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Banking

Core strength: going back to first principles with 11:FS Foundry

Ever wondered about the difference between digital and digitised financial services?

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Hiring technicolour delivery teams

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff and 11:FS Foundry CEO create #LedaWrites. However, we have a bonus edition this week from Sibos 2018 on how to approach the market place.

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Design

Inertia in bank accounts and choice paralysis

Sam delivers insight on what fintech can learn from Hollywood failure and why innovation labs are an awful move for any company. All discovered through two films, one flight, and one keynote address.

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Existential crises and procurement

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to fabled kings, indecision and cows.

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Insurtech

Insurtech isn't boring, trust me

11Media is pleased to announce our newest podcast in our portfolio: Blockchain Insider!

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Culture

Community forum conversations

News of Starling Bank closing its community forum was a surprise to the industry and forum members, but it raises the questions of what exactly is a bank’s community? And what’s the upper limit to its value?

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Banking and Millennials

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to believing in fairy tales and the power of human will to change the world.

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Culture

Banking: Participation is no longer mandatory

‘Digital’ is not technology, it is not an app. It is the human experience re-imagined in a way that removes entire steps of the value chain.

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Culture

Student Finance: My ideal product

As we are approaching a new academic year, at the forefront of returning students’ minds (aside from pulling themselves out of bed to attend 9am lectures), is how on earth to sort out household bills. Organising multiple bills is a nightmare, even more so when there are many people living together.

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Design

Introducing the new 11:FS Pulse ratings system

We’re thrilled to announce the latest enhancements to 11:FS Pulse - our sparkling new Brand Page. The complete redesign and new feature set brings you extensive insights and data from hundreds of FS brands worldwide, streamlining product research and app performance analysis.

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Culture

How to keep first-mover advantage in SMB banking

Risk and compliance activities are essential at the best of times. So how can companies keep up that best practices during a global pandemic?

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Design

Why are there so many bad user experiences?

One thing we hear a lot about here at 11:FS is how frustrating bad user experiences can be. Especially when trying to complete finance-based tasks – it’s not ideal considering the impact that these tasks can have on our everyday lives.

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challenger banks

First-mover advantage in SMB banking

Content marketing. Feels like ages we’ve been throwing this term around, doesn’t it? The term was first coined in 1996 (25 years ago!), and sometimes it feels like many brands are still using the same content marketing playbook from five if not ten years back.

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Culture

Student Finance: Five useful products

With over one million students studying away from home during the 17/18 academic year, managing budgets and expenses is an ever-increasing need.

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How many customers do fintechs really have?

Messaging has redefined the way we interact with one another. Now, it could do the same with the ways we engage with banks...

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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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Fintech Insider

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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Blockchain Insider

199. Insights: Real world assets on-chain: changing the future of ownership

L.F.G. Today we bring you a look at Real World Assets (RWAs) - what they are, discuss some of the use cases of tokenized RWA we’re seeing today, the pros and cons of bringing RWA on-chain, and where this emerging market is headed. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

798. News: JP Morgan's former fintech lead launches TodayPay and Airwallex target LATAM

Benjamin Ensor 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: former J.P. Morgan exec launches Refund-as-a-Service TodayPay, and Airwallex continue expansion into LATAM.

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Fintech Insider

797. Insights: Is being a fast follower a bad thing?

11:FS CEO David M. Brear and Deputy CEO Jason Bates come together to discuss concept of fast following. Is it always a bad thing? How can you get it right, what pitfalls to avoid getting it wrong and what is the impact on the end customer?

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Fintech Insider

796. Focus: How to bridge the gap between banks and creators with Eric Wei and Will Kim, Co-CEOs of Karat Financial

In this second episode on our deep dive into the creator economy in the US, David Barton-Grimley and is joined by not one, but two fantastic guests, the Co-CEOs of Karat Financial to discuss how financial services can better understand creators and how financial education is the key.

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Fintech Insider

795. News: Goldman Sachs sell GreenSky and Citibank win the sandwich war

Our expert host Ross Gallagher and co-host Rachel Pandyan are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Goldman Sachs stepping back from consumer lending, Galileo's new BNPL offering to SMBs, and a Citibank worker who paid the price for a dodgy expenses claim.

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Fintech Insider

794. Insights: Managing the wealth of the future

Ross Gallagher is joined by some great guests to talk about how fintech and financial services are meeting the needs of Gens Alpha and Beta, and how they are adapting to the needs of tomorrow's wealth makers.

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Blockchain Insider

198. Insights: How to fix UX in crypto

L.F.G. Today we bring you a look at UX in crypto: what's wrong with it, where the biggest challenges are, and what can be done to fix it, without compromising the control over your own assets that crypto allows for, joined by fantastic guests from Webacy and Bastion. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

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Fintech Insider

793. News: FedNow launch 15sec account verification, and the Metro Bank saga continues

Host Kate Moody is joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: FedNow launch a new account verification service from Orum, Metro Bank strike a rescue deal, and Nationwide unveil a new look.

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Fintech Insider

792. Insights: Putting services back into financial services

David M. Brear, CEO at 11:FS, is joined by our very own CTO Ewan Silver for a fireside chat to unpick what we mean when we say the services have fallen out of financial services.

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Fintech Insider

790. News: Apple Pay face US lawsuit and Revolut keep banking licence hopes alive.

Ross Gallagher is joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Apple launch open banking service in the UK, Revolut move closer to a banking licence, and Saga launch a savings platform for the over 50s.

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Fintech Insider

789. Insights: The Six Characteristics of Digital Commercial Banking

David Barton-Grimley is joined by some great guests to unpack the six characteristics of digital commercial banking; real-time, standardised, automated, embedded, contextual, and extendable. We’ll explore what they are and how they can (or can’t) support a more efficient, reliable, and secure industry.

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11:FS Pulse

Banks are losing the loyalty game | 11:FS Explores

Hey, banks! This might sting a bit. You’re getting loyalty all wrong - and it’s costing you customers. But all is not lost!

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3 ways AI is shaking up UX in financial services | 11:FS Explores

The entire world is buzzing about AI, and that ain't changing anytime soon. But as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives, what impact will it have on financial services and how people interact with them?

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Decoding

What are fintechs? - Decoding: Banks

Ever wanted to know what’s going on behind the scenes every time we make a payment?

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Decoding

How does banking regulation work? - Decoding: Banks

Regulation is essential. It stops banks from going bust or behaving badly.

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Decoding

How has software evolution influenced banking? - Decoding: Banks

The invention of the computer revolutionised banking in the 1950s.

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Lending

How does lending work? - Decoding: Banks

Lending has been around for thousands of years and is one of the cornerstones of banking.

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Decoding

How can traditional banks win on the banking battlefield? - Decoding: Banks

They're down, but they're not certainly not out.

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Decoding

How do card networks operate? - Decoding: Banks

Mastercard and Visa are the two biggest credit card networks in the world.

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Decoding

How has the banking battlefield evolved? - Decoding: Banks

We kick off our Decoding: Banks series with a look at the banking landscape today and how we got here.

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11:FS Explores: Legacy banking systems ft. David M. Brear

David M. Brear, our 11:FS CEO, takes us through legacy technology within banks - but of course, with a really cool Lightboard.

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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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