In this episode
David, Jason and Simon jump into the news accompanied by Richard Davies. This week borderless bank accounts, can your voice be secure and we make Simon talk Apple pay.
We also have interviews from Transferwise, Seedrs and Pensionbee to cover their big announcements this week.
Guests

Richard Davies Global Head of Propositions at HSBC
Joe Cross General Manager at Transferwise
Jeff Lynn CEO at Seedrs
Romina Savova CEO at Pensionbee

News this week

Techcrunch – TransferWise launches ‘Borderless’ account for businesses, sole traders and freelancers – Link
BBC fools HSBC voice recognition security system – Link
Apple Pay now supports higher value transactions at most UK contactless tills – Link
American Banker – If banks wait for APIs to be mandated, it will be too late – Link
British firm Seedrs plans a secondary market for crowd-funded shares – Link
afr.com – How Pocketbook went from a Sydney spreadsheet to a fintech with 300,000 users – Link
PensionsBee partners with Revolut
Crypto craziness! A story on it all going off!
Reuters – BofA, HSBC, Intel, others invest $107 mln in blockchain startup R3 – Link

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