Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

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559. Insights: Ask us anything! Sep 03, 2021

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Our expert hosts, David Brear, Simon Taylor and Jason Bates, come together to answer all of your burning question in this Ask Me Anything episode.

How surprised are they by the rise of the neobanks in the US? Is there a grave danger all the best engineers get sucked into and away from traditional FS businesses? When Hollywood decides to make 11:FS The Movie, who would David, Simon and Jason want to play them?

Tune in to hear so much more, and hey - maybe next time, we'll be answering your questions!

This episode is sponsored by Temenos.
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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 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.

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558. News: Playing into your niche Aug 30, 2021

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Our expert hosts, David Brear and Pierre Legrand, 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 Waupsh, CEO and founder, Nerve
Colin Kennedy, Chief Business Officer, Ramp

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

Ramp raises $300M and acquires Buyer to offer "negotiation-as-a-service" 3:30
Revolut introduces salary-advance feature in the UK 13:25
Nerve, World’s First Neobank Created for Musicians Launched 24:49
World Remit rebrands as Zepz and raises £292M 36:49
Socially conscious fintech Aspiration to go public via a SPAC merger 41:45
Balance raises $25 million in Series A funding 42:51
African fintech OPay valued at $2bn after a $400m raise 43:50
Hargreaves Lansdown creates confusion with ad campaign citing a Monzo IPO 45:00

Al of this and much more more on today's episode!

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Special Guests: Colin Kennedy and John Waupsh.

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557. Insights: Is Buy Now Pay Later the future of credit? Aug 27, 2021

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Our expert hosts, David Brear and Amy Gavin, are joined by some great guests to talk about innovation in the buy now pay later products.

Most people think of huge players such as Klarna & Afterpay, but increasingly we are seeing more and more specialised providers entering the market, and in new geographies. We wanted to revisit this topic, to find out where the innovation is really coming from.

This week's guests include:

Arad Levertov, CEO & Co-Founder, Sunbit
Timothy Davis, CEO & Co-Founder, Butter.co.uk

All of this and much more on today's episode!

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Special Guests: Arad Levertov and Timothy Davis.

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556. News: Don’t bet against Jamie Dimon Aug 23, 2021

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Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Gwera Kiwana, 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:

Rod Lockhart, CEO at LendInvest
Sam Maule, Key Account Exec at Google Cloud

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

Chime raises $750m at $25bn valuation 3:04
LendInvest secures £150m partnership with Barclays and HSBC 16:01
JP Morgan and AmEx invest in Plaid 30:27
UK banks plan to share branches as regulator seeks to block closures 41:35
Brex buys Israel’s Weav 50:45
'Personalised credit' startup Keebo raises £5 million in seed funding 52:00
Starling tops CMA ratings for business banking quality 53:45
HSBC joining the bank card accessibility push with new ‘vertical’ designs 54:44

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 and co., 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.

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Special Guests: Rod Lockhart and Sam Maule.

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555. Insights: AI - Who will take on the responsibility of erasing human bias? Aug 20, 2021

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Our expert host, Simon Taylor, is joined by some great guests to talk about AI and machine learning in the context of financial services.

We cover how AI/ML will change financial services, what the difference between AI & ML in Financial Services is, what the biggest benefits of AI/ML are, how do we work with bias and how far can we take it?

This week's guests include:

Amanda Cercas Curry, PhD student Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and co-host of the podcast Let's Chat Ethics
Teddy Flo, General Council, Zest AI
Dorel Blitz, VP Strategy & Business development, Personetics

All of this and much much more on today's episode!

This episode is sponsored by Blueshift.
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This episode is sponsored by WaveMaker.
This podcast is sponsored by WaveMaker, the industry's most open, API-driven low-code platform for hyper-accelerating embedded finance applications. Are APIs alone enough to broaden and scale your market adoption? Do you need customers to go live faster? How about self-serve capability in your partners' and customers' hands to build and customize their web and mobile experiences?

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Special Guests: Amanda Cercas Curry, Dorel Blitz, and Teddy Flo.

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553. Insights: How can good UX design make financial services accessible? Aug 13, 2021

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Our expert hosts, David Brear and Lindsey Kistler, are joined by some great guests to talk about designing products for fintech & insurtech.

We cover how to make design in the context of Fintech & insurtech stand out, gamification, getting information across to users seamlessly, the role of the UX designer, and much much more.

