Summarized Transcript of Episode 623 of Breaking Banks
“The Holiday Movie Edition” Hosts and Guests Hosts: Jason Henrichs · J.P. NicholsGuests: Amber Frye · Pam Kaur · Samer Saab Why Do So Many Holiday Movies Involve Finance?...
Yuletide Festivity, Fintech & Fraud: The Holiday Banking Movies You Never Knew Existed
The holiday season brings more than snow, nostalgia, and sentimental endings. It also delivers powerful holiday movie fintech lessons—showing how money, markets, and morality intertwine through storytelling. These holiday...
Episode 12: Shaping Climate Innovation in Africa: From Finance to Tech (December 2025)
In the last episode of 2025 of Breaking Banks Africa, Matteo Rizzi interviews Shirley Mburu, Director of Advisory at BFA Global, to reflect on impact, innovation, and financial inclusion...
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Breaking Banks: The Holiday Movie Edition
In This Episode What’s your favorite holiday movie? It’s a Wonderful Life? Miracle on 34th Street? Scrooged? Plot twist (literally): These are all banking movies. This week on Breaking Banks hosts Jason Henrichs and JP...
Tom Sosnoff’s Fintech Innovation Aims to Fix Compensation Inequity
For decades, financial markets have operated on a foundation of real-time value discovery, with every stock, option, and derivative instantly priced by transparent market forces. Yet human capital, arguably...
Imagining Life With Super Intelligence with Akshay Chopra
Technology innovator Akshay Chopra joins the Futurists to discuss his new book: “After Us: A Tale of Life Beyond Superintelligent AI.” In this work of speculative fiction, Chopra posits...
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Summarized Transcript of Episode 620 of Breaking Banks
How Are AI, Stablecoins, and Agentic Systems Reshaping Banking? HOST (Brett King):Opens the discussion with the central question: as AI, crypto adoption, and stablecoin infrastructure converge, which structural components...
Summarized Transcript of Episode 621 of Breaking Banks
HOSTS: Brett King (Lead Host), Jason Henrichs, JP Nicols GUEST: Arwa Damon (Founder, INARA; Former CNN Senior Correspondent) What Is Happening on the Ground in Gaza and How Does...
Inside Gaza: Arwa Damon on Crisis, Resilience, and Access
This week, The Futurists offers a human interest story from Brett’s conference travels. Listen as Brett connects with Arwa Damon, former CNN reporter based in Istanbul, and current President...
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Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Banking in the AI Era: What Every Institution Must Know
The banking sector is going through one of the biggest changes since the internet reshaped finance. This shift is driven by fast advances in artificial intelligence, stricter regulations, and...
Undisruptable
In this episode, Paolo Sironi interviews Aiden McCullen to explore his book UNDISRIPTABLE, a book that brings order to the chaos we are experiencing in personal and corporate lofe...
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How to Scale AI in the Enterprise
Industry strategist John Sviokla is the co-founder of GAI Insights and an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He tells the Futurists about the real challenges and opportunities...
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Celebrating 6 Years of Breaking Banks Europe: What Revolut, AI, Bitcoin, and Geopolitics Reveal About the Future of Finance
Italy has become one of Europe’s most surprising fintech accelerators, and no story captures this shift better than Revolut’s explosive growth. The rise of a fully digital bank to...
Episode 11: Redefining Community, Mentorship & Growth (November 2025)
This episode of Breaking Banks Africa features Anie Akpe, founder of LumoHubs.com and African Women in Technology (AWIT). The conversation explores how Lumo Hubs is shaping the future of...
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Episode 271: News From The Fintech Front (November 2025)
In last month’s segment of #BBE, Elizabeth Kleinveld invited Lars Markull, founder of Embedded Finance Review, and Philipp Buschmann, CEO of AAZZUR. Celebrating the podcast’s sixth anniversary, the episode...
Summarized Transcript of Episode 619 of Breaking Banks
HOST: Matteo Rizzi GUEST: Serena Torrielli, CEO & Founder, WealthHype How Has Revolut Become a Top Bank in Italy? HOST (Matteo Rizzi): Serena, the last time we met in...
Summarized Transcript of Episode 618 of Breaking Banks
HOST: Matteo Rizzi GUEST: Sandra Yao, Group Head of Cross Border Remittance, Payments & BaaS (Fintech), Ecobank What Is Powering Africa’s Digital Payments Transformation? HOST (Matteo Rizzi): Sandra, you’ve...
Driving Digital Growth in Africa: From Vision to Execution
Africa is entering a decisive era. Digital transformation is no longer optional. It is vital for economic growth, expanding access to financial services, and boosting regional competitiveness. As markets...
How AI Agents Will Disrupt The Media Ecosystem
Shelly Palmer returns to the Futurists to share fresh insight about how AI agents will rearrange the way entertainment and news are published, distributed and monetized. Today, many of...
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Why the Future Won’t Wait for Fintech: How Banks Can Win in an AI-First Economy
Summary The financial services industry is entering a period where traditional economic cycles collide with deep structural shifts driven by artificial intelligence, digital distribution, and changing customer behavior. Growth...
Summarized Transcript of Episode 618 of Breaking Banks
HOST: Matteo Rizzi GUEST: Sandra Yao, Group Head of Cross Border Remittance, Payments & BaaS (Fintech), Ecobank What Is Powering Africa’s Digital Payments Transformation? HOST (Matteo Rizzi): Sandra, you’ve...
Accelerating Innovation with Mike Pell
Mike Pell is an author, an artist and the director of the Microsoft Garage, the worldwide innovation program where he applies “fast design” principles to bring ideas to prototypes...
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Driving Digital Growth in Africa: From Vision to Execution
In This Episode Today on Breaking Banks we feature the newest addition to the Provoke.fm family, Breaking Banks Africa. In this episode Breaking Banks Africa Host and Executive Producer Matteo Rizzi sits down with Sandra Yao, Ecobank‘s...
EP 279: Kian Sarreshteh, InvestiFi
Finovate Awards Winner InvestiFi on the changing investment landscape, consumer education, and bringing investment assets back to banks and CUs. Detailed Summary: In this episode of the Finovate Podcast,...
Summarized Transcript of Episode 617 of Breaking Banks
Hosts: Brett King – Futurist, author of Branch Tomorrow and Bank 3.0J.P. Nichols – Managing Director, Alloy Labs Alliance What Happens When Fintech Faces a Cooling Economy? HOST (J.P....
Money 20/20 2025: Takeaways & News from Starling Bank and Google
In the fast-evolving world of fintech, clarity and confidence are emerging as the defining traits of true innovation. At 2025’s Money20/20, conversations about AI in financial services, fraud detection,...
