Ross Gallagher

451. News: Varo Money gets their charter & Google Pay's new banking partners

August 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 7 mins

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Ross Gallagher and Simon Taylor are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Varo Money get their full national charter; Google teams up with 8 US banks to offer digital bank accounts by 2021 and Wirecard processed payments for the mafia.

447. News: Can finance ever be fully democratised?

July 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 6 mins

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Simon Taylor and Ross Gallagher are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Robinhood abandons its UK launch amid criticism of their platform; Klarna reins in their lockdown lending and Monzo re-launch their Plus product.

435. News: Is now a good time to launch a challenger bank?

June 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 4 mins

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Sarah Kocianski and Ross Gallagher are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Vivid Money launches digital banking services in Germany; the pandemic savings surge forces Goldman to shut Marcus to new UK clients; and Islamic finance startup Wahed closes $25M funding round to grow their Saudi Arabia hub.

409. News: Banks react as coronavirus impacts global financial markets

March 16th, 2020  |  58 mins 24 secs

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Ross Gallagher and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: RBS preps for coronavirus impacts, Standard Chartered detail virtual bank, and Starling joins Team GB!

407. News: Robinhood’s major outage; BCR backlash builds

March 9th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

11:fs, banking news, financial services, fintech

Ross Gallagher and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting fintech stories of the last 7 days, including: Dow goes up whilst Robinhood goes down, Banking Competition Remedies face backlash and a story about one very generous payments CEO!

398. Insights: Will Brexit break UK fintech?

February 7th, 2020  |  39 mins 27 secs

11:fs, banking news, brexit, financial services, fintech

David Brear and Ross Gallagher are joined by some great guests to discuss what Brexit and our departure from the European Union will mean for UK fintech. Guests on today's show are Emily Nicolle, Technology Editor at City AM and James Hurley, Enterprise Editor at The Times.

397. News: Is N26 challenging the US banks?

February 3rd, 2020  |  50 mins 26 secs

11:fs, banking news, challenger banks, financial services, fintech

Ross Gallagher and Adam Davis are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: N26 hits a quarter of a million US customers, FCA responds to banks’ new overdraft rates, and New York City to ban cashless businesses.

316. Insights: Customer infantstructure

April 26th, 2019  |  58 mins 40 secs

finance, financial education, fintech, pocket money

Ross and Adam are joined by some great guests to talk about financial literacy in children, and the brewing world of innovation in pocket money apps.

311. News: Make tax great again

April 8th, 2019  |  49 mins 58 secs

charity, digital, fintech, tax

David and Ross are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: Revolut keeps on spinning, Xero is making tax great again, and UK MPs are 'very likely' to launch probe into RBS remedies fund allocation.

300. Insights: This. Is. Fintech.

March 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 13 mins

It's our 300th episode! That calls for something a little bit special so we have a roundtable of our hosts plus the person who's the reason Fintech Insider exists.

296. After Dark: Digital Love

February 15th, 2019  |  1 hr 9 mins

after dark, couples, digital love, fintech, valentine

We have an incredible After Dark episode for you. It's the first we've done in a while and sets the tone for what we believe will be the key aspects of fintech in 2019. Partnerships and digital love between banks and fintechs, two (or more!) companies coming together and working together to make each other stronger.

289. News: Meaningful Merging

January 21st, 2019  |  1 hr 9 mins

banking, fintech, mergers, usa

Today we bring you: Fiserv acquires First Data in a $22bn deal, The Fed has Reservations about Fintech and finally, Greggs vegan sausage roll helps its stock rocket on Freetrade.

All this and much much more on today’s show

Ep. 282. Insights: Our Fintech Predictions 2019

December 28th, 2018  |  52 mins 15 secs

2019, banking, challenger, consolidation, finance, fintech, predictions

On this week's episode, we're doing something a bit different. We're predicting all the things that'll definitely maybe happen in fintech in 2019.

Ep. 281. Insights: 2018 in Review

December 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 13 mins

banking, finance, fintech, funny, industry, news, review, strange

On today's very special show, we’re going to be taking a look back at the best things to happen in fintech in 2018. Simon's hosting today and he's joined by David, Jason and Ross G.

Ep. 261. News: Reinventing retail

October 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 5 mins

amazon, brexit, finance, fintech, funding circle, gambling, google, ireland, klarna, sila, simple bank, starling, visa

On this week's episode, Simon and Ross sit down with Bill Gajda and Sian Lewin to discuss the latest and greatest news in fintech.

Ep. 259. News: We are the news

October 8th, 2018  |  1 hr 12 mins

ai, bbva, burger king, danske bank, data, facebook, finance, fintech, money saving expert, rbs, shiru cafe, ubs

On this week's episode, Simon and Ross sit down with Nina Mohanty, Lianna Brinded and Lesley-Ann Vaughan to discuss the latest and greatest news in fintech.