Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

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815. News: Should Wise be worried about Zing? Jan 08, 2024

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Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is 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:

Salim Dhanani, Co-Founder and CEO at Pave Bank
Chantal Swainston, Fintech PR Consultant and Founder of The Heard
Daniel Lanyon, Editorial Director at AltFi

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

HSBC launch multi-currency money transfer app Zing
Pave Bank comes out of stealth and confirms $5m of funding
The UK and Switzerland agree a 'first of its kind' financial services agreement
Blackstone buys a majority stake in Sony Payment Services
Over a quarter of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) users miss payements
HSBC sell its French retail banking business to CCF
The UK's tax collector, HMRC, are clamping down on side hustles

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Techcrunch, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry.

Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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Special Guests: Chantal Swainston, Daniel Lanyon, and Salim Dhanani.

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814. Insights: Our 2024 fintech predictions Jan 04, 2024

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Happy New Year Fin-techers! To celebrate, regular Fintech Insider hosts David M. Brear, Ross Gallagher and Kate Moody make some bold predictions for 2024, and look back on how right (or wrong) they were last year!

From financial wellbeing to big money acquisitions, you don't want to miss this one!

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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Bonus: Behind the Scenes of Fintech Insider Dec 29, 2023

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On this special bonus episode, Fintech Insider OG and Exec Producer Laura Watkins speaks to the people behind the podcast to find out how the show is made, and look back to some of the best bits from the past year.

This week's guests include:

Liam Heffernan, Senior Podcast Producer
Tom Stafford, Social Media and Community Manager
George Sztuka, Audio Engineer
Alex Woodhouse, Audio Producer
Melania Pruti, Events Manager
Adam Baldwin, Senior Marketing Manager
Sacha Holub, Senior Designer

Thank you so much for listening to the show. Your favourite fintech podcast will be back in the new year - see you then!

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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813. Insights: Fintech's biggest stories of 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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As we wrap up another rollercoaster year in fintech, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear is joined by some a panel of colleagues to talk about the biggest, best, and most outrageous happenings of 2023. We look at everything from Silicon Vally Bank and Goldman Sach's rocky relationship with Apple to the cost of living and Klarna.

This week's guests include:

Kate Moody, Strategy Director at 11:FS
David Barton-Grimley, Strategy Director at 11:FS
Rachel Pandyan, Venture Product Lead at 11:FS

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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812. News: CaixaBank's GenAI revolution and our fintech naughty or nice list Dec 18, 2023

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Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Rachel Pandyan, 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:

Aditi Subbarao, Global Financial Services Lead at Instabase
Megan Cooper, Chief Product Officer at ClearBank

We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space - Christmas pun edition:

AI'll be Home for Christmas - CaixaBank create 100-person strong team to work exclusively on GenAI
TikTok Merrily on High - the social media platform buy a 75% stake in Indonesian payments firm Tokopedia
All I Want for Christmas is the UAE - Network International and Huawei join forces in the UAE
Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing... a $750m VC fund - Canapi launch new fund to support US fintechs
Christmas in the Citi - Colombian B2B fintech Supra gets investment from Citibank
Making a list, checking it twice... - gonna find out who's on your fintech naughty or nice list

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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Special Guests: Aditi Subbarao and Megan Cooper.

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811. Insights: Meet the 2023 11:FS Hall of Famers: Sitoyo lopokoiyit and Sopnendu Mohanty Dec 15, 2023

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In this special episode of Fintech Insider, we speak to some of this year's exceptional 11:FS Hall of Fame inductees about their game-changing contributions to fintech.

The 11:FS Hall of Fame celebrates the people shaping our industry for the better. This was a key part of our 11:FS awards, really identifying the key movers and shakers that made the industry what it is today.

Our cohort all made a big impact; given back to the ecosystem or community, exhibit strong values of innovation, resilience, teamwork and boldness and have launched products, services or offerings where the industry had to follow.

Simply, these people have brought us a step closer to the future of FS.

Our 2023 Hall of Famers are:

Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer at MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore)
Anne Boden, Founder of Starling Bank
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Managing Director, M-PESA Africa

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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810. News: Robinhood is coming to the UK and Wise help SMEs with Allica Bank Dec 11, 2023

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Our expert host, David Barton-Grimley, is 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:

Sophie Winwood, Co-founder WVCE and Fintech Investor
Roisin Levine, Head of UK and Europe at Wise Platform
Oliver Smith, Managing Editor and Head of Content at AltFi

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

Robinhood brings its stock trading platform to the UK
Allica Bank partners with Wise to bolster cross-border payments for UK SMEs
N26 partners with Upvest to offer ETF trading
Adyen to act as Klarna’s acquiring bank
Waave and Gr4vy Bring Pay by Bank Solution to Merchants Across Australia
Barclays announce branch closures amid rumours of £1 billion cost-cutting plan
Natwest create a board game to educate people about modern scams

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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Special Guests: Oliver Smith, Roisin Levine , and Sophie Winwood.

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809. Insights: Seeking real value in the Aussie fintech space (Rewind) Dec 08, 2023

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Our expert host, David Brear, is joined by some great guests to talk about fintech in Australia. We take a look back to the initial 2021 conversation to see what fintech looked like then, so we can judge for ourselves what has happened since.

Has the market in Australia gone in the direction we expected?
Who were the big players, and the big up and comers, two years ago and are they still around?

Let's find out...

This week's guests include:

Dexter Cousins, Founder, Tier One People
Simone Joyce, CEO & Co-Founder, Paypa Plane & Chair of Fintech Australia
Matt Baxby, Country CEO of Revolut Australia

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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Special Guests: Dexter Cousins, Matt Baxby, and Simone Joyce.

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Bonus: David M. Brear on the Wharton Fintech Podcast Dec 06, 2023

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On this bonus edition of Fintech Insider, we're sharing an episode of the Wharton Fintech Podcast, where host Kailee Costello interviews 11:FS CEO David M. Brear on all things fintech.

If you like what you hear, do follow their podcast and connect on social to get more great content.

Follow the Wharton Fintech Podcast: https://www.whartonfintech.org/podcast
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

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Special Guest: Kailee Costello.

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808. News: JP Morgan eye growth in Abu Dhabi and Check tackle payroll fraud Dec 04, 2023

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Our expert host Kate Moody is 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:

Andrew Brown, CEO & Co-Founder at Check
Stew Cofer, Head of EMEA Payment Specialists & Embedded Finance at J. P. Morgan
Nicole Casperson, Founder & Author at Fintech Is Femme

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

Check Launches New Tools to Help Build and Scale Payroll Businesses
J.P. Morgan plans to expand presence in Abu Dhabi
Australian banks roll out new scam protection measures with the Scam-Safe Accord
Kroo Bank surpass £2 million in their first round of crowdfunding
Embedded sustainability fintech ekko and Tusk curate portfolio of African conservation projects
BNPL fuels an all-time spending record for Cyber Monday

Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.

Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review

Special Guests: Andrew Brown, Nicole Casperson, and Stew Cofer.

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