Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

Join hosts Kate Moody, Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein and some great guests as we discuss the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. Topics include: Ember and HSBC team up to launch tax tools for UK businesses, Stripe announce plans to expand their UK presence alongside new credit options for businesses, Visa unveil loads of new products at their annual payments fo...

David Barton-Grimley is joined by some great guests to discuss how fintech has grown in LATAM over the past 2 years. We last covered this market in a dedicated insights show in February 2022 (episode 603 if you want to listen back). At the time Brazilian fintech giant Nubank had 48 million customers, now they have a whopping 100 million. So, what else has happened since then? This week's guests in...

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Matthieu Altwegg, Vice President, Head of Product and Solutions for UK & Ireland, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In this half of the series we are looking closer at Europe, and in each episode we will explore a particular country or region within E...

Join hosts David Barton-Grimley, Will Jones and some great guests as we talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including: TabaPay pull out from buying bankrupt Synapse, Chime's new advance wage product, and the rise in ultra-long mortgages. This week's guests include: Jason Mikula, Publisher, Fintech Business Weekly  Aditi Subbarao, Global Fina...

Rachel Pandyan is joined by some great guests to discuss how how Islamic financing works, what Western banks can learn from Shari’ah compliant services and the challenges of launching and scaling Islamic financial services in Western or non-Muslim countries. Since the turn of the century, Muslim populations across Europe and North America have increased massively, with 44 million in the former, an...

Benjamin Ensor and Jamie Campbell are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including: Zopa reach profitability and £4bn in deposits, Chime get fined for late refunds, iwoca reach £1bn in total funding and Ant Financial enter Saudi. And we discuss whether you should join an online community to help you save. This...

Our expert host Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein is joined by some great guests to discuss how wealth management continues to provide value to the estimated 15 million High Net Worth Individuals around the world. It’s a small market, but a highly valuable one, and as wealth services become more democratised, and more mass market solutions are rolled out, we discuss how wealth management can continue creat...

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Malak Hisham El Baba, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode they take a closer look at Egypt, one...

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, including Ramp's recent $150m funding, which it will use to enhance its AI capabilities, and Goldman Sachs selling its Marcus Invest accounts to Betterment. Plus, UniCredit roll out Mastercard's Touch Card to 12 markets, and ComplyAdvantage p...

Our expert host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests in the second of our two part special, 'How to Buy a Bank'. In the previous episode, David Brear and guests covered what actually happens when one bank decides to buy another. So in this episode we are diving deep inside banks, to uncover what really goes on in the organisations themselves during a merger or acquisition, once the ink is dry...

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, including Ramp's recent $150m funding, which it will use to enhance its AI capabilities, and Goldman Sachs selling its Marcus Invest accounts to Betterment. Plus, UniCredit roll out Mastercard's Touch Card to 12 markets, and ComplyAdvantage p...

Our expert host David Brear is joined by some great guests in the first of our two part special, 'How to Buy a Bank'. We have already seen headlines on both sides of the pond this year; in the UK, Nationwide have bid £2.9 billion to take over Virgin Money, while in the US, Capital One hope to acquire Discover in a deal worth over $35 billion. Fintech funding may be going down, but big money M&A is...

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Hasan Kazmi, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode they take a closer look at Bahrain, a country w...

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including Revolut's new banking licence in Mexico, just as Nubank also ramp up in the region. Plus, the launch of Project Nemo, a new 12 month initiative aimed to improve disability inclusion in fintech. This week...

Our expert hosts Rachel Pandyan is joined by some great guests to talk about how ESG is being championed by financial services to create meaningful change, not just for our industry, but for the whole world. ESG is a term most of us have heard, and it became a buzz word, a catch-all term to represent climate-conscious action and social responsibility. However, it's not just a cultural zeitgeist. I...

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Jamie Campbell, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon comparing AI with the invention of the steam engine, AND the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia go to quite dramatic lengths to name and shame their naughty customers. This week's gues...

"The incumbent banking industry is built on customer ignorance, customer vulnerability, or customer inertia. We have set out to change all of that..." In this special Insights episode, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear sat down for an exclusive chat with the CEO of Monzo, TS Anil, in which they discuss TS' own career and the future of Monzo as it breaks out of the UK and plots expansion in the US and beyon...

Our expert host David Brear is joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including the new groundbreaking agreement between the UK and US to regulate AI models, and Ryan Reynolds backed payments company Nuvei sells to Advent for $6.3 billion. And, how can someone be given an 11,000 year jail term? This week's guests...

Our expert host, 11:FS CEO David Brear, is joined by some great guests, live from J. P. Morgan Payments' e-commerce and fintech forum in London, to talk about digital identities, regulation and innovation. The EU have announced plans to launch an e-Identity, which would make a digital wallet available to all citizens and businesses in the EU. But how will this work? How will PSD3 and other major r...

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Hasan Kazmi, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode we discuss the UAE, looking specifically at cre...

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody 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, including the $30 billion settlement with Visa and Mastercard that has been nearly 20 years in the making. This week's guests include: Jason Mikula, Founder of Fintech Business Weekly Doug Mackenzie, Journalist and Presente...

Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to talk about fintech hubs and how difficult or otherwise it is to create them globally, and we will hone in on the importance of government and regulator support to achieve this. Around the world, whether it’s in Canada lobbying for open banking, or Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 programme, harnessing the combined power of a whole sector...

Our expert host David Brear presents Fintech Insider News live from the Village Underground in London, to discuss all the latest news from the world of fintech and finance, including Nationwide's £2.9bn acquisition of Virgin Money, and how old do you need to be to own a house? Listen and find out... This week's guests include: Jamie Campbell, Head of VC at 11:FS Georgie Frost, Presenter and Person...

Our expert host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to talk about community banks, and how they can get the edge and win on the banking battlefield. It might seem at first glance that these small to mid tier banks serving only a certain region or niche of customers might have the odds against them, and yet - community banks are often uniquely positioned to serve their customers in ways the b...

Fintech Insider Focus is back for season two, in collaboration with Visa, and in the first half of this season we are diving deep into the Middle East's booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode, host Rachel Pandyan discusses the banking industry in Saudi Arabia alongside a panel of esteemed guests. The country’s finance industry is making huge str...