“Digital is a small team sport” is a phrase we often use at 11:FS: you’ll hear us say it in keynotes, in pitches and on the podcast. But what do we really mean?
Following hot on the heels of International Women’s Day yesterday, we have some fantastic insights from some leading women in UK fintech. I spoke to Rachel Kent – Head of Global Financial Institutions Sector, Hogan Lovells; Wendy Jephson – Co-founder & Chief Behavioural Specialist, Nasdaq Sybenetix; Sophie Bialaszewski – Head of Innovation, Lloyds Banking Group, Adizah Tejani, Marketing Director at Token, Inc; and Min Teo – VP of Operations, Yoyo Wallet. Listen to the interviews in full on Fintech Insider here or stream them below.
In this Q&A with Jimmy Williams, CEO and co-founder of Urban Jungle we discuss using technology to enhance transparency in home and contents insurance.
The modern day Delivery Lead has evolved in recent years and now the position has a whole host of new challenges to deal with. 11:FS Head of Delivery Adam Davis explores what that really means.
A few weeks ago, we wrote an article about migrant workers in the Middle East and their access to financial services. We can’t continue the conversation about regional financial exclusion without talking about the gender gap.
For Fintech Insider’s news show Simon and Jason are joined by 11:FS NED Chris Skinner, Tanya Andreasyan, Editor at Banking Technology; Kristian Luoma – Head of OP Lab, in town from Helsinki for one night only and Cliff Evans, Head of Digital Banking at Capgemini, to take on the week’s top stories. This week they look at the monumental shifts in both global stock exchanges and crypto markets; the US take on Open Banking, and exciting developments in the SME space both here and abroad. Listen in full here, stream below or read on for highlights!
About two months ago I wrote a job ad for a “Programme Delivery Lead” to come and join us at 11:FS to create a digital financial services product and take it to market. But things didn’t quite go as expected.
Note – I use female loosely here to include all those who identify with feminine traits, partially, wholly or barely. The idea is not to be gender normative or exclusionary, so please excuse AND educate me if that is happening here. 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.
When most banks are bribing people to join with £100 or a Rihanna CD, Monzo is doing the opposite: building a bank customers love, involving them in its development, and being so amazing the network blows up like Facebook. Monzo, the bank that broke Crowdcube, now has more than 100,000 customers. Next milestone: 1 million. Here’s how they’ll do it. (subscribe to FinTech Insider to hear the whole story)
Derek Corcoran, CEO (Chief Experience Officer, not Chief Executive) at Avoka, paid a flying visit to 11:FS, straight off the plane from Colorado, for a Fintech Insider interview with Simon Taylor. Listen to the interview in full here, stream it below or read on for the highlights.
We’re halfway through our list of the best and most popular blog posts of 2019, which begs the question: what will take the number one spot?
Want to know more about insurtech, insurance and the changes within this ripe-for-disruption industry? We have the show for you.
In this guest blog, Vadim Toader, CEO and co-founder of Proportunity, examines how predictive technology and lending innovation can prevent home buying from becoming a fantasy.
It’s a bank holiday so none of you should even be reading this but if you are kudos on being as dedicated to fintech as 11:FS. You can catch the full Fintech Insider take on the news today at 4pm on the podcast here. We’re doing something a little different in today’s blog. Let us know what you think in comments below or at Fintech Insider News. Fintech Insider hosts Ross and Sarah sat down with Sameer Gulati, Head of Policy and Regulation at Innovate Finance, Kathryn Harris, Innovation Lead at Lloyds, and James Hurley, Enterprise Editor at The Times to discuss the news, including one worrying report.
Gwera Kiwana is joined by some great guests, from NovoPayment, Treasury Prime and Anthemis, to find out who are the winners and losers of the embedded finance revolution.
Mauricio Magaldi and Simon Taylor take a deep dive into the Terra/LUNA story for this very special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider.
Benjamin Ensor and Sim Rai are joined by some great guests, from Tranch and Anthemis, to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Klarna lays off 10% of its workforce via video message, Chase marks 500,000 UK customers, and our panel answers your questions!
David M. Brear and Jason Bates are podcasting from the metaverse!
We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: an in depth conversation about all things Play To Earn and Metaverse. We’re going to be looking at the why, the what, and the how – with the help of some great expert guests in the Play to Earn space. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!
David Brear, Simon Taylor and Jason Bates are here to answer all of your questions on our new Ask Me Anything episode. Tune in to hear more!
In the fourth roundtable episode of Fintech Marketing Podcast, your host Mariette Ferreira takes a look at how fintechs use performance marketing for growth. Mariette is joined by a great panel of guests to help unpack this and dive a bit deeper into- wide array of tools and tactics, and every company will have its own flavour, from SEO, to PPC, to paid social, to affiliates. Some call it growth marketing, paid marketing, even (sadly) digital marketing.
In this week's episode of the Fintech Marketing Podcast, your host Eric Fulwiler is joined by Chris Pitt, CEO at First Direct - to discuss all things marketing - what makes it good, what makes it bad, and what every marketer needs to know to keep levelling up.
In the second roundtable episode of Fintech Marketing Podcast, your host Mariette Ferreira takes a look at what it really takes to build a finance brand. Mariette is joined by a great panel of guests to help unpick this and dive a bit deeper into trust - the core to brands in financial services, how to maintain your customer connection and your brand identity through a rebrand, building an impactful but lean brand, and much much more.
In this week's episode of the Fintech Marketing Podcast, your host Eric Fulwiler is joined by Carla Zakhem-Hassan, CMO at Citi - to discuss all things marketing, and find out what inspires and motivates her.
In the first roundtable episode of Fintech Marketing Podcast, your host Mariette Ferreira takes a look at what good content marketing looks like. Mariette is joined by a great panel of guests to help unpick this and dive a bit deeper in the quality, quantity, and growing trends.
For the season 2 première of the Fintech Marketing Podcast, your host Eric Fulwiler is joined by David Wheldon - WFA President Emeritus and Former CMO at RBS - to discuss all things marketing, and find out what makes him tick.
Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests from Google, Fronted and Synctera to talk about how banks structure their technology and why this can make transformation so difficult.
Adam Davis and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: TransferWise goes Down Under as they join Australia's real-time payments network, Stripe gets into business lending and Mogo goes into Rainforest Mode in their new app!
David Brear and Mel Stringer are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Google takes on Venmo and Square with new payments features, Starling hits profit for the first time, and the Queen of England unexpectedly takes an interest in blockchain.
Banks are facing a lot of challenges compared to their fintech rivals.
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.
What does the future hold for lending? Live from Lendit USA 2022.
Will banks exist in 100 years?
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.
It's not just a buzzword.
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.
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...