Our expert host David Brear is joined by some great guests in the first of our two part special, 'How to Buy a Bank'. We have already seen headlines on both sides of the pond this year; in the UK, Nationwide have bid £2.9 billion to take over Virgin Money, while in the US, Capital One hope to acquire Discover in a deal worth over $35 billion. Fintech funding may be going down, but big money M&A is here to stay. So in this episode, we want to take a closer look at why and how banks do it. What reasons do banks have to buy or sell? What’s the process, and how long does it take? And after all is said and done, how does this impact the customer? To have this conversation I am joined by an amazing panel of experts, who have themselves been through a merger or reported on them! This week's guests include: Polo Rocha, Reporter at American Banker Virginia Varela, community bank CEO and former federal regulator Highlights from this episode: Why do banks buy banks? (06:10) A different type of M&A dynamic (14:10) Bank partnerships is like dating... is this marriage material? (20:20) Dealing with two sets of parents (26:50) Do banks lose purpose and focus with M&A (30:15) How to protect the consumer from a merger (35:00) When M&A goes wrong (40:40) Measuring the success of a merger (46:00) --------------------------------------- Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Hasan Kazmi, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode they take a closer look at Bahrain, a country which has championed open banking in the Middle East. They explore the fintech landscape in Bahrain and the impact open banking has had on it to date, the potential challenges they’ve had along the way, and what this tells us about how regulation and innovation can co-exist super effectively, and can foster a thriving financial ecosystem. This week's guests include Hasan Kazmi, Head of Digital Partnerships for CEMEA at Visa Abdulla Almoayed, Founder and CEO of Tarabut --------------------------------------- This episode is sponsored by Visa Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Nadine Timmer-Bodenstein, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including Revolut's new banking licence in Mexico, just as Nubank also ramp up in the region. Plus, the launch of Project Nemo, a new 12 month initiative aimed to improve disability inclusion in fintech. This week's guests include: Sophie Vo, This Week in Fintech Joanne Dewar, Project Nemo Lead We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Revolut receives a banking licence in Mexico (03:10) Project Nemo launches to improve disability inclusion in fintech (14:02) Ozone API and Thistle Initiatives to Help Banks Get Ahead of PSD3 (27:29) Pipe Launches Embedded Solution to Make Funding More Accessible to Millions of SMBs (37:05) Adyen and UNICEF Launch Partnership to Accelerate Progress for Children Worldwide  (47:06) Canada to get open banking legislation this year (48:22) Brazilian woman arrested after taking a corpse to sign a bank loan (49:47) --------------------------------------- Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our expert hosts Rachel Pandyan is joined by some great guests to talk about how ESG is being championed by financial services to create meaningful change, not just for our industry, but for the whole world. ESG is a term most of us have heard, and it became a buzz word, a catch-all term to represent climate-conscious action and social responsibility. However, it's not just a cultural zeitgeist. Issues around climate change, gender parity, and corporate culture have also become key political battlegrounds around the world. These issues matter, and they resonate with huge numbers of people. But what have we actually done to move the dial in making our industry, and our world, a more sustainable and equitable place? As banks and other financial services providers invest more and more into ESG programmes, we want to take a look at what our industry has done, and what it continues to do, as ESG becomes evermore important to customers. From new banks targeting environmentally-conscious Gen Z-ers, to how more established banks might implement the changes needed to build ESG into their culture, we are going to discuss how financial service providers are driving meaningful change, and the challenges they still face in doing so. This week's guests include: Lisa Stanley, co-founder at Good With Money and chief sustainability officer at Zero Gail Gallie, Co-Founder at Project Everyone Highlights from this episode: How far has ESG come in financial services? (04:08) "An ongoing inability at leadership level" (06:20) The long term impact of staying as we are (10:17) ESG is so much bigger than climate (13:00) ESG in investment landscape (17:13) Consumer-driven change (20:05) The impact of not caring about ESG (24:05) The tangible benefit to customers (28:00) The UN sustainable development goals (31:38) "The strength is in the collective" (36:22) What can we do? (38:33) --------------------------------------- Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Jamie Campbell, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon comparing AI with the invention of the steam engine, AND the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia go to quite dramatic lengths to name and shame their naughty customers. This week's guests include: Veronica Glab, Head of Partnerships, Investment Lead at Innovate Finance Chris Skinner, best-selling author and CEO of The Finanser We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Fintech funding is at a seven-year low (04:32) Nubank partners with Wise to offer international card services (19:03) AI could be as consequential to the economy as electricity or the steam engine, says Jamie Dimon (31:53) The US launch a $20bn Green Bank lending programme to support climate tech (48:55) Mocking the Abrdn name is ‘corporate bullying’, says its chief investment officer  (58:06) UK tech companies have wider than average gender pay gap (59:47) Commercial Bank of Ethiopia names and shames customers over glitch (01:02:28) --------------------------------------- Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The incumbent banking industry is built on customer ignorance, customer vulnerability, or customer inertia. We have set out to change all of that..." In this special Insights episode, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear sat down for an exclusive chat with the CEO of Monzo, TS Anil, in