Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

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524. News: PensionBee's IPO celebrates female leadership & Current raises £220 million! May 03, 2021

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Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Kate Moody, 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:

Jasper Martens, CMO at PensionBee
Andy Wiggan, VP Product Management at GoCardless
Stuart Sopp, CEO and founder of Current

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

PensionBee’s IPO and listing on the London Stock Exchange 2:54
Current triples its valuation with its Series D round and new investor, a16z 15:36
GoCardless break into Open Banking with new InstantPay initiative 34:13
Barclays US and Amount launch white label BNPL suite 45:45
Dutch neo-broker BUX raises $80 million 54:59
Teen banking service Step raises $100M Series C, as Kids-focused fintech Greenlight raises $260M in a16z-led Series D 57:40
Turkey arrests dozens as crypto exchange boss flees country 59:54
Standard Life Aberdeen faces mockery for Abrdn rebrand 01:02:00

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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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Special Guests: Andy Wiggan, Jasper Martens, and Stuart Sopp.

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523. Insights: Open Finance - who will fund it? Apr 30, 2021

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Our expert host, Sarah Kocianski, is joined by some great guests to talk about Open Finance. Earlier this year we produced an After Dark event which focussed on Open Finance, but since then the FCA have released the feedback they got from the industry from the call for input that they issued in December 2019. We have now gathered some of the greatest minds in the industry to discuss the outcome of that, talk about the concerns the FCA identified, but also how we maximise the potential . All of this and much more on today's episode.

This week's guests include:

Alan Ainsworth, Head of Policy, Legal and External Communications at the Open Banking Implementation Entity
Sam Oakley, Head of marketing at Bud
Andria Evripidou, Public Policy and Compliance Lead at Yapily

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Special Guests: Alan Ainsworth, Andria Evripidou, and Sam Oakley.

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522. News: Crypto - it’s now a completely different story Apr 26, 2021

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Our expert hosts, Melissa Stringer and Simon Taylor, 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:

Ellen Moeller - Head of EMEA Partnerships at Stripe
Anna Irrera, Fintech Correspondent, Reuters

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

Stripe Issuing launches in Europe 1:50
Venmo launches crypto buying and selling 14:03
FintechOS nabs $65.5M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking 27:27
Rishi Sunak announces Task Force to explore British CBDC 40:26
Apple introduces Apple Card Family, enabling people to share Apple Card and build credit together 50:19
Klarna launches carbon footprint insights for 90 million consumers 57:50
Revolut plots path to $10bn valuation with new funding 59:12
Goldman Sachs invest $50M in Starling Bank 01:01:00
Slim Jim Has a Dogecoin Strategy. News of It Sends DOGE to a new all time high 01:02:46

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Special Guests: Anna Irrera and Ellen Moeller.

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521. Insights: Sustainable Finance - how impactful can it be for the climate? Apr 23, 2021

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Our expert host, Adam Davis, are joined by some great guests to talk about sustainability in the financial services industry. After covering what products are available for climate aware customers, Adam and the guests now want to look at the bigger and talk about what the financial industry is currently doing, what they could do more of and what a sustainable approach might be for hiring in the future. All of this and much more on today's episode.

This week's guests include:

Matt Rees of the European Investment Bank and host of the Climate Solutions podcast
Georg Ludviksson, CEO & Co-Founder of Meniga
Clare Reilly, Chief Engagement Officer, PensionBee

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Special Guests: Clare Reilly, Georg Ludviksson, and Matt Rees.

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520. News: The B2B Payments space Ramps up Apr 19, 2021

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Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Simon Taylor, 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:

Geoff Charles, Head of Product at Ramp
Myles Stephenson, CEO at Modulr

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

Two-year old Ramp joins fintech Unicorn club 2:36
Modulr received strategic investment from the venture arm of FIS 14:41
China Creates Its Own Digital Currency 27:08
Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps $500M in Better.com at $6B valuation 35:55
Mastercard unveils carbon calculator for banks 46:48
Trustly seeks €9 billion valuation on IPO 48:42
Nubank pumps funds into Mexican unit 50:08
France’s central bank threatens fintech industry with three years imprisonment for misusing the term “neobank” 52:00

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Special Guests: Geoff Charles and Myles Stephenson .

