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The #1 global fintech radio show and podcast. Every week we explore the personalities, startups, innovators, and industry players driving disruption in financial services; from Incumbents to...
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Nu Way of Banking: Nubank Makes Its Mark in the U.S. and More
In this episode, Brett King sits down with Carl Rivera, Chief Product Officer at Nubank—one of the world’s largest digital banking pla...
Emerging Infrastructure for Next Gen AI-based Financial Tech
As banking, wealth, and commerce converge, customers increasingly expect one view of their financial life — a view they often get from...
Unlocking Financial Access
As a Peace Corps volunteer with an engineering degree from MIT, Doug Ricket, Founder and CEO, PayJoy, a leading financial services provider...
Let’s Get Serious About AI
Can a not-for-profit, member-owned credit union genuinely out-innovate a bank with a multi-billion-dollar AI budget by being more discipline...
Rip Out the Core
In this episode host Brett King and Paolo Sironi, host of Breaking Banks’ sister podcast The Bankers’ Bookshelf, speak with Pal...
Killing It: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey
Entrepreneurship is an odyssey with many unexpected stops on the journey. You could find yourself on a loading dock in East LA, freestyle ra...
A New Framework for Sponsor Banking
In This Episode For years, Banking as a Service (BaaS) was sold as a silver bullet for community banks to solve their deposit problems and g...
Human Consciousness in an AI-Driven World
In This Episode What if AI could replicate your consciousness? Listen as Breaking Banks host Brett King connects with Paolo Sironi, host of...
The Evolving Digital Economy
In this episode of Breaking Banks host Brett King sits down with Farbod Sadeghian, Founder and Executive Chairman of TheBlock. Based in Duba...
Winning the Multi-Front War: AI-Powered Intelligence for Modern Banking
In This Episode Financial institutions (FIs) are currently navigating a “perfect storm” of technological, market, and consumer s...
Is just a little crime OK now or what?
In This Episode Kiah Haslett walked into our Hot Takes session at the Alloy Labs annual member meeting with a thesis she’d been sitting on,...
Everybody’s Robot Fighting
In This Episode This week on Breaking Banks Brett King interviews bestselling author Igor Pejic about his new book Tech Money: A Guide to th...
Inside the Next Chapter of Payments: Policy, Fintech and Innovation
In This Episode This week on Breaking Banks , we feature sister podcast, Social Currency , powered by Sunrise Banks. Social Currency introdu...
After the Demo: When AI Stops Impressing and Starts Mattering
In This Episode Have we reached the point where AI is beginning to matter in a commercial sense or are we still in the ‘figuring it ou...
Who Really Owns Trust in Embedded Finance?
In This Episode In this episode of Breaking Banks, industry leaders Jason Hass (First Electronic Bank), Mike Jorgensen (U.S. Bank), and Loui...
Financial Health Starts Before the Account
In This Episode We’ve recently seen growth in many areas, but a disconnect always seems to exist between economic growth, especially c...
Beyond Banking: Solving Problems, Not Offering Products
In This Episode Banks are evolving beyond traditional financial products to offer value-added services that deliver outcomes that matter in...
Fintech’s Adolescence: What’s Real, What’s Loud and What’s Next
In This Episode Which trends are genuinely reshaping and transforming banking? Is fintech hitting its “awkward adolescent phase”...
Hot Takes: Chartering vs. Becoming a Bank: A Critical Distinction
In This Episode The current regulatory regime in the US promised a lighter touch and more de novo charters. Sure enough, there has been a fl...