Fintech Insider

Are you a complete nerd when it comes to fintech, banking, and financial services? Well, so are we!

The Fintech Insider podcast, from 11:FS, is presented by expert hosts with real industry experience who are joined by the biggest names from across financial services - from Stripe, JP Morgan Chase, Nubank, Revolut, M-Pesa, Klarna, and many many more.

We bring you a weekly news show every Monday - rounding up the industry’s biggest news from funding rounds, to product launches, to industry beefs, before diving into the hottest topics in our Insights shows every Thursday, from Buy Now Pay Later to Super Apps.

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566. News: Stripe and JP Morgan land in London

David Brear and Gwera Kiwana are joined by some great guests from Stripe, Wise, and OpenPayd to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Stripe opens London fintech development office, Wise launches a new feature called Assets, and UK restaurants to be banned from keeping tips made on card. All of this and much much more on today's show!

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565. Insights: Supporting early stage companies through angel investing ft. Charley Ma

On today's episode, we wanted to take a look over at our sister show- Spotlight! David Brear is joined by Charley Ma, GM of Fintech at Alloy, to chat about his career and supporting early stage companies through angel investing. We find out more about his background, how they do it differently at Alloy, and discuss the being an angel investor. Tune in to find out more!

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565. Insights: Supporting early stage companies through angel investing ft Charley Ma

On today's episode, we wanted to take a look over at our sister show- Spotlight! David Brear is joined by Charley Ma, GM of Fintech at Alloy, to chat about his career and supporting early stage companies through angel investing. We find out more about his background, how they do it differently at Alloy, and discuss the being an angel investor. Tune in to find out more!

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564. News: Is Monzo professionalising Buy Now Pay Later?

David Brear and Benjamin Ensor are joined by some great guests from Truelayer, Evening Standard and The Fintech Times to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Monzo launches their Buy Now Pay Later product – Monzo Flex, QED announces $1 billion fintech war chest, and face payments launched on the Moscow Metro and so much more!

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563. Insights: After Dark: Starting from scratch

After Dark is back! On our latest instalment of Fintech Insider After Dark we talk all about starting from scratch. The first human settlers have arrived on Mars and you have been tasked with building a banking ecosystem from the ground up. No rules. No regulations. No limits. Just your imagination. What would you do? Where would you begin?

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562. News: UK's contactless card limit reaches £100 - convenient or dangerous?

David Brear and Amy Gavin are joined by some great guests from Carry1st and Financial News to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Contactless card payment limit in UK to jump to £100 next month, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave – now valued at $1.7 billion, and Peter Thiel is building a luxury vacation bunker in New Zealand. Tune in to find out more!

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561. Insights: Seeking real value in the Aussie fintech space

David Brear is joined by some great guests from Tier One People, Paypa Plane and Revolut Australia – to take a deep dive into the Australian Fintech Scene and look at all of the innovation that is currently happening in this space. Tune in to find out more!

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Bonus. Myth-busting influencer banking with Lotanna Ezeike, XPO

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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Bonus: Myth-busting influencer banking with Lotanna Ezeike, XPO

We. Are. Here. At the Omaha Blockchain summit without Simon and without Colin! Our special guest host for today’s episode of Blockchain insider, is the one and only Amber Baldet, CEO of Clovyr.

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560. News: More behemoths get into BNPL as Amazon team up with Affirm

Simon Taylor and Gwera Kiwana are joined by some great guests from Flinks and Thomson Reuters Foundation to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: more big behemoths getting into BNPL as Amazon team up with Affirm, National Bank of Canada invests $103M in Flinks to help them expand, and a fake Banksy NFT was sold for over $300,000 via Banksy’s own website. All of this and much much more on today's episode!

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559. Insights: Ask us anything!

David Brear, Simon Taylor and Jason Bates are here to answer all of your questions on our new Ask Me Anything episode. Tune in to hear more!

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558. News: Playing into your niche

David Brear and his new co-host, Pierre Legrand, are joined by some great guests from Nerve and Ramp to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Ramp raise $300m and make their first acquisition, Revolut launch their Payday salary advance feature, and we speak to the founder of Nerve, the world’s first neobank created for musicians! Tune in to find out more!

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557. Insights: Is Buy Now Pay Later the future of credit?

David Brear and Amy Gavin are joined by some great guests from Sunbit and Butter.co.uk to revisit the topic of Buy Now Pay Later, and look at all of the innovation that is currently happening in this space. Tune in to find out more!

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556. News: Don’t bet against Jamie Dimon

Adam Davis and Gwera Kiwana are joined by some great guests from LendInvest and Google Cloud to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Chime raises $750m at $25bn valuation, LendInvest secures £150m partnership with Barclays and HSBC, and JP Morgan and AmEx invest in Plaid. All of this and much much more!

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555. Insights: AI - Who will take on the responsibility of erasing human bias?

Simon Taylor is joined by some great guests from Personetics, Zest AI, and Let's Chat Ethics, to talk about AI and machine learning in the context of financial services. The technology has been around for a while now, but how is it revolutionising financial services, in what aspects does it make the most difference and how do we avoid AI inheriting human bias?

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Insights: The future of Revolut with UK CEO 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 digital transformation race: big banks vs neobanks

Are the big banks finally pulling ahead, or are nimble neobanks still leading the charge? We unpack what modernisation really means—from infrastructure and innovation to trust and real-time delivery.

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