Month: September 2015

Goal 1- Eradicate Poverty : FinTech for Financial Inclusion

The UN Global Goals outline 17 goals to End Poverty, Fight Inequality and Injustice, and Fix Climate Change. As you wonder about each of them, you realize that all of the goals are interdependent. Today, on Breaking Banks we are focusing on organizations that are exploring FinTech as a means to financial inclusion. Brett talks…

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Banking on Fintech

As the tech disruption takes hold of the financial industries, banks are exploring fintech by supporting accelerators, partnering together, and creating new ways to replace legacy systems. Today, Brett has Dave Birch of Consult Hyperion join the show. They talk with Quartz correspondent Ian Kar about Fintech news and Michael Casey of the MIT Media…

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Bitcoin & Digital Natives

It is official- Millennials are now the biggest consumer generation. And digital natives have more options than ever before, and exercise their options to find the services that meet their needs the best. Today, Brett talks to Samantha Ghiotti of Anthemis, and Aldo de Jong of Claro Partners about their new tool “Always in Beta”,…

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Machines of Loving Grace

Artificial Intelligence is all around us. It affects how many The debate that often surrounds this is about whether the machines will take over and rule us. But the realities of new technologies are more complicated. Today, Brett speaks with NY Times tech columnist and author, John Markoff about his new book “Machines of Loving…

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FinTech growing Globally

While there are a few cities that strive to be huge FinTech centers, but the opportunities in FinTech are global. Today Brett talks to Rajiv Anand, Group Executive and Head of Retail Bank at Axis Bank in India, who with PingPay has created an intuitive P2P app for its customers. Also, next week is a…

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