Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS
Fintech Insider is your ultimate guide to the world of finance and fintech from 11:FS. Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including Visa, Monzo, Nationwide, JPMorgan Chase, Wise, the Financial Times, and more to discuss breaking news and deep dive into the biggest topics and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories across M&A, open banking, embedded finance, payments, regulation and more. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like AI, regulation, Big Tech, the cost of living crisis, and more. Plus, every other Wednesday our new season of Focus, in collaboration with Visa, takes a closer look at different financial sectors across the Middle East and Europe. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. Want to get involved in the conversation? Connect with us now on LinkedIn, X, Instagram and TikTok
Episodes
May 20, 2024 • 69 mins
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 Financial Services Lead at Instabase...
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May 16, 2024 • 47 mins
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, and over 5 million across the US and...
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May 13, 2024 • 59 mins
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 week's guests include:
Sam Maule...
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May 9, 2024 • 46 mins
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 creating value to younger HNWIs with eve...
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May 8, 2024 • 49 mins
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 of the most populous countries in t...
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May 6, 2024 • 63 mins
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 purchase American company Golden.
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May 2, 2024 • 44 mins
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 and the businesses now have to wor...
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April 29, 2024 • 60 mins
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 purchase American company Golden.
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April 25, 2024 • 54 mins
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 here to stay. So in this episode, ...
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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 which has championed open banking in...
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April 22, 2024 • 60 mins
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's guests include:
Sophie Vo, Th...
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April 18, 2024 • 51 mins
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. Issues around climate change, gender...
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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 guests include:
Veronica Glab, Head o...
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April 11, 2024 • 44 mins
"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 beyond.
This week's guests include:
TS ...
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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 include:
Lord Chris Holmes of Ric...
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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 regulations support or hinder the po...
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April 3, 2024 • 50 mins
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 creating financial hubs in the region ...
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April 1, 2024 • 62 mins
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 Presenter, formerly Head of Content at...
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March 28, 2024 • 52 mins
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 and community can achieve extraord...
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March 25, 2024 • 46 mins
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 Personal Finance Expert
Alex Rivas...
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