ICYMI: Libra is here and a lot of people have a lot of questions, starting with: who owns the data?
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has been taking the world by storm.
It’s the final week of our One Fintech Nation series in association with Tech Nation. Here’s a quick review of our latest incredible podcast episode looking at how we can unite the nation in fintech and how everyone in the industry can work together. You can/should/need/have to listen to it now.
We’re all aware of superstitions. Some of us a little more than others. Like digital finances, they don’t physically exist - but they’re far from a joke. Here are just a few of the reasons why FS companies should start brushing up on them. This article was written by Darja König - an Eleven intern who recently spent an action-packed six weeks in the Consulting and Research team. Alongside conducting customer research, identifying market opportunities and learning all about the business, she also wrote this awesome article. If you’re passionate about changing the fabric of financial services, check out our careers page.
In this design drill down, we’re exploring the different routes companies have taken to personify their artificial intelligence capabilities in an effort to build trust with customers and help them win with market demands.
By now we’ve surely all heard of NFTs. Seemingly overnight they’ve grown from a niche internet phenomenon to a household buzzword with everyone from Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Berners Lee, Banksy and even Lionel Messi having a piece of the pie.
It feels more than a little bewildering to be reflecting on 100 episodes of Insurtech Insider. In that time, we’ve seen insurtech go from being a concept to an actual (big!) thing.
Crypto is democratising finance and it’s a beautiful thing to see.
For this edition of After Dark, the live recording of our Fintech Insider podcast, we went for something a little bit different. Presenting After Dark: Starting from scratch, the short story... Check out the video here.
Onboarding is an essential part of the user experience. Last year, over 50% of customers applying for digital retail banking threw in the towel before they’d finished.
Finbots are financial chatbots that, at the lowest level, can answer customer questions and perform basic tasks such as providing account balances or updating personal information.This article was written by Jilly Li - an Eleven intern who recently spent an action-packed six weeks in the Consulting and Research team. Alongside conducting customer research, identifying market opportunities and learning all about the business, she also wrote this awesome article. If you’re passionate about changing the fabric of financial services, check out our careers page.
Credit cards are a mainstay of American life. As many parents teach their kids, using a credit card responsibly from a young age can lead to both financial and practical benefits later in life, such as better rates on loans and greater access to housing.
In this guest blog, Rafael Plantier - country manager for the UK and Ireland at Tink, discusses the results of their latest research into the status of European bank's APIs, two months on from the PSD2 deadline.
When seventeen self-professed ‘organisation anarchists’ sat down one day in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, they probably didn’t realise the extent to which their words would impact the world. A sea change in management thinking, scores of new words added to the global lexicon and widespread shunning of old methodologies – the Agile Manifesto was the early trumpet call which heralded the phenomenal rise of global tech giants. This is taken from our Unfiltered newsletter. Subscribe now for a no BS, uncensored analysis of fintech news and hot topics delivered to your inbox each fortnight.
In this design drill down, we’re looking at products and services that have gone back to the drawing board to solve a problem in a new innovative way.
The entire world is buzzing about AI, and that ain't changing anytime soon. But as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives, what impact will it have on financial services and how people interact with them?
Ever wanted to know what’s going on behind the scenes every time we make a payment?
Regulation is essential. It stops banks from going bust or behaving badly.
The invention of the computer revolutionised banking in the 1950s.
Lending has been around for thousands of years and is one of the cornerstones of banking.
They're down, but they're not certainly not out.
Mastercard and Visa are the two biggest credit card networks in the world.
We kick off our Decoding: Banks series with a look at the banking landscape today and how we got here.

The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...


The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...

