Sophie Winwood

763. News: Buy Now Pay Later regulation shelved while Coutts faces Farage account fallout

July 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 55 secs

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Buy Now Pay Later regulation shelved in UK, Thunes pockets $72M, and Farage accuses Coutts of closing account over ‘values’ – Ross Gallagher and Nas Ahmad are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days.

740. News: Smart raises $95 million while Robinhood sparks all-night trading fears

May 22nd, 2023  |  58 mins 59 secs

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Smart raises $95 million to take on the pension market, Robinhood launches 24-hour trading, and former UK Chancellor to chair Italian investment firm – Benjamin Ensor and Kate Moody are joined by some great guests, from Anthemis and Smart, to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days.

680. News: Apple and PayPal call a truce – but who wins?

November 14th, 2022  |  58 mins 28 secs

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Kate Moody and Benjamin Ensor are joined by some great guests to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: PayPal and Apple call a truce, Stripe and others make tough layoffs, and Glastonbury festival ticket issues. All this and more on today's show!

632. News: Klarna announces big layoffs while Chase bags UK customers

May 30th, 2022  |  57 mins 48 secs

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Benjamin Ensor and Sim Rai are joined by some great guests, from Tranch and Anthemis, to talk about the most interesting stories in financial services over the last 7 days, including: Klarna lays off 10% of its workforce via video message, Chase marks 500,000 UK customers, and our panel answers your questions!

586. News: Has the Financial Conduct Authority freed up Open Banking?

December 6th, 2021  |  58 mins 46 secs

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Benjamin Ensor and Nasir Ahmad are joined by some great guests from Allica Bank and Anthemis to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Small business lender Allica raises £110m, FCA boosts Open Banking by removing 3-month re-authentication requirement, and Mr Goxx, the crypto-trading hamster, goes to the great wheel in the sky. All of this and much much more on today's episode!

554. News: It's still a great time to be a fintech investor!

August 16th, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Adam Davis and David Brear are joined by some great guests from Feedzai, Octopus Ventures and Anthemis to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: global fintech investment hits $98BILLION in H1, Feedzai acquires world's most advanced biometric platform, to create the world’s largest financial intelligence network, and, would you stay on hold to HSBC for SEVEN hours? Tune in to find out more!

525. Insights: Is insurtech the new fintech?

May 7th, 2021  |  52 mins 51 secs

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

David Brear and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about insurtechs and fintechs, what the two industries can learn from each other, how they can work together and where insurtech is going.

Ep. 275. News: Ritual Humiliation

December 3rd, 2018  |  59 mins 39 secs

africa, barclays, bibimoney, bpay, costa, diversity, finance, fintech, monzo, mybucks, revolut, swift

On this week's episode, Sarah and Simon sit down with Emily Nicolle, Valentina Kristensen and Sophie Winwood to discuss the latest and greatest news in fintech.

Ep. 201 Insights Live: Breaking into Fintech

April 11th, 2018  |  39 mins 59 secs

cass, cass business school, conference, disruption, finance, fintech, jobs

We’re live at Cass Business School Finance Conference with a panel of movers and shakers in the fintech world. Our host Ross Gallagher is joined by a panel well versed in how to break into and excel in the fintech space. What skills you need, when you need to apply them and what the next generation of fintech talent needs to know.

Ep. 195. Interviews, IFGS 2018: Alipay, Onfido, InvestHK and More

March 28th, 2018  |  51 mins 29 secs

This show’s slightly different from normal. We recently attended the Innovate Finance Global Summit and had the pleasure of interviewing a veritable host of fintech movers and shakers which we have condensed into one easy listening podcast. It’s your fintech multivitamin for the day.

Ep. 175. News: The War For Talent

January 29th, 2018  |  59 mins 26 secs

banking, bitcoin, david brear, finance, fintech, jason bates, open banking, patrick lane, simon taylor, sophie winwood

Simon Taylor, David M. Brear and Jason Bates are joined by The Economist banking editor Patrick Lane & Innovate Finance's very own Sophie Winwood to discuss the war for talent between the Fintech and Banking worlds.

Ep. 154. News: Winefield

November 20th, 2017  |  49 mins 19 secs

This week very special friend of the show Sarah Kocianski is in the hosting seat as neither David, Jason and Simon were available this week. She is joined by guests including Anna Bennett, Nina Mohanty, Liz Lumley and Sophie Winwood.