1046. News: Revolut is a bank, Lloyds wants to be a fintech - we're just as confused as you

About this episode:

Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

This week's guests:

Dave Morris - CEO of FoundryOS 

Veronica Glab - Strategic Partnerships Lead at Juice

Art Levy - Chief Business Officer at Brex  

Stories/timestamps:

Intro - (00:01)
Revolut secures full UK banking licence - (03:23)

Lloyds strives to be ‘UK’s biggest fintech’ by selling more customer data - (14:44)

Brex integrates with ChatGPT for expense data access - (24:44)

Latin American digital bank Ualá has raised $195 million in equity financing led by the strategic investment arm of Allianz Group - (35:50)

Tide becomes first business banking provider to launch mobile plans globally, powered by Gigs - (42:24)

M&S names GIllian Anderson as Chief Compliments Officer as - (44:48)

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