Month: December 2017
AI and Robots with Ben Goertzel
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,…
Read MoreFintech 2018: What’s Next
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…
Read MoreDigitizing the Bank
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…
Read MoreMichael Prins – Hacker for Good
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. –
Read MoreBitcoin: Bubble or Just Beginning
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…
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