582. News: Amazon feuds with Visa while Zilch crowned Europe's fastest unicorn

Our expert hosts, Simon Taylor and Benjamin Ensor, 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: Emily Nicolle, Fintech Correspondent, Financial News Clare McKeeve, CEO, Talenthouse With soundclips from: Philip Belamant, CEO & Founder, Zilch Omar Kassim, CEO & Founder, Nomod We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK - 4:10 Zilch becomes Europe’s fastest ever unicorn with $2bn valuation (soundclip from Philip Belamant, CEO & Founder, Zilch) - 15:45 Talenthouse, Vodeno, and Aion Bank partner to bring embedded banking services to creatives across Europe - 28:12 Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants to accept payments without hardware (soundclip from Omar Kassim, CEO & Founder, Nomod) - 37:07 Starling snaps up £1BN mortgage book as it seeks to float next year - 45:25 N26 pulls back from the US - 46:54 CMA pushes ‘variable recurring payment’ deadline back by six months - 49:02 Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs - 51:12 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. This episode is sponsored by Primer. Primer is the world's first automation platform for payments. With Primer, merchants and developers have all the underlying infrastructure and "lego blocks" they need to build the best buying experiences for their customers. Learn more and book a demo at primer.io (https://primer.io/?utm_source=11fs&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fintech_insider_) This episode is sponsored by SAS. SAS help their customers make banking simple, safe and rewarding for everyone. They support banks in their goal to treat every customer as an individual. Combining data from across the bank with external information and real-time context delivers unique insight and a deep understanding of customer needs. By applying this insight at the right time via the right channel, SAS help make every customer engagement with the bank a relevant, valuable, and seamless experience. SAS enables banks to embed real-time intelligence in every interaction, helping them make smarter, faster decisions that transform customer experience. To find out more, visit. https://www.sas.com 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 and Jason Bates, who are 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 [email protected]!Special Guests: Clare McKeeve and Emily Nicolle.Links:Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK Zilch becomes Europe’s fastest ever unicorn with $2bn valuationTalenthouse, Vodeno, and Aion Bank partner to bring embedded banking services to creatives across Europe Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants to accept payments without hardwareStarling snaps up £1BN mortgage book as it seeks to float next year N26 pulls back from the US CMA pushes ‘variable recurring payment’ deadline back by six monthsMiramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs