Griffin: Blog

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Culture is too important to leave to chance

Culture must be taken as seriously as strategy. It is equally tangible, equally impactful, and needs to be deliberately designed and cultivated. At Griffin, we think of our culture as our most important asset.

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An OS for embedded finance

Picture a world where banking services are brought to you by your favourite brands, tailored to your needs, with a seamless user experience, and with robust regulatory safeguards still intact. Every brand is now a potential fintech, and new ideas can be rapidly brought to market and tested to see

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How BaaS is driving the next wave of financial innovation

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is big – and it’s getting bigger. Last year, SoFi acquired Galileo for $1.2bn, and 11:FS predicts the BaaS market could be worth $3.6 trillion by 2030. The recent surge of major financing and acquisitions in the BaaS space is, in part,

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Is It Worth It?

Optimisation is an obsession of modern workplaces. But how long can you spend trying to make a routine task more efficient before you hit a point of diminishing returns?

Adam Moulson and Maria Campbell join Griffin as Chief Commercial Officer and VP of People

Griffin, the Banking-as-a-Service platform currently seeking bank authorisation from the PRA and FCA, has expanded its executive leadership appointing Adam Moulson as Chief Commercial Officer and Maria Campbell as VP of People. Adam MoulsonAdam joins Griffin having previously served on the executive team as Chief Customer Officer at Form3, the

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Griffin appoints Amy Kirk to its Board

Griffin announces the appointment of Amy Kirk to its Board as Senior Independent Director (SID), effective from 3rd November 2020.

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Griffin secures £6.5m round led by EQT Ventures to build Banking as a Service platform and seek full bank license

London-based Banking-as-a-Service provider Griffin today announces a £6.5m round led by EQT Ventures.

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How We Write

Good writing is probably the single most undervalued talent a startup can have. We're used to thinking of communication as a key skill, and normal, face-to-face communication is great! It allows for empathy, human connection, and a high bandwidth of information transmission between two people.

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Designing a Bank: Part One

How a design system can help build the foundation of an efficient product design process.

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A Framework for Making Decisions

Rather than relying on an implicit framework and hoping things work out, we have an explicit framework for making decisions.

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Griffin closes a £3M Seed round, begins bank authorisation process

London based startup Griffin raises £3M seed round to build the fully regulated banking platform of choice for the next wave of fintech. Griffin aims to make it easy for any business to build and launch financial products on its proprietary API banking platform.

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Building an Immutable Bank

How to design and architect an immutable, event-driven bank - and what that means.

A Platform Banking Manifesto

If you're a modern financial technology firm, your business moves money around. A lot of it. The catch is, that money probably doesn't belong to you. For instance, consider PayPal or Funding Circle - most of the money in their systems belongs to their end users.

Welcome to the Griffin Blog!

Hello there! There's nothing much here for now, but as things develop we'll be using this blog to post updates on our experience getting through the regulatory process, our technology, and observations about the banking industry at large. We encourage you to keep an eye on this space, as well