Our story

Up until recently, if you wanted to launch a financial product, you either had to work directly with the deep financial infrastructure yourself or use a core banking system, which has all sorts of rules and parameters, to interact with the financial infrastructure.

“...we need accomplices, abolitionists, and activists to bring about systemic change and right injustices, at every level.” This Pride month, we’re focusing on troublemakers. Definition: troublemaker (noun); someone who causes problems by making others argue or not obey people in authority.

Fintech Insider is going on the road and taking our live show to OP’s Slush after party!

We’ve reached 500 episodes! 💥 That’s crazy.

We made it, folks! It’s been a tough year for all of us. One where both our professional and personal lives have been impacted in a big way.

2020 has been a turbulent year to say the least. Where the home office was once a luxury, for many of us, it’s now a staple. Almost overnight, we lost the immediacy of face-to-face communication. Information and ideas became buried within countless Slack, Google and email notifications, and the general office chit-chat that we loved to hate became a distant memory.

Pre-COVID, you could’ve called me a globe-trotter. And you wouldn’t have been wrong. As an author, commentator and public speaker, I’m rarely in one place for too long. So getting used to working from home for the past six months has been a revelation, to say the least. In light of World Mental Health Day 2020 (arguably the most important one yet) I thought I’d share some of the observations I’ve made since being thrust into 24/7 remote working. While some of them might be trivial, it’s fair to say I’ve experienced a rollercoaster of emotions. Mental health isn’t a static creature, and it’s bound to fluctuate thanks to the blows we’ve been dealt by the pandemic - I’m sure you can relate.

RegTech. Regulatory Technology. When most people hear ‘RegTech’ they think it means automating compliance processes – you’d be forgiven if that doesn’t get you excited.

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.

At 11:FS, we build digital financial services, primarily banks. ‘Bank’ is a very broad term, of course, and our focus on client needs and ‘Jobs To Be Done’ approach (“People don’t want a mortgage, they want to buy a house”), means that we rarely set out to build a pure bank.

Yesterday afternoon we shared in a town hall that we will be pivoting our strategy for 11:FS Foundry and restructuring that team.

The introduction of new competition-friendly regulations have led to a wave of new market entrants in the form of fintech start-ups. And it’s not just happening in developed markets.

Sharing our stories, our challenges, and the things that truly matter to us. Today we talk to Kate Moody from the 11:FS Consulting team to discuss researching digital services, spreadsheets and understanding cultural nuances.

The financial services pie is looking increasingly appealing, and it’s not just fintechs and digital banks who want a slice...

11:FS moved all employees to remote working on March 13. What has that meant for the hiring process? As 11:FS Lead Talent Partner Natalie Thornicroft explains, plenty of adjustments and a lot of video calls.