FinTech's future with Starling Bank's Jason Maude

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"We know that serving customers is the important thing, it's why we're here, it's constantly the focus of what we do"

Jason Maude, Chief Technology Advocate at Starling Bank, joins Debbie Forster MBE on the XTech podcast to explore the customer focus that has allowed Starling Bank to "make banking better".

Jason discusses the concept of accountability and explainability in the world of tech and tells us the next big challenges in FinTech.

28 episodes

FinTech's future with Starling Bank's Jason Maude

XTech

published 2 years ago

MP3•Episode home

"We know that serving customers is the important thing, it's why we're here, it's constantly the focus of what we do"

Jason Maude, Chief Technology Advocate at Starling Bank, joins Debbie Forster MBE on the XTech podcast to explore the customer focus that has allowed Starling Bank to "make banking better".

Jason discusses the concept of accountability and explainability in the world of tech and tells us the next big challenges in FinTech.

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