This week we have some great stories for you as David and Leda are joined by a couple of great guests:

We kick off the episode by taking a look at Apple Card, Apple announced the launch of a credit card designed to help customers lead a healthier financial life. It offers no fees of any kind and encourages customers to pay less interest. Conny comments that it's a cool product that can deliver an excellent user experience across devices, which is where Apple will excel but Leda thinks that this isn't a gamechanger (03:06).

Next up, we talk about Oaknorth and Monzo teaming up to launch a savings account, Ryan thinks that this news is a great entry partnership for the companies and Leda adds that Oaknorth are the story right now more than Monzo (17:53).

We also talk to Amir Nooriala, COO of OakNorth to get some further insight into the partnership (21:00).

Other stories include:

All this and so much more on today's show.

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Special Guests: Amir Nooriala, Conny Dorrestijn, and Ryan Edwards-Pritchard.

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Last year we introduced you to the wonderful world of Luxembourg fintech through LHoFT, nine months later we've been invited back.

Laura Watkins explores how Luxembourg has solidified its place in Europe as a fintech hub and how this tiny country plans to extend its reach globally by talking to some of the key players in Luxembourg's fintech space, including:

Laura finds out how Luxembourg is capitalising on interest in blockchain, supporting 'older' fintechs that sowed the seeds for the fintech hub and what outsiders think about the small country with big ambitions and why some of them are relocating to the picturesque nation surrounded by major European economic players.

Luxembourg has managed to attract major global players like Amazon and Alipay, has considerable global ambitions and that's just scratching the surface. It seems as though David has managed to take on Goliath in this situation and Luxembourg is well on its way to becoming a global fintech powerhouse with the ecosystem they've managed to put in place.

All this and so much more on today's show.

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Special Guests: Alberto Dalmasso, Luc Falempin, Nasir Zubairi, Pierre Gramegna, and Susanne Schartz.

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This week we have some great stories for you as David and Jason are joined by two great guests:

We kick off the episode by taking a look at WorldPay selling to FIS and changing its tech stack. The group comments that it's not a modern way to approach tech stack spending, it's an oldschool way of doing things and 600M is a large amount to spend over 6 years to maintain technology (02:36).

Next up, we talk about Barclaycard bringing Alipay payments to UK retailers. There are some suggestions that this could mark the beginning of the end from the panel but they also wonder who the first adopter will be and Jason, for one, welcomes our new overlords (08:52).

We spoke to Tao Tao, Alipay's Business Development Director to find out more (13:15).

We also talk to our 11:FS Americas MD Sam Maule to get a US insight into why 21% of Americans have no savings (:).

Other stories include:

All this and so much more on today's show.

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Special Guests: Caroline Plumb, Simon Balmain, and Tao Tao.

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Benoit Legrand is CIO of ING.

Simon talks to Benoit about his unsuccessful startup experiences and what they taught him, how ING sees itself as a 20 year old fintech, why some banks are afraid of PSD2 and how to focus on the problems customers are facing.

They also take a look at Yolt, developing resistence to change and the importance of having a team dedicated to delivering change, why the scale of partnerships matter and touch on Brexit.

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Special Guest: Benoit Legrand.

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This week we have some great stories for you as Sarah and Simon are joined by a couple of great guests:

We kick off the episode by taking a look at the RBS trials for a biometric fingerprint bank card. Sarah thinks it's not a terrible idea and a potential solution to upcoming Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) demands. But Simon and Daniel disagree. Simon thinks the whole thing is a gimmick and customers deserve a better UX whereas Daniel just can't see any good use cases for fingerprint cards (01:50).

Next up, we talk about Bank of England telling VISA Europe to hire PwC after the 2018 outage. Simon reckons that having more eyes looking at the problem can only be a good thing while the outages problem rumbles on, Sharon agrees and comments that VISA's outage was a human error issue but there's a need to look at why that error could occur in the first place (08:36).

We also have an interview with Nick Cook to find out more about the FCA appointing its first Director of Innovation.

Other stories include:

All this and much much more on this week's news show.

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Special Guests: Daniel Hegarty, Nick Cook, and Sharon O'Dea.

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David Duffy is the CEO of CYBG.

Simon talks to David about CYBG's recent acquisition of Virgin Money, how the challenger narrative is shifting and why integrating a challenger brand into CYBG's existing services might be easier than industry commentators believe.

They also take a look at Brexit, the future of the industry, how fintech and banks can partner together and what role the big tech platforms can play.