This week's guests include:

Dominic Holton, COO, DeadHappy
Edoardo Moreni, Co-Founder & CEO, Emma

All of this and much much more on today's episode!

WaveMaker delivers a rich drag-and-drop visual studio that fintechs, brands, and financial institutions use for rapidly composing serious banking and financial services apps. Pro and citizen developers can easily consume your APIs and build in a WYSIWYG, enterprise-grade environment; leverage custom pre-built components with APIs, logic, and UI; or even build out complete embedded finance journeys that customers can extend or customize. The possibilities are endless. Visit www.wavemaker.com today.

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Special Guests: Dominic Holton and Edoardo Moreni.

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551. Insights: Can you teach a banker to code? Aug 06, 2021

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Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Nick Funnell, are joined by some great guests to talk about the role of the engineer in the context of Fintech.

Engineers are essential to any software company, large or small, but they may not always be the most front-facing figures in a product build. Engineers are traditionally seen as builders, and what we will get into today is how the face of the engineer has changed since the birth of fintech, what are some challenges they face, and how do they go about explaining technical processes to their stakeholders?

This week's guests include:

Simon Vans-Colina, Co-Founder at Fronted
Chris Margonis, Senior Developer, Plum
Amber Goldberg, Software developer at Curve

All of this and much much more on today's episode!

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Special Guests: Amber Goldberg, Chris Margonis, and Simon Vans-Colina.

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550. News: If the talent walks, you’ve bought yourself a very expensive tin! Aug 02, 2021

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Our expert hosts, David Brear and Gwera Kiwana, 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:

Layla Qassim, Head of Strategy and Shareholder Relations at Solarisbank
Alex Frean, Head of Corporate Affairs at Starling Bank

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

Solarisbank raises $224M and acquires its competitor 4:19
Starling Bank makes their first acquisition as they buy Fleet Mortgages for $50m, while flying high in account switching race 9:40
Visa to acquire CurrencyCloud 23:10
Lloyds and Mastercard aim to take A2A payments mainstream 27:51
Gojek integrates with Jago for digital banking push 40:20
Tesco Bank to close all its current accounts 41:30
Goldman Sachs boosts transaction banking biz with Fiserv tie-up 43:10
Chicago Bulls team up with Shopify to launch an NFT series 44:30

This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are twice better than the industry average.
Learn more at Temenos.com.

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Special Guests: Alexandra Frean and Layla Qassim.

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549. Insights: How can digital payments support financial inclusion? Jul 30, 2021

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Our expert host, Simon Taylor, is joined by some great guests to talk about what is happening in the world of payments.

The world is moving away from traditional payment methods - what now?
This is not only on the consumer side, there is a lot of innovation on the B2B side as well. Is this movement only a good thing, is there a financial inclusion angle here and will our wallets get completely swapped out for our mobile phones?

Listen in to find out more about this and much much more!

This week's expert guests include:

Myles Stephenson, CEO, Modulr
Keith Grose, Head of UK, Plaid
Sophie Guibaud, Chief Growth Officer, OpenPayd
Vegar Wikhammer Heir, Chief Commercial Officer, Vipps

This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are twice better than the industry average.
Learn more at Temenos.com.

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Special Guests: Keith Grose, Myles Stephenson , Sophie Guibaud, and Vegar Wikhammer Heir.

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548. News: Get funding and build more! Jul 26, 2021

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Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Adam Davis, 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:

Carlo Gualandri, Founder and CEO at Soldo
Kate Drew, Director of Research at CCG Catalyst Consulting

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

Revolut raises $800 million to become UK's most valuable fintech 5:20
Soldo raises $180M for its business expense platform 17:51
Square launches small business banking 32:10
IPO roundup: Robinhood is seeking a market valuation as high as $35 billion from their upcoming IPO and Paytm look to IPO in India with a raise of $2.2bn 42:55
Yapily raises $51M for its open banking API 52:59
Serena Williams invests in credit building startup Esusu 55:16
Treasury Prime announce Customizable Card Controls to Increase Transactions While Reducing Fraud 57:10
FCA loses £300k worth of electronic devices, this news arises a year after it issued a warning to businesses to ‘be responsible when handling client data’ 59:26

This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are twice better than the industry average.
Learn more at Temenos.com.

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Special Guests: Carlo Gualandri and Kate Drew.

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