Join us for this exciting episode of Breaking Banks! We are introducing the newest addition to the growing Provoke.fm family, the EMERGE Everywhere podcast hosted by Jennifer Tescher President and CEO of the Financial Health Network. Listen as hosts Brett King and Jason Henrichs explore the purpose and passion behind Jennifer’s upcoming launch of EMERGE…

In this episode of Breaking Banks, host JP Nicols is joined by Dara Tarkowski Attorney and Managing Director of Actuate Law; as well as, the host of the Tech on Reg podcast on Provoke.fm Media. They discuss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s launch of the pilot advisory opinion (AO) program and challenge banks to take…

Let’s begin with a sobering fact: According to the CFP, Blacks and Latinos make up less than 4 percent of certified financial planners in the United States. We will explore this reality and many more in this week’s episode where Jason Hendrichs is joined by Randy Rivera Executive Director at FinTEx, David Clunie the Executive…

In this episode, Chloe James, Bryan Clagett, and James Robert Lay join Brett King to discuss strategic bank marketing during COVID-19 and to explore the importance of finding the right formula to make huge gains in digital efforts. They also take a deep dive into James Robert Lay’s new book Banking on Digital Growth: The…

In this week’s episode, we have the return of show regulars Dave Birch (Author of the Currency Cold War), Jo Ann Barefoot (Founder of The Alliance for Innovative Regulation), and Michael J Casey (Chief Content Officer, Coindesk) to talk about the emerging digital currency wars. Will it be Red (China) vs Blue (Libra), or will…

Fintech has gone from sideshow to the mainstage. Digital is no longer the accompaniment to soloist. Today on the show – Peter Ramsey just won the American Idol of fintech when he documented the user experience opening 12 bank accounts in the UK. He shares with us the surprises along the way as well as…

The novel coronavirus isn’t just a health pandemic, it is highlighting critical social and economic issues. Nowhere is this more apparent than the paycheck protection program. Today on the show we talk about lessons learned from the last crisis, some of the lessons we should have learned but haven’t and how banks, fintechs, and regulators…

Small Businesses are the lifeblood of the global economy, listen as Michael Abare- Principal Product Manager for Fusion Digital Banking at Malauzai, a Finastra Company explains how the Finastra ecosystem enables financial institutions to reach and assist more small business clients. Then for the second half, Jason Henrichs hosts Derik Sutton VP Marketing of Autobooks…

This week on Breaking Banks Jason Henrichs hosts John Weinkowitz from our sponsor Finastra and Tom Feher from Microsoft to discuss Finastra’s pinnacle core, Fusion Phoenix. Tom and John explore how Microsoft’s Azure Cloud has enabled Finastra to lead the pack in utilizing the cloud to help banks innovate faster and more efficiently. Then, stay…

On this Special Episode of Breaking Banks we spoke to bankers about why they love what they do and highlighted the importance of purpose in digital advancement. Show Hosts: Jason Henrichs Show Guests: Mary Kate Loftin of M&T Bank Curt Queyrouze of TAB Bank TOPICS DISCUSSED: [2:40] In today’s landscape does digital banking take the…

The impact of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus has been both global and catastrophic, as both a public health crisis and as a worldwide economic crisis. Dealing with the health risks will continue for a while, but what’s likely to last even longer are the economic effects, and those always have a big impact on the…