Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear and Jason Bates, are joined live on stage at the Village Underground in London by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news as part of Fintech Insider: After Dark! This week's guests include: Sarah Kocianski, Independent Fintech Strategy Consultant Richard Davies, CEO, Allica Bank Anna Irrera, Senior Editor, Crypt...

Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to ask the question: 'should everyone get paid when they need it?' Earned wage access has become one of the hottest products in financial services. While in the past, employees have got caught out by unexpected bills before their monthly pay packet, these services are looking to bridge the gap and unlock vital funds from their next pa...

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody 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. This week's guests include: Eric Johansson, Fintech Editor, Verdict Adam Bialy, Founder & CEO, Fiat Republic We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: JPMorgan Chase acquires payments fin...

Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to look at how accelerators have influenced financial services and fintech. According to the Brookings Institution, there are more than 1,300 accelerators globally, all looking to unearth the next big thing and nurture a generation of founders. But what has been the impact of the accelerators on fintech? What’s the biggest challenge b...

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody 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. This week's guests include: Douglas Soltys, Editor-in-Chief, BetaKit Elaine Burke, Editor, Silicon Republic With soundclips from: Derek Joyce, COO, Alloy We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial service...

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to ask: "Will embedded finance bank the unbanked?" While you may think ‘unbanked’ and ‘underbanked’ applies to emerging markets, estimates from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) suggest 5.4 percent of U.S. households were “unbanked” in 2019, meaning that no one in the household had a checking or savings account at a ba...

Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Nicole Perry, 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: Vinay Singh, Managing Director, Anthemis Tessa Bryant, Head of Brand and Communications, Lightyear With soundclips from: Johannes Fenner, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Justhome We cover the following...

Our expert host, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to ask: 'Are SMEs really being served?' Addressing the banking services of underserved small and medium-sized enterprises was one of the earliest gaps in the market that fintech looked to fill. Nearly a decade into that journey, it’s time to take stock of those early promises and see what has been done to help SMEs on both sides of th...

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. This week's guests include: Ximena Aleman, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Prometeo Emily Man, Investor, Redpoint Ventures With soundclips from: Geoff Charles, Head of Product, at Ramp We cover the following stories from the finte...

Our expert host, Benjamin Ensor, is joined by some great guests to discuss fintech's role in the refugee crisis. According to 2021 figures from the United Nations, there are more than 89 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from countries like Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Somalia and Eritrea. We’ve put together a panel of experts to discuss how fintech can help refugees in the...

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear and Nicole Perry, 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: Jenny Miller, Head of US Product, Wise Evgenii Kondratev, Product Director, Klarna With soundclips from: Bruno DIniz, Co-founder, Spiralem We cover the following stories from the fintech and fi...

Our expert host, David M. Brear , is joined by some great guests to ask: 'What does good crypto design look like?' It was recently announced that BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management company, is now offering clients direct access to crypto – starting with Bitcoin. If anything demonstrates crypto’s move from the fringes to the mainstream, it’s the backing of one of the industy’s big...

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nicole Perry, 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: Katie Llanos-Small, Founder & Editor, Iupana Brian Byrnes, Head of Personal Finance, Moneybox We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Cost of living: People tu...

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to ask: how do you design financial services for people with disabilities? The fintech boom of the past decade has made financial services more democratic and has improved access for many different groups across the globe. But for people living with disabilities - or PwDs – the wait goes on for truly inclusive services. In this podca...

Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by Andy Bromberg, CEO of Eco, to talk about one of the biggest stories on 'Fintech Twitter'. A few months ago - Pebble caught the attention of many in the fintech world. This included Andy Bromberg, who felt he saw Eco’s very own materials and business model reflected back at him. After more digging, he took to Twitter to declare that Pebble engaged in “c...

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nicole, 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: Jason Mikula, Publisher, Fintech Business Weekly Ariba Shahid, Contributor, DealStreetAsia With soundclips from: Douglas Soltys, Editor, Betakit We cover the following stories from the fintech and financ...

Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask 'how will PSD3 shape the future of Open Banking?' Payment Services Directive 2 was the starting pistol for innovation across financial services and the Open Banking space. The European directive had truly global repercussions, igniting huge interest from investors, and leading to billion dollar valuations for companies on both...

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear and Nicole Perry, 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: Benjamin Chemla, CEO & Co-founder, Shares Dan Morgan, Policy Lead - Europe, Plaid Kristy Kim, Co-founder & CEO, TomoCredit With soundclips from: Brian Simons, President, Maxwell We cover the fo...

Our expert host, Gwera Kiwana, is joined by some great guests to ask: 'is the future of investment active or passive?' Younger generations flipped the stock exchange on its head with fintech delivering the power of Wall Street to the palm of their hands. But while many young investors were energised, the economic downturn has potentially shown the importance of long-term investments after all. So:...

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Amy Gavin, 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: Sarah Kocianski, Independent Fintech Strategy Consultant Douglas Mackenzie, Chief Content Officer, Fintech Finance With soundclips from: Katie Llanos-Small, CEO, Iupana We cover the following stories...

Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to understand how inflation is impacting financial services. Rising inflation is driving down the value of our money while driving up the cost of everything from energy, to food, to travel. Inflation has plenty of real word impact and financial services is definitely tied up in that – from how people manage day-to-day spending, to investi...

Our expert hosts, David M. Brear 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: Abubakar Idris, Africa Reporter, Rest of World Anita Ramaswamy, Reporter, Techcrunch We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Klarna’s valuation slashed by $3...

Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by Dan McCrum, an investigative reporter at the Financial Times and author of 'Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth'. The financial services industry was rocked by headlines about Wirecard. It filed for insolvency in June 2020 claiming €1.9 billion dollars was “missing” from its balance sheet and slowly the whole sorry s...

Our expert hosts, Benjamin Ensor and Deepa Anikhindi, 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: Tim Coates, Co-founder, Oxbury Bank Dan Morgan, Policy Lead - Europe, Plaid With soundclips from: Duncan Barrigan, Chief Product & Growth Officer, GoCardless We cover the following stories f...

Our expert host, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to put together the perfect mortgage offering. While fintech disruptors have looked to make mortgages simpler, there are still many hurdles in the way of a seamless experience for potential homeowners. So, bringing together a panel of industry experts from the UK, the US and Europe, we're asking: What do we get rid of? What do we keep...