Partnerships

In this guest blog Bailey Kusar, co-founder and CEO of Toucan, examines how open banking can be used to deliver services that better support people with mental health conditions to manage their finances.

After a busy year in crypto, 11:FS co-founder Simon Taylor checks in on his 2019 predictions to see what he got right and what he missed.

It’s been quite a hectic few months but I’m delighted to say that our investment partner and first client for 11:FS Foundry, DNB, has committed new funding and to building new services on the platform, with an initial focus on loans. But this is just the start, as we continue conversations around other value chains to define how and where 11:FS Foundry can deliver significant benefits to other areas of its business.

Hey fintech fans, I know you’ve missed me terribly the last couple of weeks. I’ve had dozens of tweets asking where I was (literally none). The rest of the 11:FS team stepped up to cover my absence and now I’m back in full swing.It’s been an incredibly busy couple of weeks for fintech and the 11:FS team in particular. We have an avalanche of content headed your way. First up this week, we went to Money20/20 Europe, interviewed everyone we could find and put on an amazing show you can find here.We’re bringing you a quick roundup of everything we did at Money20/20 Europe and plenty of links so you can get a deeper dive into anything that catches your eye.

In the first part of this examination of money management in Africa, I considered how mobile money impacted financial services provision in the region and the subsequent wave of bank and fintech collaboration. Here I turn my attention to what might come next.

Oh shit, they finally did it. Apple moved into banking. Sort of.

Right now, every company is tackling how to handle the move to remote working. We made a decision recently to not return to the office until November and wanted to share how and why we got there.