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The Death of Omnichannel Banking
Lately I’ve noticed a few banks and fintechs wanting to “get started designing screens right away”. It seems great, but building the wrong thing is worse than building nothing at all.
FinTech Legend Leda Glyptis: If You Choose Who You Are, What You Do Will Follow
Over the past eight years, as a fintech founder who happens to be gay, I’ve met with 100+ corporate and institutional investors around the world.
Xero: Giving 800,000 Business Owners Their Lives Back
Gary Turner is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Xero, which Forbes described as the “World’s Most Innovative Growth Company.” Xero provides small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs or SMEs) with ‘beautiful’ online accounting software. Gary helped take Xero from a 3-person startup to a company that will have £150 million in revenue this year.
Swish: 3 Takeaways for Every Bank
How do we stay ahead of fraud and financial crime without compromising the speed, ease, and trust that make instant payments so compelling? In this article, Mastercard's Bryan Sharkey explores it all.
Digital Wealth Management: It’s All about the Offense
When people start explaining how technology can be used to modernise financial services their language instantly becomes fraught with acronyms, buzzwords, and idioms that can make little sense to those both inside, and especially, outside the industry.We have a hunch sometimes people do this to appear smart but we need to do more research!
‘Nicest Guy in Fintech’ on 'Golden Age of Finance'
Sam Maule, Director of Digital & Fintech at NTT DATA Americas, talks to us about how a kid from Detroit became a fintech leader, his new podcast, femtech, and Silicon Valley’s rude awakening.
Going Native: Force Touch, Siri, and Messages Payments
Goldman Sachs broke the fintechnet this week when it launched its developer portal, intentionally allowing companies to ‘embed finance’ within their organisation using their Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering. Hari Moorthy, Goldman’s Global Head of Transaction Banking, referred to it as “the financial cloud for corporates.” Cue a flurry of emails inside every large bank from CEOs wondering how seriously they should take this. Take it seriously. Take it very seriously.
It’s Blockchain, Not Bitcoin, That’s Relevant to Finance
Let’s start by calling Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) what it is - debt. Debt, of course, has many faces. But ‘credit, pay in instalments, pay nothing today, etc.’ are all just debt. 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.
Gates Foundation Interview - What Banks Can Learn from the Frontline of Financial Inclusion
Over the past twelve months, we’ve been seriously busy here at 11:FS. Now we’re announcing arguably the most exciting project we’ve ever taken on.
"My Bank Already Has An App!"
That’s what 11:FS bank building guru Jason hears when he tells people that he’s just spent the last two years building a new digital bank, and they’re right!
Top 10 Things To Know About Blockchain This Week
The Pulse team spends their time trawling through the world of banks and fintech apps, sorting the good from the bad so you don’t have to.
Why Should a Central Bank Issue a Digital Currency?
In this blog post Simon Taylor explores the concept of a Central Bank Digital Currency and why you would want a DLT (or “Blockchain”) like architecture for such a system.
BaaP (Banking as a Platform) Part 2 - How could banks develop their platform levers?
If you missed Part 1 of this 2 part piece then you can catch it here and catch up with the rest of the class: BaaP (Banking as a Platform) Part 1 – Why haven’t we seen a banking platform play?
Jurassic Bank – Why banks will have to go the way of the dinosaurs
The landscape for fintech and banking is evolving more rapidly than ever, and in case you weren’t aware, there’s a war going on for your customers. With challengers attacking from left, right, and centre, it’s never been more important to stay on top of the latest and greatest UX innovation. Pssst – click here to go straight to the goods and request a demo of 11:FS Pulse.
BaaP Part 1 - Exploring Banking as a Platform (BaaP) Model
The opportunity to change the way we deliver financial services is changing as new channels, products and partnerships are being explored. Banking as a Platform (BaaP) is one of the alternatives.By me, David M. Brear, CEO and Co Founder at 11:FS and Pascal Bouvier, Venture Partner at Santander InnoVentures
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90. The 'real' bitcoin market
We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Square ramp up crypto unit, the ‘real’ Bitcoin market and a failed ICO turns to eBay.
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307. News: Tinder for banking
David Brear and Jason Bates are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: WorldPay sells to FIS for $35bn, Alipay does a thing with Barclaycard and a German bank lets its customers decide the dress code.
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306. Interviews: Benoit Legrand, CIO of ING
CEO of ING, Benoit Legrand came on to the Fintech Insider podcast to talk with Simon Taylor about unsuccessful startup experiences, innovation from the outside in and much more.
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89. Checkmate
We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: CBOE halt Bitcoin futures, Binance to the moon? And Deloitte puts ASX at checkmate.
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36. Insights: Anthemis Takeover - investing in insurtech
Sarah and Nigel are being taken over by Anthemis this week! We're talking about what makes insurtechs attractive to the VC firm and why boring is beautiful.
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305. News: Graceful degradation
Sarah and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: RBS trials fingerprint credit cards, Visa told to hire PwC to help with outages and fintechs won big against incumbents at the British Bank Awards…and so did we!
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304. Interviews: David Duffy, CEO of CYBG
CEO of CYBG, David Duffy came on to the Fintech Insider podcast to talk with Simon Taylor about banking in the age of fintech and challenging the challenger narrative.
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88. Fire emoji
We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: BitGo exaggerate insurance coverage, tokenising equity and the owner of the Burj Khalifa plans an ICO.
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303. News: Magic beans
Sarah and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: The Revolut revelations rumble on, AI is a non-starter for 40% of startups and Grab gobbles $1.4 billion investment to build a super app.
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302. Insights: Women in financial services
It's International Women's Day and we have a show packed full of content and views from some great women working in financial services today.
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87. Forked off
We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Thailand approves some cryptocurrencies, FaceCoin and Nivaura raise $20m
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301. News: Not cashless but less cash
David and Sarah are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: We take a look at the fallout of the RBS Remedies fund pool A results, Goldman Sachs takes a bite out of the credit card market by teaming up with Apple and Lithuania reveals its' Top Gear-inspired strategy to become a fintech hub
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300. Insights: This. Is. Fintech.
It's our 300th episode! That calls for something a little bit special so we have a roundtable of our hosts plus the person who's the reason Fintech Insider exists.
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86. Too legit to quit
We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Brazilian Bank embrace crypto, a European exchange giant is jumping on the crypto bandwagon and XRP the STD...finally!
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299. News: Buzzwords for everyone
David and Simon are joined by Tom Blomfield and Romi Savova to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: Britain's banks predicted to reveal the biggest profits since the financial crisis, the latest announcements from the RBS Remedies fund and Santander pays IBM $700M to help them transform.
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!
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?
What are fintechs? - Decoding: Banks
Ever wanted to know what’s going on behind the scenes every time we make a payment?
How does banking regulation work? - Decoding: Banks
Regulation is essential. It stops banks from going bust or behaving badly.
How has software evolution influenced banking? - Decoding: Banks
The invention of the computer revolutionised banking in the 1950s.
How does lending work? - Decoding: Banks
Lending has been around for thousands of years and is one of the cornerstones of banking.
How can traditional banks win on the banking battlefield? - Decoding: Banks
They're down, but they're not certainly not out.
How do card networks operate? - Decoding: Banks
Mastercard and Visa are the two biggest credit card networks in the world.
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.
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