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519. Insights: How can you get to market quickly? Apr 16, 2021

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Our expert hosts, David Brear and Jason Bates, are joined by some great guests to talk about how you can get to market quickly. What is the next iteration of banking as a service? How can you overcome certain issues and what is a better solution than BaaS? All this and much more. This week's guests include:

Ray Brash, CEO PPS
Tui Allen, Senior Producer Leader, at Shopify
Aadeel Peerally, Director of Product Management at Delivery Hero

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518. News: Going global - Plaid shake off the Visa breakup with new $13.4bn valuation Apr 12, 2021

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Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and Melissa Stringer, 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:

Keith Grose, Head of Europe, Plaid
Emily Nicolle, Fintech Correspondent, Financial News

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

Plaid raised $425 million in a Series D funding round for a global financial data network 51:40
Coinbase Posts Record $1.8 Billion In Revenue As Crypto Market Shoots Past $2 Trillion 13:10
Revolut to launch major US blitz as it targets a million users this year 23:49
Brazilian Central Bank Gives Green Light To WhatsApp Payments as Facebook US tests P2P payments 35:50
Snoop partners with Accepty for 'hyper-personalised' lending tool 43:40
Clubhouse partners with Stripe to let you send money directly to creators by tapping on their profile 45:24
Former banking lobby chief Jones joins shared branches start-up OneBanks 47:30
Coin-Baes: Two Coinbase employees wed by exchanging NFTs 49:34

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Special Guests: Emily Nicolle and Keith Grose.

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517. Insights: How can digital financial service brands build trust? Apr 09, 2021

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Our expert host Sarah Kocianski is joined by some great guests to talk about building and maintaining trust in digital financial services. Right now, trust in the FS industry is rising and trust in the tech industry is decreasing — how can we balance the two and create financial products and services that customers trust?
We have published a research report with Mitek on this exact topic and we leant on the framework of that report for today’s discussion to look at 4 areas of focus today: capability, competence, care and purpose when it comes to building trust.

This week's guests include:

Stephen Ritter - Mitek CTO
Andy Moore - Design Director, ANNA Money
Becky Danks - Product Manager at Yapily

To find out more, download the report with Mitek here: http://bit.ly/digitaltrustreport2021

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Special Guests: Andy Moore, Becky Danks, and Stephen Ritter.

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516. News: The CMA blocks Crowdcube and Seedrs’ merger & Feedzai become a financial crime-fighting unicorn Apr 05, 2021

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Daniel Lanyon, Editor in Chief at Altfi.
Nuno Sebastao - CEO Feedzai

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

Regulator applies brakes to Crowdcube and Seedrs merger, we also heard from CEO & co-founder of Crowdcube Darren Westlake to give us their perspective (3:10)
Feedzai achieves Unicorn status on $200 million fund raise (15:03)
Santander UK to close 111 branches and overhaul office space as Nationwide allows employees to “work from anywhere” (29:11)
Stripe invests in Ramp at $1.6 Billion Valuation (37:10)
FS giants join $40m Greenwood funding round (44:08)
US fintech Sincere to target “pet parents” with debit cards (52:47)

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Special Guests: Daniel Lanyon, Darren Westlake, and Nuno Sebastao.

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515. Insights: How can Payroll APIs reimagine credit? Apr 02, 2021

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Our expert host Simon Taylor is joined by a panel of great guests to talk about payroll APIs. Fintech enablers and infrastructure has been one of the most important catalysts for recent growth in the financial services. In recent months we’ve seen new platforms pop up that give fintechs access to more data, using payroll APIs. But what is it, how does it work and what problems does it really solve?

This week's guests include:

Kurt Lin, Co-Founder & CEO of Pinwheel
Ahmed Siddiqui, VP Product, Branch
Katie Neal, Outreach and advocacy manager, Plaid

This episode is brought to you by Banking Circle.
A fully licensed bank focused on payments, Banking Circle gives Financial Institutions and large corporates direct access to clearing in multiple countries, enabling them to deliver global payments faster and more cost-effectively for their customers. Bypass legacy systems, enable global banking services for your customers and grow your business.

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Special Guests: Ahmed Siddiqui, Katie Neal, and Kurt Lin.

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