Bonus: Top 25 startups in the UK!

About this episode: For years, banking has been framed as a battlefield: incumbents defending their turf while fintech challengers attack with better tech and customer experience. But in 2026, that picture may have changed. Ross Gallagher and David M. Brear (11:FS) are joined by ...  Show more

About this episode: Host Laura Watkins (Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS) is joined by a brilliant panel to unpack these topics before diving into some of the biggest fintech stories of the week. Sunday 8th March marked International Women’s Day, celebrating the social, p ...  Show more

Worlds collide today as the two gold-standards of fintech content come together on the Wharton Fintech Podcast. Ryan Zauk sits down with Simon Taylor, Co-Founder and Head of Ventures at 11:FS, a challenger consultancy and emerging fintech empire. They help the world’s top founder ...  Show more

In the final episode of season four of the What the FinTech? podcast, FinTech Futures editor Paul Hindle is joined by writer, podcaster and banking technology veteran Dharmesh Mistry to take a look back at some of the biggest trends to come out of 2023 and discuss what the new ye ...  Show more

Tom Blomfield is a Group Partner at YC. Before YC, Tom founded two unicorns in the UK. He was co-founder of Monzo (most recently valued at $5BN), one of the first challenger banks in the UK. Monzo raised more than £1bn and counts 15% of the UK popu ...

Hannah Ritchie is the influential data scientist and researcher whose new book adds a rare glimpse of optimism to the conversation surrounding the future health of the climate. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet asks us to l ...  Show more