374. Insights: The importance of cashflow for SMEs - Live at Xerocon

On this week's combined news and insights show, David Brear hosts a live panel at Xerocon London 2019! On the first part of the show, David is joined by a couple of special guests to discuss some of the announcements that were made at Xerocon: Xero Pay partners with Transferwise for bill and reconciliation payments (03:32) * Craig Walker - Co-founder and Executive GM of Payments & Billing Solutions at Xero * Nilan Peiris - Vice President of Growth at TransferWise Iwoca and Xero working together to improve SME lending solutions (08: 52) * Ben Johnson - Payments & Lending Partnerships Lead at Xero * Lara Gilman - Chief Product Officer at iwoca Later in the show, things get heated at the F'in Debate where 4 teams go head-to-head to debate which is the most valuable or impactful aspect of cashflow to SMEs! (15:13) Divided into their debate teams, our special guests include: Team Spending: * Carlo Gualandri - CEO of Soldo * Frankie Kay - Director of Farnell Clarke Team Payments: * Pranav Sood - Vice President & General Manager of International Expansion at GoCardless * Jonathan Bareham - Director and co-founder of Raedan Team Lending: * Anil Stocker - CEO of MarketInvoice * Lauren Harvey - Founding Director of Full Stop Team Forecasting: * Hannah Dawson - CEO and Founder of FUTRLI * Nikki Adams - Director of Ad Valorem Check out our brand new documentary 11:YEARS - the Rise of UK Fintech now. Head over to 11years.film to watch for free, and share using #11YEARS. Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates, Leda Glyptis and Sarah Kocianski and joined by a range of brilliant guests, we cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive in subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Anil Stocker, Ben Johnson , Carlo Gualandri, Craig Walker, Frankie Kay, Hannah Dawson, Jonathan Bareham, Lara Gilman , Lauren Harvey, Nikki Adams, Nilan Peiris , and Pranav Sood.