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Special Guest: David Duffy.

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This week we have some great stories for you as Sarah and Simon are joined by three great guests:

We kick off the episode by taking a look at some of the problems Revolut have been suffering from lately and the culture issues that are on-going. The general consensus is that response from Revolut has been tone-deaf at best and a great product is being lost to reputational issues, although Sarah disagrees that a product is still good if it's proven to be unlawful. The story is just the gift that keeps on giving (01:38).

Next up, we talk about the Women in Fin Powerlist 2019 featuring two of our very oen 11:FS staff. It came out just in time for International Women's Day. Launched in 2015, the Women in FinTech Powerlist has increasingly attracted a global audience and an unprecedented number of nominations and applications. We take a look at if these lists shine a light on the issues or if it's just political and there are some interesting discussions around who's actually appearing on these lists (08:04).

Other stories include:

All this and much much more on this week's news show.

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Special Guests: Ali Paterson, Matt Valentine, and Mel Palmer.

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Coinciding with International Women's Day, Sarah is hosting an episode that shines a spotlight on the financial industry's documented lack of equality and many headlines are made of the gender pay gap and many other negative aspects. But it’s not all doom and gloom.

Our roundtable goes over a wide range of topics, looking at their personal experiences as women in financial services, the gender (im)balance at work, what's changed in the industry, differences in gender equality at incumbents and fintechs, how STEM can attract more women, careers advice and so much more.

They also talk about approaches to work, mentorships, imposter syndrome, salary expectations and share experiences and advice that apply to everyone.

We have some brilliant guests, including:

Our Senior Producer Laura Watkins also interviews Megan Caywood, now Head of Digital Strategy at Barclays and formerly Chief Platform Officer at Starling Bank to get her unique perspective on similar issues.

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This episode was made thanks to Senior Producer Laura Watkins and edited by Audio Engineer Alex Woodhouse.

Special Guests: Diana Paredes, Emma Lindley, Livia Benisty, Megan Cooper, Shafali Gupta, and Valentina Kristensen.

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This week we have some great stories for you as David and Sarah are joined by four great guests:

We kick off the episode with a close look at the winners of the RBS Remedies fund announced last week and wonder why some were snubbed. Max Rofagha points out how anti-competitive the awards were but it remains to be seen if this continues through the the rest of the fund pools available. TSB may have lost out but as Sarah says, TSB have bigger problems than missing out on a fund. And in a quick throwback to last week's news episode, Tom Blomfeld CEO of Monzo was correct to predict that Starling would win the £100M (03:19).

Next up we take a look at Goldman Sachs' move into the credit card market with Apple. David notes that a big technology company moving into banking has been the incumbent banks biggest fear for quite some time. Sarah asks if this move could spell the end of the Marcus brand with co-branding alongside ApplePay. Sarah thinks it's been a long time coming considering some of the moves Goldman Sachs has been making over the past few months, the decision to partner with Apple suggests that Goldman Sachs wants to target Apple's demographic and payment network (10:25).

Later on in the show we spoke Norris Koppel, CEO of Monese to find out more about the partnership with Avios (56:07).

Other stories included:

All this and much much more on this week's news show.

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Special Guests: Damian Richardson, Max Rofagha, Nicholas Megaw, Nick Bortot, and Norris Koppel.

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It's been a long two and a half years. But we've finally hit a huge landmark with our 300th episode.

This episode is an 11:FS special with some of your favourite hosts:

Plus extra special guest Marko Wenthin, Co-Founder of Solarisbank.

Our panel take a trip down memory lane, going over the early days of trying to figure out audio editing, why we took the approach that we did and how taking a conversation from the pub after a conference created a chart-topping podcast.

We go over the rejected theme tunes for the show and some of the show's highlights, including some of the best jokes, live shows, conferences and of course After Dark.

We also talk about some of the incredible guests we've had and difficult topics we've tackled. Of course none of this would be possible without you so we asked you to send in whatever questions you want for the hosts to answer. But if we didn't manage to get to yours this time around don't worry, we've made AMAs a regular feature on the podcast so we'll get to yours eventually!

To tie off the show we have the favourite moments of ours and yours and some friends of the show.

The microphones we used for this recording were six Rode NT1A's with Pop Shield.

We take a look at all this and much more on this week's episode of Fintech Insider. Thank you for sticking with us for the past 300 episodes and we hope you'll stick around for next 300.

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Special Guest: Marko Wenthin.

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