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Innovation

Why are mortgages broken and confusing?

It’s no secret that mortgages are a broken process. Research by Habito revealed that 62% of those who go through the process felt stressed out. And from personal experience, I can tell you that remortgaging is a hugely difficult and opaque process. How can this be the case in 2019?

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Open Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Open Banking in a brave new world

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to legacy and core banking.

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digital transformation

Why big banks are creating challengers: Leaving a legacy

Incumbent banks’ approach to becoming modern digital beasts is like a 60-year-old athlete trying to compete in the Olympics.

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digital transformation

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: You can’t always get what you want

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to the interminable nature of meetings.

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digital transformation

Hold the front page

2020 has been a funny old year on many fronts so far, hasn't it? Over the last few months something interesting has happened for 11:FS, as myself and my co-founders, Jason, Ross and Simon explain.

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: On feedback and what to do with it

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week it’s all about work, finding a mission and falling in love with the job every single time.

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Design

Easter eggs and delivering delight

eBay announced recently that it would begin offering merchants access to credit in partnership with Square Capital as of Q3 2018. eBay sellers will be able to apply for loans from $500 to $100,000. Square is facilitating the process, which can be done entirely digitally and sees successful applicants receive funds in as little as 24 hours. The partnership is interesting for two main reasons — it signals a deepening commitment from eBay to providing financial products and the joint offering marks another powerful entrant to the SMB lending space.

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Banking

Why big banks are doing challengers: Brand Permission and why it matters

The whydunit is an increasingly popular narrative. More often than not the motives behind a decision are more interesting than the decision itself, so I’ve taken a look at the motives behind big banks and their fixation with challengers.

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Podcast

Past success guarantees nothing: Benoit Legrand, CIO of ING

It’s time to accept that digitisation is not going to create the step change needed. Banks need to realise the benefits of being born digital and the boost to services it provides.

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Getting bad news is a good thing

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she ponders the difficulties of learning to unlearn.

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Design

How to use behavioural design brilliantly

What does it take for a company to grow? Flexible, adaptive people support. Our Senior HR Business Partner Anisa Aksar tells us how 11:FS thinks about HR hypergrowth.

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Culture

How to get your IT team to deliver on time

Getting first-mover advantage is no easy feat, but what happens next? We take a look at how to maintain the advantage and how easily it can be lost.

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Three years

11:FS turns three

In no time at all, we’ve managed to reach our third birthday. It feels like we were only celebrating our second birthday yesterday, but we’ve been moving so fast we’ve barely been able to keep up. So, what have we been doing all this time?

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Banking on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to why you’re not so special, call to actions and why mama didn’t lie…exactly.

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Banking

Why you should pay attention to challenger banks in Asia

Challenger banks and startups have been the protagonists of the fintech landscape, they have been unbundling financial services and delivering better customer services at a fraction of the cost. But there's a different narrative in Asia.

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Blockchain Insider

133. The great bZx DeFi exploit

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: DeFi protocol hit by hackers, JP Morgan’s Quorum looks to merge with ConsenSys, and multiples M&A moves in the crypto world. Today's guests include: Ed Cooper - Revolut, Michael Coletta - London Stock Exchange Group, Rhain Lewis - London Womon in Bitcoin, and Aman Kohli - DXC. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

400. Insights: Love and partnerships in fintech

In a Valentine's Day and episode 400 special, hosts Leda Glyptis, David Brear and Jason Bates get together to talk about the things they love most about this industry and their favourite fintech partnerships. Later in the show, they're joined by some friends of the podcast who also share some of theirs!

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Insurtech Insider

59. Modern Insurance - Build a better product!

Nigel Walsh is joined by a panel of guests to talk through how insurance is evolving and changing in our modern world. All this and much much more on today's Insurtech Insider!

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Fintech Insider

399. Will Goldman Sachs and Amazon conquer the SMB space?

Leda Glyptis and David Brear are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Could Goldman Sachs and Amazon join forces on small business lending?, two more payments giants are consolidating, and banker busted for allegedly filching food.

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Fintech Insider

399. News: Will Goldman Sachs and Amazon conquer the SMB space?

Leda Glyptis and David Brear are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Could Goldman Sachs and Amazon join forces on small business lending?, two more payments giants are consolidating, and banker busted for allegedly filching food.

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Blockchain Insider

132. Central bank digital currencies are so hot right now

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: will banks bet big on central bank digital currencies?, more execs leave Swiss stock exchange SDX, and Ripple eyes IPO. Simon Taylor hosts and is joined by Eric Van der Kleij, CEO of Frontier Network and Andrew Smith, CTO at RTGS.All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

396. Insights: Do consumers care about Open Banking?

Sarah Kocianski is joined by some great guests to discuss the first 2 years of Open Banking in the UK - what's worked, what hasn't and how many more opportunities and innovations are yet to come.

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Fintech Insider

395. News: Has Open Banking failed?

David Brear and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Open Banking passes a million customers on its second anniversary, shakeups at RBS as Bo exec to step down, and BlackRock to shift away from fossil fuel investments.

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Fintech Insider

394. Insights: The future of investing

In this week's Insights show, Adam Davis is joined by some great guests to discuss the future of investing.

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Blockchain Insider

131. The digital dollar

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: The currency cold war, tokenising your future income, and when will we see a digital dollar? All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

393. News: Visa buys Plaid - the first megadeal of 2020

Fintech Insider is stateside this week as hosts Will White and Sam Maule are joined by a panel of great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Visa acquires Plaid in $5bn deal, banks tell us how they did in Q4 2019, and the new bank for the 60+ set.

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Fintech Insider

392. Insights: VC Roundtable: What makes a good fintech investment?

Simon Taylor is hosting solo this week and is joined by some great guests to talk about the future of fintech VC investment.

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Insurtech Insider

57. Direct to Consumer insurance - The battle of niceness

In the first Insurtech Insider episode of the year, host Sarah Kocianski is joined by a panel of guests to talk through how the direct-to-consumer insurance model has evolved in a digital-first world. All this and much much more on today's Insurtech Insider!

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Blockchain Insider

130. Crypto M&A & Telegram's Terrible 2020

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Where Libra go from here, Telegram’s TON takes another blow, and the Venezuelan President is all in on petros. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

389. Interviews: Kosta Peric, Financial Services for the Poor, Gates Foundation

Laura Watkins is at Fintech Connect 2019 at the ExCeL London where she is joined by Kosta Peric, Deputy Director of Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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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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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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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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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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