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11:FS

11 weeks at 11:FS

11:FS Product Lead Terry Cordeiro reflects on what it’s like to be a new “11” after nearly three months on the job.

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Banking

11 takeaways from Sibos 2019

Last week, the world’s biggest banking conference hit London for the first time. So what did more than 11,000 delegates see and hear at Sibos 2019?

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Facebook

11 most interesting things about Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

What is Facebook coin / Libra? Is this a game-changing moment and what should we do about it?

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Three years

11:FS turns three

In no time at all, we’ve managed to reach our third birthday. It feels like we were only celebrating our second birthday yesterday, but we’ve been moving so fast we’ve barely been able to keep up. So, what have we been doing all this time?

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11:FS

11:FC vs Yieldify: The Battle for Aldgate Tower

Under Friday night lights and in appalling conditions of driving wind and rain, the mighty 11:FC overcame all odds to bring home a 2-1 victory over office neighbours, Yieldify FC.

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Innovation

11:FS on tour - Money 20/20 Vegas, Day 1 Roundup

Money 20/20 USA has kicked off and the 11:FS team are here on the ground!

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Innovation

11:FS on tour – Money 20/20 Vegas, Day 2 Roundup

Day 2 has come to an end here at Money 20/20 and, despite last night’s industry party, it was jam packed with action.

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Consultancy mistakes

11 Stupidest Things Consultancies Say and Do

I’ve poked fun at banks and fintechs, but now it’s time to take on the consultancies. Sometimes it can feel like you’re spending your money on bad advice and worse decisions. Sometimes you are.

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Fintech mistakes

11 Stupidest Things Fintechs Say

Last week I spoke to friends of 11:FS to discover the 11 stupidest things banks do. It was more popular than any of us expected. It even compelled 11:FS Co-Founder, Simon Taylor to write a love letter to the big banks telling them how they can do better. Here at 11:FS we felt like maybe we’d been a little harsh on our incumbent friends. So, I decided to write another list, reaching out to both the wider fintech community and all our followers to find out the 11 stupidest things fintechs say and do.

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Banking mistakes

11 Stupidest Things Banks Do

Here at 11:FS we talk a lot about how Digital Banking is only 1% Finished, jobs to be done, and many other topics on how big banks get things wrong. But sometimes just hearing the theory isn’t enough. So I spoke to bankers, insiders, fintechers, associates, customers, and researchers – all anonymously – who have given me swathes of real world examples of the stupid shit banks do. Here’s the 11 best…or worst, depending on how you want to see it. This list took a fair while to compile so if you’ve got something you want to add send me a message and maybe we’ll do a part two.

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11:FS

11:FC vs Monzo: Rumble in Rotherhithe

The wait was finally over. Game day arrived. The Big One. 11:FS vs Monzo, in 11:FC’s first professional 11-a-side fixture. Nerves were jangling in 11:FC HQ in the lead up the game. Captain Petrit Berisha led his men in extensive warm ups, team talks, tactics and formations all day, to get the team both mentally and physically ready for the challenge that awaited them.

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Santander

11 Biggest Fintech Stories of Q2 2018

There’s a sweltering heat wave hitting the city and I’ve never been so thankful for the office air conditioning. We’ve just entered July, everyone’s moving onto their Q3 targets and writing reports on Q2. So what happened in Q2 for the fintech world? And where are we about to go for Q3? I take a look at the 11 biggest stories that happened in fintech over the last three months.

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Intern

Why You Should Intern at 11:FS Sam's Journey

Sam Frampton has had an incredibly successful experience during his time as an 11:FS intern. He created and project managed our Beginner’s Guide to Open Banking that you can find here. In addition to this he’s helped provide strong insightful data into our Fintech Insiders website, a forum for fintech you can find here. Using that data he also created a daily newsletter that recaps the latest in fintech news, sign up and you’ll get an insight into just some of the work our 11:FS interns do. Our interns get to create and effect meaningful change in the company. If you can prove value and show why something needs to be done differently, we’ll do it. That’s part of what it means to be at 11:FS.

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Open Banking

11:FS Releases the Beginner’s Guide to Open Banking

11:FS is pleased to announce that today we are launching the beginner’s guide to Open Banking! It’s a hot topic in the fintech space at the moment and users need to know what they’re getting themselves into.

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Financial inclusion

Financial Inclusion and Why it's Necessary for Everyone

When the World Bank launched a focus on financial inclusion in 2011, about 2.5-3 billion people lacked access to even the most basic financial services. Since then, dramatic progress has been made. Between 2011 and 2014 an astonishing 700 million people gained bank accounts (twice the population of the US). In the latest World Bank Findex report, it was stated that a further 8% of the world opened an account.

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Fintech Insider

1046. News: Revolut is a bank, Lloyds wants to be a fintech - we're just as confused as you

Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1045. Insights: Has the banking battlefield evolved - and is Revolut built for it?

For years, banking has been framed as a battlefield: incumbents defending their turf while fintech challengers attack with better tech and customer experience. But in 2026, that picture may have changed.

