About this episode:

Host  Laura Watkins, Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS, is joined by a fantastic panel of guests as we dive into some of the biggest stories from the worlds of fintech, banking, and wider financial services this week.

Stories covered on the podcast:

Curve launches Curve Pay to compete with iOS in Europe. Google pushes ahead with its AI offering with an agnostic shopping experience. We talk through what the CFPB’s ruling means for the future of banking in the US. We also take a closer look at the South Korean payments market with Kakao’s acquisition of SSG Pay and Smile Pay to further digital optimisation in the country. There’s also been a boom in UK fintech hiring — and are Singapore really considering corporal punishment as a consequence for scamming?

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Timestamps/stories: 

Intro - (00:00)

⁠Curve launches Curve Pay on iOS in EEA, competing with Apple Pay-(5.30)

⁠Google has launched an agentic shopping experience- (19.19)

⁠CFPB to ditch open banking rule⁠-(37.12)

⁠Kakao Pay plans to acquire SSG Pay and Smile Pay for digital optimisation in Korea-⁠(51.07)

⁠UK Fintech hiring surges-(1.01.10)

⁠Singapore considers caning as scams jump 70%-⁠(1.02.36.31)

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Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast that covers everything from finance and banking to technology and the latest trends in financial services.

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