538. News: Are Stripe and Shopify THE biggest fintech companies right now?

Our expert hosts, Adam Davis and David Brear, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include:

Gus Tomlinson, General Manager Identity Fraud Europe, at GBG

Sammy Fry, Net Zero Lead at Tech Nation

Soundbites:

Matt Henderson, EMEA Business Lead at Stripe

Kathryn Petralia, co-founder of Kabbage

We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:

Stripe moves beyond payments with Stripe Identity 4:22

UK tech leaders team up to fight climate crisis 14:50

AmEx opens its first business accounts with Kabbage 29:01

Shopify expands its one-click checkout, Shop Pay, to any merchant on Facebook or Google 37:10

Laybuy brings in store BN/PL to the UK 44:50

Bitcoin tops $40,000 after Musk says Tesla could use it again 46:50

Fintech giant Wise push button on long-awaited listing 48:51

Web founder Berners-Lee to auction source code as NFT 51:09

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Special Guests: Gus Tomlinson, Kathryn Petralia, Matt Henderson, and Sammy Fry.

Links:

Stripe moves beyond payments with Stripe Identity

UK tech leaders team up to fight climate crisis

AmEx opens its first business accounts with Kabbage

Shopify expands its one-click checkout, Shop Pay, to any merchant on Facebook or Google

Laybuy brings in store BN/PL to the UK

Bitcoin tops $40,000 after Musk says Tesla could use it again

Fintech giant Wise push button on long-awaited listing

Web founder Berners-Lee to auction source code as NFT

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