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Fintech Insider

1044. News: International Women’s Day: Why the future of wealth is female - and how fraud disproportionately affects women

Host Laura Watkins (Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS) is joined by a brilliant panel to unpack these topics before diving into some of the biggest fintech stories of the week.

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Fintech Insider

1043. Insights: Inside HSBC Innovation Banking UK’s future with CEO Emily Turner

In this episode of Fintech Insider, David M. Brear sits down with Emily Turner, the newly appointed CEO of HSBC Innovation Banking UK, for a conversation about leadership, innovation, and the future of fintech in the UK.

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Fintech Insider

1041. Insights: How to build a high-performing product team

In this episode of Fintech Insider Insights, Kate Moody is joined by an expert panel of product leaders to unpack a question every startup and scale-up eventually faces: how do you build the dream product team?

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Fintech Insider

1040. News: Is this a once in a generation opportunity to change up the UK payments system?

Host Ross Gallagher, Head of Ventures at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1039. Insights: Stablecoins, clearing and the future of payments with Emma Hagan, UK CEO of ClearBank

In this episode of Fintech Insider, David M. Brear sits down with ClearBank’s UK CEO, Emma Hagan, to explore how the UK’s first new clearing bank in over 250 years is reshaping financial infrastructure from the ground up.

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Fintech Insider

1038. News: What happens when the world's biggest YouTuber buys a fintech?

Host Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1037. Insights: Shaping safe AI innovation - Live from the FCA’s Supercharged Sandbox Showcase

In this special live edition of Fintech Insider Insights, recorded at the FCA’s Supercharged Sandbox Showcase, David M. Brear is joined by leaders from the regulator, industry and the technology ecosystem to unpack the UK’s first AI-focused regulatory sandbox.

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Fintech Insider

1036: News: Checkout strikes a chord with Spotify as Nubank, Revolut and Starling set their sights on the US

Host Benjamin Ensor, Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1035: Insights: Six predictions that will reshape customer experience in financial services

What’s next for fintech UX in 2026? Ross Gallagher, Head of Consulting at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to break down six financial services UX predictions from the latest 11:FS Pulse Report, covering the shifts shaping digital banking, customer experience, onboarding, product design, and user research.

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Fintech Insider

1032. News: Revolut heads to Peru, Stream raises $90m, and… are you dead?

Host Kate Moody, Customer Strategy Director at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1031: Insights: How OpenAI is changing the future of financial services

On this week’s episode, host David Barton-Grimley is joined by Matt Weaver, Head of Solutions for EMEA at OpenAI, to explore the impact OpenAI is having on the financial services industry - and the meaningful collaborations taking place between the sector and the AI innovation giant.

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Fintech Insider

1030. News: Nala and Noah partner on cross-border stablecoins – is a 10% US credit card interest cap coming?

Host Laura Watkins, Director of Media & Marketing at 11:FS, is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

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Fintech Insider

1029. Insights: How AI is reshaping consumer-focused banking

On this week's episode, David M. Brear is joined by some great guests to tack a question on every bank and fintech leader’s mind: is AI redefining consumer-focused banking in 2026?

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Fintech is only 1% finished - The fintech market ft. Simon Taylor

Fintech is only 1% finished. But what do we mean by that? Simon Taylor, Head of Ventures at 11:FS takes us through the landscape of financial technology in this Lightboard edition of 11:FS Explores.

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BNPL

How the Buy Now, Pay Later landscape is shifting with Amy Gavin | 11:FS Explores

Just what is going on with Buy Now, Pay Later right now?

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Lending

Jeff Keltner from Upstart on what the future of lending will look like | Spotlight

What does the future hold for lending? Live from Lendit USA 2022.

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UX

What is UX and what makes UX good? 11:FS Explores

Will banks exist in 100 years?

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Open Banking

What is Open Banking? | 11:FS Explores

In this episode of 11:FS Explores, Adam Davis picks apart Open Finance, and what we have to look forward to if this technology became a reality.

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What Griffin are going to do now they have their banking licence with CCO Adam Moulson | Spotlight

Inclusive design is a mindset and a process that suggests that you should bring as many people as possible - and the most diverse of voices that you can - into your product design product process, so that you're being truly inclusive. It's designing with people rather that just at them. Charlotte Fereday, Product Director, Ventures, explains what inclusive design is, why it's important, how you can design more inclusively, and answers - how possible is truly inclusive design?

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Unleashing creativity! A case study on sparking innovation with Bidyut Dumra from DBS | Spotlight

On this episode of Spotlight, 11:FS Crypto Global Strategy Director, Mauricio Magaldi is joined by Ramp Network Co-Founder and CEO, Szymon Sypniewicz. In today's chat, the pair discuss Szymon's career, the current regulatory landscape in crypto, and what the future might hold when it comes to widespread crypto adoption.

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Security

Kenneth Hart from Snowdrop Solutions on how data enrichment increases trust | Spotlight

In this 11:FS Explores: Lightboard Edition, Vaughan Shaman takes us through how asynchronous systems work, their advantages, and how they can remove potential bottlenecks.

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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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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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