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Many in the fintech industry believe that blockchain is overhyped, but Jason Potts, who has made it his life’s work to study new technologies, actually believes it is under hyped and that it is a technology that changes the fundamental understanding of business and commercial interaction globally. A month ago, he opened the Blockchain Innovation Hub, the first social science research institute on...

Dominic (Dom) Pym and Anson Parker set out to reboot banking. Actually, to hear them tell it, they are not in banking- they are a tech company. They shun the name Neo-bank. But, as they were looking to build a new company, they were working with banks and realized that banks needed a reboot. And like most good entrepreneurs, they fixed the problem that was in front of them. Hence, we have Alt – a...

George Lawson’s role at Ant Financial is to grow Alipay’s ability to pay for goods and services in Australia. Alipay, for those that don’t know, is a lifestyle app with 520 million subscribers. That’s right- 520 million. In China, it is almost difficult to get around without the app. It is so ingrained as part of the lifestyle that it is used to pay for everything. When people go to the market, th...

As head of emerging technologies at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Dilan Rajasingham is building a mesh economy. A mesh economy is about the convergence of new technologies; Artificial Intelligence will interact with the Internet of Things, and we will have an economy where the convergence of technologies will be machines talking to machines without human intervention. Dilan sees the bank of the...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 becau...

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...

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. -

Changing the nature of when, where, and how we pay, and what we know when we pay has been on the front lines of fintech innovation. Payments options continue to evolve, catching up to customer behavior and the possibilities that new technologies open up. Is Zelle is a gamechanger, or just the banks catching up? Who will win the payments game? What is still left to solve? And how do we redesign pay...

There is nothing like being stuck in a foreign country without your wallet to make mobile payments vividly imperative. - Elise Moussa founded Snapay to solve the problem of in store mobile payments.  To do that,

NTT Data sponsored Breaking Banks at Money 2020 to catch a word with the movers and shakers in the Fintech industry. A lot of news was announced and we got to talk to a lot of people who are creating the next technology, expanding their ideas, and growing their companies. Jamie Campbell, Head of Awareness, at bud Financial announced that they closed a funding round of 1.5 million of seed money! Lu...

Breaking Banks is global, but fintech is growing so fast and furious that we have more stories than we can cover- so we are expanding. Introducing Breaking Banks ASIA with Simon Spencer. Breaking Banks Asia gets the inside look at the incredible innovation and technological changes that are setting the standard for the rest of the world. The Big Little Data Story – Lisa Schutz, CEO of Verifier Lis...

There is little question that AI will loom large in our future. It is already present in almost all the new technologies we rely on. The question is whether that future is hopeful or dystopian? Will AI create more fulfilling work and a more fulfilling human existence or are we creating the beginning of the end of humanity as we know it. There are strong cases to be made for both, and likely, we wi...

The only constant is change.  And the only sure thing is disruption.  Which is why Mike Laven doesn't think of it as disruptive at all, but as part of the natural evolution of the world, constantly making things work faster.

Fintech- The new tech that is being developed to enhance financial services. Sandhog: member of elite team of tunnel and foundation builders who make it so we can travel swiftly and safely on bridges and tunnels. -

Since the first Initial Coin Offering in March 2017, ICO's have taken off as the latest greatest way to raise venture capital. ICO's offer exciting potential for financial inclusion. Current regulations can create a high threshold for participation in Venture Capital in attempts to protect from schemes, and from people losing their entire fortunes. ICO's go around this, and many have wondered if t...

Noah Breslow has spent a decade in the fintech trenches and if you ask him about disruption, he rolls his eyes.  He is really over the term disruptive.  He thinks that is just a synonym for life.   But it doesn't change the fact that he has been part o...

Travis Dulaney is a payments guru.  Founder and CEO/CTO of Push Payments, he has over 20 years of experience working in payments and has been on the forefront of the digitalization of money.  His list of professional accomplishments include serving on ...

This week we are bringing you a special that we arranged with the Next Money Chicago Conference. First, we are bringing you part of Brett's morning keynote all about the ideas behind his upcoming book, Bank 4.0 Next, we are bringing you a panel hosted by Ron Shelvin. He lays out the reasons that platformification is so vital to the growth of fintech and banks, and why it is the inevitable business...