How are banks and fintechs planning for a digital future.

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Banking as a Service

7 takeaways from the final episode of Decoding: Banking as a Service

The final episode of our brand-new video series, Decoding: Banking as a Service, is here! If you missed it (or any of the others) catch up here. Here’s a rundown of this episode if you prefer reading to watching 📖

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How BaaS has fuelled neobanking in the US

In the last few weeks Wells Fargo’s Control Tower, a set of tools designed to give customers better oversight over their financial lives, has been made available to all digital customers.

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Banking as a Service

6 takeaways from the latest episode of Decoding: Banking as a Service

The fifth episode of our brand-new video series, Decoding: Banking as a Service, is here! If you missed it (or any of the others) catch up here. Here’s a rundown of this episode if you prefer reading to watching 📖

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Who can BaaS provide the most value to right now?

Guest author Roy Ng, CEO and Co-Founder of Bond, shares his thoughts on how Banking as a Service (BaaS) has the potential to benefit pretty much everyone, but a few select groups in particular.

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Banking as a Service

The next big BaaS battleground? Customer experience

Hopefully, by now you’ve had a chance to digest some, if not all, of our inclusive design series.

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Buy Now Pay Later

Buy Now Pay Later: Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) is one of the hottest trends in fintech. The concept of 0% finance has been around for decades, but it’s caught fire in the last 3 years with new market entrants like Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna transforming how this works for consumers in an e-commerce setting. This is taken from our Unfiltered newsletter. Subscribe now for a no BS, uncensored analysis of fintech news and hot topics delivered to your inbox each fortnight.

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BaaS

What is embedded finance?

While FinTech folk salivate – and the big banks bloviate – about PSD2 and the open banking reforms coming our way in 2018, we wondered whether those outside of this bubble will actually notice? What does PSD2 actually mean for customers?

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Lending

The future of banking: all paths lead to lending

A Black-owned bank is defined as one in which at least 50% of voting shares are owned by African-Americans. They’re a dwindling force in the States today.

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BaaS

7 reasons Banking as a Service is a game changer

We now live in a world where almost anyone can build and launch innovative, regulated financial products as easily as they can create a Shopify page - that’s the magic of Banking as a Service (BaaS).

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Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is leaning into embedded finance: other banks should take note

As 11:FS wraps up its 5th year in business, we can’t help but think about what the next 5 will look like. And our ambitions are big. It’s only just on the right side of scary.

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SMBs

Jobs to be Done: Helping US SMBs make smart and proactive decisions based on their finances

This is the second instalment of a 6 part series that explores the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) for US SMBs that we identified in our recent research. Each blog post explores one of the jobs and how we examined it with a JTBD canvas. If you missed the first post that explains JTBD and the canvas, check it out before reading this.

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Apple

How Apple is leading the charge for brands embedding finance

Cyber attacks are hardly new, so why are banks putting renewed energy into combating them? 11:FS Market Research Analyst Joanne Kumire explains.

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11 observations from remote working during lockdown

Pre-COVID, you could’ve called me a globe-trotter. And you wouldn’t have been wrong. As an author, commentator and public speaker, I’m rarely in one place for too long. So getting used to working from home for the past six months has been a revelation, to say the least. In light of World Mental Health Day 2020 (arguably the most important one yet) I thought I’d share some of the observations I’ve made since being thrust into 24/7 remote working. While some of them might be trivial, it’s fair to say I’ve experienced a rollercoaster of emotions. Mental health isn’t a static creature, and it’s bound to fluctuate thanks to the blows we’ve been dealt by the pandemic - I’m sure you can relate.

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SMBs

Jobs to be Done: Helping US SMBs build credibility and legitimacy in order to access funding

This is the final instalment of a 6 part series that explores the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) for US SMBs that we identified in our recent research. Each blog post dives into one of the jobs and how we examined it with a JTBD canvas. If you missed the first post that explains JTBD and the canvas, check it out before reading this.

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Seedrs

Seedrs and Crowdcube merger: hot takes

It's a truism that the hardest job in engineering is that of 'Tech Lead'. You're the person who's not only writing code, but simultaneously leading a small group of other engineers and spending large amounts of time talking to stakeholders and the Product Manager (or, ten years ago, *Project* Manager). This is taken from our Unfiltered newsletter. Subscribe now for a no BS, uncensored analysis of fintech news and hot topics delivered to your inbox each fortnight.

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Insurtech Insider

65. News: Covid-19 - Worse than 9/11 and Katrina for the insurance industry

Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by a panel of guests to talk through the latest and greatest news in the insurance space which are heavily focussed on Covid-19 and the insurance industry this week!

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Fintech Insider

423. News: Global bank profits tumble as US deposits grow

Simon Taylor and Adam Davis are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: 100% backed business loans; big banks results are in and corona is hitting their profit margins hard and even Animal Crossing's Bank of Nook is slashing its interest rates in an unwelcome reflection of the real world.

