Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

Join hosts Kate Moody, Ross Gallagher and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Zopa’s Fintech Pledge industry coalition reaching a major milestone, Metro Bank selling £2.4bn of mortgage assets to NatWest, Female Invest raising a €10.3 million Series A, and Westpac offering debit cards to eight-year-olds. This week's gues...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host David M. Brear is joined by Hiroki Takeuchi, CEO of GoCardless. Since its launch back in 2011, GoCardless has been taking the pain out of getting paid for businesses, from solopreneurs to household names, for over 13 years. With nearly 100,000 businesses on its books, partnerships with over 350 financial software providers, over $500M raised in fun...

In this final episode of the current series of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, we conclude our journey around different industry niches and regions in Europe, by looking at real time payments and the role AI could play in fighting financial crime and fraud in the Nordic region. 11:FS host Rachel Pandyan, Product Lead, 11:FS alongside David Capezza, VP Head of Risk Advisory for E...

Join host David Barton-Grimley and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Revolut finally getting its UK banking license, fintech accelerator Archie announcing its first investments in two promising startups, UK fintech Plum raising over £16m, how CrowdStrike affected banking, and Monzo's new pension product. This week's g...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host David M. Brear is joined by Simon Bumfrey, Head of Technology & Life Sciences at HSBC Innovation Banking UK. In June 2023, HSBC Innovation Banking UK was launched at London Tech Week, following HSBC's acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank UK in March. It was one of the fastest and smoothest acquisitions ever with fintechs, banks, regulators and more c...

Join hosts Laura Watkins, Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Stripe is now worth $70 billion, gig worker fintech OCN raises $86 million Series A, BNP Paribas partners with Ant International, 13Books Capital raises a £121 million fintech fund, and Monzo is launching a bank account for kids....

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to talk about FedNow. In July last year the Federal Reserve launched Fednow, a new instant-payment service promised as the biggest update to the US Central Bank’s system since the 1970s. When it launched we released a podcast asking whether or not FedNow would flop.  So, one year on and with 800 financial i...

In this episode, in collaboration with Visa, 11:FS host David Barton-Grimley, alongside Eddie Onaga, Vice President, Head of Digital Partnerships - Europe at Visa, is looking at the growth, rise and future of digital wallets in Western Europe. Digital wallets aren’t new, but with the rise of mobile technology and customers turning more and more to digital and contactless payment options post-pande...

Join hosts Laura Watkins, Kate Moody and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Nala raises $40M to expand their B2B offering, Deutsche Bank launches a €500 million social bond to boost sustainable finance, Index Ventures raises $2.3 billion to chase AI breakthroughs, and whether Australian open banking needs to go back to...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to take a look at SMEs. It's a tough funding landscape for SMEs in the UK and beyond right now, and the downturn in funding from big banks despite increasing demand. But it’s not all doom and gloom, the big banks’ hesitancy is creating an ideal opportunity space for fintechs, neobanks and alternative lender...

Join hosts Benjamin Ensor and Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Monzo launching three new controls to protect their users from fraud, Revolut posting record profits as IPO rumors swirl, Plaid growing its enterprise business, Nubank and Robinhood both acquiring AI startups and Wise stating...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host Benjamin Ensor is joined by some great guests to discuss Credit Unions. And in-particular, Credit Unions based in North America. We look at what they are, how they work and most importantly, how they can compete against the banks and fintechs that are increasingly offering better, faster and cheaper digital services to credit unions’ customers... T...

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts. continue to shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In this episode we are continuing our deep dive into the European payments space. 11:FS host Rachel Pandyan alongside Lynsey Verrillo, Visa Europe's Head of Enabler & Small Business Growth, is taking a look at e-commerce for small businesses in...

Join host David Barton-Grimley and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Klarna sells Klarna Checkout, US supermarket Sainsbury's is selling most of its banking arm to NatWest, banking app for older people Charlie launches a new anti-fraud product, and Revolut is seeing a valuation of more than $40 billion. This week's gu...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, we're answering your questions! Host Laura Watkins is joined by Fintech Insider regulars Kate Moody and Jamie Campbell to answer the questions you wanted to know about. When will Revolut IPO? Are banks doing enough to support vulnerable customers? Is fintech becoming a bit too much like Pep Guardiola? Tune in now to hear what we think! Got a question fo...

Join host Ross Gallagher and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Wells Fargo and Bilt denying the breakup rumours, Atom Bank posting their best results yet, a look at some of the biggest buy now, pay later stories of the week featuring Zilch, LayBuy, and Apple, and Martin Lewis topping NatWest's scam league. This week's...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host Benjamin Ensor is joined by Wio Bank CEO Jayesh Patel. Profitability is what every fintech strives for, but it took Starling Bank and Revolut over seven years to achieve it, and Monzo has just announced its first annual profit in their 2024 annual report. So how did a digital bank based in the UAE achieve profitability after just one year? We wante...

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts. continue to shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In this episode we are continuing our deep dive into the European payments ecosystem by looking at the opportunity space created by the new PSD3 regulations. 11:FS host David Barton-Grimley, alongside Eddie Onaga, Vice President, Head of Digita...

Join host Benjamin Ensor and some great guests as we discuss the biggest fintech and financial services news this week. Topics covered include: Apple launches 'Tap to Cash' and more at their annual Worldwide Developer Conference; Mastercard reimagines online checkout; the latest on the huge money laundering case that has rocked Singapore; fractional real estate investment startup Stake raises $14...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, in partnership with Alloy, host David M. Brear is joined by some great guests live at Money2020 Europe in Amsterdam to discuss embedded finance and compliance. We’re talking about the growth of embedded finance use cases, the huge opportunity space it provides, but also the critical importance of getting it right on the compliance and data security side...

Join host David M. Brear and some great guests as we discuss the biggest announcements from this year's Money20/20 Europe conference live in Amsterdam. Topics covered include: Mastercard and bunq announcing a partnership to create an open banking and AI tool; Marqeta announcing a new leader after seeing 86% growth in Europe and Papara launching US stock investments on their way to becoming a finan...

On this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, host David Barton-Grimley is joined by some great guests to take a look at Australian fintech. It’s been a wild couple of years for the whole global fintech industry, and Australia is no exception. We’ve seen a big slowdown in new startups, and a pretty severe drop in investment. So, is the optimism still strong with those who are in this space? Well we...

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts. continue to shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In this episode we are continuing our deep dive into the European payments space. 11:FS host David Barton-Grimley, alongside Lynsey Verrillo, Visa Europe's Head of Enabler & Small Business Growth, is taking a look at Cross Border payments in So...

Join hosts Benjamin Ensor, Kate Moody, and some great guests as we discuss the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. Topics include: German fintech N26 says regulatory action cost it ‘billions’ in lost growth; Ozone API, a global leader in open banking, has partnered with Engine by Starling, Starling Bank’s SaaS-native banking platform; ABN Amro acquires Ger...

On this special Fintech Insider Insights episode, host David M. Brear is joined by Boe Hartman, Co-Founder and CTO at Nomi Health. After a distinguished career in financial services, Boe left the industry to co-found Nomi Health, a company on a mission to fix the US healthcare system and make it accessible to millions of Americans who feel unable to get the help they need. We last spoke to Boe bac...