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Jo Ann Barefoot discussion disrupting innovation in the financial services sector and beyond.

Jo Ann speaks with Radius co-founders Bob Bench and Anders Brownworth on building payment systems for an AI-driven economy, the role of stab...

AI-powered scams, crypto crime, and global networks are accelerating financial crime — but solutions are within reach. Experts Ari Redbord,...

What does it mean to regulate trust in a digital economy? Patrick Murck of Surus joins Jo Ann to talk stablecoins, tokenization, AI, and why...

Crypto is moving from the margins to the mainstream. Stu Alderoty of Ripple and the National Cryptocurrency Association joins Jo Ann to unpa...

Flourish Ventures investor Efayomi Carr and GDF executive Elise Soucie Watts join Jo Ann to unpack Africa's fintech boom, the rise of stable...

Recorded live at Aspen Ideas: Economy — Jo Ann talks with Biswarup Chatterjee from Citi and Jennifer Lassiter of Standard Chartered about ho...

Financial crime is a G7‑sized economy. Carole House, Ari Redbord and Matt Van Buskirk join Jo Ann to expose how AI has turbocharged scams an...

DARPA's David R. Dewhurst joins Jo Ann to explain A3ML, an audacious plan to make money laundering too expensive to exist. Hear how new grap...

Join us as Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle & architect of the USDC stablecoin, discusses Catena Labs — building the first regulated, AI-n...

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce discusses the evolving U.S. digital asset policy landscape, including...

Tyler Williams, Treasury's Counselor for Digital Assets, discusses the Administration's crypto strategy, stablecoin legislation, and managin...

This special episode explores AIR's work tackling financial crime & regulatory modernization, & highlights 4 upcoming events: Battlefront: F...

In this episode, Jo Ann explores how digital financial services are impacting consumer protection in West Africa and globally, including the...

Rodney Hood, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, chats about bank innovation, digital assets, and tech's role in financial inclusion. He sha...

In this episode, NCUA Chair Kyle Hauptman discusses tech's role in credit unions. He highlights NCUA's open approach to digital assets, AI/b...

Oscilar CEO Neha Narkhede discusses AI for risk management, focusing on fraud & financial crime detection. Learn how AI breaks data silos &...

Jo Ann sits down with her friend Brett King and M-Pesa founder Nick Hughes on this special crossover episode of Barefoot Innovation & Breaki...

Explore the rise of Earned Wage Access (EWA). Experts discuss its benefits, risks, and the evolving regulatory landscape. Learn how EWA is r...

GenAI is revolutionizing finance! Hear from the winners of AIR's NextGenAI Call for Papers : Delicia Reynolds Hand, Dr. Henry Balani & Dr. A...

Jo Ann briefly discusses the changes underway at the U.S. financial regulatory agencies, including thoughts on the new Department of Governm...

Financial crime is surging. Hear Sardine CEO Soups Ranjan discuss AI-driven scams, deepfakes vs. KYC, and why traditional fraud controls fai...

In this episode, Jo Ann explores the potential for rapid change in financial regulation in 2025, likening it to other historical periods of...

Join Jo Ann Barefoot, Dr. Dave Castillo, Cat Tucker, and Dr. Michael Akinwumi as they explore the future of AI in finance — from the potenti...

Behnaz Kibria of Google talks about the fundamental principles that guide model risk management (MRM) frameworks and explores the unique iss...

Jane Barratt, Chief Advocacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy at MX Technologies, Inc., discusses the impending game-changing regula...

Congressman and physicist Bill Foster returns to the podcast to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and digital identity technologies, a...

AIR's Nick Cook discusses the "Financial Regulators' Odyssey" — the journey that lies ahead for virtually every financial regulatory body in...

Penny Lee, President & CEO of the Financial Technology Association (FTA), discusses how fintechs are trying to change financial services, th...

It's easy to underestimate the importance of system-building in public policy, but Rep. Erin Houchin's bipartisan FUTURES Act would require...

The drive for modern financial regulation has transitioned rapidly to move beyond suptech. Sonny Hashmi, Head of Public Sector at Unqork, sh...

Generative AI is revolutionizing the financial world across sectors. Christopher Calabia, Head of MIT's Central Bank Digital Currency Progra...

Nthupang Magolego from the National Credit Regulator (NCR) of South Africa and Collen Masunda of the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...

AI Ethicist Nell Watson and author of Taming the Machine describes the foundations we need to put in place to build legal, regulatory and et...

Community banks face a tech revolution. Explore the challenges & opportunities with Increase CEO Darragh Buckley, who has a unique perspecti...

Upgrade's visionary CEO, Renaud Laplanche, unpacks his pioneering thinking on consumer finance. He unveils 3 key financial consumer needs an...

To mark Women's History Month, AIR's Shelley Anderson interviews Barefoot Innovation host Jo Ann on her perspective about the progress, and...

Itai Damti and Alex Acree delve into Unit's design as a "technology operating system" for bank-fintech partnerships, the legal framework the...

Kwame is the charismatic head of innovation at the Bank of Ghana. He shares advice for regulators on how to adapt to tech transformation and...

Michael talks about the global evolution of financial inclusion and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's ongoing efforts. Learn about digit...

Kelly serves on the White House National Economic Council and helped lead the executive order issued in 2023 on AI. She discusses what the o...

Former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo updates on the evolution of Central Bank Digital Currencies around the world and predicts where w...

In this special episode recorded live at the Annual Conference of the National Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., Jo Ann speaks with t...

Generative artificial intelligence is sure to be a hot topic for regulators and financial innovators on the upcoming conference circuit. Her...

Discrimination in the credit markets is a persistent problem. Lisa Rice, head of the National Fair Housing Alliance, says we can solve it if...

Following the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Velocity TechSprint, the official leading the agency's conservatorship and fintech strategies...

Most agencies focus largely on how technology affects the industries they oversee, but the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority's innovation a...

Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, joins Jo Ann for a discussion on the upsides and downsides of technolog...

Banka helps lead the World Bank's initiative to make payments interoperable and fast. In this episode, he discusses the launch of Project FA...

Hand, the Director of Financial Fairness Advocacy at Consumer Reports, leads the magazine's initiative to evaluate new fintech products to g...

It has been quite a ride since our first episode in 2015. Over more than eight years, this show helped mark AIR's founding, unpacked what th...