Fintech Insider Episode 271: News – LIVE From Money 20/20 Europe

In this episode

We bring you our first ever live podcast, recorded in front of a live audience at Money20/20 Europe, Copenhagen.

With all four of our regular hosts, David Brear, Jason Bates, Simon Taylor and Chris Skinner, plus six fantastic guests from the world of fintech and banking (and previous podcasts), they discuss the latest news and stories with additional audience interaction, including:

Goldman Sachs’ lending business hitting its first $1bn mark, is this a good thing or is it old news?, the pros and cons of card use and card readers vs smartphone points of sale – as pioneered by Jack Dorsey’s Square; and the merits of Will.i.am as an advisor to Atom Bank and personification of their market sector, which opens up discussion of who other banks would be if they were a pop star.

We also hear Starling’s own Megan Cawood on their European expansion and Simon and Ajit lead the audience into a cryptocurrency Q&A explaining the Ethereum “flash crash” and what this means for Ethereum’s future, and cryptocurrency in general, and they attempt to address the same old question: is it a bubble, should I hold or sell?

Guests

• Ali Patterson – Editor in Chief, FinTech Finance
• Leda Glyptis – Chief Innovation Officer, Qatar National Bank
• Meaghan Johnson – Co-founder and Director of Research at 11:FS
• Jamie Campbell – Head of Awareness at Bud
• Ajit Tripathi – Director, Fintech and Digital Banking, PWC
• Megan Caywood – Chief Platform Officer, Starling Bank