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There are several technologies that are challenging to banking. We talk about those on the front edge so often, it seemed like a good time to check in on where the middle is- How much have banks/ banking adapted to the accelerated technological shifts? How are they using AI, bots, machine learning? Have they been able to utilize their tremendous data to serve customers? And can they implement any of these without implementing all of them? (Aired 12/28)

Today, Brett is joined by JP Nicols, co-host and Host of Serial Intrapreneur, and by Philippe Van Fraechem, the General Manager, North Europe & Worldwide Programme Director at EFMA to give us a check up on where the banks really are and what we can hope for them in 2018.

Asher Tan is the CEO of CoinJar and established Bitcoin player. He sits down with our host, Simon Spencer to talk about the excitement, ups and downs of bitcoin, and the possibilities of cryptocurrency.

Merry Christmas from Breaking Banks! We are celebrating the future with robotics expert, Ben Goertzel, this holiday.

Ben is the founder and CEO of Singularity/Net a blockchain based AI marketplace. He is also the chief scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings and robotics firm Hanson Robotics. Our conversation was really around robotics and AI, and where we are and what we can expect in the near future. It is both hopeful and terrifying, and bright and very very unknown.

In the last 5 years, Fintech has grown from an group of outsiders to the heart of financial innovation. 2017 is the year that Fintech IS banking. Banks have adopted it - some quicker than others- and Fintech is about such a wide array of topics, it is almost impossible to differentiate it from financial services.

Today, Brett is hosting friends Jim Marous of the Financial Brand, Chris Skinner, of The Finanser, Dave Birch, author of Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin , and Theo Lau, recently named on of LinkedIn's Top Voices on Fintech and Femtech. We will be going over how close our predictions were last year and what to expect next year!

For a long while, it was imagined that Fintechs would completely disrupt the banks, replacing a system laden with legacy technologies. A few years ago, it became very apparent that banks and fintechs would need to partner to be successful. Most fintechs needed bank partnerships to scale significantly. And most banks needed the innovation and imagination that fintechs brought with them in order to reimagine themselves as customer centric.

We are seeing many versions of this partnership: Open APIs, platformification within banks. Platforms or Marketplaces outside of banks. Accelerators and Innovation Labs in banks or as bank partners.

Today, JP Nicols, Ron Shevlin, and Simon Spencer host our guest,

Claire Calmejane, the Director of Innovation and Digital Centre Excellence at LLoyds Banking Group to discuss the different approaches and what she thinks really works.

YOU'VE BEEN HACKED.   Three words no  financial institution wants to hear.  Financial losses that might not be covered depending on whose at fault.  Answering to angry customers and regulators.  How do you guarantee that it won't happen again. -

Bitcoin is soaring. It captured enough pop culture attention that the Big Bang Theory- with 12.6 million viewers in the US alone- featured it prominently in this week’s episode.

Along with that, it has reached the $10,000 USD milestone, and is now acting as a digital asset. Steve Wozniak spoke at the Money 2020 conference and explained that Bitcoin is a better store of value than gold or USD because it is finite and mathematical, so it is constant. But with the spike in value, many people are wondering if this is a bubble or just the beginning.

Today, Brett hosts 4 experts in bitcoin:

Brian Roemmele- renaissance man, entrepreneur, and payments expert.

Bailey Reutzel- US Editor of Coin Desk.

Gabe Sukenik- the founder of Morph Token, an instant crypto portfolio exchange.

Suleman Din is a technology editor at SourceMedia’s American Banker and Financial Planning.

Jake Tyler wants you to control your money with the ease that you ask Alexa for the weather or Siri for the best ramen in town.   He and his partners have built Finn.ai.   Think Siri, or Google, but for banking. - So, why not use Siri or Google?

NTT Data sponsored Breaking Banks at Money 2020 to catch a word with the movers and shakers in the Fintech industry. In this second part we are talking to some of our favorite presenters at Money 2020.

We start with Brian Roemmele, a huge pioneer in the #Voicefirst movement, who talks to us about how the natural interface of voice will change commerce and everything around it.

Then we talk to Rob Heiser and Boxley Llewellyn from IBM’s Segmint and their new data insights platform.

Then we talk to Dana Nino at GeoSwift and the incredible movements in cross-border payments, particularly in and out of China.

And we finish with a conversation between Brett and Andrew Morris, Chief Content Officer for Money 2020.

Michael Diamond, SVP and GM of Payments at Mitek Systems, wants you to know he is from Wisconsin. He is not some soft beach dweller.  And that background has given him the resilience, grit, and character to close deals in Silicon Valley. -