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Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Sarah Kocianski, 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:

• Gabriel le Roux, Co-founder of Primer.io
• Joakim Sjöblom, Co-founder and CEO of Minna Technologies

Soundbites:

• Oliver Prill, CEO Tide

We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space:

• Visa to buy Swedish fintech Tink for $2.2 billion 3:51
• Nordic mobile wallets Vipps, MobilePay and Pivo to merge 15:20
• Tide prepares to enter India with a 5 year strategy 27:04
• Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK 41:45
• Mastercard and Ant back effort to get a billion people to take green action 49:52
• Killer Mike's bank has to postpone its launch again to catch up to high customer demand 51:33
• SoftBank shrinks robotics business, stops Pepper production 53:10
• Fed official warns CBDCs could be an “embarrassing fad”and compares them to MC Hammer’s trousers 54:32

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Special Guests: Gabriel le Roux, Joakim Sjöblom, and Oliver Prill.

Links:

• Visa to buy Swedish fintech Tink for $2.2 billion
• Nordic mobile wallets Vipps, MobilePay and Pivo to merge
• Tide prepares to enter India with a 5 year strategy
• Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK
• Mastercard and Ant back effort to get a billion people to take green action
• Killer Mike's bank has to postpone its launch again to catch up to high customer demand
• SoftBank shrinks robotics business, stops Pepper production
• Fed official warns CBDCs could be an “embarrassing fad”and compares them to MC Hammer’s trousers

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