Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

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660. News: Shoppers globally turn to Buy Now Pay Later for groceries Sep 05, 2022

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Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Nicole Perry, 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:

Vinay Singh, Managing Director, Anthemis
Tessa Bryant, Head of Brand and Communications, Lightyear

With soundclips from:

Johannes Fenner, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Justhome

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

Shoppers relying on Buy Now Pay Later and microloans for groceries in the UK and US - 4:20
Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11m backed by Women’s World Banking - 15:30
ING pulls the plug on Yolt, shutting down its open banking operation - 26:50
Berlin’s Justhome houses €3.3m to assist first-time home buyers - 36:00
FedNow is coming. Is this real-time payments’ moment? - 46:00
Trust Bank, a digital bank formed by Standard Chartered and NTUC, launches in Singapore - 47:45
The PayPal story could be coming to a screen near you - 49:20

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It’s hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates and Gwera Kiwana, as well as 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: Johannes Fenner , Tessa Bryant, and Vinay Singh.

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659. Insights: Are SMEs really being served? Sep 02, 2022

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Our expert host, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to ask: 'Are SMEs really being served?'

Addressing the banking services of underserved small and medium-sized enterprises was one of the earliest gaps in the market that fintech looked to fill.

Nearly a decade into that journey, it’s time to take stock of those early promises and see what has been done to help SMEs on both sides of the Atlantic.

This week's guests include:

Keshvi Radia, Head of Product - Payments, Allica Bank
Kevin Phillips, Executive Vice President, Novo

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Special Guests: Keshvi Radia and Kevin Phillips.

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658. News: Prometeo launches LatAm A2A payments and Ramp rolls into BNPL Aug 29, 2022

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Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Benjamin Ensor, 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:

Ximena Aleman, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Prometeo
Emily Man, Investor, Redpoint Ventures

With soundclips from:

Geoff Charles, Head of Product, at Ramp

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

Prometeo launches Latin America's first A2A payments platform - 4:45
Ramp dives into BNPL market - 19:45
“VC investors dislike women more than they like profit” - 32:35
CSI, a decades-old fintech solutions vendor, agrees to be acquired for $1.6bn - 43:28
Barclays biggest culprit for the ‘savings gap’ - 52:45
Bank to bullpen: Nate Fisher excels in 'surreal' debut with New York Mets - 55:10
Fintech Insider mailbag - 56:40

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Special Guests: Emily Man, Geoff Charles, and Ximena Aleman.

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657. Insights: Can fintech help solve the refugee crisis? Aug 26, 2022

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Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to discuss fintech's role in the refugee crisis.

According to 2021 figures from the United Nations, there are more than 89 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from countries like Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Somalia and Eritrea.

We’ve put together a panel of experts to discuss how fintech can help refugees in the immediate aftermath, what challenges stop financial institutions from getting more involved, and how financial services can adapt as the needs of refugees change over time.

This week's guests include:

Sarah Habib, Customer Strategist, 11:FS
Ali Niknam, CEO, Bunq
Nat Robinson, CEO, Leaf Global Fintech
Matthew Gardiner, Co-founder, Techfugees

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Special Guests: Ali Niknam, Matthew Gardiner, Nat Robinson, and Sarah Habib.

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656. News: Can Klarna become a Super App? Aug 22, 2022

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Our expert hosts, David M. Brear and Nicole Perry, 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:

Jenny Miller, Head of US Product, Wise
Evgenii Kondratev, Product Director, Klarna

With soundclips from:

Bruno DIniz, Co-founder, Spiralem

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

Wise partnership with Plaid gives customers access to 6000 US apps - 5:35
Klarna strives for Super App status by helping UK customers track all online orders in one place - 14:00
QED makes its first African investment, backing Nigerian fintech TeamApt - 28:35
Brazil's central bank chief predicts end of credit cards - 37:30
NatWest's Payit hits £1bn processed - 48:05
UK fintech Griffin lands £12.5m in latest funding round - 49:45
WeWork co-founder lines up $350 million A16Z investment for a new billion-dollar real estate venture - 51:10

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Special Guests: Bruno DIniz, Evgenii Kondratev, and Jenny Miller.

