Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

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758. Is Goldman Sachs breaking up with Apple? Jul 10, 2023

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Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and David Barton-Grimley, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week.

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

Goldman is looking for a way out of its partnership with Apple - 4:35
Visa $1 billion buyout of Brazil's Pismo eases fintech M&A slowdown - 14:35
UK banks warned against closing accounts - 26:35
Open Banking education a must in Canada as only 9% have heard of it - 36:50
Taylor Swift fans caused 45% surge in UOB card applications across Southeast Asia - 47:50
Office plant potted 14 years ago is now a 600ft monster that covers ceiling and walls - 50:00

This week's guests include:

Bruno Diniz, Managing Director, Spiralem
Jason Mikula, Publisher, Fintech Business Weekly

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, Ross Gallagher, Benjamin Ensor, and Kate Moody - 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: Bruno DIniz and Jason Mikula.

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757. Insights: Can financial services change how people think about money? Jul 07, 2023

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Our expert host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to ask: "Can financial services change how people think about money?”

This week's guests include:

Jason Bates, Co-Founder, 11:FS
Rajan Lakhani, Head Of Public Relations, Plum
Stephen Bowe, Director - Digital Experience & Innovation, Nationwide

The way we manage money is incredibly complicated. Spend, save, invest, borrow, lend, pay-off – user journeys in financial services are all over the place

So – can financial services smooth out the journey and make it more effective for consumers, and is it the place of banks and fintechs to change how users prioritise and budget?

We put together a panel of experts to discuss: the status quo on services offered, how to build more intuitive options, and what the future could look like with more joined up thinking.

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Special Guests: Rajan Lakhani and Stephen Bowe.

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756. Focus: What are US VCs looking for in today’s market? Jul 05, 2023

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Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests for this latest edition of Fintech insider Focus!

In this episode, we're looking at the turmoil in the VC space, what has changed in 2023, and what the next half of the year might look like for investment in fintech.

This week's guests include:

David Rolf, Head, Visa Ventures
Sasha Pilch, Principal, Fin Capital
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Principal, Commerce Ventures

In the latest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we taking a burning question from financial services across the globe and put it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews – all to bring the global community into focus.

This episode is sponsored by Visa

Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program is streamlining the onboarding process for fintechs – enabling them to gain access to Visa’s powerful capabilities and network. Visa and their enablement partners help fintechs launch and scale cards, virtual credentials, and disbursement programs. To learn more visit, partner.visa.com.

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Special Guests: David Rolf, Sasha Pilch, and Vivek Krishnamurthy.

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755. News: PSD3 unveils plans to shake up Open Banking Jul 03, 2023

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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.

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

PSD3: The European Union unveils new open banking rules - 4:50
Wise sees profits soar amid customer boost and rising interest rates - 22:05
Robinhood acquires credit card startup X1 for $95M - 35:10
UK fintech TreasurySpring raises $29 million to scale its cash investment platform - 44:00
Integrated surveillance demand increases - 51:40
Checkout.com launches AI-powered optimisation engine to increase merchant revenue - 54:45
Cops arrest man for taping photos to a dummy to trick mobile banking facial recognition - 56:48

This week's guests include:

Nilan Peiris, Chief Product Officer, Wise
Sarah Kocianski, Independent Fintech Consultant

With soundclips from:

Jan van Vonno, Head of Industry & Wallets, Tink
Kevin Cook, CEO & Co-Founder, TreasurySpring
Matt Smith, CEO, SteelEye

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Special Guests: Jan van Vonno, Kevin Cook, Matt Smith, Nilan Peiris , and Sarah Kocianski.

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754. Insights: How do we get to the holy grail of cross border payments? Jun 30, 2023

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Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask: "“How do we get to the holy grail of cross border payments?”

This week's guests include:

Sara Castelhano, EMEA Payments & Commerce Solutions Product, JP Morgan
William Artingstall, Global Co-Head Cross Border Payments and Receivables, Citi

Cheap, universal, speedy, and secure – is that too much to ask for when moving money internationally?

Moving money across the world is one of the biggest spaces in financial services and just keeps getting bigger. But, there’s still lots of issues and technical challenges still to overcome – even for the biggest players in the market.

We've put together a panel of experts to discuss: the progresss made in cross-border payments to date, where the friction remains, and the next steps towards the holy grail of seamless cross border payments!

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Special Guests: Sara Castelhano and William Artingstall.

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753. News: Banks are in an AI talent war and Revolut launches the 'Ultra' account Jun 26, 2023

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Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Ross Gallagher, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week.

