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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540. News: Why are American behemoths buying European fintechs?

Adam Davis and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: JPM Chase acquiring Nutmeg to help them launch a British digital banking service, Mollie’s new funding pushing them to a €5.4bn valuation, and brings a challenge to Stripe in the European payments space, and last but not least, we have a small announcement of our own. All of this and much more on today's episode!

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539. Insights: Lending - the next evolution of fintech?

Adam Davis is joined by some great guests from Atom Bank, OakNorth and Quo to discuss whether lending is the only way for banks to make money, and the evolution of the lending space: where is the innovation and disruption in this space and what are the new lending models?

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538. News: Are Stripe and Shopify THE biggest fintech companies right now?

Adam Davis and David Brear are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Stripe moving beyond payments with Stripe Identity, UK tech and fintech leaders teaming up to fight climate crisis, and Web founder Tim Berners-Lee to auction source code as NFT. All of this and much more on today's episode!

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537. Insights: After Dark: New World Order

After Dark is back! On our latest instalment of Fintech Insider After Dark we talk all about innovation and how customers' lives, wants & needs have drastically changed in the last few months. Who is leading innovation, are we all longing for a Super App and what new business models have we seen disrupt the market?

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536. News: Is Nubank driving a banking revolution in LatAm?

Ross Gallagher and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Nubank’s $750M “megaround”, Klarna taking on credit card fees with its new in-app shopping product, and Marqeta’s IPO tripling its valuation. All of this and much more on today's episode!

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535. Insights: Rethinking AML

Sarah Kocianski is joined by some great guests to talk about anti-money laundering — or AML — practices in banking and financial services and how they can be rethought. We want to lift the lid on the impact of the pandemic and the increase in digital services on AML. To do that, we're going to look at the data sources that go into AML practices, why AML has a bad rep and what the future of AML could look like.

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534. News: Why aren’t fintechs IPO-ing?

David Brear and Benjamin Ensor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Belvo's raise, Crowdcube's new IPO platform, Curve's record breaking crowdfund and so much more.

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533. Insights: People don't want a mortgage, they want to buy a house

David Brear is joined by some great guests to revisit mortgages, and how the industry has developed on in the last couple of years. From stamp duty holiday, to new help to buy scheme, there is a lot to talk about in this space.

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532. News: Tink partners with Wealthify & Lanistar breaches advertising rules

Sarah Kocianski and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Wealthify embedding Open Banking from Tink in investment app, Lanistar breaching advertising rules and, “Charlie bit my finger” video sells for £500,000. All of this and much more on today's show!

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531. Insights: Super Apps - It's what's on the inside that counts

Adam Davis and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests to talk about the evolution of Super Apps. What are they, why has it taken so long for them to make it to the West, and what are some cultural differences that can make or break their product market fit?

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530. News: Everything is fintech!

Simon Taylor and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Plaid teaming up with US Bank on data sharing, HSBC launching a Global Wallet for multi currency transactions and N26 teaming up with Tinder. All of this and much more on today's episode!

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529. Insights: Embedded and open source finance - commoditising the building blocks

David Brear is joined by some great guests to talk about embedded finance. What it is, how it works, who it’s for, the benefits of it and the tech that powers it, - before looking ahead to see what the future of embedded finance could be.

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528. News: The future of work in fintech & who is borrowing £1million from eBay?

Sarah Kocianski and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: a further dig into the future of work in financial services, eBay offer loans to its UK sellers and Elon Musk’s Saturday Night Live debut sends DogeCoin prices tumbling when he called it a “hustle”. All of this and much more on today's episode!

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527. Insights: Progressive regulation - how does regtech enable fintech?

David Brear is joined by some great guests to talk about progressive regulation. What does it mean, how does it work in practice, what geographies are currently progressive in this area and how important is it for fintech innovation?

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526. News: A great time to be a fintech investor

David Brear and Melissa Stringer are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Fintech logging a record breaking Q1 of 2021 for VC investment globally, Q2 carrying on in a similar way as Wealthsimple raise C$750M and Vivid Money raise $75M and Sotheby’s now accepting bitcoin to buy a Banksy!

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