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655. Insights: What does good crypto design look like? Aug 19, 2022

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Our expert host, David M. Brear , is joined by some great guests to ask: 'What does good crypto design look like?'

It was recently announced that BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management company, is now offering clients direct access to crypto – starting with Bitcoin.

If anything demonstrates crypto’s move from the fringes to the mainstream, it’s the backing of one of the industy’s biggest players – but this also raises questions of how you present a decentralised product to a more mainstream audience.

Our panel runs through 'have crypto’s design issues held it back?', 'how do you present crypto products in a TradFi setting?' and 'what does the future look like?'

This week's guests include:

Chris Maddern, Co-Founder & CEO, Floor NFTs
Maya Caddle, Manager, Strategic Projects and Investments, Nestcoin
Rhian Lewis, Author, The Cryptocurrency Revolution

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Special Guests: Chris Maddern, Maya Caddle, and Rhian Lewis .

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654. News: Earned wage access – friend or foe? Aug 15, 2022

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Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nicole Perry, 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:

Katie Llanos-Small, Founder & Editor, Iupana
Brian Byrnes, Head of Personal Finance, Moneybox

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

Cost of living: People turning back to cash as prices rise - 4:28
Argentinian fintech start-up Geopagos raises $35m funding round - 17:35
ZayZoon charges employees $5 to get paid sooner - 28:38
SoftBank CEO ‘ashamed’ of pride in past profits as record losses prompt cost cut - 38:55
The Bank of London to boost US presence with tech hub in North Carolina - 48:08
Central Bank of Kenya doubles down on its position on Flutterwave and Chipper Cash, orders banks to close fintechs’ accounts - 49:50
Domino’s Pizza says arrivederci, flees Italy after failing to win over local customers - 52:20

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Special Guests: Brian Byrnes and Katie Llanos-Small.

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653. Insights: Making financial services accessible for people with disabilities Aug 12, 2022

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Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to ask: how do you design financial services for people with disabilities?

The fintech boom of the past decade has made financial services more democratic and has improved access for many different groups across the globe.

But for people living with disabilities - or PwDs – the wait goes on for truly inclusive services.

In this podcast we look at: What have been the issues to access historically? What do the current solutions look like? And how do we make financial services truly inclusive in the future?

This week's guests include:

Ali MacManus, Lead Designer, 11:FS Ventures
Jayne Sibley, Founder, Sibstar
John Ciocca, Founder & CEO, Purple

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Special Guests: Ali MacManus, Jayne Sibley, and John Ciocca.

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Bonus. Eco's Andy Bromberg on copying in fintech Aug 10, 2022

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Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by Andy Bromberg, CEO of Eco, to talk about one of the biggest stories on 'Fintech Twitter'.

A few months ago - Pebble caught the attention of many in the fintech world. This included Andy Bromberg, who felt he saw Eco’s very own materials and business model reflected back at him.

After more digging, he took to Twitter to declare that Pebble engaged in “copy-and-pasting, immaturity, lying, and espionage.”

Join us for a deep dive into the line between copying, imitation, and competitor research, and what the future holds for Eco!

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Special Guest: Andy Bromberg.

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652. News: Will JPMorgan Chase transform the travel industry? Aug 08, 2022

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Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nicole, 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:

Jason Mikula, Publisher, Fintech Business Weekly
Ariba Shahid, Contributor, DealStreetAsia

With soundclips from:

Douglas Soltys, Editor, Betakit

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

Sequoia backs fintech Dbank in maiden Pakistan investment - 3:50
LendUp enters liquidation - 14:40
JPMorgan Is building a giant travel agency - 27:30
Portage Ventures rolls out new late-stage fintech fund - 38:30
Virgin Money launching buy now, pay later products despite criticism - 49:16
US-based fintech Umba buys majority stake in Kenya’s Daraja microfinance bank - 51:45
Get up to $500 for your bad pandemic impulse buys at this pop-up store - 53:20

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Special Guests: Ariba Shahid, Douglas Soltys, and Jason Mikula.

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