Breaking Banks

Matteo Rizzi, Executive Producer and co-host for Breaking Banks Europe talks with Neville Bourke from Futurus and Drew Graham, former Director of Digital Strategy for Barclays to explore the tensions between talent and infrastructure, and between corporate executives and entrepreneurs. From the corporate inclination to try to explain a future that is unexplainable, to how HR too often serves as a risk management function dedicated to maintaining the status quo, to some of the ways mature organizations get in their own way through policies and practices that filter out the very rebels needed to drive real change from within. Then they look into some groundbreaking models from some of the most innovative financial institutions in the world.

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In this week's Breaking Banks we go 21st century. In the first half host Brett King interviews renowned journalist and personal finance specialist Jean Chatzky on how tech is changing the way we invest and save. Chatzky talks about HerMoney and the work she's doing to help investors of all sorts, but specifically to the underserved community of women investors. In the second half, Brett King is joined by regular Dave Birch to review the book "Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption" with author Erica Stanford. We talk John McAfee, and the true crime story that is Gerry Cotten and the Canadian Exchange Quadriga.

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In this episode we return to Nairobi, Kenya to chat with Eddie and Paul Ndichu the founders of WapiPay, a new pan-African cross-border payments startup, mainly focused on payments to and from China for now. We also get an update on how the pandemic has accelerated adoption of fintech across Africa, and we take a quick trip down memory lane to our last trip to Nairobi where Breaking Banks profiled M-Pesa.

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Finovate is celebrating 14 years as the first conference series focused on financial & banking technology innovation, and their 100th episode on Provoke.fm. Host Greg Palmer distills the three golden rules of fintech he’s learned  from more than 2,000 demos & presentations by hundreds of companies from all over the world.

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Today’s episode is a deep dive on financial empowerment at a global level. Earlier this year, Finastra commissioned a study to look at how financial institutions can help their customers transform their relationship with money. One of the unique aspects of the study is it took an ethnographic approach to understand how ordinary consumers feel about money, their dreams and concerns, and what they believe about empowerment.

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When Breaking Banks first aired in May of 2013 the world of fintech was much simpler. PayPal was well established in the payments space with some upstarts like Braintree and Venmo gaining traction. The rest of the fintech world was divided by lenders like Prosper and Lending Club and both pioneer neobanks Simple and Perkstreet were in the process of being sold.Since then, the diversity and depth of fintech has taken hold. As Angela Strange at a16z says - every company is a fintech of sorts.Breaking Banks also evolved, launching the Provoke Media network to address the diversity and depth of topics of relevance to the industry. Today we're featuring the latest addition to the Provoke family: the NextGen Banker. David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise Banks hosts a variety of guests to talk about what the bank and banker of the future will look like. Listen to this episode where he hosts Jo Ann Barefoot to talk about regulation.If you haven't listened to the other podcasts, go to provoke.fm right after you listen to David and Jo Ann!

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Jennifer Tescher is founder and CEO of the Financial Health Network, and host of the Emerge Everywhere podcast on the Provoke.fm network. She talks with Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Media, on the evolution of capitalism and how CEOs are finding new ways to address large global challenges that go far beyond short-term financial performance. 

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In this episode host Brett King tackles the complexity of how to manage data in an environment increasingly reliant on your personal information, when privacy concerns and aging identity infrastructure clash with the reality of the 21st century. Bob Legters from FIS Ethos Data Solutions Group joins to talk about how FIS is adapting to a cloud and data first architecture. Take your organization’s data to the next level and protect data wherever it is. Go from Flintstones to Jetsons in one move.

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Today’s guest: Sultan Meghji, the first ever Chief Innovation Officer for the FDIC. Sultan knows the challenges of innovation in banking first as co-founder of Neocova, a fintech providing secure, cloud-native, artificial intelligence-based software for community banks. In addition, he worked on an aid mission to help implement digital banking in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and worked with fintechs and central banks to create peer-to-peer banking solutions for hundreds of thousands of people in underserved areas of Africa and Central Asia. Sultan served as an advisor to the U.S. Treasury, the Group of Seven (G7), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the areas of cybersecurity, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence.We discuss the tension between innovation and safety, the challenges of regulation and how the FDIC is responding to the changing nature of finance.

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Join host Brett King and BBEU host Ajit Tripathi as they interview three leaders moving blockchain and ESG forward. Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder and CEO Digital Asset; Joe Madden, Co-Founder and CEO, Xpansiv, and Marley Gray, Principal Architect, Blockchain Microsoft. These individuals are working on initiatives at the intersection of science, finance and technology, and are leaders in their field. Learn from this dynamic discussion about the current ESG sustainability landscape -- challenges, key industry points and opportunities. Most companies and boards are making carbon pledges with no idea how to get there. Download this next-level episode now and let these leaders help your financial institution catch this critical wave.  

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