which they discuss TS' own career and the future of Monzo as it breaks out of the UK and plots expansion in the US and beyond. This week's guests include: TS Anil, CEO at Monzo Highlights from this episode: How does Monzo's investment impact their strategy? (01:35) Helping customers make long term investment decisions (05:38) Putting community at the heart of what Monzo do (09:30) "When we're trusted, we feel empowered to solve more problems" (14:00) "Every part of the world needs a Monzo" (17:00) Following the North Star around the noise (20:16) A massive longing to transform banking (23:50) Powering through the Covid pandemic (26:40) Setting the mandate for ourselves (30:00) "Feeling like a person of colour was never a part of my identity" (34:30) --------------------------------------- Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our expert host David Brear is joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including the new groundbreaking agreement between the UK and US to regulate AI models, and Ryan Reynolds backed payments company Nuvei sells to Advent for $6.3 billion. And, how can someone be given an 11,000 year jail term? This week's guests include: Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond Andrew Brown, CEO of Check Mariela Hunter, a Fractional COO We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: The US and UK sign an agreement to regulate AI models (03:05) Check to power Wave's expanded payroll offering (22:56) Advent buy Nuvei for $6.3 billion (32:22) PayPal wins case challenging fee disclosures for digital wallets (40:05) Amazon pulls the plug on its cashierless systems in US grocery stores (46:43) Nationwide's Dominic West advert banned by advertising watchdog (48:05) Turkish crypto chief starts 11,196 year prison sentence (49:20) --------------------------------------- Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our expert host, 11:FS CEO David Brear, is joined by some great guests, live from J. P. Morgan Payments' e-commerce and fintech forum in London, to talk about digital identities, regulation and innovation. The EU have announced plans to launch an e-Identity, which would make a digital wallet available to all citizens and businesses in the EU. But how will this work? How will PSD3 and other major regulations support or hinder the potential of digital IDs? And what does this mean for the merchants, the shops and small businesses on the front lines, adapting to the evolving digital needs of their customers? We get into all this and more in today's episode. This week's guests include: Sara Castelhano, EMEA Payments & Commerce Solutions Product, JP Morgan John Miller, Chairman at Cali Group and CEO of PopID Aled Lloyd Owen, Global Policy Director at Onfido Highlights from this episode: What's happening in payments? (04:30) What are the limitations of PSD2? (07:57) The value for merchants in the US (12:20) The use case for biometrics (14:45) Finding the balancing line (20:50) Taking a leadership position or waiting for Europe? (27:57) Audience Q&A (29:55) --------------------------------------- This episode is sponsored by J.P. Morgan Payments J.P. Morgan believes payments are more than transactions. Behind every payment there’s a message that tells the world the direction your business is heading—and the impact it’s going to have when it gets there. J.P. Morgan invest billions into technology every year1, and process nearly $10T in global payments every day2. As a result, they understand and speak the language of payments better than anyone. Every payment speaks volumes. Let’s say more with your payments. Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In season two of Fintech Insider Focus, in collaboration with Visa, our expert hosts, 11:FS' Benjamin Ensor alongside Visa's Hasan Kazmi, shine a light on fintech in different parts of the world. In the first part of this season we hone in on the Middle East’s booming financial sector, and speak to the people right at the heart of it. In this episode we discuss the UAE, looking specifically at creating financial hubs in the region and the roles the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) & Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) are playing in the country and the wider region and how they are helping the growth of fintech. This week's guests include Hasan Kazmi, Head of Digital Partnerships for CEMEA at Visa Nick Philpott, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships, Zodia Markets by Standard Chartered & OSL Uneesa Zaman, Founder of Uneesa Finance and fintech comms specialist --------------------------------------- This episode is sponsored by Visa Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our expert hosts, Kate Moody and Rachel Pandyan, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week, including the $30 billion settlement with Visa and Mastercard that has been nearly 20 years in the making. This week's guests include: Jason Mikula, Founder of Fintech Business Weekly Doug Mackenzie, Journalist and Presenter, formerly Head of Content at FF News We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Visa and Mastercard agree $30 billion settlement over merchant card fees (02:30) OakNorth reports profit increase and US expansion plans (17:47) Wealth-builder Belong launches out of stealth and sets funding record (28:54) UK regulators clamp down on finfluencers (40:26) UK set for soaring digital wallet adoption (50:23) HSBC Australia implements Proxymity Vote Connect  (52:01) Real Housewife of Toronto star sells fintech to run a castle in South East England (54:00) --------------------------------------- Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things finance, banking, technology, and financial services.  Our expert hosts, with real industry experience, are joined by the biggest decision-makers, VCs, and reporters from across financial services including guests from Visa, Nubank, M-Pesa, Starling, and JP Morgan Chase to discuss the latest news, developments, and trends within the industry. Our weekly news show drops every Monday and tackles the biggest news stories, from acquisitions and launches, to regulatory changes and innovation. Then, every Friday our Insights show dives deeper into the hottest topics shaping the industry like web3 and BNPL. Whether you’re already immersed in the world of financial services, or just keen to learn more, this is the #1 podcast for you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices