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Billions Spent: Where Has It Gone?

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

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Student Finance: Sorting Out Household Bills

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.

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False Certainty: The Monolith Made Me Do It

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.

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11:FS

What are the challenges facing the modern Delivery Lead?

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

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challenger banks

Who cares that they're called challenger banks?

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

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11:FS Pulse

The Solution to SMB Finance Woes?

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.

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Podcast

Global Fintech Innovation Network: Beyond the Sandbox

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.

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Culture

Digital is a small team sport

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

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Design

Banks need to be smarter not move faster

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?

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Financial inclusion

Why Fintechs Need to Focus on Financial Education for Customers

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?

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Banking

Banks and fintechs working together

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.

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Open Banking

The world turns to Open Banking

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.

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After Dark

11 Best social posts from After Dark VI

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.

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Consultancy mistakes

11 Stupidest Things Consultancies Say and Do

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.

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Culture

How Big Business Needs to Transform

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.

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Fintech Insider

363. News: Banking isn’t a side hustle

David Brear and Leda Glyptis are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Transferwise is the latest UK fintech to take on the US, Revolut teams up with Visa to help them go global and a US Marijuana Banking Bill Passes House in Historic Vote! All this, and much more on today's Fintech Insider.

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Fintech Insider

362. Interviews: International deep tech special

This week we bring you another interview mashup from SIBOS 2019 at the Excel in London! This week we are focussing on more international companies with a flavour of deep tech and infrastructure.

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Blockchain Insider

116. Blockchain as an excuse

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: EOS maker Block. One fined $24m by the SEC over unregistered securities saleSwiss Stock Exchange SIX lines up buyers for its Initial Digital Offering and Fidelity Digital Assets to Provide Custody for Bitcoin Derivatives Yield Fund. All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider.

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Insurtech Insider

50. A celebration of insurtech

On this weeks episode, we are celebrating our 50th birthday! To celebrate this milestone we’re joined by some of our most frequent returning guests from across the series to date! In today’s show we will be looking at the top news, topics and trends in insurtech over the last 50 episodes and going forward.

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Fintech Insider

361. News: Listen to your customers!

Leda Glyptis and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests, coming to you straights from SIBOS 2019 in London! Together they cover the most notable news stories from the last 7 days, including: SWIFT’s gpi, Alison Rose is appointed RBS new chief exec and Monzo bins off Monzo Plus! All this and much more on today's Fintech Insider.

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Blockchain Insider

115. Bakkt to reality

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Swiss Stock Exchange SIX Launch Digital Asset Prototype, No Yuan for Libra and Bakkt Launches at a Snails pace… All this and much more on today's Blockchain Insider coming to you from SIBOS in London!

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Fintech Insider

359. News: Cardmageddon

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: SCA is here! (Kinda), GoCardless launches in the US, and accordingly to The Telegraph students are getting payday loans to help fund their love of avocado on toast. All this and much more on today's Fintech Insider News.

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Fintech Insider

358. Insights: Financial Crime - The weakest link

David Brear, Will White and Nas Ahmed are joined by some great guests to talk about some financial crime on this insights show!

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Blockchain Insider

114. Why do regulators hate libra?

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Santander settles big ethereum bond, Vitalik Buterin does some speaking and the Latest From Europe: Libra You’re not Wanted! All this and much more on today's Blockchain insider!

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Insurtech Insider

49. The future of travel insurance

Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by Paul Prendegast from Blink and Alex Rainey from Pluto to talk about everything travel insurance, and how some new interesting players are shaking up the way customers are covered when they travel!

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Fintech Insider

357. News: The financial sector’s meltdown

Jason Bates and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Banks get taken by surprise by last-minute PPI claims, China’s richest man steps down from Alibaba and N26 Launch in Switzerland, but they do not support Swiss Francs! All this and much more on todays Fintech Insider!

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Fintech Insider

356. Interviews: Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics

Sam Maule is joined by motivational speaker and bestselling author Erik Qualman, to chat about his book Socialnomics, transforming technologies and the importance of competition in the financial industries!

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Blockchain Insider

113. What is the value in bitcoin?

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Binance to land in the US, BAKKT Launch edges closer and maximalists can’t meme…...apparently. All this, and much more on todays Blockchain Insider.

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Fintech Insider

355. News: Google knows best

Sarah Kocianski and David Brear are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Digital banks are set to treble their customer numbers in 2020, Singapore starts accepting their first applications for digital banks and LinkedIn announce their top 25 startups of 2019 - you might recognise some of the names! All this and much more on todays fintech insiders!

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Blockchain Insider

112. Should crypto stay decentralised?

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Telegram ramp up their crypto efforts, a $1 billion crypto venture and should crypto stay decentralised?

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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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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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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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