1062. News: Targeted support lands, FIS and Anthropic team up to reshape banking, and Monzo expands to Spain

About this episode

The episode discusses recent developments in financial services, including AI partnerships and market expansions.

About this episode: Host Benjamin Ensor - Director of Research and Strategy at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week. This week's guests: Rosie Lee - Senior Customer Strategist at 11:FS John Reynolds - Fintech reporter at Tech.eu Oban MacTavish - Co-Founder and CEO at Spade Stories/timestamps: Intro - (00:01) UK introduces ‘targeted support’ rules to expand access to financial guidance (03:13) FIS and Anthrophic signal a new era of AI infrastructure in banking (16:13) Monzo to launch in Spain, as ramps up EU expansion plans (28:16) American Express Global Business Travel to be acquired in $6.3bn deal (39:42)Brazil bans prediction markets and blocks 27 platforms (50:28) Airwallex launches biggest ever ad campaign with Arsenal FC, directed by Spike Lee (52:39) Links to check out: Subscribe to Bitesized (our weekly fintech newsletter):⁠⁠⁠https://11fs.com/emails⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp community, where you can get the inside track on all all things 11:FS, as well as having your say on the things we should be paying attention to…

People in this episode

Host: Benjamin Ensor

Guests: Rosie Lee, John Reynolds, Oban MacTavish

Topics covered

• financial services
• AI in banking
• EU expansion
• financial guidance
• mergers and acquisitions
• advertising campaigns

Keywords

• fintech
• banking
• AI infrastructure
• Monzo
• financial guidance
• advertising
• mergers
• Brazil
• targeted support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 11:FS, Tech.eu, Spade, American Express Global Business Travel, Airwallex, Arsenal FC, Anthropic, FIS

Places: UK, Spain, Brazil

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