There are several reasons I’m friends with Dion. 1) He’s smart as hell; 2) he heads up fintech for CapGemni so we basically have the same job; 3) he has less hair than I do; and 4) he is a huge Arsenal football fan. What more could you ask for in a friend?
Read MoreAt this point Fidor Bank is a fintech dinosaur, which is actually a compliment. Matthias Kröner, the CEO of Fidor, founded the bank in Germany back in 2009. Many of the current concepts and themes of “Neo” and “Challenger” banks have their roots in the Fidor ethos. Matthias has, and continues to be a true…
Read MoreWhy does it cost so much to move money? If every record is computerized, if all the movement is recorded electronically- then why the fees to get money out of a different banks atm? Why the fees to spend your money in another country? Is it that expensive to move money? And does it need…
Read MoreThis one is simple. If you have any interest in marketing and/or insurance, then you should be following Danielle Guzman. Danielle the global solutions marketing leader for Mercer. She has over 20 years of experience as an insurance marketer and is quickly becoming one of the top voices in the space. She was recently…
Read MoreNo one can decide if ICOs have caused cryptocurrrencies to really “arrive” or if this is just a cryptocurrency bubble. Today, we have people to help us make sense of it all. Dave Birch, Author of Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin is going to tell us why Bitcoin is not the savior we think it is,…
Read MoreJennifer Tescher is the founder, president and CEO of the Center for Financial Services Innovation. That’s CFSI. Not CSFI as I, in my perpetual ADHD state, consistently call it. Call it whatever you want, what really matters is the influence the organization and Jennifer has had over the past fifteen years or so. There are…
Read More“We were fintech before there was fintech!” I hear this claim all the time and it usually is BS. Not so with Steve McLaughlin, the founder of FT Partners. Steve left a successful career at Goldman Sachs, where he led what today would be called an internal fintech team, and started FT Partners back in…
Read MoreI’m not sure what’s left for Gemma to accomplish in her career. She is a successful company founder (her company Moola just launched as we were doing the interview), has a new show on “Eat, Shop, Save” on ITV, has been an advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger on The New Celebrity Apprentice, has a degree in quantum…
Read MoreToday, we are honored to be joined by Stephen Wolfram, a legend in Silicon Valley, and a genius in the computing space. We are talking to him about AI, and all the amazing things that are happening in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and how that will affect the future of money, finance, and the…
Read MoreI first learned about Monese, the company founded by serial entrepreneur Norris Koppel in an article profiling the company and Norris in TechCrunch back in 2016. I immediately reached out to Norris and invited him as a guest on the Breaking Banks podcast. I love everything about the company, especially because I lived through the experience of…
Read MoreEnjoying the Bitcoin and Ethereum roller coasters? Today JP Nicols has Brian Patrick Eha on, with his new book “How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance” which tells the story through the eyes of the bitcoin pioneers and how they envisioned the future of cryptocurrencies , and the fight…
Read MoreI love Dave. Seriously, I absolutely love this man. Why, you may ask? Because he is one of the funniest, brightest, sarcastic, dry-witted, and pleasant people I know. Probably most important, Dave is able to hold my attention when he presents on topics as complicated as distributed ledgers by explaining the impact of sensors and…
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