Breaking Banks

It is easy for banks and fintechs who know that they need to innovate to get caught up in what looks innovative, or what sounds innovative, but ends up being more for show than for dough.

This week, Brett and Breaking Banks were onstage with Antony Jenkins, CEO of 10x Future Technologies at the LendIt conference in NY!

While we were at the conference, we decided to talk to some others that were making new waves in the lending space.

Bitcoin is soaring. After 18 months of steady growth, it’s value is $1275, and only looks to be growing. As today’s guest, Brock Pierce, puts it- it is GOLD 2.0.

On today’s show, Brett hosts two renown tech stars- Keith Teare, a founding member of Tech Crunch and Archimedes Labs; and Brian Solis, expert in technology and customer behaviors.

Today we will be talking about the uses of Fintech to solve problems of the Refugee crisis and how those solutions might change banking across the board.

MPESA, the Swahili word for money, is Kenya's mobile money system developed by Safaricom. It has literally transformed the ability for people to work, save, pay for everything from groceries, bills, rents, and everything else.

While Brett was keynoting the NextMoney Fintech Finals 2017 in Hong Kong, he took the opportunity to interview a lot of the leaders, movers, and shakers that are turning up the volume on the global Fintech scene.

Brett was the keynote speaker at Digital Money Forum, and Breaking Banks was invited to be the official podcast of the meeting! We are bringing you insights from several of the amazing panelists asking questions about AI helping to save and spend wisely.

One of the presences most strongly felt at CES was Alexa, Amazon's voice activated assistant. According to a study done by NTT Data, *she* is currently the most quickly adopted Artificial Intelligence.