At the turn of the 20th century, two shoe salesman were sent to Africa to report on what opportunity was available there. One reported back “No good, no one here wears shoes”, and the other reported “Golden Opportunity! No one has any shoes here!” Unburdened by aging technologies, African countries present an array of opportunities…

Over the past week, more than a thousand global banking executives, financial technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, press, and industry analysts converged on New York for a series of events focused on banking innovation. The events included the Bank Innovators Lab Day, NYPAY and Consult Hyperion 3rd Annual Tomorrow’s Transactions Unconference, the two-day FinovateFall innovation showcase…

This week Breaking Banks is coming to you from Innotribe within the SIBOS conference – the world’s largest financial services conference and exhibition in the world. Host Brett King was doing interviews on the floor of Sibos, live at the Innotribe space, talking to the most promising and authoritative innovators and instigators that are forcing…

With the financial crisis of 2008, banks and bankers have suffered a dearth of trust from customers and regulators alike. Consumers have insisted on more transparency in the financial system. The good news is that this is good business. With the new digital tools, transparency is a win-win for financial institutions internally and for their…

Brett King is again joined by Chris Skinner, Author of Value Web, to co-host our second episode on our 5 week series delving deep into the blockchain. This week, we have on Alex Tapscott, co-Author of Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind Bitcoin is changing Money, Business, and the World, and Bailey Reutzel of Moneytripping.

Today, Host Brett King is joined by co-Host Chris Skinner, Author of Value Web, to begin our 5 week series delving deep into the blockchain. This week, it is the basics of blockchain- What is blockchain? What is bitcoin? What is Ethereum? And what is all the news about a hard fork? Theo Priestley, a…

Brett hosts today, and it is a full lineup. First he talks with Ian Kar about the new Venmo in-app payment system. Second, he chats with Alex Sion of Moven, and Matthew Applegate of Wharton Fintech about their white paper examining the new financial services needs in the gig economy. Eric Nunlee, a freelancer, also…

Today, Brett hosts a very different episode for us. We spent a day with some of the teams at the SBCbootcamp Fintech NYC, as well as Jesse Podell, the MD and Nektarius Liolios, the Founder of SBC Fintech. Instead of doing straight interviews, we are going to showcase a few teams and how different routes…

Today Liz Lumley hosts and focuses on Insurtech! She begins with the MD of Startupbootcamp Insurtech, Sabine Vanderlinden. Then she talks to several startups focusing on Insurtech services- Ofer Deshe, CEO of Tobias & Tobias, David Stubbs, CEO of RightIndem, and Risto Rossar, CEO of Insly. Don’t miss this episode on Insurtech!

Today Sam Maule hosts some of London’s most insightful Fintech leaders- Duena Blomstrom, Leda Agalyptis, and Devie Mohan- to talk about the expectations of the UK Fintech community post #Brexit. Also, we interview a little bank in Boston, Radius, who is revolutionizing access to banking by partnering fintechs to help with student loans, saving, p2p,…

Today, host Sam Maule outlines the DAO hack and what can happen next for Ethereum with guests Simon Taylor, John Lilic of Consensys, and Casey Kuhlman of Eris Industries. Then we talk payment security with the CEO of Final, Aaron Frank. And then we have a double dose of the Fintech5 with Jesse Podell from…

JP Nicols opens the show today with insights into the moves of Apple Pay, the ending of CurrentC, and the maturing of Lending Club. Then, we have a series of interviews from Brett King’s travels in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Brett speaks with the CEO/Founder of RFI, Charles Green about latest study about millennials’…