Sarah Kocianski

315. News: Tech for Tech’s Sake

April 22nd, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins

Sarah and Simon are joined by Freddy Kelly, Ben Gleisner and Simon Vans-Colina to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: US lenders prepare for a recession; Halifax gets slammed for looking a little too like Monzo and Starling in their rebrand and Facebook call time on UK P2P payments.

314. Insights: Strong Customer Authentication

April 19th, 2019  |  35 mins 50 secs

2fa, ecosystem, fraud, payments, sca

Sarah sits down with an amazing roundtable of guests to dig into Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and what it means for the payments space and the financial ecosystem.

305. News: Graceful degradation

March 18th, 2019  |  1 hr 1 min

biometrics, cashless, fintech

Sarah and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: RBS trials fingerprint credit cards, Visa told to hire PwC to help with outages and fintechs won big against incumbents at the British Bank Awards…and so did we!

303. News: Magic beans

March 11th, 2019  |  1 hr 1 min

ai, equality, fintech, international womens day

Sarah and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: The Revolut revelations rumble on, AI is a non-starter for 40% of startups and Grab gobbles $1.4 billion investment to build a super app.

302. Insights: Women in financial services

March 8th, 2019  |  53 mins 57 secs

feminism, finance, fintech, international women's day, women

It's International Women's Day and we have a show packed full of content and views from some great women working in financial services today.

301. News: Not cashless but less cash

March 4th, 2019  |  1 hr 7 mins

big four, fintech, funds, technology

David and Sarah are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: We take a look at the fallout of the RBS Remedies fund pool A results, Goldman Sachs takes a bite out of the credit card market by teaming up with Apple and Lithuania reveals its' Top Gear-inspired strategy to become a fintech hub

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.

295. News: The Revolut will be advertised

February 11th, 2019  |  59 mins 49 secs

David and Simon are joined by Iona Bain, Mel Palmer, Viktor Nebehaj and Saumeel Pachigar to chat through the biggest stories of the last 7 days. Including: Revolut’s Valentine’s day ad scandal, the banking backlash Down Under and BB&T's super merger and much much more.

294. Insights: Money and Mental Health

February 8th, 2019  |  38 mins 47 secs

fintech, mental health, money management, time to talk

Sarah Kocianski's joined by some of the people involved in the heart of Money and Mental Health awareness, education and support. They are looking for solutions to the very real problems that the subject of money can cause when it comes to people’s mental health.

293. News: Ain't nothing but a GFIN

February 4th, 2019  |  1 hr 11 mins

banking, fintech, innovation, venture capital

Today we bring you: China’s app map allows you to dob in deadbeat debtors, Lloyds’ bring back 100% mortgages and HSBC’s new sound identity.

291. News: My relationship is contactless

January 28th, 2019  |  1 hr 11 mins

australia, digital banking, fintech, licence

Today we bring you: Snoop Dogg investing in Klarna, Square launches a debit card for business and digging deep into the Aussie banking scene.

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. 278. Fintech Insider: Live - Payments (F)innovation

December 14th, 2018  |  48 mins 52 secs

cash, cashless, fintech, fintech insider live, klarna, meniga, op, payments, scandinavia, slush

David and Sarah bring you this special edition of Fintech Insider Live, recorded live at OP's Slush After Party at Pasilan Veturitallit, Helsinki. We have some of the best guests in the space and plenty of bad puns to keep you entertained.

Ep. 276. Insights. Regtech: where innovation meets compliance

December 7th, 2018  |  53 mins 41 secs

compliance, fintech, insights, regtech, regulation, regulators

Sarah's hosting a great roundtable with some of the best experts on regtech to find out what matters most in the space and how technology is changing regulation.