Doug Nielsen from U.S. Bank joins Brett King and co-host Jason Henrichs to talk about SXSW 2018, including the Fintech Luminaries VIP event, and Jim Marous, publisher of the Digital Banking Report and Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand talks about his recent article on Amazon potentially entering the banking business.
Read MoreJohn Nosta, founder of digital health think tank NOSTALAB, joins the show to talk about some of the latest advancements in digital health and healthtech. From advanced diagnoses augmented by artificial intelligence to genome editing like CRISPR, our digital lives have the potential to be impacted even greater than our financial lives have been by new technological…
Read MoreToday, Brett talks with Bink co-founder Greg Gormley and Bink CCO Mike Jordan about what we need to do to look at loyalty programs now that digital wallets are becoming more ubiquitous. Bink wants to redefine loyalty for the digital wallet. The Bink app is an aggregator of loyalty cards that helps consumers make the…
Read MoreOne of the aims of Fintech is to lower the price of access to services that were once considered the province of the well-to-do. In 2015, Brandon Krieg noticed that there was a large swath of the public that were underserved in investing. They either didn’t know how to start, or didn’t have the assets…
Read MoreAfrica is poised to be a 3 trillion dollar economy by 2030. Kenya, with the success of MPESA, has been the economic power house of east Africa. Due to this widely adopted digital payment system, there are big opportunities in building complete digital systems and truly use technology for the aims of financial inclusion. The…
Read MoreCustomers are switching to VoiceFirst devices at a rate that outpaces other adoption. And unlike many technologies, VoiceFirst adoption is high with all generations, particularly GenX and older. Many businesses- including financial institutions- are scrambling to find designers for voice first, figure out how to market with it, and understand how to design services around…
Read MoreWhether you are a small community bank or a large national bank, you deal with issues of digitalization, helping your communities grow, creating and sustaining trust, and moving banking into the future. Today, we are bringing you samples of two of Provoke.fm shows: First JP Nicols Serial Intrapreneur interviews CEO of Citizen Edmonds Bank, Jill…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreMany 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…
Read MoreDominic (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…
Read MoreGeorge 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…
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