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COVID-19

Is the COVID-19 crisis creating fintech M&A opportunities?

How can community banks remain competitive as large financial institutions gobble up more and more of the market?

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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: the in-between places

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her thoughts, and thanks, to those in the Messy Middle.

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Can digital lenders help more SMEs gain access to COVID-19 relief loans?

How successful have government loan schemes in the UK and US been so far and what’s next?

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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: on making your bed and having a future

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to Open Banking, doing almost nothing and doing everything.

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Introducing The Fintech Marketing Podcast

11:FS Pulse is constantly loading more content and we’re always seeking new ways to create transparency in our product so you can understand the reasoning behind why some user journeys are so powerful.

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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: transformation in a post-apocalyptic world

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to trust, consistency and the currency of credibility.

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Culture

Jamie, me, and the value of connectivity

The number one reason why new propositions fail is that they do not find product market fit. No-one sets out to build a dud product; everyone is shooting for the moon. So what separates the breakthrough successes from the desperate failures? A key part of success is developing a purpose for your product and being able to strongly communicate why your product exists. Importantly, the 'why' is defined by focusing on customer outcomes, which is the reason many of the commoditised banking products lack any meaningful purpose.

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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: the patience of lambs

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week she ponders what isn’t happening while bank decision-makers are busy pretending everything is in hand.

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Four years

11:FS turns 4

It’s the 5th of April and that means one thing to us at 11:FS and that is that it’s our birthday! Four years old. Damn. And what a strange time to be in celebrating everything we’ve achieved with everything that’s going on.

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COVID-19

Leading a bank through a pandemic

Guest author Richard Davies gives his thoughts on the importance of scaling agile to all functions of an organisation, and some key factors on how to get there.

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How messaging is helping banks reconnect with their customers

There’s been no shortage of attention paid to the emergence of fintech in the Middle East recently. In fact, we wrote about the ‘perfect storm’ that was brewing in the region and recently gave an overview of the digital challengers emerging to meet these needs.

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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Love in the time of COVID-19

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to why mistakes are wonderful things.

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digital transformation

There has never been a more important time to be truly digital

Simon Taylor interviewed Tom Blomfield, CEO of Monzo for Fintech Insider. Listen to the whole interview in full here.

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Life in the time of COVID-19: learning to share

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week, as the world continues to change, she discusses how to overcome defaulting to the comfortable way of doing things just because that's how they've always been done.

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Insurance

COVID-19: what the insurance industry needs to do now

In part one of this series I pointed out that things look very, very bad for the insurance industry right now. In this blog post I will explore what might happen next.

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Fintech Insider

813. Insights: Fintech's biggest stories of 2023

As we wrap up another rollercoaster year in fintech, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear is joined by some a panel of colleagues to talk about the biggest, best, and most outrageous happenings of 2023.

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Fintech Insider

812. News: CaixaBank's GenAI revolution and our fintech naughty or nice list

Benjamin Ensor and Rachel Pandyan are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: CaixaBank investing in 100-person team to work exclusively on GenAI, TikTok acquire Tokopedia following new social media laws, and Canapi launch a $750m VC fund to support fintechs.

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Blockchain Insider

202. Insights: Tokenised deposits, stablecoins and when best to use them

L.F.G. Mauricio and Catherine bring you a deep dive into tokenised deposits on the blockchain. What they are, how they work and how they differ from CBDCs and stablecoins and the different ways to utilise each one. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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810. News: Robinhood is coming to the UK and Wise help SMEs with Allica Bank

David Barton-Grimley is joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Robinhood are coming to the UK... no, seriously this time, and Wise partner with Allica Bank to make cross-border payments easier for SMEs. Plus, if you're looking for a new family board game this year, head to your local Natwest branch.

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Fintech Insider

Bonus: David M Brear on the Wharton Fintech Podcast

David M. Brear is joined by financial services veteran, Ashok Vaswani, to discuss how he draws on his experience going forward and why he continues to put learning first.

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808. News: JP Morgan eye growth in Abu Dhabi and Check tackle payroll fraud

Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Chase announce the launch of new payroll tools, J.P. Morgan upgrade their licence in Abu Dhabi, and BNPL fuels a record-breaking Cyber Monday.

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807. Insights: Managing regulation without compromising innovation

David M. Brear is joined by some great guests to take a closer look at that tricky balance between managing regulation without compromising innovation in financial services.

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Blockchain Insider

201. Insights: How to manage your identity on web3 and blockchain

L.F.G. Today we bring you a deep dive into identity on the blockchain - how it differs in web3 from web2, the benefits and challenges and how you can own your own identity online. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

806. News: Alphabet's mega Monzo deal and The Rock's Mighty Oak

Ross Gallagher and Rachel Pandyan are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Alphabet could be investing in Monzo, Revolut open bond trading to millions of customers, and The Rock has launched a debit card.

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805. Insights: One year of ChatGPT

David M. Brear joined by some great guests to talk about the one year anniversary of ChatGPT, how banks is utilising AI in its products and services, and how fintech can support the continued innovation of AI in finance.

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804. News: Exits for HSBC, Chip reaches profitability and is Klarna taking on Shopify?

David M. Brear and Rachel Pandyan, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: HSBC pulls out of new markets in a bid to double down in Asia; Chip reach first monthly profit, and is Klarna taking on Shopify as it changes up its business model.

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Blockchain Insider

200. Insights: The future of bitcoin

L.F.G. Today we bring you our 200th episode!! For this very special landmark we will be taking a look at the future of bitcoin; the developments on the Lightning Network; and the impact building on the bitcoin infrastructure will have for the future of cryptocurrency and how we interact with it. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

802. News: Crowdcube acquire Semper and OakNorth do business banking

Ross Gallagher is joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Crowdcube acquires Semper, Adyen and Plaid team up in the US, OakNorth move into business banking, and N26 pulls out of Brazil.

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Fintech Insider

801. Insights: How does climate change impact fintechs?

Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to talk about how climate change is impacting fintechs, and how fintechs are supporting other businesses to achieve their climate goals.

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800. News: US big banks team up to launch Paze, and Atom Bank raise £100m in equity funding

David Barton-Grimley and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: A joint venture from the biggest US banks launch digital wallet Paze, Atom Bank raise £100m in equity funding, Railsr are making a comeback, and Deutsche are closing nearly half of their branches.

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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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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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