
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?

As the German challenger prepares to leave British shores, what can we learn about its attempts to break into the market?

Group CEO David M. Brear recently sat down with the good folks at prepaid business card provider Soldo to discuss the rise of fintech since the 2008 financial crisis and how the UK came to prominence.

What. A. Year. 2019 has been an absolute whirlwind of growth and expansion and in true 11:FS style, we continued to ramp up and start new things right up until the last day of Q4.

On the last American holiday before Christmas, we look at the performance of three companies across the pond.

11:FS Product Lead Terry Cordeiro reflects on what it’s like to be a new “11” after nearly three months on the job.

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At 11:FS, we’re proud to be an integral part of a UK community at the forefront of post-financial crisis innovation. But the story of how that community came together has never been told… until now.

Last year, LinkedIn honoured us as a Top 25 Startup in the UK. And they’ve gone and done it again for 2019.

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.

Simon Vans-Colina visits us at 11:FS to reveal all about their new IFTTT integration

Blockchain Insider comes to you Live from Money20/20 this week! We also have awesome interviews with not one but two Brads: Brad Garlighouse, CEO of Ripple and Brad Zastrow Global Head of Business Development of the Dash Core.

Simon sits down with Suresh Vaghjiani, Managing Director of Global Processing Services to discuss how many fintechs are using their services, how they choose who to partner with and those card outages that happened at the end of 2017.

Simon and Sarah sit down with Petrit Berisha to talk about the latest in blockchain news.

David sits down with the Deputy Mayor of London, Rajesh Agrawal to discuss the future of fintech in London and what the city's financial industry needs to be doing to remain the financial capital of the world.

Simon sits down for a double dose of interviews this week. First he meets Luke Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Neat Capital on faster housing purchases before sitting down with CEO of Squirrel, Mutaz Qubbaj.

Sarah Kocianski had the opportunity to speak to Louise Smith, Chief Digital Officer at Lloyd's of London about digital transformation and the future of the famous underwriting rooms!

On today's show: Wallstreet sneaks up on crypto as Poloniex is taken over by Goldman-Sachs backed Circle, Nearly half of last year's ICO's have already failed and Venezuela go crypto crazy. We also bring you great interviews with Marcus Treacher, SVP of customer success at Ripple to address some of the confusion over XRP, and CoFounder of PayTechLaw Frank Müller.

In this episode Jason and Simon (but mostly Jason) take over the FCA, hosting a series of interviews across the FCA team, recorded live at their offices in Canary Wharf!
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...

