Barefoot Innovation Podcast

What can stablecoins really do for financial inclusion? Kosta Peric, Simon Taylor and Jo Ann explore instant payments, cross-border settlement, sovereignty, and a future "network of networks" for moving money globally.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/barefoot-innovation-podcast/.

Dante Disparte of Circle joins Jo Ann to explore stablecoins, AI and the future of money, including the hidden cost of gradualism, why trust is everything, and how we can make both financial systems and regulation more adaptable.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/barefoot-innovation-podcast/.

A glimpse into the regulator of the future: FINRA's Greg Ruppert joins Jo Ann to discuss AI, data, financial crime, fusion cells, FINRA Forward, and how regulators can break silos and move at the speed of markets.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/barefoot-innovation-podcast/.

Yaya Fanusie of Aleo joins Jo Ann to explore privacy-preserving blockchain, stablecoins, zero-knowledge proofs, illicit finance, China's digital currency strategy, and the race to build democratic financial infrastructure. Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/podcast/yaya-fanusie-on-building-privacy-into-blockchain/.

Saket Narayan of AWS joins Jo Ann to explore how regulators can move beyond pilots and sandboxes, using cloud, data, AI, and secure experimentation to build faster, smarter, more adaptive supervision.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/podcast/beyond-pilots-sandboxes/.

Live from ABA RCC, Jo Ann talks with Raj Date and Konrad Alt about AI's promise and peril for bank risk, compliance, supervision, financial crime, agentic commerce, and the future of regulated finance.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/podcast/live-episode-ai-risk-the-future-of-bank-compliance/.

Video recording courtesy of the American Bankers Association.

Wendy Teleki and Tatiana Alonso join Jo Ann to explore why gender-disaggregated data is essential to inclusive finance, smarter supervision, and unlocking capital for women entrepreneurs worldwide.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/podcast/seeing-the-gaps-gender-data-and-the-future-of-inclusive-finance/.

FCA leaders Colin Payne and Matt Lowe join Jo Ann to explore tech-positive regulation, AI labs, sandboxes, policy sprints, stablecoins, and how regulators can move faster without sacrificing trust.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/podcast/move-fast-make-things-the-fca-is-still-leading-on-regulatory-innovation/.

Column N.A.'s Meredith Turner joins Jo Ann to unpack the future of partner banking — where clean tech stacks, real-time data, and compliance-by-design can help fintech innovation move faster, safer, and smarter.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/podcast/compliance-as-an-enabler/.

For Barefoot Innovation's 250th episode, Jo Ann looks back on 11 years of fintech transformation — and ahead to the AI-shaped future — with Kabir Kumar, Matt Van Buskirk, and Nick Cook in a special conversation.

Episode show notes, transcript and related links available online at: https://regulationinnovation.org/podcast/episode-250-my-favorite-thought-partners/.