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Brand

How to turn outdated corporate identities into fresh opportunities

Behavioural design is the process of using psychological insights into how people think and act irrationally, to design better products and services. Sounds good, right? But…er… what does that actually look like?

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FinTech Connect

What is the future of payments? We head to FinTech Connect 2020 to find out

Businesses are slowly awakening to the idea that it's time to consider new sources of growth when it comes to securing their futures. They’ve realised that, sometimes, designing the most engaging customer value propositions requires leaning on the brand strength of other players outside of your domain.

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Buy Now Pay Later

Buy Now Pay Later: Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) is one of the hottest trends in fintech. The concept of 0% finance has been around for decades, but it’s caught fire in the last 3 years with new market entrants like Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna transforming how this works for consumers in an e-commerce setting. This is taken from our Unfiltered newsletter. Subscribe now for a no BS, uncensored analysis of fintech news and hot topics delivered to your inbox each fortnight.

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BaaS

What is embedded finance?

While FinTech folk salivate – and the big banks bloviate – about PSD2 and the open banking reforms coming our way in 2018, we wondered whether those outside of this bubble will actually notice? What does PSD2 actually mean for customers?

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Lending

The future of banking: all paths lead to lending

A Black-owned bank is defined as one in which at least 50% of voting shares are owned by African-Americans. They’re a dwindling force in the States today.

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Design Principles

Crafting impactful design principles

Throughout history, humans have found direction from statements of intent that suggest 'better' ways of living.

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BaaS

Why is BaaS so hot right now?

The first episode of our brand-new video series, Decoding: Banking as a Service, is live! If you missed it, catch up here. Here’s a rundown of the episode if you prefer reading to watching 📖

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sustainable living

In defence of virtue signalling

Nothing’s worse than not having any options, but having too many can be just as bad.

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BaaS

7 reasons Banking as a Service is a game changer

We now live in a world where almost anyone can build and launch innovative, regulated financial products as easily as they can create a Shopify page - that’s the magic of Banking as a Service (BaaS).

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Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is leaning into embedded finance: other banks should take note

As 11:FS wraps up its 5th year in business, we can’t help but think about what the next 5 will look like. And our ambitions are big. It’s only just on the right side of scary.

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Cashless

Is the future really cashless?

Richard Brown, CTO at R3, says that blockchain allows us to, for the first time, build systems and technologies that run between different organisations that don’t trust each other and bring them to consensus. This means potentially significant savings for financial services, especially in file reconciliation and manual activity. For blockchain to succeed in finance, multiple firms must work together, and Corda is helping to do just that.

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Cloud

Using the cloud to fly sky high above the competition

As we roll into 2018 thoughts inevitably turn to the big themes that we might expect (and hope) to see for user experience in the financial services industry this year.

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SMBs

Jobs to be Done: How to help US SMBs keep their personal assets separate from their business finances

Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) is a theory. Its main aim is to explain why customers start - and stop - using different products and services in the market. Stripped down to the essentials, it’s a fairly straightforward concept first introduced by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen that can be adapted into a useful tool for product development.

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Town hall 27th July 2020: Business update from David

Good working culture is impossible without motivation. Therefore, it is essential to follow a model of organisation design that supports the conditions in which motivation can be maximised.

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: the stress of being stressed

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to planning for the future, accountability and caring about everything.

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Fintech Insider

318. Interviews: Innovate Finance Global Summit

We went to the Innovate Finance Global Summit to find out what regulators both home and abroad are expecting to happen in fintech over the next year and much more.

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Blockchain Insider

95. Curated scavenger hunts

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Banking culture hinders Blockchain adoption, CryptoKicks coming soon to a Nike store near you and finally, chickens on a blockchain.

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Insurtech Insider

39. Agriculture and Commodities Insurance

Sarah and Nigel are joined by some fantastic guests to talk about agricultural commodities insurance and the volatility that goes along with it.

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Fintech Insider

317. News: Nettles and dock leaves

David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including Paris tries to come for London’s fintech crown, Robin hood applies for a banking charter as T-Mobile tries to get back into banking and Germans hold more gold than Fort Knox.

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Fintech Insider

316. Insights: Customer infantstructure

Ross and Adam are joined by some great guests to talk about financial literacy in children, and the brewing world of innovation in pocket money apps.

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Blockchain Insider

94. Binance gets Dex’y

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Big French Bank does a thing, a very interesting thing, Binance gets Dex’y and Serena Williams invests in Coinbase.

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Fintech Insider

315. News: Tech for Tech’s Sake

Sarah and Simon are joined by Freddy Kelly, Ben Gleisner and Simon Vans-Colina to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: US lenders prepare for a recession; Halifax gets slammed for looking a little too like Monzo and Starling in their rebrand and Facebook call time on UK P2P payments.

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Fintech Insider

314. Insights: Strong Customer Authentication

Sarah sits down with an amazing roundtable of guests to dig into Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and what it means for the payments space and the financial ecosystem.

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Blockchain Insider

93. No such thing as a private blockchain

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: France creates a regulatory framework for tokens, the SEC might let Blockstack be and Banks abandon XRP…….oh nooooo

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Insurtech Insider

38. News: a Slice of AI

Sarah's joined by a couple of great guests this week to talk about the most interesting stories happening in insurtech over the past couple of weeks.

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Fintech Insider

313. News: Copy/paste product

Jason and Adam are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: Standard Chartered’s $1bn fine, London looks set to take the fintech unicorn crown from San Francisco nd your cat could be the next voice of the ‘miaowing’ debit card.

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Fintech Insider

312. Insights: Live! The future of money

We're in NYC for New York Fintech Week! Sam is joined by some great guests to talk about the future of money and the UK as a leader in the space.

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Blockchain Insider

92. The richest man in the world

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Bank stablecoins are coming, Big banks back new international blockchain alliance and how a guy called Colin Platt became the richest person in the world…

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Fintech Insider

311. News: Make tax great again

David and Ross are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: Revolut keeps on spinning, Xero is making tax great again, and UK MPs are 'very likely' to launch probe into RBS remedies fund allocation.

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Fintech Insider

310. Insights: Finastra takeover

David and Simon are joined by Finastra for a takeover show. At their offices in London Paddington, we're with some of the top tier of Finastra's team to bring you insight into the mega-vendor. Including what that term means to 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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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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