Our expert host, Ross Gallagher, is joined by some great guests to discuss the most notable fintech, financial services, and banking news from the past week. This includes Stripe's annual letter, announcing they have surpassed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023, Tide's expansion into Germany with a warm 'guten tag', CFIT's Open Finance report, which claims open finance could boost the UK GDP by £30.5 million, as well as some significant raises from Griffin and PPRO.

This week's guests include:

• Ezechi Britton, CEO at CFIT
• David Jarvis, CEO at Griffin
• Raquel Soares, Head of Marketing for Edenred Payment Solutions

Plus soundbites from
• Oliver Prill, CEO of Tide
• Motie Bring, CEO of PPRO

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

- Griffin raises $24m and launches as a fully operational UK bank
- CFIT Open Finance report: Open finance could boost UK GDP by £30.5 billion
- Tide launches in Germany
- Global local payments platform PPRO raises €85M from investors including JPM and PayPal
- Stripe reveals it passed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023
- UK Restaurants could start to adopt ‘surge pricing’ after success in the US

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