Fintech Insider By 11:fs

In this episode We’re very excited about the launch of Clear Bank, the first clearing bank to be authorized in the UK for nearly 250 years. There’s been a lot of business model innovation at the front end – we’ve seen apps doing more convenient FX, more convenient remittance, we’ve even seen peer-to-peer payments, but nobody’s really attacked the rails. “This is where I’m super excited to see FinTech go. This is a proper, proper geek moment,” says guest Sarah Kocianski, Senior Research Analyst, FinTech, at Business Insider Intelligence. “There has been a lot of interesting stuff on personal finance management, consumer banks – that’s happened already – but for any kind of change to happen in the wider financial services ecosystem, those back ends have got to be updated. They’ve got to be upgraded. They’ve got to be using Cloud and API. That’s why this story really, really excites me. Because I think now we’ve got that key piece of the infrastructure. We can start to see movement. They’re not just looking