Both the financial and tech worlds have reputations for being male centered work environments. Along with the technological disruption in financial services, there has been a movement to bring more women’s voices to the new technologies. Our host today, Sam Maule, has created a site- http://www.femtechleaders.com/ – that highlights the contributions that women leaders are…

Voice recognition is the most invisible computer interface. With the popularity of the Amazon Echo, fintechs and banks are both looking at the new possibilities to serve their customers. Today, Brett has on Rizwan Khalfan, Chief Digital Officer of TD Bank, to chat about the TD/Moven partnership and some of the exciting things they have…

Beyond financial inclusion, a major concern for many customers is whether they can weather financial emergencies. Until recently, banks haven’t focused on assisting their customers with financial wellness, but many banks are changing their tune. Today’s host, Ron Shevlin is talking with Ryan Falvey and Rachel Schneider of CFSI about their research into what defines…

Bitcoin has often been dismissed as the currency of criminals and frauds, but those in the FinTech space have thought differently for a long time. Even when they didn’t defend bitcoin explicitly, the interest in blockchain has only grown. And bitcoin is performing better against the US dollar than any other currency. This week, Brett…

Brett King returns to host this week and talk about Apple’s case for refusing to create the backdoor into our phone for the FBI. We also talk with Jaime Punishill at TIAA about their changes and the ways they are digitalizing one of the oldest financial service businesses in the US. And we chat with…

When the FinTech revolution first started, most of the action was in payments and consumer experience in daily banking. Many bankers wondered how long before fintech played a bigger role in investment management and what it would change. In the past year, the number of fintech companies focused on investment management has skyrocketed. Today, JP…

JP Nicols hosts a special episode out of London following Finovate Europe, the granddaddy of FinTech Conferences. Finovate began in 2007, and is now 3 yearly conferences that provide a forum for FinTech companies to demo their latest innovations. Talking to some of the Best in Show Winners and Roberto Ferrari. Also, Steve Lanklar, Senior…

As FinTech investments boom around the globe and as banks themselves begin accelerators to foster innovation inside the banks, there is a question of where the best ideas are fostered and how to get truly innovative ideas the right backing. To talk about where and how innovation is fostered, Brett is talking to Bank Innovation…

One of the exciting disruptions in the FinTech space is the new opportunities to enter investing. Investing has always seemed murky to people outside the banking space. And those that could most use the expert advice never had enough money to afford the advice. But technology is lowering the barrier to investing and to attaining…

One of the frustrations with retail banking is the sense that all services are too expensive for the poor who could most benefit. Part of this stems from the banks being product oriented. One of the revolutions of fintech disruption is the creation of the services for the traditionally underserved, sometimes called the underbanked. Sam…

Today Breaking Banks is focusing on the FinTech scene in Russia. The Bear is bullish on FinTech! Brett hosts Victor Orloff and Lev Khassis of Sberbank, Sergey Metelskiy and Elizaveta Ivanova from Diasoft, and Daniel Gurev, Startupbootcamp Mentor and FinTech innovator with PaySend.

Today, Brett has Jim Marous, co-publisher of the Financial Brand and a Breaking Banks regular on the show to talk about expectations for 2016. We also have Jesse Podell, a mentor at Startupbootcamp Fintech talking to us about what is happening at CES and Ian Kar from Quartz telling us all about ApplePay in China…