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11:FS

What are the challenges facing the modern Delivery Lead?

Are consumers experiencing the downside of a booming consumer lending industry?

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challenger banks

Who cares that they're called challenger banks?

What is a challenger bank? Who are they actually challenging and does the name even make sense?

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11:FS Pulse

The Solution to SMB Finance Woes?

The creator economy is defined by SignalFire as the class of business built by independent content creators, curators and community builders, as well as the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetisation.

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Global Fintech Innovation Network: Beyond the Sandbox

The first adopters in the digital banking world are beginning to use native iOS features to enhance the customer experience. With Touch ID now a hygiene feature, we are seeing banks introduce and improve upon their Force Touch capabilities. And in the past few months, a handful of brands have taken things to the next level by offering Siri and Messages payments (albeit with a few kinks in the journey). In this article we explore how banks are going native.

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Culture

Digital is a small team sport

A three-part series by 11:FS Non-Executive Director, Lisa Gansky Part 1 – The 3 steps of Digital Transformation

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Design

Banks need to be smarter not move faster

Banks are plagued by a litany of archaic processes and outmoded design. That was just about bearable before the digital age, but is there any room for it today?

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Financial inclusion

Why Fintechs Need to Focus on Financial Education for Customers

Financial education is vital to the success of many new fintechs. After all, if customers don’t know what they need then how are they going to know if a product is useful for them?

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Banking

Banks and fintechs working together

Fintechs and the major financial services have been competing against each other for a while now. But that’s not likely to be the best course of action for either of them and now they’re working together.

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Open Banking

The world turns to Open Banking

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, and the reaction from all of us is almost a war effort to ensure society still functions through one of its biggest ever shifts.

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After Dark

11 Best social posts from After Dark VI

We had a great time at After Dark VI, the episode went out last week, and had a massive turn out in both Atlanta and London. And we know you did too! Fintech fans were out on Twitter in force to shout out how much they loved it (especially the emoji wall and rant bucket). Our social media marketing interns gathered together the best ones they could find to share the After Dark VI love.

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Consultancy mistakes

11 Stupidest Things Consultancies Say and Do

I’ve poked fun at banks and fintechs, but now it’s time to take on the consultancies. Sometimes it can feel like you’re spending your money on bad advice and worse decisions. Sometimes you are.

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Culture

How Big Business Needs to Transform

Leveraging consumer trust is an important tool for all brands. Businesses are starting to take note and realising that in today’s all encompassing landscape, one product offering simply isn’t enough anymore.

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Payments

From Insect to Immense: Why Ant Financial is so Massive

There have always been everyday tasks that seem complex, boring or too disinteresting for us to give them our full attention. Whether that’s as simple as ironing your laundry or as time consuming as learning a new language, often we’ll lack the drive or willpower to overcome the initial inertia to progress. 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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SMB Banking

Ebay Wades Into The SMB Lending Market Helped By Square

While the concept of embedded insurance is not new, Hiscox’s Alex Wheal says changes to data sharing mean the opportunities could be boundless.

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Fintech mistakes

11 Stupidest Things Fintechs Say

Last week I spoke to friends of 11:FS to discover the 11 stupidest things banks do. It was more popular than any of us expected. It even compelled 11:FS Co-Founder, Simon Taylor to write a love letter to the big banks telling them how they can do better. Here at 11:FS we felt like maybe we’d been a little harsh on our incumbent friends. So, I decided to write another list, reaching out to both the wider fintech community and all our followers to find out the 11 stupidest things fintechs say and do.

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Blockchain Insider

182. News: SEC crypto blitz, Coinbase launches L2 "Base" and Spotify is dipping its toes in NFTs

EL. EF. GEE. Today we bring you: SEC lawsuit against Paxos over BUSD baffles crypto community, Coinbase launches L2 "Base", and Spotify is testing token-enabled music playlists. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

713. News: JP Morgan bans ChatGPT, while female founders are on the rise

Natwest’s Rose Review reveals record new firms founded by women, JP Morgan bans ChatGPT, and should you tip your landlord? – Benjamin Ensor is joined by some great guests, from Anthemis, Brite Payment, and Seccl, to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days.

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Fintech Insider

709. Insights: How does financial services make it all about the customer?

Kate Moody is joined by some great guests, from 11:FS, Ramp, and Citi's DX10, to talk about how crucial customer centric design is to building better financial services.

