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EXCLUSIVE: “Stable & Secure?” – Simone Loefgen, Commerzbank in ‘Discover Sibos 2025’ CBI Drives Verification of Payee Compliance in Italy Lastro Secures $15M Series A Led by Prosus Ventures to Scale its AI Agent, Empowering Over 2M Homebuyers Evertec Announces Closing of Controlling Stake in Tecnobank, Expanding Product Offering in Brazil EXCLUSIVE: “Scaling Safely – Without Debanking” – Imam Saygili, Flagright in ‘The Fintech Magazine’ APIs Driving Embedded Finance Innovation FinScan’s AML Software Solutions Integrate with LSEG World-Check On Demand Sixfold Launches Referral Agent: Turning AI Insights Into Instant Underwriting Action MoneyGram and Plaid Expand Open Banking Partnership to Europe Nium and Emirates NBD Expand Real-Time Cross-Border Payments Across the Middle East Mesh Announces Mesh AI Wallet At TOKEN2049 DailyPay Names Veteran Executive Nelson Chai as CEO iDenfy Strengthens Its Compliance Toolkit With the New Criminal Background Check Solution payabl. Joins the European Payments Initiative To Expand Wero Access for Merchants and PSPs Plumery Expands Digital Banking Experience Platform Into Canada

December 10 2019

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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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Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates, Leda Glyptis and Sarah Kocianski and joined by a range of brilliant guests, we cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive in subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking.

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  1. EXCLUSIVE: “Stable & Secure?” – Simone Loefgen, Commerzbank in ‘Discover Sibos 2025’

    Discover Sibos 2025

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  2. CBI Drives Verification of Payee Compliance in Italy

    Fintech TV

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  3. Lastro Secures $15M Series A Led by Prosus Ventures to Scale its AI Agent, Empowering Over 2M Homebuyers

    Funding

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  4. Evertec Announces Closing of Controlling Stake in Tecnobank, Expanding Product Offering in Brazil

    Fintech

     Read more
  5. EXCLUSIVE: “Scaling Safely – Without Debanking” – Imam Saygili, Flagright in ‘The Fintech Magazine’

    The Fintech Magazine

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