381. News: Zopa funding drama

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Adam Davis, are joined by some new and returning guests to talk about the latest goings-on in the world of fintech, financial services and banking. This week’s guests include:

• Andrew Bud – Founder and CEO, IProov
• Livia Benisty – Global Head of Business AML at Banking Circle
• Jamie Campbell – CEO of Fronted

Together, they cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:

• Natwest and RBS suffer outages on Black Friday (04:37)
• Goldman taps the brakes on Marcus expansion in the UK (10:55)
• Zopa secures last-minute licence renewal (15:45)
• First Direct tops the charts twice in a week (24:26)
• Apple Pay speeds up payments on the tube (35:20)
• Monzo announce their US CEO (40:40)
• Roger Federer coins make a mint (46:30)

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