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Fintech Insider

708. News: Is Buy Now Pay Later regulation finally happening?

US fintech unicorn Alloy launches in the UK, Britain sets out legislation to regulate buy-now-pay-later credit, and CIBC encourages couples to talk about their finances this Valentine's Day – Benjamin Ensor and Amy Gavin are joined by some great guests, from Alloy, Klarna, and BetaKit, to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last seven days.

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Fintech Insider

707. Insights: Would you buy a home through a Super App?

David Barton-Grimley is joined by some great guests, from Pine, Proportunity, and Digital Cat Consultancy, to discuss the current struggles for first-time homebuyers and whether a Super App could ease the whole experience.

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Fintech Insider

703. News: UK Government pulls plug on Tech Nation while Stripe sets deadline for IPO

Ross Gallagher and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests, from Atom Bank and Fintech Finance, to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Tech Nation’s shutdown sparks fears for UK fintech, Stripe tells employees it will decide on an IPO within the next year, and 6-year-old boy spends $1k on Grubhub.

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Fintech Insider

696. Focus: Can Open Finance ever be truly global?

David M. Brear is joined by Visa's Dan Roesbery - as well as guests from Wise and MX - for the inaugural episode of Fintech Insider Focus!

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Fintech Insider

Bonus: Disrupting the corporate and consumer divide, with Pagaya's Ashok Vaswani

L.F.G. Mauricio and Catherine bring you a fantastic conversation looking at what it means to be a digital creator today and the global community it creates, with two amazing digital creators taking part in the global Visa Creator Program. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Blockchain Insider

175. Insights: Getting to the bottom of Decentralised Exchanges

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: in this Insights show, we are going to be taking a look at the world of Decentralised Exchanges, aka DEXs. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

682. News: Would you bank with Twitter?

Ross Gallagher and Nicole Perry are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Debite launches direct to bank payments for early-stage companies, Klarna brings its price comparison tool to Europe, and 11:FS hosts its inaugural awards.

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Fintech Insider

681. Insights: How do changes in government affect innovation in financial services?

Benjamin Ensor is joined by some great guests, from Innovative Finance, Chamber of Progress, and Spiralem, to discuss how governments across the world impact the success of fintech.

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Fintech Insider

679. Insights: Is the future of fighting financial crime in people or automation?

David M. Brear is joined by some great guests, from LexisNexis Risk Solutions, GB Bank, FINTRAIL, to discuss how to tackle financial crime and money laundering going forward.

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Blockchain Insider

174. News: Is Reddit part of the key to making crypto mainstream?

EL. EF. GEE. Today we bring you: UK Minister proposes measures to regulate crypto ads and ban unauthorised providers, Reddit now has more NFT wallets than the OpenSea Marketplace, and Blockchain.com Visa Card, powered by Marqeta, debuts with 50,000 sign-ups at launch. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

676. News: Live from Money20/20 - announcements from Google, Wells Fargo, Adyen, Fireblocks and more!

David M. Brear is joined by some great guests, from Atomic, Alloy, and Taxbit, to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services from Money20/20 in Las Vegas, including: Wells Fargo partners with Google on a virtual assistant, Fireblocks launches digital assets payments engine, and our panel gives their personal highlights from the conference.

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Fintech Insider

675. Insights: Is the USA world-beating when it comes to payments?

David M. Brear is joined by some great guests, from Moov, Catch, and Plaid, at Money20/20 in Last Vegas to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of payments in America.

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Open finance

What is Open Finance?

Banks are facing a lot of challenges compared to their fintech rivals.

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11:FS Explores: Digital R.I.C.H.E.S ft. David M. Brear

11:FS CEO David M. Brear takes to the lightboard to give us the full run-down, with examples of companies that are leading the way.

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Lending

Jeff Keltner from Upstart on what the future of lending will look like | Spotlight

What does the future hold for lending? Live from Lendit USA 2022.

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UX

What is UX and what makes UX good? 11:FS Explores

Will banks exist in 100 years?

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Open Banking

What is Open Banking? | 11:FS Explores

In this episode of 11:FS Explores, Adam Davis picks apart Open Finance, and what we have to look forward to if this technology became a reality.

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Unleashing creativity! A case study on sparking innovation with Bidyut Dumra from DBS | Spotlight

On this episode of Spotlight, 11:FS Crypto Global Strategy Director, Mauricio Magaldi is joined by Ramp Network Co-Founder and CEO, Szymon Sypniewicz. In today's chat, the pair discuss Szymon's career, the current regulatory landscape in crypto, and what the future might hold when it comes to widespread crypto adoption.

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fintech Insider

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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