Guest author Richard Davies follows up his blog on leading agile at scale, with a deeper dive into principles of risk management in agile and for ecosystem development
ICYMI: Libra is here and a lot of people have a lot of questions, starting with: who owns the data?
In this design drill down, we’re exploring the different routes companies have taken to personify their artificial intelligence capabilities in an effort to build trust with customers and help them win with market demands.
One of our core values here at 11:FS is ‘everything on purpose and with purpose’. We even have a porpoise sticker (the puns keep coming) to celebrate it. It is what enables us to deliver fast, without waste and with relentless focus on outcomes. That and a kick-ass team. They often go together.

Over the course of the pandemic the UK's financial habits have changed, which is no surprise when you see how people's circumstances have been impacted:

2020 has been a turbulent year to say the least. Where the home office was once a luxury, for many of us, it’s now a staple. Almost overnight, we lost the immediacy of face-to-face communication. Information and ideas became buried within countless Slack, Google and email notifications, and the general office chit-chat that we loved to hate became a distant memory.

There’s been a huge leak of files from FinCEN, the US-based Financial Crime Enforcement Network. Over 2000 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and hundreds of other documents appear to show how banks have been unable to prevent trillions in money laundering, tax avoidance and criminality over the past decade. But there's a more in-depth story to uncover here.

Guest author Richard Davies shares his reflections as he transitions from his role as Revolut’s COO to Non Exec at Revolut, and CEO of Allica Bank. As fuel for the future he looks at his learnings from Revolut as well as his wider experiences and inspirations over the last decade in financial services and fintech.

When clients come into the 11:FS office, shiny eyed and with an exciting mandate, it gets us super pumped to hear where they want help on their journey.

A banker keen to stay under the radar has written us an insider’s perspective on the TSB scandal. Going by the topical pseudonym of ‘The Stigcumbent’, who you may remember from this piece, they’ve written about the ups and downs of legacy banking and why TSB had to make its move. Read on to learn the full glory of legacy banking and where the future lies…

TL;DR The Bank of England wrote a report about digital currency. Could it replace your bank notes? Could it change financial services dramatically? Yes. But the much more interesting questions were why should a CBDC be created and how?

Returned funds, missed targets and plenty of outrage in the media. How have things gone so wrong for the BCR?

Simon Taylor interviews Nathan Bostock, CEO of Santander UK. Nathan explains how Santander is embracing the tech changes facing the banking industry, and the shifting customer behaviours in their interactions with the bank with the help of digital innovation.

The annual reports for most of the big UK/US banks for 2019 are in as results season comes to a close. So what do they tell us about the state of the industry?

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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?

The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...


The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...

