Interview

August 19, 2019

"Look to the past for the future" — Bookclub with David Brear

Reading suggestions from fintech CEO David Brear on scaling a business, company culture and the lesson learned from a little red hen.


Chris Sisserian

4 min read

Unless you’re one of the small but growing number of fintech obsessives that hold an opinion on the relative merits of Monzo vs N26, it’s unlikely you will have heard of 11:FS. However if you have it’s because 11:FS is an active player behind the scenes of the fintech ecosystem, advising a number of well-known banks and in some instances, building new ones from scratch. 

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Revolut play Monzo in the Fintech League. Credit: Joshua Fernandes, @jjferns7.
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