Simon Taylor
Co-Host of FinTech Insider by 11:FS
Simon is Co-Founder and Blockchain Lead at 11:FS.
Previously at Barclays, he established the bank as one of the leaders in blockchain thought and action. Simon also serves as an advisor to central banks and governments, in addition to consulting the top 20 banks on blockchain. He's helped a variety of startups flourish through the Barclays Accelerator.
Simon Taylor has hosted 77 episodes.
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Ep. 255. News: Really great at charts
September 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 13 mins
community, digital, digitisation, fidor, finance, fintech, luxembourg, monzo, new york, news, occ, sexism, starling, usa
On this week's episode, David, Sam and Simon are sit down with Ahmed Zaidi and Kathryn Harris to discuss the latest and greatest news in fintech.
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Ep. 249. News: Hook them with a great service
September 3rd, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
a16z, challenger bank, digital, fintech, marcus, news, paytm, starling, tez, warren buffett
On this week's news show Sarah and Simon are joined by our guests: Alexa Fernandez and Ryan Edwards-Pritchard to talk about the latest and greatest fintech news stories this week. We also have a great bit of insight from Doug Bobenhouse on US credit card debt.
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Ep. 247. News: Who should we trust?
August 27th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
amazon, ceos, fca, finance, financial times, fintech, fluidly, loqbox, marketinvoice, news, tsb
In this week's episode, Simon, David and Sarah are joined by a trio of fintech CEOs to discuss the week's news. We have Caroline Plumb, CEO of Fluidly, Anil Stocker, CEO of MarketInvoice and Tom Eyre, CEO of Loqbox, and special reports from Dominic Lindley and Oliver Ralph.
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Ep. 245. News: Everybody's suing everybody
August 20th, 2018 | 1 hr 14 mins
china, fca, finance, fintech, fintech charter, hong kong, news, occ, payments, playboy, scb, xinja
On this week's news show Sarah, Simon, and David are joined by our guests: Lesley-Ann Vaughan, Andrew Nelson, and Emily Nicolle to talk about the latest and greatest fintech news stories this week.
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Ep. 239. Fintech Insider: After Dark VI - London and Atlanta
July 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 17 mins
after dark, atlanta, fintech, news
We have an incredible star-studded episode for you, with the release of After Dark VI, and of course a run down of the most interesting news in the space. Hosted in two cities, recorded 6 hours apart, and with a great deal of digital magic London brings you David M. Brear, Simon Taylor, and Sarah Kocianski are joined by: Marieke Flament, Simon Vans-Colina, and Daniel Hegarty. Next up from Atlanta, Sam Maule and Doug Bobenhouse are joined by three pairs of guests: Rob Frohwein and Shannon Johnson; Kathryn Petralia and Andrew Morris; rounding out the show we had Howard Bush and Ginger Schmeltzer.
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Ep. 235. News: Death is [still] no excuse!
July 16th, 2018 | 55 mins 56 secs
ai, cashless, faster payments, fintech, google pay, news, nordnet, space, tsb
On this week's news show, Sarah and Simon are joined by a great lineup of guests including: Bryan Glick, Nina Mohanty, and James Safford to discuss the latest and greatest news in the fintech space.
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Ep. 234. Insights: Legacy to Cloud
July 13th, 2018 | 20 mins 7 secs
ai, cobol, core, cowboys, fintech, legacy, microsoft
Today's show charts out the banking journey from legacy to cloud. Simon Taylor explores how old programming languages have created a new kind of cowboy, untangling legacy systems, and how banks should approach the powers of AI - which isn't quite the magical word everyone hopes it is.
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Ep. 231. News: Death is no excuse
July 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
challenger, fintech, monzo, news, transferwise
Simon is our lone host on the show today. But he's joined by our four fantastic guests: Freddy Kelly, CEO of Credit Kudos, Veronique Barbosa, Co-founder and COO of FLUX, Tanya Andreasyan, Editor at Banking Technology, and Philip Clarke Founder of Hunch.
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Ep. 229. News: I wanna make Akoin right now now now
June 25th, 2018 | 52 mins 25 secs
cybg, digital bank, fintech, monzo web, news, outage, pensionbee, priviti, starling
Simon and David are hosting this week's episode of fintech news. Today they're joined by our fantastic guests: Romi Savova, CEO of PensionBee, Megan Caywood, Chief Platform Officer at Starling, and Dave Cunningham, CEO at Priviti Group.
There's also an informative interview with Francisco Carvalho Araújo, Product Manager at Monzo.
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Ep. 228. 11:FS Presents One Fintech Nation - The UK as a Fintech Hotspot
June 22nd, 2018 | 29 mins 25 secs
11fs, fintech, fintech bridges, technation, yolt
In this episode Simon Taylor takes a look at what makes the UK a fintech hotspot. In association with Tech Nation we examine what's going on in fintech across the country that makes it so attractive to set up here.
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Ep. 226. 11:FS Presents One Fintech Nation - Bursting the London Fintech Bubble
June 15th, 2018 | 38 mins 10 secs
In this episode Simon Taylor takes a look at fintech beyond the London bubble. In association with Tech Nation we examine what's going on in fintech across the country.
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Ep. 225. News: Live at Money 20/20 Europe
June 11th, 2018 | 49 mins 24 secs
binance, blockchain, fintech, maersk, money2020, news, starling, visa
Live from the Arena stage at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, hosts David M. Brear, Simon Taylor, and Sam Maule are joined by Leda Glyptis, CIO at Qatar National Bank, Rob Frohwein, CEO of Kabbage, Sara Feenan, Business Development Manager at Clearmatics, Jeff Tijssen at 11:FS, Anna Irrera, Fintech Correspondent at Reuters and Peter Hazou, Director of Business Development at Microsoft.
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Ep. 221. Fintech Insider: Live at TCF2018
May 29th, 2018 | 39 mins 48 secs
digital banking, digital products, digital services, emojis, fintech, tcf2018, temenos, truly digital banking, truly digital services
David, Simon and Sarah lead a bevvy of insightful guests through a jam-packed, fast paced live show from Temenos' TCF2018 event in Dublin.
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Ep. 213. Interviews: Jeff Nicholson & Patrick Givens, VaynerMedia
May 9th, 2018 | 42 mins 16 secs
audio, brand impact, fintech, internet of things, interview, iot, marketing, vayner, vaynermedia
David and Simon sat down with Jeff Nicholson and Patrick Givens to talk about the uniqueness of VaynerMedia.
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Ep. 211. Interview: Suresh Vaghjiani, MD Global Processing Services
May 4th, 2018 | 25 mins 51 secs
cards, finance, fintech, gps, outages, payment
Simon sits down with Suresh Vaghjiani, Managing Director of Global Processing Services to discuss how many fintechs are using their services, how they choose who to partner with and those card outages that happened at the end of 2017.
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Ep. 210. News: Underserved and Overcharged
April 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
amazon, contactless, crypto, cryptocurrency, fintech, funding, global, news, revolut, unicorn
In this week's news episode, Simon Taylor and Ross Gallagher are joined by guests Carrie Osman from Cruxy, Ali Paterson from Fintech Finance, Amelie Arras from Adastra Marketing, and Veronique Constans from 11:FS.