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April is blockchain month. Today we talk with one of the earliest entrants into the space, Matt Roszak. His success landed him on the Forbes list of wealthiest crypto investors. He also is one of the early funders of many of the leading crypto exchanges, including Coinbase and Kraken, and is the founder of the blockchain infrastructure player: Bloq. State government isn’t often on the bleeding edge of technology adoption but that’s what our other guest accomplished. Jennifer O’Rourke joined the Illinois Office of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology from private sector and in her first year, catalyzed a statewide, government wide taskforce to explore the use of blockchain to provide better and more efficient services. Jennifer recently left that post to co-found a blockchain company tackling the problem of identity. She speaks publicly about it for the first time on this show.

On today's show we see if the latest developments in Blockchain live up to the hype of solving real world problems like inequality, access to basic financial services and identity schemas. Returning to the show will be Brock Pierce of the Bitcoin Foundaiton and EOS, Crystal Rose from Sensay and Alex Lightman

On today's show Michael J Casey and Wall Street Journal's Paul Vigna return to discuss their new book The Truth Machine. Also returning is Bill Bardhyt to talk about the latest developments in Abra's global money transfer business

On this week’s Breaking Banks, we interview two new authors in the #Fintech space, Duena Blomstrom and John Best, both attacking cultural issues preventing traditional incumbents from succeeding in the digital age. Hosts Brett and Jason Henrichs also talks #BrandedCurrency and the upcoming Flourish conference in Chicago with Kristen and Holly from K+H. Duena’s book is Emotional Banking and John’s tome is called Breaking Digital Gridlock. Listen to the show to find out more!

Chris Skinner joins host Brett King and co-host JP Nicols to talk about his new book Digital Human: The Fourth Revolution of Humanity Includes Everyone. Chris says technology is changing the way we talk, trade and transact. We are now interfacing with technology whenever we do business, make friends, and go about our lives. What does this mean for business, banking, society and government? We continue that talk with Bruce Parker, CEO of Modo Payments as he talks about how they are building a better, faster way to connect payment systems.

Doug Nielsen from U.S. Bank joins Brett King and co-host Jason Henrichs to talk about SXSW 2018, including the Fintech Luminaries VIP event, and Jim Marous, publisher of the Digital Banking Report and Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand talks about his recent article on Amazon potentially entering the banking business.

John Nosta, founder of digital health think tank NOSTALAB, joins the show to talk about some of the latest advancements in digital health and healthtech. From advanced diagnoses augmented by artificial intelligence to genome editing like CRISPR, our digital lives have the potential to be impacted even greater than our financial lives have been by new technological advances.

In 2012, John Nosta started Health Critical, a blog on Forbes.com that discussed the link between health, medicine, and technology. He was twice been listed at the top of the Pharma100 list, which measures the level of online engagement produced by those in the health industry. He is also on the faculty of Singularity University and is on the Google Healthcare Advisory Board.

Henri Arslanian, FinTech and RegTech leader for China and Hong Kong for PwC joins Brett and Breaking Banks Asia host Simon Spencer for this week's episode that spans the globe in fintech.

Today, Brett talks with Bink co-founder Greg Gormley and Bink CCO Mike Jordan about what we need to do to look at loyalty programs now that digital wallets are becoming more ubiquitous. Bink wants to redefine loyalty for the digital wallet.

The Bink app is an aggregator of loyalty cards that helps consumers make the most of their loyalty programs, their preferences, and get rewarded for the shopping they already have to do. In redefining the loyalty experience- eliminating cards, extra steps, and making sure that each consumer can take advantage of the programs, they are dealing with the biggest questions facing the financial industry; How do we gather data in a way that benefits customers? How do we help look at solutions for identity that protect consumer security and allow for technology to serve their wants and needs? How will AI teach our personal assistant devices what we like and truly help us get the best deals? And how will it help us curate for augmented reality?