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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Romance in Plumbing

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she returns to the theme of holding yourself accountable and moving to the Big Top.

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Interviews

Not making up the numbers: An interview w. Anthony Thomson, 86 400

Why is China so far ahead on fintech? Guest author Richard Davies went to China earlier this year to see for himself. These are his findings:

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Banking for humanity

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to holding your breath, repetitive messages and the end of the world.

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APAC

Deniz Güven: Brave New Bank

Born and raised in a small town in central India, Deputy Mayor for Business in London, Rajesh Agrawal, moved to London in 2001 at 24. He arrived at Heathrow with £200 in his pocket and without knowing a soul. But he still felt at home in London, citing that feeling as one of the best things about the city. Rajesh set up his own business in international payments before the term fintech even existed and now he’s working to help other fintech entrepreneurs succeed in London. Listen to our CEO, David M. Brear interview him here or click play below.

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Financial inclusion

Money and Mental Health: What more can we do?

Sharing our stories, our challenges, and the things that truly matter to us. Today we talk to Jamie Clements from the 11:FS Pulse team to discuss mental health, opening up and what led him to creating a podcast about these complex issues.

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Innovation

Why are mortgages broken and confusing?

It’s no secret that mortgages are a broken process. Research by Habito revealed that 62% of those who go through the process felt stressed out. And from personal experience, I can tell you that remortgaging is a hugely difficult and opaque process. How can this be the case in 2019?

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Open Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Open Banking in a brave new world

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to legacy and core banking.

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digital transformation

Why big banks are creating challengers: Leaving a legacy

Incumbent banks’ approach to becoming modern digital beasts is like a 60-year-old athlete trying to compete in the Olympics.

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digital transformation

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: You can’t always get what you want

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to the interminable nature of meetings.

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digital transformation

Hold the front page

2020 has been a funny old year on many fronts so far, hasn't it? Over the last few months something interesting has happened for 11:FS, as myself and my co-founders, Jason, Ross and Simon explain.

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: On feedback and what to do with it

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week it’s all about work, finding a mission and falling in love with the job every single time.

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Design

Easter eggs and delivering delight

eBay announced recently that it would begin offering merchants access to credit in partnership with Square Capital as of Q3 2018. eBay sellers will be able to apply for loans from $500 to $100,000. Square is facilitating the process, which can be done entirely digitally and sees successful applicants receive funds in as little as 24 hours. The partnership is interesting for two main reasons — it signals a deepening commitment from eBay to providing financial products and the joint offering marks another powerful entrant to the SMB lending space.

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Banking

Why big banks are doing challengers: Brand Permission and why it matters

The whydunit is an increasingly popular narrative. More often than not the motives behind a decision are more interesting than the decision itself, so I’ve taken a look at the motives behind big banks and their fixation with challengers.

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Podcast

Past success guarantees nothing: Benoit Legrand, CIO of ING

It’s time to accept that digitisation is not going to create the step change needed. Banks need to realise the benefits of being born digital and the boost to services it provides.

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Getting bad news is a good thing

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she ponders the difficulties of learning to unlearn.

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Fintech Insider

256. Insights: PensionBee takeover

On this special episode, we're buzzing to be taken over by PensionBee. At their offices on Southwark street, we're with some of the top tier of PensionBee's team to bring you an insight into pensions.

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Fintech Insider

255. News: Really great at charts

On this week's episode, David, Sam and Simon are sit down with Ahmed Zaidi and Kathryn Harris to discuss the latest and greatest news in fintech.

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Fintech Insider

254. Interviews: Shamir Karkal, Co-Founder of Simple Bank

Sarah Kocianski interviews Co-Founder of Simple Bank, Shamir Karkal. They take a look at what it means to create a product that actually helps customers achieve their goals.

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Insurtech Insider

Insurtech Insider Episode 24: The news you need to know

On the latest episode of Insurtech Insider, Sarah and David sit down with Lea Nonninger and James York, shaking up our usual topic-based format we take a look at all the Insurtech news that's happened in the past week.

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Blockchain Insider

Bonus: Interview with Richard Brown and Mike Hearn at CordaCon

Today we’re bringing you a special bonus episode of Fintech Insider. Ross sits down with Richard Davies, Commercial Director, TSB to discuss their new design competition. Collaborating with 11:FS, the competition aims to bring in more innovative tools for small businesses to thrive.

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Fintech Insider

252. Insights: Islamic Fintech

On today's show, Sarah Kocianski is with a great roundtable of guests to celebrate Islamic Finance week and drill down on what Islamic Fintech really is.

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Blockchain Insider

63. Chickens on the Blockchain

On this week's episode, Simon and Colin are joined by a great guest, Ville Sointu to talk about the latest and greatest news in blockchain.

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Fintech Insider

251. News: “I haven’t had a debit card for over 2 months”

On this week's episode, Sarah and Ross sit down with Lois Ollerenshaw and Valentina Kristensen to discuss the greatest and latest stories in fintech.

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Blockchain Insider

62. Religiously HODLing

On this week's episode, Sara is joined by three great guests: Olivia Vinden, Obi Nwosu, and Richard Burton to talk about the latest news in blockchain. Colin also has a great interview with William Mougayar from JM3 Capital.

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Insurtech Insider

Insurtech Insider Episode 23: Catastrophe Insurance

On the latest episode of Insurtech Insider, Sarah and Nigel sit down with Emil Pfeiffer and Oliver Ralph. Sarah also has two great interviews with Jason Futers and Barney Schauble to get a bit more insight.

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Fintech Insider

249. News: Hook them with a great service

On this week's news show Sarah and Simon are joined by our guests: Alexa Fernandez and Ryan Edwards-Pritchard to talk about the latest and greatest fintech news stories this week. We also have a great bit of insight from Doug Bobenhouse on US credit card debt.

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Blockchain Insider

61. FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

On this week's episode, Simon and Sara sit down with Aman Kohli and Ryan Radloff to talk about the latest news in blockchain. Colin also has a great interview with Michael Sonnenshein from Grayscale investment.

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Fintech Insider

247. News: Who should we trust?

In this week's episode, Simon, David and Sarah are joined by a trio of fintech CEOs to discuss the week's news. We have Caroline Plumb, CEO of Fluidly, Anil Stocker, CEO of MarketInvoice and Tom Eyre, CEO of Loqbox, and special reports from Dominic Lindley and Oliver Ralph.

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Fintech Insider

246. Insights: Digital Identity

On today’s show, our hosts Ryan and Laura are going to take a bit of a deep dive into the world of digital identity, what is it, why do we need it and how is it changing? We’ll also look at the future of digital identity and see whether it looks bright or dystopian.

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Blockchain Insider

60. DLT is faster than your post trade

On this week's episode, Simon and Sara sit down with Teana Baker-Taylor, Michele Curtoni, and Alex Hern to talk about the latest news in blockchain.

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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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