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digital transformation

There has never been a more important time to be truly digital

Simon Taylor interviewed Tom Blomfield, CEO of Monzo for Fintech Insider. Listen to the whole interview in full here.

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: Life in the time of COVID-19: learning to share

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week, as the world continues to change, she discusses how to overcome defaulting to the comfortable way of doing things just because that's how they've always been done.

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Insurance

COVID-19: what the insurance industry needs to do now

In part one of this series I pointed out that things look very, very bad for the insurance industry right now. In this blog post I will explore what might happen next.

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11:FS

What do our mums think that we do?

David M. Brear, our CEO, recently asked his followers on LinkedIn the following question: What three things should every bank in the world do in the next 3 years to be successful? So many people responded to David’s post with varying opinions but one thing was clear: change was paramount and digital was the way forward.

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Insurance

The impact of Coronavirus on the insurance industry

Imagine a crane operator, but not any crane operator, this one is wearing a pair of AR goggles, in which a layer of relevant data and information about every container being moved is shown, ensuring that, not only the right job is done, but also the job is done right.

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Culture

Why remote working should be a 24/7/365 concern

Bringing the office home with you doesn’t carry as much stigma as it once did. So what are the benefits of remote working, and how can you take advantage of them?

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Banking

How are consumer lenders responding to the coronavirus pandemic?

Until 2018 Australia hadn’t had a new, homegrown bank for decades. The Australian banking industry had been dominated by four huge banks who, facing no competition, rested on their laurels.

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: do not fail fast, learn fast instead

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week, TV masterpiece The West Wing and what it can teach us about life, business and financial services.

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Banking

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: the closet of shame

After so many years and billions spent on digital transformation: design workshops, rebuilding banks to focus on client journeys and user centred design, it’s still falling down.

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Crypto

What the bZx flash loan exploit says about the future of DeFi

TL;DR: someone (we don’t know who), managed to make off with over $350,000 with a loan that in essence cost them no more than $8.71 in the murky but oh so interesting world of decentralised finance (or DeFi for short).

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: the witches are coming

Each week, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry, creates #LedaWrites. This week, her thoughts turn to what transformation should look like with the lessons being learned from COVID-19.

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Banking

Is the future bleak for community banks?

Last year, we debated digital payments and whether they’re the future. At the time, it seemed like the answer was a resounding “yes". In the meantime, a global pandemic has emerged and transformed consumer behaviour in all areas of life — including the ways in which we pay. But the question is, will this be a permanent change or will we revert to our pre-pandemic ways once it’s safe to do so? And if we do fast-forward to a completely cashless society, what will the implications be?

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Culture

Leda Writes for Fintech Futures: what is office politics, anyway?

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, CEO of 11:FS Foundry creates #LedaWrites. This week she reflects on inspiring bosses and the opportunities they offered.

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Banking

A US fintech firm just bought a bank. Now what?

If you hadn’t heard of LendingClub before today, you’re probably going to become very familiar with it in the next few months.

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Banking

An intro into GAFA, BAT and how they play in FS

Tech titans have made big plays in FS. However, the approaches of eastern and western tech behemoths have differed. Here we break down how that has taken shape and where it might head into the future...

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Blockchain Insider

17. Bitcoin price explodes, ICOs implode and CEO of Ripple Interview

This week Simon and Colin talk through the Bitcoin good news story as well as Tezos, R3, and much more. Plus, we hear Sam Maule talk to Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple.

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144. Live from Xerocon: part 1

This week, we cover David's time at Xerocon, where he hosted a panel on Frictionless Finance featuring Niall Cameron, Global Head of Digital at HSBC, Caroline Plumb OBE, CEO at Fluidly, Colin Goldstein, Head of Partnerships at iwoca, Stewart Roberts, Executive VP at iZettle, and Shachar Bialick, CEO at Curve.

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143. News: O Canada!

This week Sam is joined by Kris Hansen, CTO at Koho, Dan Eberhard, founder of Koho, Barb MacLean, Director at Celero Solutions and Zac Cohen, General Manager at Trulioo in a special news show brought to you from Toronto, Canada.

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4: InsureTech Connect, Las Vegas

In this week’s jam-packed show Nigel visits InsureTech Connect in Las Vegas and talks to Darin Reffitt, Vice President of Marketing at Splice Software; Quentin Colmant, co-Founder of Qover; Tim Hardcastle, CEO of Instanda; Chris Cheatham, CEO of Risk Genius; and Caribou Honig himself, co-founder of InsureTech Connect.

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Insurtech Insider

4: InsureTech Connect, Las Vegas

In this week’s jam-packed show Nigel visits InsureTech Connect in Las Vegas and talks to Darin Reffitt, Vice President of Marketing at Splice Software; Quentin Colmant, co-Founder of Qover; Tim Hardcastle, CEO of Instanda; Chris Cheatham, CEO of Risk Genius; and Caribou Honig himself, co-founder of InsureTech Connect.

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Blockchain Insider

16. Eth and Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin all-time high and Ripple vs R3

This week Simon Taylor and Colin G Platt delve into the week's top blockchain and crypto news, and we hear from Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director at the Hyperledger Project within the Linux Foundation, and from Paul Worrall, founder of Zonafide.

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142. Insights: PSD2 Round Table

Jason Bates talks to Gavin Littlejohn, Mike Kelly, Anita Kimber and Matt Cox about PSD2 - what is it and what does it mean for the industry?

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141. The future will be tokenised

Meaghan Johnson is joined by the 11:FS Pulse team's Benedict Shegog, as well as Fintech Insider favourites Liz Lumley, Sarah Kocianski and Charlie Wood.

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140. Interview: Niall Cameron, HSBC

This week David Brear talks to Niall Cameron, Global Head of Institutional and Digital at HSBC about strategy, growth and fintech.

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15. What the hell is Segwit2x, enterprise Blockchain and more regulators weigh in

Simon and Colin explore the week's news, plus special interviews with Scott Nelson, CEO and Chairman of Sweetbridge, and Abasa Phillips, founder of Zilla.

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Blockchain Insider

15. What the hell is Segwit2x, enterprise Blockchain and more regulators weigh in

Simon and Colin explore the week's news, plus special interviews with Scott Nelson, CEO and Chairman of Sweetbridge, and Abasa Phillips, founder of Zilla.

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139. Interview: Ron Herman, Sionic Mobile & Michael Crawford, Fifth Third

On this week's episode, Sam talks to Ron Herman, founder and CEO at Sionic Mobile, and Michael Crawford, Vice President at Fifth Third.

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138. News: The Brexit Blame Game

This week David is joined by Bianca Lopes, Sarah Kocianski and Jamie Campbell.

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137. Interview: Rod Drury, Founder & CEO, Xero

Jason Bates interviews Rod Drury, Founder and CEO of accounting software firm, Xero.

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Blockchain Insider

14. Legitimising crypto exchanges & ICOs: South Korea, Australia & DJ Khaled weigh in

We bring you the latest headlines with very special guests and three interviews including r3, DTCC and Jibrel Network.

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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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fintech Insider

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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fintech Insider

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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