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Fintech Insider

422. Insights: the impact of coronavirus on US SMB Financing

Sam Maule is joined by some great guests in the US SMB space, to discuss the impact of the coronavirus crisis on US small businesses - at the time in which all the stimulus funding had already been given out.

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Blockchain Insider

138. Bitcoin halvening approaches as China and Libra battle for supremacy

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Libra seeks regulatory approval, China trials its digital yuan and Andreessen Horowitz deepens its commitment to crypto. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

421. News: US SMEs await new stimulus funds as fintech valuations soar

Sam Maule and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the biggest global stories of the last 7 days, including: new stimulus funding in the US; new fundraises and valuations for Stripe and Robinhood; and ShackShack give back their $10million stimulus.

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Fintech Insider

420. Insights: How the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate digital financial services

11:FS's David Brear, Simon Taylor, Sarah Kocianski and Benjamin Ensor come together to talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial services industry.

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Insurtech Insider

64. Covid-19: Who will come out stronger?

Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by a panel of guests to talk through Covid-19 and what this might mean for the insurance industry going forward! All this and much much more on today's Insurtech Insider!

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Fintech Insider

419. News: Fintechs step up to distribute relief funding

Sarah Kocianski and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Starling and OakNorth join coronavirus loan programme, US fintechs to help distribute coronavirus aid, and a women-only neobank is coming to Brazil.

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Fintech Insider

418. Insights: Coronavirus and the impact on SME Financing

In this highly topical episode, Sarah Kocianski and Simon Taylor, dig into the impact COVID-19 is having on SME financing, and their access to government funding. They are joined by expert guests from Coconut, Quotevine and 1pm PLC.

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Blockchain Insider

137. Can central banks kill crypto?

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Sila raises $7.7M to wipe out ACH, Ether hits a 28-day high and everybody and their dog wants a CBDC. Simon Taylor hosts and is joined by Olivia VInden and Lex Sokolin. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

417. News: SoFi snaps up Galileo for $1.2b

David Brear and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: SoFI's $1.2bn takeover of Galileo; Kabbage cuts off its funding and the FCA allow selfies as ID.

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Fintech Insider

416. Interviews: Varo Money - the first fintech to get FDIC approval

Sam Maule is joined by Varo Money COO, Wesley Wright, to talk about how the company came to be, their goals of financial inclusion and their recent FDIC insurance approval.

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Blockchain Insider

136. Central bank digital currencies in the age of coronavirus

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Digital dollar dropped whilst China gets one step closer, Bitcoin is booming on Cash App, and CFTC announces guidance on the delivery of digital assets. Simon hosts and is joined by All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Insurtech Insider

63. Renters insurance: Does coronavirus make people insure differently?

Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by some wonderful guests to talk about insurance in the rental market and how COVID-19 might be changing it all. All this and much much more on today's Insurtech Insider!

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Fintech Insider

415. News: Major US banks protect employees as start-ups stall

David Brear and Eric Fulwiler are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: US banks to halt lay-offs, start-ups may be barred from stimulus, and April Fools in the age of coronavirus.

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Decoding

How does banking regulation work? - Decoding: Banks

Regulation is essential. It stops banks from going bust or behaving badly.

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Lending

How does lending work? - Decoding: Banks

Lending has been around for thousands of years and is one of the cornerstones of banking.

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Decoding

How do card networks operate? - Decoding: Banks

Mastercard and Visa are the two biggest credit card networks in the world.

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Decoding

How has the banking battlefield evolved? - Decoding: Banks

We kick off our Decoding: Banks series with a look at the banking landscape today and how we got here.

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11:FS Explores: Legacy banking systems ft. David M. Brear

David M. Brear, our 11:FS CEO, takes us through legacy technology within banks - but of course, with a really cool Lightboard.

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Homebuying

Why Homebuying is broken and how to fix it | 11:FS Explores

There are one billion people globally who can't prove their identity. That's a big problem for accessing financial services.

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What Griffin are going to do now they have their banking licence with CCO Adam Moulson | Spotlight

Inclusive design is a mindset and a process that suggests that you should bring as many people as possible - and the most diverse of voices that you can - into your product design product process, so that you're being truly inclusive. It's designing with people rather that just at them. Charlotte Fereday, Product Director, Ventures, explains what inclusive design is, why it's important, how you can design more inclusively, and answers - how possible is truly inclusive design?

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Unleashing creativity! A case study on sparking innovation with Bidyut Dumra from DBS | Spotlight

On this episode of Spotlight, 11:FS Crypto Global Strategy Director, Mauricio Magaldi is joined by Ramp Network Co-Founder and CEO, Szymon Sypniewicz. In today's chat, the pair discuss Szymon's career, the current regulatory landscape in crypto, and what the future might hold when it comes to widespread crypto adoption.

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Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...

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Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...

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Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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