Today Breaking Banks is coming to you from the Innovate Finance Global Summit in London. FinTech is changing the nature of finance and money around the world, and Innovate Finance, at the heart of the UK fintech scene, gathered the luminaries from around the globe to talk about what has changed and what to anticipate…

Fintech is about disrupting the banks and providing a reinvention of banking and the ways we interact with money. Traditional financial centers are focusing on new ways to embrace the disruption and make their cities part of the new network of global fintech hubs. And the disruption is reaching our health industry. Insurtech is about…

Today’s guests had MUCH more to contribute that we didn’t get to, so this is a PODCAST EXTRA!!!! YAY!!! More Breaking Banks to love. Harriet Wakelam and Alex Lightman stayed with us to record a few more thoughts about the disruption in Insurtech. Hope you enjoy!

With the new dependency on technology, consumers are producing more data than ever. Using this data, it is possible to create fuller pictures of people’s spending and credit habits, allowing for greater accessibility to capital. And with the right measurements in place, the data can be analyzed so quickly, that credit decisions can be made…

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…