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

European banks are putting "AI" in 30% of their job ads - 6:10
Majority, a digital bank for US migrants, grabs $9.75M amid expansion in Texas - 18:40
Revolut to launch Ultra, a new subscription plan - 32:05
UK Mortgage rates: Average two-year fix now above 6% - 41:20
Starling Bank renews sponsorship of Southampton FC women's football team - 49:10
Gen-Z is taking courses on how to send an email and what to wear in the office - 50:30

This week's guests include:

Jonas Lornell, Commercial Director, Majority
Nadia Edwards-Dashti, Chief Customer Officer, Harrington Starr

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Special Guests: Jonas Lornell and Nadia Edwards-Dashti.

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752. Insights: How does Big Tech shake up the payments industry? Jun 23, 2023

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Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask "How does Big Tech shake up the payments industry?"

This week's guests include:

Alexandra Rivas-Gale, International Payments Product Lead, Clearbank
Jim McCarthy, EVP of Product & Sales, Thredd
Jorn Lambert, Chief Digital Officer, Mastercard

It’s often said that, with every new feature launch, Apple can wipe out 100+ startups trying to do the same thing. But actually the relationship between financial services and Big Tech is way more complicated than that!

Between partnerships, acquisitions, back-end processes, and public fallouts - there’s a lot of ways these two industries cross over and influence each other.

In this show, we’ve put together a panel of amazing experts to discuss: how the relationship has developed to date, the challenges in that relationship, and what the future looks like for Big Tech and the payments industry.

This episode is sponsored by Thredd

Global Processing Services (GPS), the payments platform trusted by the leading issuers to process billions of transactions a year, has changed their name to Thredd. Why Thredd? Thredd, because their tailored payment processing solutions are the thread that connects payments innovators of the future. Thredd, because they are true partners, becoming part of the fabric of your business as it grows. And Thredd because it just feels right. Find out more at Thredd.com.

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Special Guests: Alexandra Rivas-Gale, Jim McCarthy, and Jorn Lambert.

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751. Focus: Putting grain on the blockchain – with Eduardo Novillo Astrada, CEO of Agrotoken Jun 21, 2023

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In the latest strand of Fintech Insider, in association with Visa, we’re taking a burning question from financial services across the globe - and really putting it under the microscope with explainers, expert panels, and in-depth interviews all to bring the global community into focus.

In this episode, Benjamin Ensor sat down with Eduardo Novillo Astrada, CEO & Co-Founder, Agrotoken to continue exploring the question set out in our previous Focus episode: "How do agriculture and fintech collide in LatAm?”

Join us to hear about Agrotoken's approach to tokenising real-world assets, what this changes for farmers, and the importance of bartering to economy.

This episode is sponsored by Visa

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Special Guests: Eduardo Novillo Astrada and Pamela Ceballos.

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750. News: Andreessen Horowitz lands in London and HSBC rebrands Silicon Valley Bank UK Jun 19, 2023

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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.

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

Andreessen Horowitz to open its first international office in London - 6:00
HSBC builds innovation division from the bones of collapsed SVB UK - 20:28
Citizens Bank and Wisetack announce partnership to expand embedded ‘pay over time’ solutions - 32:42
Nasdaq to buy financial software company Adenza in $10.5 billion cash-and-stock deal - 45:40
Desperate for dollars, Argentina just gave digital nomads another advantage over locals - 53:38
Oaknorth boss: Immigration barriers are threatening the UK’s fintech sector -56:00
Snoop Dogg's NFT tour pass lets fans 'travel the world' with him virtually - 57:45

This week's guests include:

Anna Irrera, Senior Editor, Crypto, Bloomberg News
Bobby Tzekin, CEO, Wisetack

This episode is sponsored by Thredd

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Special Guests: Anna Irrera and Bobby Tzekin.

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749. What is Anne Boden’s legacy in fintech? (rewind) Jun 16, 2023

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Our expert host, David M. Brear, is asking: "What is Anne Boden’s legacy in fintech?"

This week's guests include:

Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank

The fintech world has been rocked by the news that Starling Bank’s Founder and CEO, Anne Boden, is stepping back nine years after founding the company.

A self-described “5ft tall Welsh woman”, who started a challenger bank in her mid-50s, Boden has been one of the sector’s most passionate and vital voices for the last decade.

To give you a glimpse of that drive and determination, we are opening up the archives and we’re bringing you an interview from April 2020 on the 11:FS Breakfast Show.

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Special Guest: Anne Boden.

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