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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…