How design plays a part in financial products and services.

It’s happening. After months of ‘will they, won’t they’, Monzo is heading Stateside.

You may have heard of Marcus, it’s been kind of a big deal. But why and how? We recently sat down with Boe Hartman, CTO at Marcus by Goldman Sachs, to get the inside story.

I think we can all accept that clear customer insight, the right business drivers, market opportunities, etc. should inform great proposition design.

If I’d told you six months ago that you could guarantee an affordable electricity supply for your home, you wouldn’t have cared.

There’s a lot of positivity, creativity and excitement within game developer communities. People are flocking to games for entertainment and there have never been more tools to create them.

Working with agencies can sometimes feel like you spend weeks or even months covering ground that you already know before you start seeing value.

Everything that made senior bankers successful is what makes them less able to thrive in the digital economy.

The 11:FS research team recently finalised the first part of a major piece of work examining the services available to US Small to Medium-sized businesses. Here’s some of what we discovered.

Providing the best service to have the largest market share. That’s what banks want to be and want to have. And for a very long time they did.

We’ll say it till we’re blue in the face - FS companies need to do more to improve their users’ financial literacy. And that goes for kids too.

As we begin 2022, we’re looking forward to seeing some innovative solutions in the fintech space, but there will be roadblocks along the way.

The second 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 📖

As July continues apace, brands all over the world are rolling up their rainbow logos and packing them away for another year.

The insurance industry is a tricky beast. With the sector picking up pace in the race to become truly digital, businesses face the challenge of maintaining trust while overhauling how their service is delivered.

Designers can all too easily think design is at the centre of the universe. Perhaps sometimes it can be a self-indulgent activity where it's no longer design for people, but for other designers. Maybe it’s good to have a reality check. 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.