548. News: Get funding and build more!

Our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Adam Davis, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Carlo Gualandri, Founder and CEO at Soldo Kate Drew, Director of Research at CCG Catalyst Consulting We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Revolut raises $800 million to become UK's most valuable fintech 5:20 Soldo raises $180M for its business expense platform 17:51 Square launches small business banking 32:10 IPO roundup: Robinhood is seeking a market valuation as high as $35 billion from their upcoming IPO and Paytm look to IPO in India with a raise of $2.2bn 42:55 Yapily raises $51M for its open banking API 52:59 Serena Williams invests in credit building startup Esusu 55:16 Treasury Prime announce Customizable Card Controls to Increase Transactions While Reducing Fraud 57:10 FCA loses £300k worth of electronic devices, this news arises a year after it issued a warning to businesses to ‘be responsible when handling client data’ 59:26 This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are twice better than the industry average. Learn more at Temenos.com. (https://go.temenos.com/11fs) This episode is sponsored by Blueshift. Customers expect more from their digital experience and their personal finance is no exception. Blueshift empowers fintech and financial institutions to create secure customer profiles and intentional, relevant experiences for customers. Whether in app, on site, in branch, or anywhere else, Blueshift’s SmartHub CDP helps brands like Lending Tree and ClearScore turn data into personalized experiences that increase retention, satisfaction, and revenue. Learn more about the Blueshift at blueshift.com (blueshift.com/11fs). 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 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 into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, 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: Carlo Gualandri and Kate Drew.