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(Aired 6/14) The last mile of any distribution network is always the least efficient, and it is no different for financial services. This week JP Nicols and Jason Henrichs talk about the ways that fintech can help, and the hard work that still remains, with guests Michelle Tinsley, Founder of Tinsley Retail Insights and Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud.

Jason Henrichs and JP Nicols host Perianne Boring, founder and CEO of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, talking trends, challenges and where we’ll see the first fruits of the #blockchain revolution. Brett King talks with Derek Corcoran from Avoka on their new Digital Onboarding Trends report.

You can’t change the wind, but you can adjust your sails. The rapidly changing digital world has posed real challenges to banks and credit unions, and some have found it overwhelming. Are there good reasons why it’s tougher to innovate from within, or are those just excuses? Join us as we dig in to the relative advantages and disadvantages of incumbents versus insurgents.

In this week’s show Brett discusses how markets are responding to Fintech players, and new technologies like Blockchain and crypto. The guests include Sameer Chishty visiting from Hong Kong to discuss how the trade war might impact Fintech and the US, and Bob Pisani from CNBC joins to talk the US exchanges and their response to Blockchain et al. Neel Grover of Indi.com joins to talk marketplaces.

JP Nicols and Theo Lau recap last week's big Finovate show in Santa Clara, California with guests Greg Palmer from Finovate and Steve Ramirez from Beyond the Arc. We'll also take a broader view on Finovate's place in fintech history and discuss how some of the broader themes have evolved over the years, and what we expect to see in the future.

Episode: 237 - (Aired May 10, 2018) This week, Jason Henrichs hosts Margaret Hartigan - Founder and CEO, Marstone Inc. We're later joined by Keith Armstrong - Co-Founder, Abe.ai #AI #banking #chatbot and John Schute - CIO, Mercantile Bank of Michigan, talking their #fintech / community bank partnership

EPISODE #236 - Brett and JP Nicols celebrate 5 years of our #podcast joined by the one and only Jim Marous, sharing a preview of his Banks + #Fintech report. We are launching a new regular segment where Jim will share some of his insights from the research he's publishing. Then, we interview Jessica Tan, Deputy CEO at Ping An This week's show is brought to you by the Digital Banking Report. Bank a...

We’re closing out blockchain month with a bang and launching a new recurring segment: Lies, Damn Lies and Metrics. Regular contributor and host of the Snark Tank, Ron Shevlin and host Jason Henrichs are joined by new regular Colleen Wilson.

In the age of innovation, it is now more important than ever to find technology solutions at every financial level.  David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise Bank, explains how they built a strategy on inclusivity and underserved populations,

David Reiling - Banking and Social Responsibility

Show Description: 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 o...

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...

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 cont...

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 sta...

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 shoppi...

Michelle Tinsley isn't so ready to kiss the bank branch goodbye.   As an expert in retail digital transformation, she thinks that the personal will become more valuable, not less, as technology continues to become an greater part of our environments.

One of the aims of Fintech is to lower the price of access to services that were once considered the province of the well-to-do. In 2015, Brandon Krieg noticed that there was a large swath of the public that were underserved in investing. They either didn't know how to start, or didn't have the assets to make investing a priority. And they considered meeting an advisor too costly or beyond their m...

Africa is poised to be a 3 trillion dollar economy by 2030. Kenya, with the success of MPESA, has been the economic power house of east Africa. Due to this widely adopted digital payment system, there are big opportunities in building complete digital systems and truly use technology for the aims of financial inclusion. The MasterCard Innovation Lab, established with a 19 million dollar grant from...

Customers are switching to VoiceFirst devices at a rate that outpaces other adoption. And unlike many technologies, VoiceFirst adoption is high with all generations, particularly GenX and older. Many businesses- including financial institutions- are scrambling to find designers for voice first, figure out how to market with it, and understand how to design services around it. As they do, will this...

Whether you are a small community bank or a large national bank, you deal with issues of digitalization, helping your communities grow, creating and sustaining trust, and moving banking into the future. Today, we are bringing you samples of two of Provoke.fm shows: First JP Nicols Serial Intrapreneur interviews CEO of Citizen Edmonds Bank, Jill Castilla about how she persisted until she dug the ba...

The financial issues of the burgeoning marijuana industry highlight some very important problems for a lot of small businesses in the United States. First, it is cash heavy, which make it vulnerable. Second, the clash of laws and regulations make it difficult for banks to service them. And third, it is more costly for them to verify their source of product. One solution to many of these issues cou...