
11:FS announced today that Microsoft has become a strategic partner over the forthcoming months across our Fintech Insider podcasts. Microsoft wants to be an integral part of tackling some of the biggest challenges in financial services and collaborate on topics of interest to the industry audience.

You may have noticed recently that we’ve putting out a bit of content around our interns, like Petrit, Sam, and Tom. In a move that should surprise no-one, we’re launching the start of our internship programme today! For all you students and fintech fans we’ve got a list of top tips you should follow to get ahead of the curve. The rest of our wonderful readers should be sharing this with everyone you know looking to get into fintech. You don’t need a degree to apply, just be awesome.

We’ve finally turned 2! Just two short years ago a small group of plucky young(ish) fintech experts set up our challenger consultancy. They also kicked off a podcast that has become probably the best fintech insight platform out there thanks in no small part to the amazing (and wholly unbiased in this case) media team.

Offering customers access to cryptocurrencies is fast becoming a must-have feature for fintechs in the banking and investment segments. Startups are racing each other to launch the broadest range of services possible in this space.Revolut has today taken another step forward in this arena by adding XRP and Bitcoin cash to the range of cryptocurrencies customers can buy, hold, and sell within its app.

Over the last two years we have kept coming back to one diagram, the 11:FS Banking Battlefield. We use this to explain the changes we see in the financial services industry. In fact, one particular workshop we did in Australia last year had us talking through this diagram for the entire day! Seriously. It also featured in three bank board packs in the last 6 months which is also a pretty good indication we’re onto something.

For many large financial institutions, cloud is, increasingly, the answer. Not that they’re necessarily sure what the question is, but the answer is definitely cloud.

When news broke a week or so ago that, Swedish payment fintech, iZettle planned to IPO this year, I pondered whether it would be the first of a flood of European fintech IPOs. We now know it won’t.

In her latest column for Forbes, 11:FS Head of Research Sarah Kocianski examines the new set of authentication requirements and asks if consumers and their bank are prepared.

Biggest nothing-statement of the year: onboarding is important. As I recently covered here, over 50% of digital retail banking customers got bored and switched off before they’d finished in 2020. Not a great stat.

I think we’re all agreed that innovation is crucial to the continuing success of any organisation. But what does innovation really mean?

This year we’ve made a true commitment to double down on our D&I efforts across 11:FS, starting with a company-wide discovery phase led by Elysian, looking into the current makeup of the business and piloting a survey to dive deeper into the thoughts and opinions of our Elevens. 💭

InsurTech is an industry that’s really taken off in the last few years with many different tech and AI developments and new challengers springing up, as talent breaks away from incumbents to go it alone. We thought it was the perfect time to discuss all the new developments in a brand new podcast.

Despite attempts to portray the opposite, traditional financial organisations are struggling to innovate. In fact in many cases they are having to spend a fortune simply to stand still. As we highlighted in our recent report, this is due to three principal reasons:

Picking apart the week on the Fintech Insider News show alongside hosts Sarah Kocianski and David M. Brear are Lucy Woolfenden, Marketing Director at Yolt and Pol Navarro, Digital Innovation Director at TSB. Sarah also catches up with Alex Park, Digital Director at Metro Bank for a one to one interview. Listen here for the episode in full, stream it below or read on for extra insights.

Long-time supporter signs as lead sponsor for the expanded second season of the Fintech League.

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: David Marcus Makes Senate Plea, SWIFT go Supersonic in Singapore, and Who let the DAWGs out! All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider.

Sarah and Nigel are joined by some fantastic guests today to talk about Fintechs and Insurtechs teaming up!

David and Sarah are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: British fintech booms with 2019 set to be a record year for investment, SoftBank bets big in South America, and Facebook to be fined $5bn! All this and much more on today's Fintech Insider News!

In today's episode, we bring you an amazing interview with John Glen MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury! David Brear meets him at Her Majesty's Treasury, to talk about his role, what excites him about London's booming fintech scene and so much more!

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Keep Big Tech out of Finance, Binance burns bucketload of BNB, and Trump hates Bitcoin. And Libra! All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider.

Simon and Laura are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: Deutsche Bank braced for severe cull as head quits, Government-owned bank 'forging signatures' in repossession cases, and Fintech is the ‘new normal' with 55% of consumers regular users! All this and much more on today's Fintech Insider News!

In today's episode, we bring you an interview with Michael Jaconi, CEO of Button! Sam Maule meets him in a New York penthouse, to talk about all things Button!

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Brazilian bank, Tezos and $1 Billion, IBM tries to make paper the past, and Swiss STO's. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

This week on Insurtech Insider Sarah Kocianski brings you a series of interviews recorded at an event 11:FS held in partnership with the FCA and the HM Treasury. Interviews include: John Glen, MP and Economic Secretary to the HM Treasury, Francesca Hopwood Road, Head of RegTech & Advanced Analytics at the FCA and many more!

On our latest and greatest instalment of After Dark, Simon, Leda and Jason are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the past week. Including: Why can't big banks and fintech get along? Jaja pays £530M cash to acquire the Bank of Ireland's UK credit card business, Zuckerberg and Libra's world domination looms larger and much more!

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Libra fallout continues, Polkadot, and tethery’licious volume! All this and more on today’s blockchain insider!

David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: BoE welcomes tech companies for the first time, Revolut eyes big bucks before IPO and Monzo’s second billion!

In today's episode, we bring you a series of interviews with the people behind some of the most interesting companies in the payments, straight from Money20/20 in Amsterdam! Interviews include Harsh Sinha from Transferwise, Patrick Gauthier from Amazon Pay, Roland Palmer from Alipay and Mark Barnett from Mastercard!

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Libra, libra and more libra, Bank of England's Mark Carney positive on DLT and Bitcoin futures. All this and so much more on today's episode.

Sarah and Nigel are joined by a couple of great guests this week to talk about the most interesting stories happening in insurtech over the past couple of weeks.

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...

