adamson, Lisa Gansky, Mark Jamison, Mike Sigal, and Tony Morosini.Links: Zuckerberg struggles to name a single Facebook competitor - The Verge Facebook is the least-trusted major tech company - Recode How Squarespace Is Empowering Female Entrepreneurs This Equal Pay Day New research shows successful founders are far older than the Valley stereotype | TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam starts the show by butchering the names of old friends, talking about the San Francisco housing crisis and if Frisco is a cool name for the city. The panel moves on to podcasts, pitches, the importance of story telling when it comes to brand, and how podcasts can change the world. After the break the panel discusses how to understand the way money works and how decentralised ledgers might have a much bigger impact in other parts of the world. All this and much much more on this episode of Fintech in a Flat. We hope you enjoyed the show! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, and if you want to show us some love then please leave a review on iTunes. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.comSpecial Guests: Betsy McCormick, Jason Zaler, Michael Casey, Ollie Judge, and Sheel Mohnot.Links:San Francisco is so expensive people are leaving in droves - Business Insider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam and the panel discuss the very latest in fintech news. Kicking things off with the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before Congress, and that grown men need to stop being juvenilised. After a few bowls of home-cooked chilli the panel get back to the mics to talk about Equal Pay Day and how companies are trying to empower people to ask for the money they deserve. Diversity issues are discussed by Founders who come from various backgrounds who share what it's like starting up in the industry. We hope you enjoyed the show! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, and if you want to show us some love then please leave a review on iTunes. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.comSpecial Guests: Dan Macklin, Divine, John Waupsh, and Yuliya Tarasava.Links: Mark Zuckerberg goes to Washington. He can handle it. - Recode Kara Swisher: In Silicon Valley, ‘stop juvenilizing men’ - POLITICO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our After Dark shows are always exciting and this one’s no different. In front of an amazing audience the panel kicks things off with Paypal’s new movements. M-Pesa wallet goes online thanks to a collaboration between Paypal and Safaricom. Meanwhile over in the USA, Paypal is making moves towards more traditional banking in a bid to connect those without bank accounts to the digital economy. Young coders might be avoiding London over Brexit fears. But is Brexit a real problem for the fintech space and are coders leaving or is the talent rush just slowing down? Andy Murray lobs over an interesting bit of fintech news by betting that British Fintech is going to a smash hit. But how big is he betting? Accenture released their wealth management report on the next era, focusing on Millennials. Despite all the good stats on what Millenials want, can a one-size-fits-all digital experience ever work? Amazon targets teens, the online bookshop-turned-retail-monolith wants to get to teenagers before the banks are able to. It’s a common tactic used to establish brand loyalty while consumers are young. Sweden turns against cashlessness amid fears it puts us at risk of attack, with 70% of Swedes wanting to retain some use of cash. But 40% of Britons say they can see themselves going completely cashless in the future. So why is there such a split? Square’s Cash App arrives in the UK, it’s a potential competitor to Venmo, but can it survive in the UK amongst platforms like Starling and Monzo? Rounding out the stories tonight, it turns out that the wild entrepreneur John McAfee is charging $105,000 per tweet promoting digital coins and Initial Coin Offerings. Yet another dodgy story on the man who had a very suspicious time in Belize with murdered neighbours and suspected drug dealers. His life is a movie deal waiting to happen. We hope you enjoyed the show! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, and if you want to show us some love then please leave a review on iTunes. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at Fintech Insider News. Definitely tweet us if you were at After Dark live with us! We always love hearing from you all.Special Guests: Liz Lumley, Megan Cooper, and Richard Davies.Links: M-Pesa wallet goes online in collaboration with PayPal PayPal Makes a Move Toward Traditional Banking Threat to fintech industry as young coders shun London over Brexit Charlotte Crosswell: “Fintech is our best chance post-Brexit” Why Andy Murray Is Betting Big On British Fintech Millennials and Money: Next Era of Wealth Management | Accenture Amazon Wants to Get to Teenagers Before the Banks Do 'Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack': Swedes turn against cashlessness 40% of Brits ready to stop using cash, according to exclusive research from Kantar TNS. - Business Insider Cash App - Send Money Instantly McAfee charges $105k per tweet to promote an ICO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices