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 120 Episodes.
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331. News: With great data comes great responsibility.
June 17th, 2019 | 54 mins 1 sec
banking, fintech, foundry, investment, regulators
Simon Taylor and Brandon Chung are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: The FCA’s major overhaul of overdrafts, The finale for Finn and Banking and Big Macs in Russia.
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327. News: Boom Time
June 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
acquisition, challenger, complaints, fintech, incumbents, regulations
David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories from the last 7 days. Including: Global Payments buy TSYS, NatWest apologises for patronising women, by patronising women, and are Revolut the most complained about fintech?
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Ep 326. Fintech Insider Live at FusionONE - a new era of finance
May 31st, 2019 | 43 mins 3 secs
ai, fintech, fusionone, live, regulators, technologies
We are coming to you live from FusionONE! In this live episode, Simon and Sarah are joined by some great guests to talk about the new era of finance being shaped by open platforms, emerging technologies, and the rise of the talent in the developer community.
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324. Insights: BlackRock WealthTech19
May 24th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
ai, ar, blackrock, blockchain, fintech, health, vr, wealthtech
Simon is at Blackrock's WealthTech19 summit at Code Node in London, where he is surrounded by a wealth(!) of knowledge and experience!
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321. News: Everything takes money
May 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
cashless, fintech, mortgage, regulators
David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: OakNorth branch out into mortgages, RBS getting into payments...10 years after leaving and Singapore might follow in HK’s virtual footsteps.
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320. Interviews: Anthony Thomson, Founder of 86 400
May 10th, 2019 | 32 mins 29 secs
australia, challenger, fintech, regulations
Founder of 86 400, Atom Bank and Metro Bank, Anthony Thomson came on to the Fintech Insider podcast to talk with Simon Taylor about the catalyst for creating challenger banks, the problems he's solving and the financial services gaps in Australia.
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319. News: I'm sorry, banks
May 6th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
fintech, news, open banking, wearable
David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including, central banks join the Extinction revolution, Amazon takes on India and how to make your own wearables.
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317. News: Nettles and dock leaves
April 29th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
fintech, france, gold, payments
David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including Paris tries to come for London’s fintech crown, Robin hood applies for a banking charter as T-Mobile tries to get back into banking and Germans hold more gold than Fort Knox.
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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.
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310. Insights: Finastra takeover
April 5th, 2019 | 47 mins 26 secs
David and Simon are joined by Finastra for a takeover show. At their offices in London Paddington, we're with some of the top tier of Finastra's team to bring you insight into the mega-vendor. Including what that term means to them.
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306. Interviews: Benoit Legrand, CIO of ING
March 22nd, 2019 | 27 mins 48 secs
fintech, open banking, partnerships, psd2
CIO of ING, Benoit Legrand came on to the Fintech Insider podcast to talk with Simon Taylor about unsuccessful startup experiences, innovation from the outside in and much more.
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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!
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304. Interviews: David Duffy, CEO of CYBG
March 15th, 2019 | 43 mins 45 secs
acquisition, brexit, fintech, incumbent banks, integration
CEO of CYBG, David Duffy came on to the Fintech Insider podcast to talk with Simon Taylor about banking in the age of fintech and challenging the challenger narrative.
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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.
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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.
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299. News: Buzzwords for everyone
February 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
fintech, rbs fund, smb banking
David and Simon are joined by Tom Blomfield and Romi Savova to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: Britain's banks predicted to reveal the biggest profits since the financial crisis, the latest announcements from the RBS Remedies fund and Santander pays IBM $700M to help them transform.