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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: tell it cos it's a good story

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry creates #LedaWrites. This week it's the big sleep - not a Raymond Chandler book review, rather a look at payments innovation.

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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: on getting a job, but finding love. Every bloody time.

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week, she tells us why giving the people building your future a reason to believe in you and your right for a future is the corporate version of making your bed each morning.

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My productivity hack: self-reflection and setting priorities

The research on retail payments that I have done over the past couple of months had me thinking about my own payments journey and left me wondering how my own behaviour has evolved and what drove me to make such payments?

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: another trip around the sun

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she recounts tales of bad bosses and the lessons learned.

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COVID-19

How digital customer support can help banks during COVID-19 and beyond

At the beginning of 2022, many early-stage investors looked ahead with optimism as we emerged from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, and global economies started to show signs of growth again.

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: unsolicited advice on unsolicited advice

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to flat earth, banking and strong convictions, loosely held.

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compliance

How to maintain Risk and Legal ways of working while remote

Mental health isn’t just a concern on National Sickie Day or Time to Talk Day. So why aren’t we taking the conversation further?

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: High school jocks living their best lives

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to hiring the people who make the best teams.

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Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: situation not normal

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week finds her contemplating cheese.

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COVID-19

11:FS COVID-19 Response

Never did I imagine 3 months ago that we’d be dealing with such an unprecedented global crisis as we have done with COVID-19.

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: everything I ever needed to know, I learned from The West Wing

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to the problems behind procurement and how to decide whether to build, buy or partner.

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COVID-19

Lessons from COVID-19: you need a truly digital strategy, now!

In the first part of this series I introduced the story of Frederic Tudor, the American Ice-Block King; and discussed lessons learned from his then new product offering as it relates to blockchain technology. Tudor was able to successfully corner the ice-block shipping market and eventually was shipping blocks of ice to as far away as Calcutta from his home in Boston.

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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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Banking

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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COVID-19

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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Fintech Insider

1061. Insights: The advice gap: Are banks helping customers or protecting themselves?

Advice is regulated and personalised. Guidance is broader and safer - but that line is starting to blur.

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Fintech Insider

1060. News: NatWest, HSBC & Lloyds face new rules, Adyen drops €750m and Revolut steps into the real world

Host Laura Watkins - Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1058. News: Revolut’s $200bn ambition, TikTok’s creator card, and Lloyds digitises homebuying

Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1057. Insights: From inertia to advocacy: Rethinking customer loyalty in fintech

What does customer loyalty really mean in financial services - and has it ever been real? In this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, Kate Moody is joined by Rosie Lee, Jas Shah, and Alex Johnson to unpack the shifting nature of loyalty in a world where switching is easier than ever.

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Fintech Insider

1056. News: AI is everywhere: FCA's open finance roadmap, Google’s Global AI, and the Lloyds' boardroom

Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1055. Insights: What happens when embedded finance grows up? With Pleo and Mastercard

In this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, in partnership with Pleo, host Benjamin Ensor is joined by Jeppe Rindom (Co-Founder & CEO at Pleo) and Tulsi Narayan (EVP, Commercial and New Payment Flows, Europe at Mastercard) to explore the next phase of embedded finance — as it evolves from a handy feature into critical infrastructure.

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Fintech Insider

1054. News: Jamie Dimon raises the alarm, Barclays brings back branches, NatWest and Sainsbury's join forces

Host Laura Watkins - Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1053. Insights: Agentic payments: Revolution or just better orchestration?

Benjamin Ensor is joined by Rory O’Neill, Sahar Attaripour, and Sam Boboev to explore the rise of agentic payments - a fundamental shift from executing transactions to delegating intent.

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Fintech Insider

1052.News: AI agents are trading, Monzo is retreating, and Wise is coming for the banks

Host Ross Gallagher - Head of Consulting at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1050.News: Starling launches UK’s first agentic AI banking, Paymentology’s WhatsApp neobank and Turkey SEPA expansion

About this episode: Host Laura Watkins - Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: David Sullivan -

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Fintech Insider

1048. News - After Dark: Robinhood's family plan, Irish banks team up to take on fintechs, and did Year in Monzo go too far?

Our expert host Ross Gallagher, and co-host Jamie Campbell, Co-CEO of 11:FS Holdings, present Fintech Insider News live from Village Underground in London, joined by some fantastic guests to discuss some of the interesting fintech and financial services stories of the week.

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Fintech Insider

1047. Insights: Can you launch a start-up in 2026? Live from J.P. Morgan Payments

Recorded live from J.P. Morgan’s e-commerce and fintech forum, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear is joined by an all-star panel to tackle a deceptively simple question: can you still launch a startup in 2026?

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Fintech Insider

1046. News: Revolut is a bank, Lloyds wants to be a fintech - we're just as confused as you

Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1045. Insights: Has the banking battlefield evolved - and is Revolut built for it?

For years, banking has been framed as a battlefield: incumbents defending their turf while fintech challengers attack with better tech and customer experience. But in 2026, that picture may have changed.

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Fintech Insider

1044. News: International Women’s Day: Why the future of wealth is female - and how fraud disproportionately affects women

Host Laura Watkins (Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS) is joined by a brilliant panel to unpack these topics before diving into some of the biggest fintech stories of the week.

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Minimum Lovable Brand | 11:FS Explores

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Fintech Marketing Podcast Season 2 Preview

Fintech Marketing Podcast Season 2: Coming soon

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Open finance

Fintech Insider Presents: After Dark - Open Finance: fact or fantasy?

After Dark - Open Finance: fact or fantasy?

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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 Pulse

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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