
Every senior executive knows they need digital, every bank is spending billions on digital projects. So, why has so little digital transformation actually occurred?

Despite global economic headwinds, rising prices and over half of consumers now precisely tracking their subscription spend, 89% of businesses are optimistic about recurring revenue growth for the year ahead. They predict changing customer demand is the top factor that will impact profitability.

You can catch the full Fintech Insider take on the news today at 4pm on the podcast here. It’s been a week so that means we’re back to doing a deep dive on a slightly different story from the news show. I think this one’s a little more exciting than the bigger stories if truth be told. For analysis straight from industry experts subscribe to our podcast Fintech Insider CEO David M. Brear and Sarah Kocianski sit down with Monty Munford and CEO of Onfido Husayn Kassai to discuss all things fintech news, and this week we’re giving you a closer look at the FCA’s regulatory sandbox.

Are consumers experiencing the downside of a booming consumer lending industry?

What is a challenger bank? Who are they actually challenging and does the name even make sense?

The creator economy is defined by SignalFire as the class of business built by independent content creators, curators and community builders, as well as the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetisation.

The first adopters in the digital banking world are beginning to use native iOS features to enhance the customer experience. With Touch ID now a hygiene feature, we are seeing banks introduce and improve upon their Force Touch capabilities. And in the past few months, a handful of brands have taken things to the next level by offering Siri and Messages payments (albeit with a few kinks in the journey). In this article we explore how banks are going native.

A three-part series by 11:FS Non-Executive Director, Lisa Gansky Part 1 – The 3 steps of Digital Transformation

Banks are plagued by a litany of archaic processes and outmoded design. That was just about bearable before the digital age, but is there any room for it today?

Financial education is vital to the success of many new fintechs. After all, if customers don’t know what they need then how are they going to know if a product is useful for them?

Fintechs and the major financial services have been competing against each other for a while now. But that’s not likely to be the best course of action for either of them and now they’re working together.

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, and the reaction from all of us is almost a war effort to ensure society still functions through one of its biggest ever shifts.

We had a great time at After Dark VI, the episode went out last week, and had a massive turn out in both Atlanta and London. And we know you did too! Fintech fans were out on Twitter in force to shout out how much they loved it (especially the emoji wall and rant bucket). Our social media marketing interns gathered together the best ones they could find to share the After Dark VI love.

I’ve poked fun at banks and fintechs, but now it’s time to take on the consultancies. Sometimes it can feel like you’re spending your money on bad advice and worse decisions. Sometimes you are.

Leveraging consumer trust is an important tool for all brands. Businesses are starting to take note and realising that in today’s all encompassing landscape, one product offering simply isn’t enough anymore.

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

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!

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.

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

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!

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!

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.

Sarah Kocianski and Adam Davis are joined by some returning guests to predict all the things that could happen in the fintech world in 2020!

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you predictions! Host Simon Taylor is joined by Mike Dudas and the pair are predicting all the things that could happen in the world of blockchain in 2020.

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: a live panel from this year's Money20/20! We also have some incredible interviews with Asaf Meir, CEO at Solidus Labs and Max Boonen, CEO at B2C2.

Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by some returning guests to predict all the things that could happen in the insurtech world in 2020!

David Brear and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: RBS to pay £40 million for foreign exchange rigging, WeLab raises $156 million ahead of virtual bank launch, and MasterCard launches mobile gift card ahead of Christmas. All this and much more on today's Fintech Insider News!

On this week's insights show, David Brear and Simon Taylor sit down to reminisce about the past 12 months of fintech. As always, they are joined by an incredible panel of guests and together they take a look back at 2019's most notable fintech stories.

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Bitfinex security drama, SEC slams fraudsters for Christmas, and yet another crypto Ponzi scheme. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider!

David Brear is in New York and is joined by Will White to host a stateside episode of the news show. They're joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Chime quadruples its valuation, Robinhood tops 10 million accounts and a man loses £193,000 to a one-digit sort code error. All this and much more on today's Fintech Insider News!
Ever wanted to know what’s going on behind the scenes every time we make a payment?
Regulation is essential. It stops banks from going bust or behaving badly.
The invention of the computer revolutionised banking in the 1950s.
Lending has been around for thousands of years and is one of the cornerstones of banking.
They're down, but they're not certainly not out.
Mastercard and Visa are the two biggest credit card networks in the world.
We kick off our Decoding: Banks series with a look at the banking landscape today and how we got here.

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

Fintech Marketing Podcast Season 2: Coming soon

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...

