
Never did I imagine 3 months ago that we’d be dealing with such an unprecedented global crisis as we have done with COVID-19.

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to the problems behind procurement and how to decide whether to build, buy or partner.

In the first part of this series I introduced the story of Frederic Tudor, the American Ice-Block King; and discussed lessons learned from his then new product offering as it relates to blockchain technology. Tudor was able to successfully corner the ice-block shipping market and eventually was shipping blocks of ice to as far away as Calcutta from his home in Boston.

How can community banks remain competitive as large financial institutions gobble up more and more of the market?

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her thoughts, and thanks, to those in the Messy Middle.

How successful have government loan schemes in the UK and US been so far and what’s next?

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to Open Banking, doing almost nothing and doing everything.

11:FS Pulse is constantly loading more content and we’re always seeking new ways to create transparency in our product so you can understand the reasoning behind why some user journeys are so powerful.

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to trust, consistency and the currency of credibility.

The number one reason why new propositions fail is that they do not find product market fit. No-one sets out to build a dud product; everyone is shooting for the moon. So what separates the breakthrough successes from the desperate failures? A key part of success is developing a purpose for your product and being able to strongly communicate why your product exists. Importantly, the 'why' is defined by focusing on customer outcomes, which is the reason many of the commoditised banking products lack any meaningful purpose.

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week she ponders what isn’t happening while bank decision-makers are busy pretending everything is in hand.

It’s the 5th of April and that means one thing to us at 11:FS and that is that it’s our birthday! Four years old. Damn. And what a strange time to be in celebrating everything we’ve achieved with everything that’s going on.

Guest author Richard Davies gives his thoughts on the importance of scaling agile to all functions of an organisation, and some key factors on how to get there.

There’s been no shortage of attention paid to the emergence of fintech in the Middle East recently. In fact, we wrote about the ‘perfect storm’ that was brewing in the region and recently gave an overview of the digital challengers emerging to meet these needs.

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to why mistakes are wonderful things.

Simon Taylor is joined by the one and only Amber Baldet to discuss the latest blockchain news.

On the latest episode of Insurtech Insider, Sarah and Nigel are joined by insurtech experts to give you the very latest in fraud prevention in insurance. Joining our hosts are George Herber, Business Development Manager at Friss, David Hartley, Director of Fraud and Financial Crime Practice at SAS Global and Greg Brown, Partner at Oxbow Partners.

In this episode Sarah Kocianski uncovers the murky and difficult world of SMB Banking, focusing on three specific pain points: Getting an account, getting a loan and making and receiving payments.

Jason Bates and David Brear are back together after what seems like an eternity! They're joined by the wonderful Caroline Plumb as well as debutants Ryan Edwards-Pritchard from Funding options and Kirsty Grant from Seedrs. We also bring you an awesome snippet with CEO of Rooster Money Will Carmichael!

Do you know your credit score? What makes your credit better or worse? Join Ross and Ollie as they explore the dark murky world of credit scoring.

On today's show Simon Taylor's back in town joined by Co-host Sara Feenan and wonderful guest Teana Baker-Taylor (no relation of course) to bring you this week's hottest blockchain and crypto news.

David's back and he joins Sarah and special guest Oke Eleazu to discuss all things pet insurance as well as some of the top insurance news.

David, Simon and Sarah lead a bevvy of insightful guests through a jam-packed, fast paced live show from Temenos' TCF2018 event in Dublin.

On the day GDPR becomes law, we bring you a story about data. Who has it? What do they do with it? Are we being listened to? Find out how GDPR will affect all our lives..

Colin G. Platt and Pete Townsend are joined by Richard Brown, from our Lead Sponsor, R3.

In a special episode of Fintech Insider, Pete Townsend entered the funds industry for two days at two events and hosted two separate panels.

In this week's episode, Laura Watkins, Sarah Kocianski, and David M. Brear are joined by Charlie Wood from Capco and Simon Vans-Colina from Monzo.

Sarah sits down with Frederick Nze to discuss what makes Oakam different from other lending services.

Sarah sits down with with Oscar Williams-Grut to discuss the latest in blockchain news. Meanwhile, Simon gets interviewed for a change by Pete Rizzo at Consensus.

In this episode, David M. Brear speaks to Alison Rose, CEO, Commercial and Private Banking at RBS.
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...

