BIGcast

John and Glen discuss key takeaways from NACHA’s recent Faster Payments conference, including on-site interviews with FIS, Phoenix Marketing, and the Dean of Vanderbilt’s Graduate School of Management. Plus, a guided tour of the Dark Web!

On May 8, the BIGcast format is changing to become a twice weekly podcast hosted by Anne Legg, Glen Sarvady and John Best. BIGcast Producer Laura Weiss joins Anne, Glen and John to discuss the format and schedule changes. Also in this week’s BIGcast – the SWIFT Network and credit union security in light of an expose on a Russian hacker.

Sam Mallikarjunan, Marketing Fellow at HubSpot, discusses innovation, creativity, disruption, change, marketing, sales and small houses.

Manuel Stagars has released his latest documentary, The Blockchain and Us, that focuses on non-technical implications of distributed ledger technology. Manuel and John discuss the new film, social disruption, the implications of distributed ledger technology outside of finance and the importance of “future-proofing” in the age of disruption.

Naomi Castillo of FSSI and John discuss the importance of transactional documents to a credit union’s brand, and how innovation in that space can drive engagement and brand recognition.

John and Glen decipher the EU's groundbreaking new PSD2 regulation, discuss the prospects for similar US legislation, and debate the pros and cons of sharing transaction data with non-banks.

John and Glen kick off a two-part series on Open Banking by discussing two intriguing cyber security solutions, Wells' cardless ATM enablement, and a jazz-playing robot. Then they dig into the EU's Payment Services Directive and what it means for the US.

In part 2 of our report from CUNA's annual GAC conference, Symitar President Ted Bilke touts his company's latest innovations, CUNA's Chief Policy Officer Bill Hampel shares some economic cheer, and John offers his thoughts on the branch's future.

Part 1 of John and Glen's recap of CUNA's GAC conference features interviews with MasterCard's John Ainsworth, CUNA's Chief Political Officer Richard Gose, plus John's bizarre fascination with an android named Pepper.

NACHA CEO Jan Estep talks with John and Glen about Same Day ACH's continued progress and offers a discount to the upcoming Faster Payments conference. Also, John & Glen discuss a NY Times article featuring Moven's Brett "Breaking Banks" King and FinTech's new FI collaboration model.