Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

About this episode: Host Laura Watkins - Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Oliver Smith - Head of content at Money 20/20 Europe Sarah Kocianski - Fintech consultant and analyst Chaimae Chouiekh - Business reporter at The Logic Stories/timestamps: Intro...

About this episode: Is the traditional checkout about to disappear? Benjamin Ensor is joined by Rory O’Neill, Sahar Attaripour, and Sam Boboev to explore the rise of agentic payments - a fundamental shift from executing transactions to delegating intent. The panel dives into whether we are ready to let AI spend our money, who carries the risk when an agent makes a mistake, and how this "control-pl...

About this episode: Host Ross Gallagher - Head of Consulting at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Jannick Malling - Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Public  Fliss Berridge - Director of Blue Strawberry Thinking Dave Morris - CEO of FoundryOS Stories/timestamps: Intro - (00:01) Investors on Publ...

About this episode: Is treasury becoming a strategic powerhouse? Benjamin Ensor is joined by Adyen’s Adrian Davis and BCG’s Stanislas Nowicki to explore how real-time payments, rising customer expectations, and fragmented banking are reshaping corporate treasury - and why “intelligent money movement” could be a competitive advantage. Find out more about Adyen at adyen.com This week's guests: Adria...

About this episode: Host Laura Watkins - Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: David Sullivan - Data Director of Starling  Cem Güler, Head of PMO - DenizBank AG Merusha Naidu - Global Head of Partnerships at Paymentology  Stories/timestamps: Intro - (00:01)...

About this episode: Prediction markets are booming but what are they, and why is everyone talking about them? In this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, Kate Moody is joined by Emily Nicolle at Bloomberg and Kate Knibbs at WIRED to unpack the rise of platforms that let you “trade the future” - from elections to economic events. Are these markets a powerful new forecasting tool - or just gambling...

About this episode: Our expert host Ross Gallagher, and co-host Jamie Campbell, Co-CEO of 11:FS Holdings, present Fintech Insider News live from Village Underground in London, joined by some fantastic guests to discuss some of the interesting fintech and financial services stories of the week. (Spoiler: We've selected some Irish-themed content specifically for St. Patrick's Day!) Stories covered o...

About this episode: Recorded live from J.P. Morgan’s e-commerce and fintech forum, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear is joined by an all-star panel to tackle a deceptively simple question: can you still launch a startup in 2026? With AI reshaping how companies are built, capital becoming more disciplined, and geopolitics influencing everything from regulation to expansion, the old startup playbook is being...

About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Dave Morris - CEO of FoundryOS  Veronica Glab - Strategic Partnerships Lead at Juice Art Levy - Chief Business Officer at Brex   Stories/timestamps: Intro - (00:01)Revolut secu...

About this episode: For years, banking has been framed as a battlefield: incumbents defending their turf while fintech challengers attack with better tech and customer experience. But in 2026, that picture may have changed. Ross Gallagher and David M. Brear (11:FS) are joined by Richard Davies (Allica Bank) and Sophie Guibaud (Building Alpha) to explore how the banking battlefield has evolved - an...

About this episode: Host Laura Watkins (Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS) is joined by a brilliant panel to unpack these topics before diving into some of the biggest fintech stories of the week. Sunday 8th March marked International Women’s Day, celebrating the social, political and economic achievements of women around the world. This year’s theme, “Give to Gain,” highlights the power of...

About this episode: In this episode of Fintech Insider, David M. Brear sits down with Emily Turner, the newly appointed CEO of HSBC Innovation Banking UK, for a conversation about leadership, innovation, and the future of fintech in the UK. Emily brings deep experience from across banking and venture. Before stepping into the role in June 2025, she spent more than a decade at Citi where she launch...

About this episode: Host David M. Brear, CEO of 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Joe Colchester, Head of Product, 11:FS Pulse Aditi Subbarao, Financial Services for Snowflake Albert Malikov, Founder and CEO of Stacks Stories/timestamps: Intro - (00:01) Stacks Raises $23 Million to Reinv...

About this episode: In this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, Kate Moody is joined by an expert panel of product leaders to unpack a question every startup and scale-up eventually faces: how do you build the dream product team? Whether you’re building from scratch, levelling up an existing function, or trying to future-proof your product organisation, this episode is packed with practical insig...

About this episode: Host Ross Gallagher, Head of Ventures at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Sophie Condie, CEO of Shieldpay Samantha Emery, FS Executive and NED Breno Oliveira, Chief Product Officer at payabl Timestamps/stories: Intro - (00:01) Business leaders lose a month to fraud e...

About this episode: In this episode of Fintech Insider, David M. Brear sits down with ClearBank’s UK CEO, Emma Hagan, to explore how the UK’s first new clearing bank in over 250 years is reshaping financial infrastructure from the ground up. What problem was ClearBank originally built to solve - and how does it fit into today’s increasingly complex financial ecosystem of banks, fintechs and paymen...

About this episode: Host Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Jessica Cath, Managing Partner at Thistle Initiatives Andy Russell - CEO of Project Arnauld at 11:FS Holdings  Sam Maule - Head of Business Development at Moov Timestamps/stories: Intro -...

About this episode: In this special live edition of Fintech Insider Insights, recorded at the FCA’s Supercharged Sandbox Showcase, David M. Brear is joined by leaders from the regulator, industry and the technology ecosystem to unpack the UK’s first AI-focused regulatory sandbox. The FCA has long been a global pioneer in regulatory sandboxes - but why launch a dedicated AI Supercharged Sandbox now...

About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor, Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. Producer's note: Please note that during the Checkout.com and Spotify story, this discussion incorrectly refers to Checkout.com becoming Spotify's single global partner. While Checkout will work w...

About this episode: What’s next for fintech UX in 2026? Ross Gallagher, Head of Consulting at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to break down six financial services UX predictions from the latest 11:FS Pulse Report, covering the shifts shaping digital banking, customer experience, onboarding, product design, and user research. This week’s guests: Joe Colchester - Head of Product at 11:FS Pulse...

About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor, Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Ziad Mabsout - Co-founder and CEO of Vennre  Sarah Kocianski - Fintech Consultant & Advisor  Matthew Ford - CEO and Co-founder of Sidekick Stories covered on the podcast this w...

About this episode: On this week’s episode, in partnership with Pleo, host Benjamin Ensor is joined by Jeppe Rindom, Co-Founder and CEO of Pleo; Søren Westh Lonning, CFO at Pleo; and Megan Cooper, CEO of Caywood, to explore how the role of finance has evolved over the past decade - and what it will take for finance teams to win the next 10 years. We discuss how expectations on CFOs and finance tea...

This episode was recorded before the news broke that Capital One is buying Brex (thanks for that one, guys!). We’ll be covering it on next week’s pod. About this episode: Host Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Nicolás Di Pace - Managing Partner a...

About this episode: On this week’s episode, host David Barton-Grimley is joined by Matt Weaver, Head of Solutions Engineering for EMEA at OpenAI, to explore the impact OpenAI is having on the financial services industry - and the meaningful collaborations taking place between the sector and the AI innovation giant. We discuss how AI is becoming the operating system for financial services as instit...

About this episode: Host Laura Watkins, Director of Media & Marketing at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Matthew Goldman - Founder of Totavi Shah Ramezani - Founder and CEO of Noah Veronica Glab - Strategic Partnerships Lead at Juice Plus soundbites from: Amina Taher - Chief Marketing...