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Feature benchmarking: How UK banking apps stack up

Recap the biggest live show Fintech Insider: After Dark has ever done below. Listen back here or stream below as Jason, Simon and a panel of special guests tackle some of the biggest and silliest stories of the week.

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How Lloyds is putting more money in customers’ pockets by tackling £23bn in unclaimed benefits

Loyalty is broken. ‘We appreciate your loyalty’ greetings don’t fool anyone. Most of us can recall crappy experiences.

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How building societies can own the homebuying space

Looking to crypto and seeing it simply as a speculative asset class is a common mistake for financial institutions and even regulators. But if you start to look beyond the headlines, you can see there’s untapped potential for banks to better serve the SMB market.

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Designing for junior accounts: Best UX practices in the UK

Although they date back to 2014, in 2017 we saw the rapid rise of ‘crypto funds’, or investment funds that invest mainly in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, ethereum, or other ‘altcoins’. Those offering crypto funds are, in effect, managing digital assets. But what’s the difference between ‘managing digital assets’ and ‘managing assets digitally’? Many asset managers have digitized some analogue processes, but very few asset managers are truly digital in nature. What lessons can we learn from the first few years of those that manage digital assets such as crypto funds?, and how can the end investor benefit?

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Can neobanks reach the underbanked in Eastern Europe?

I wrote about the underbanked phenomenon in Eastern Europe a few weeks ago. Mainly I talked about which basic services are used, not used, and why.

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Chase UK could massacre the competition this year

With the new year picking up a head of steam, it’s time to turn our attention to the trends and themes set to shape financial services in 2023. Here at 11:FS, we’re more convinced than ever that UK banks are running out of time to address their core banking issues.

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Underbanked

Why is Eastern Europe so underbanked?

While chatting with my grandma on my annual trip to Romania this year, I had an epiphany. She is underbanked! So is my mom, uncle, cousin, and neighbour - you get the gist.

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Open Banking

Europe's open banking is leaving the US in the dust

While I was COO at Revolut, Vlad Yatsenko - the company’s Co-Founder & CTO - commented a number of times about how opportunity cost of time is typically the biggest cost in a scaling company, and I’ve come to realise this is more and more true.

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Unfiltered

It's time for BNPL to stop breaking design ethics

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

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Why insurers need to embrace life after price walking

Price walking [common in the insurance industry] a form of price discrimination whereby existing customers, especially long-standing customers, incur a loyalty penalty over new customers. 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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Financial education

4 fintechs teaching the UK about money

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.

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Who has the better fintech market - the US or Europe?

The US fintech scene is moving like a bat out of hell. But experts have pointed out it was pretty late to the party.

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7 companies changing the UK mortgage landscape

The financial services industry has faced an enormous amount of disruption in recent years. We’ve seen significant changes everywhere from payments to current accounts and investments accounts to modern credit products.

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360. Interviews: SIBOS 2019 London fintech special

On this Friday episode, we bring you a series of interviews some of the leading companies currently on the fintech scene straight from SIBOS in London 2019!

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Bonus: Top 25 startups in the UK!

David Brear is joined by Megan Caywood to talk about the top 25 startups in the UK list made by LinkedIn! Hint - you might recognise one of the companies!

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350. Insights: The RBS remedies fund

David Brear and Sarah Kocianski are joined by four of the winners from the RBS remedies fund to talk about all things remedies, SME's and winning a grant.

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336. Interviews: Money20/20 International Entrepreneurship Special

In today's episode, we bring you a series of interviews with some of the most interesting players on the fintech scene, straight from Money20/20 in Amsterdam! Interviews include; Mattias Kroner, formerly of Fidor, Stephen Ufford, CEO of Trulioo, and more!

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332. Interviews: Money20/20 CEO special

In today's episode, we bring you a series of interviews with some brilliant CEO's of exciting companies, straight from Money20/20 in Amsterdam! Interviews include Ralph Hamers from ING, Anne Boden from Starling , Zach Perret from Plaid and many more!

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329. News: Live from Money20/20

Leda and Jason are joined by some great guests at Money20/20 Europe to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: A roundup of the biggest announcements and trends from Money2020 Europe and Tink receives a strategic investment from PayPal. All this and much more on today's podcast!

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328. The F'in Debate - Live from Money20/20 Europe

Welcome to the F'in Debate, straight from the stage at Money20/20 Europe! In this episode, we bring you a live debate between industry experts questioning: How do you transform traditional banks to compete in the digital banking battlefield?

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292. Interviews: Michael Rouse, CCO of Klarna

David interviews Michael Rouse, CCO of Klarna to talk about partnering with Snoop Dogg, smoothing payments and the evolution of payments.

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268. Interviews: Ben Davey, Barclays UK Ventures

Simon Taylor interviews CEO of Barclays UK Ventures, Ben Davey. They take a look at the strategies and decisions revolving around investing in fintech startups and creating real partnerships.

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253. News: Bucking the trend of Brexit

On this week's episode, Sarah and David sit down with Dr. Louise Beaumont, Daniel Hegarty, and Adam Dodds to discuss the greatest and latest stories in fintech.

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250. Insights: Luxembourg (the biggest fintech hub you've never heard of)

On today's show, Ross Gallagher takes a deep dive on Luxembourg. It's one of the most exciting fintech hubs in Europe, growing exponentially, that you've probably never heard of.

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239. Fintech Insider: After Dark VI - London and Atlanta

We have an incredible star-studded episode for you, with the release of After Dark VI, and of course a run down of the most interesting news in the space. Hosted in two cities, recorded 6 hours apart, and with a great deal of digital magic London brings you David M. Brear, Simon Taylor, and Sarah Kocianski are joined by: Marieke Flament, Simon Vans-Colina, and Daniel Hegarty. Next up from Atlanta, Sam Maule and Doug Bobenhouse are joined by three pairs of guests: Rob Frohwein and Shannon Johnson; Kathryn Petralia and Andrew Morris; rounding out the show we had Howard Bush and Ginger Schmeltzer.

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228. 11:FS Presents One Fintech Nation - The UK as a Fintech Hotspot

In this episode Simon Taylor takes a look at what makes the UK a fintech hotspot. In association with Tech Nation we examine what's going on in fintech across the country that makes it so attractive to set up here.

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226. 11:FS Presents One Fintech Nation - Bursting the London Fintech Bubble

In this episode Simon Taylor takes a look at fintech beyond the London bubble. In association with Tech Nation we examine what's going on in fintech across the country.

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225. News: Live at Money 20/20 Europe

Live from the Arena stage at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, hosts David M. Brear, Simon Taylor, and Sam Maule are joined by Leda Glyptis, CIO at Qatar National Bank, Rob Frohwein, CEO of Kabbage, Sara Feenan, Business Development Manager at Clearmatics, Jeff Tijssen at 11:FS, Anna Irrera, Fintech Correspondent at Reuters and Peter Hazou, Director of Business Development at Microsoft.

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What Griffin are going to do now they have their banking licence with CCO Adam Moulson | Spotlight

Inclusive design is a mindset and a process that suggests that you should bring as many people as possible - and the most diverse of voices that you can - into your product design product process, so that you're being truly inclusive. It's designing with people rather that just at them. Charlotte Fereday, Product Director, Ventures, explains what inclusive design is, why it's important, how you can design more inclusively, and answers - how possible is truly inclusive design?

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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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