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…

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?…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

As fintech has grown in the last few years, there are a lot of articles focusing on the lack of gender equality in the space. The cross section of finance and tech is a cross section of two industries that have very different biases, but share issues of diversity. The infamously leaked “Google Memo” gives…

Brett King hosts Brian Roemmele as he phones in from the Apple headquarters to tell us all about Apples new iPhone8, iPhoneX and what those innovations could mean for how we think about security and identity. Then he talks to Luke Jacobi and Luke Zientowski from Bendinga and their thoughts on alternative data in the…