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description: Simon Taylor is a Strategic Advisor at Sardine, where he helps shape the company’s content strategy. He previously served as the company’s Head of Content. He is best known as the creator of the Fintech Brainfood newsletter, one of the most widely read publications in financial technology, and as Co-founder of 11:FS, where he launched the popular Fintech Insider podcast and built the Ventures practice advising global banks, fintechs, and regulators. Earlier in his career, Simon was VP of Blockchain R&D at Barclays, where he led some of the industry’s first enterprise blockchain initiatives, and VP of Mobile Delivery, overseeing mobile banking and payments. He also co-founded Global Digital Finance (GDF), an industry body setting global standards for digital assets. Before Barclays, Simon worked at TSYS as an Innovation Lead, managing several high-profile payments projects, and began his career at BT Global Services as a Business Analyst, where he implemented the Software Development Lifecycle across the Infrastructure business and delivered significant efficiency improvements. Simon studied Software Engineering at Bradford College, earning an HND degree.
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# Simon Taylor

Head of Strategy and Content

Simon Taylor is a Strategic Advisor at Sardine, where he helps shape the company’s content strategy. He previously served as the company’s Head of Content. He is best known as the creator of the Fintech Brainfood newsletter, one of the most widely read publications in financial technology, and as Co-founder of 11:FS, where he launched the popular Fintech Insider podcast and built the Ventures practice advising global banks, fintechs, and regulators.

Earlier in his career, Simon was VP of Blockchain R&D at Barclays, where he led some of the industry’s first enterprise blockchain initiatives, and VP of Mobile Delivery, overseeing mobile banking and payments. He also co-founded Global Digital Finance (GDF), an industry body setting global standards for digital assets.

Before Barclays, Simon worked at TSYS as an Innovation Lead, managing several high-profile payments projects, and began his career at BT Global Services as a Business Analyst, where he implemented the Software Development Lifecycle across the Infrastructure business and delivered significant efficiency improvements.

Simon studied Software Engineering at Bradford College, earning an HND degree.

## Articles by Simon Taylor
- Neobank card fraud case study: How Novo reduced chargebacks with Sardine
- AML scenarios: The six tactics moving dirty money in 2026
- A first-class KYC onboarding experience that turns a 22-day manual review backlog into minutes
- Enhanced KYC Is What You Do After KYC Stops Working
- Revenue Attach Rate: A New Metric for Fraud ROI Calculation
- How Raise reduced chargebacks and manual reviews with Sardine
- Sanctions screening best practices for avoiding compliance nightmares
- Automate enhanced due diligence checks with Sardine for faster AML reviews
- Device Intelligence and Behavioral data are a superpower for Fraud Detection
- The rise of computer-using agents: GenAI bot detection
- Karisse Hendrick interview: Fraud prevention trends from Fraudology
- Do you Know Your Seller (KYS?): Seller Verification Checks for Marketplaces
- How to Detect Marketplace Fraud: Key Strategies
- B2B Payment Fraud: How Remote Access Scams Target Business Payments
- Announcing Sardine's new compliance AI Agents for KYC, sanctions, and merchant risk
- Five ways advanced sanctions screening pays for itself
- Safeguarding Neobanks: Fraud Prevention Tools & Comprehensive Techniques
- Boost Checkout Conversion by Screening for Fraud Pre-Authorization
- Fraud vs Scam: What's the Difference? Prevent Fraud in Your Business
- Machine Learning Feature Store for Fraud and Compliance
- October 2023 Roundup - All risk problems are data problems
- Stopping e-commerce returns fraud in its tracks
- The power of data enrichment in fraud and AML
- Increase transaction approval with Real-time Merchant Data
- August 2023 Roundup: How scammers are using custom AI tools for fraud
- How real-time transaction monitoring improves AML compliance
- Solving the rise of Global e-commerce fraud and chargebacks
- How to protect customers from ChatGPT-Driven Scams
- Device Intelligence & Behavior Biometrics work better together
- VPN Detection for SMS Pumping
- How Card Not Present (CNP) Fraud is changing
- Fighting Friendly Fraud
- Sardine achieves 314b Designation from FinCEN
- How to Protect customers from AI-Driven Romance Scams
- Detect more Account Takeover (ATO) with Sardine
- Blockchain and Sardine are redefining partnerships
- Global Workers need better Global Payouts
- Scam Prevention: Detecting elderly scams in new payment methods
- Sardine partners with 1inch
- Sardine’s self-care day 2022
- Fraud and Payments are two sides of the same coin with Blockchain.com & Sardine
- The safest way into web3 with Juno and Sardine
- Sardine delivers Instant Bank ACH for MetaMask users in the US
- Faster Onboarding and Higher Conversion with Magic and Sardine
- Understanding the DAN, what builders should know about Apple Pay