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BNPL

Has fintech made us more resilient or vulnerable to economic shocks?

As part of the editorial process for Fintech Insider we review a lot of stories and see how media outlets report on challenger banks. Some recent pieces had the distinct feel of unhappy incumbent bankers lobbying hard to change the narrative.

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Unfiltered

Why are banks so scared of changing their tech?

Banks are having a midlife crisis. Their tech is at that stage where it’s old enough to gather regrets. Lots of them. 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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How loyalty broke and why web3 can fix it

Fintechs regularly provide updates on how many customers they have. Motivations for doing so are varied — garnering headlines, proving naysayers wrong, or right, keeping investors happy and so on. More interestingly, they also have a variety of definitions of “customer” that are not always clear.

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Crypto

What does the future hold for crypto regulation?

Everyone’s got a bike these days, right? How many bikes would you admit to owning? Is your ‘multi-bike’ strategy paying off? Now ask yourself the same questions about your use of cloud.

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Unfiltered

Ignoring composability? Everyone’s paying the price

Brexit, GDPR, robo-regulation, fintech bridges, and envoys. Those were the big topics at the Treasury’s International Fintech Conference (IFTC) this year, held at Tobacco Dock.

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Mortgages

Banks: Fix your mortgage process by becoming truly digital

This article was originally published in February 2021. In light of a looming cost-of-living crisis, soaring inflation and spiralling interest rates, we feel it’s more relevant now than ever. So, after a bit of tinkering, we’ve republished it. Enjoy.

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CBDCs

Is the CBDC hype legit?

2020 has seen plenty of fintech M&A - LendingClub buying Radius Bank, Intuit acquiring Credit Karma and of course with Visa buying Plaid. You might think the current crisis would reduce activity but it could create more opportunities.

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Lending

Embedded lending is the future of lending in emerging markets

11:FS Pulse has brought competitor insights to life. Now we’re going further, involving the entire community to redefine and continually advance what the ‘best’ means in digital financial services.

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Neobank

What's hot in Southeast Asian digital banking?

The digital banking scene in Southeast Asia is hot right now. Over the past two years, it’s experienced some rapid changes. Changing regulations have triggered a mass of new players entering the market.

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DeFi

Wrapped DeFi is taking financial innovation to new heights

There’s quite a lot of technical lingo in this Unfiltered. We know that’s not really our style, but we’re talking about some big ideas here. If you’re into crypto and keen to see what else we know, get in touch. 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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Product

With good product design, impatience is a virtue

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

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Insurance

How have insurance products changed in the last few years?

If you’re building a fintech or adding financial services to an existing platform, there’s no doubt that the concept of embedded finance with white-label solutions has passed you by.

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Design

Designers are not the centre of the universe

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.

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UX

The 5 biggest UX challenges for fintechs in 2022

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.

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Fintech Insider

478. Insights: Financial and economic abuse: are banks doing enough?

Sam Maule is joined by some incredible guests to talk about economic abuse and the role of banks and financial institutions.

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Fintech Insider

477. News: Disruptive innovation - Goldman bets big on BaaS

Sam Maule and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Goldman bets on Banking as a Service, British banks stay bullish despite Lockdown 2, and Ant’s record-breaking IPO has been blocked by the Chinese regulator.

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Fintech Insider

473. News: Stripe acquires Paystack - are they taking over the world?

Simon Taylor and Mel Stringer are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack, Marqeta’s research discovers Covid-19 has forced three-quarters of banks to change their future strategy, and ESG funds forecast to outnumber conventional funds by 2025.

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Fintech Insider

472. Insights: Open Banking two years on - how far have we come?

Sarah Kocianski is joined by some great guests to talk about Open Banking two years on and the key developments that have been made since then.

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Fintech Insider

471. News: Klarna face backlash & Killer Mike launches a bank to support black businesses

Sam Maule and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Killer Mike launches a new digital bank, Klarna faces backlash after sending marketing emails to non-customers, and Square invests $50m in bitcoin!

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Fintech Insider

466. Insights: ESG and sustainable investing - the ethical future of finance

Simon Taylor is joined by some great guests to talk about the growth of ESG and sustainable finance

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Insurtech Insider

Bonus: Interview: Louise Smith, Chief Digital Officer at Lloyd's of London

David Brear is joined by Lotanna Ezeike, Co-Founder and CEO at XPO, in this bonus episode to bust some myths about social media influencers, and challenge David's opinions from a few episodes back. Tune in to find out more!

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Fintech Insider

464. Insights: Latin America - fintech's next hottest market

Sam Maule is joined by some fantastic guests from across Latin America to talk about development, growth and impact of fintechs in the region.

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Fintech Insider

463. News: Can Alibaba Grab the SE Asian market?

Jason Bates and David Brear are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Alibaba invest 3 BILLION in Grab, Klarna reaches an $11Bn valuation, and Microsoft dig up a data centre they buried underwater off the coast of Scotland 2 years ago.

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Fintech Insider

462. Insights: How can public cloud drive business transformation?

David Brear is joined by some fantastic experts from IBM to discuss the opportunities that public cloud offer for business transformation in financial services.

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Fintech Insider

461. News: Banks tackle deepfraud and RTGS collaborates with Microsoft

Sam Maule and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: RTGS Global rolls out stage 1 of liquidity visibility network in collab with Microsoft, banks work with fintechs to counter ‘deepfake’ fraud, and Paypal terminates accounts linked to a Russian influence operation.

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Fintech Insider

460. Insights: Is crypto becoming mainstream?

Simon Tayor is joined by some special guests to talk about the growth cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance.

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Insurtech Insider

74. Digital transformation - Managing the hybrid

Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by some amazing guests to talk through digital transformation in the insurance industry.

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Fintech Insider

459. News: Paypal take on Klarna and Afterpay; Vipps and Visa team up & Chip’s new raise

David Brear and Mel Stringer are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: More raises as Chip launches Series A, Paypal is coming for Klarna and AfterPay, and Goldman Sachs launches its own font: Goldman Sans.

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Fintech Insider

457. News: Can JPMorgan disrupt the UK challenger bank market?

Sarah Kocianski and Jason Bates are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Railsbank in talks to buy Wirecard UK, JPMorgan to [possibly] launch a UK digital challenger bank by 2021 and the UK's 800% surge of open banking payments during lockdown. All this and much more on today's show.

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Decoding

What are fintechs? - Decoding: Banks

Ever wanted to know what’s going on behind the scenes every time we make a payment?

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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 can traditional banks win on the banking battlefield? - Decoding: Banks

They're down, but they're not certainly not out.

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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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BNPL

How the Buy Now, Pay Later landscape is shifting with Amy Gavin | 11:FS Explores

Just what is going on with Buy Now, Pay Later right now?

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Lending

Jeff Keltner from Upstart on what the future of lending will look like | Spotlight

What does the future hold for lending? Live from Lendit USA 2022.

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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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Open Banking

What is Open Banking? | 11:FS Explores

In this episode of 11:FS Explores, Adam Davis picks apart Open Finance, and what we have to look forward to if this technology became a reality.

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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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