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Traditionally, tech teams place their QA function outside of core development. They form entire herds of QA people that come at the end of a feature being developed and do what they can. Most of the time they’re not even based on the same floor, or they’re outsourced entirely. But why is this?

There’s a lot of recession talk at the moment. Are we entering the next recession? Are we already in it? We all remember the 2008 financial crisis, and, more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, and all the financial trouble they caused.

Over the last two years we have kept coming back to one diagram, the 11:FS Banking Battlefield. We use this to explain the changes we see in the financial services industry. In fact, one particular workshop we did in Australia last year had us talking through this diagram for the entire day! Seriously. It also featured in three bank board packs in the last 6 months which is also a pretty good indication we’re onto something.

For many large financial institutions, cloud is, increasingly, the answer. Not that they’re necessarily sure what the question is, but the answer is definitely cloud.

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she returns to her adventures in the land of appalling customer care.

Jason Bates interviews Laurent le Moal, CEO of PayU, the leading online payments provider, dedicated to growth markets, at Money20/20 Europe in Copenhagen.

Petrit Berisha is one of the many success stories coming out of the 11:FS internship programme. Now an Assistant Producer working across all 11:FS media output, Petrit began as a humble intern. Petrit learned from all aspects of business that 11:FS has to offer before finding a home in the Media team. He managed to thrive under the pressure of multiple challenges and rose to the occasion time and again. That’s just part of what we offer our interns and that’s what it means to be at 11:FS.

Fintech is constantly evolving and creating new ways to deliver a positive customer experience. But if they can do it, surely everyone else can too?

🚨 Breaking news: what happens when two (crowdfunders) become one 🚨 The UK’s two largest crowdfunding platforms, Seedrs and Crowdcube, have announced their intention to merge. While it’s still subject to competition authority approval, this marks a significant shift in the crowdfunding landscape. But does crowdfunding have a future? Is it just a glorified form of marketing? Or is it a new asset class and the key to financial inclusion for the masses to get involved in early-stage investing?

There was a moment during the pandemic where we collectively dreamt of a better world.

11:FS turns two this week! As we hit the terrible twos but before we dig into our birthday cake, we’re feeling all reflective and so we thought it was a good time to look back over our last year and see how far we’ve come from year 1 to 2.

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We’re halfway through our list of the best and most popular blog posts of 2019, which begs the question: what will take the number one spot?

Jason Bates interviewed Ritu Liu, Head of EMEA at Alipay at Money20/20 Europe. They spoke about Alipay’s European expansion and her view of Chinese advancements in fintech that are influencing the rest of the world.