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Breaking Banks

by Breaking Banks - The #1 Global Fintech Podcast

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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 unicorns, and from the latest cutting edge technology to the people who are using it to help to create a more innovative, inclusive and healthy financial future.

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  • The New Kid on the Neobank Block · 33 minBarq means lightning in Arabic, and for once the brand name might be underselling it. One million users in three weeks, more than 15 million users across over 210 nationalities…
  • Nu Way of Banking: Nubank Makes Its Mark in the U.S. and More · 27 minIn this episode, Brett King sits down with Carl Rivera, Chief Product Officer at Nubank—one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms—to discuss how Nubank is redefining…
  • Emerging Infrastructure for Next Gen AI-based Financial Tech · 52 minAs banking, wealth, and commerce converge, customers increasingly expect one view of their financial life — a view they often get from third-party apps rather than their bank…
  • Unlocking Financial Access · 35 minAs a Peace Corps volunteer with an engineering degree from MIT, Doug Ricket, Founder and CEO, PayJoy, a leading financial services provider for underserved consumers across…
  • Let’s Get Serious About AI · 33 minCan a not-for-profit, member-owned credit union genuinely out-innovate a bank with a multi-billion-dollar AI budget by being more disciplined and mission-anchored? In this…
  • Rip Out the Core · 54 minIn this episode host Brett King and Paolo Sironi, host of Breaking Banks’ sister podcast The Bankers’ Bookshelf, speak with Pal Krogdahl, author of Rip Out the Core—an essential…
  • Killing It: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey · 43 minEntrepreneurship is an odyssey with many unexpected stops on the journey. You could find yourself on a loading dock in East LA, freestyle rapping with a man known as DJ…
  • A New Framework for Sponsor Banking · 47 minIn This Episode For years, Banking as a Service (BaaS) was sold as a silver bullet for community banks to solve their deposit problems and grow non-interest income. Through its…
  • Human Consciousness in an AI-Driven World · 40 minIn This Episode What if AI could replicate your consciousness? Listen as Breaking Banks host Brett King connects with Paolo Sironi, host of Provoke.fm‘s The Banker’s Bookshelf…
  • The Evolving Digital Economy · 23 minIn this episode of Breaking Banks host Brett King sits down with Farbod Sadeghian, Founder and Executive Chairman of TheBlock. Based in Dubai, TheBlock is a fintech collaboration…
  • Winning the Multi-Front War: AI-Powered Intelligence for Modern Banking · 43 minIn This Episode Financial institutions (FIs) are currently navigating a "perfect storm" of technological, market, and consumer shifts. They face a multi-front war: constant…
  • Is just a little crime OK now or what? · 55 minIn 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, and it’s a good one: in a…
  • Everybody’s Robot Fighting · 37 minIn This Episode This week on Breaking Banks Brett King interviews bestselling author Igor Pejic about his new book Tech Money: A Guide to the New Game of Technology Investing…
  • Inside the Next Chapter of Payments: Policy, Fintech and Innovation · 38 minIn This Episode This week on Breaking Banks, we feature sister podcast, Social Currency, powered by Sunrise Banks. Social Currency introduces us to some of the most innovative…
  • After the Demo: When AI Stops Impressing and Starts Mattering · 39 minIn 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 out' stage and it's not driving outcomes yet?…
  • Who Really Owns Trust in Embedded Finance? · 24 minIn This Episode In this episode of Breaking Banks, industry leaders Jason Hass (First Electronic Bank), Mike Jorgensen (U.S. Bank), and Louis Mrachek, (Merrick Bank) connect…
  • Financial Health Starts Before the Account · 24 minIn This Episode We've recently seen growth in many areas, but a disconnect always seems to exist between economic growth, especially capital market growth, and what people on…
  • Beyond Banking: Solving Problems, Not Offering Products · 26 minIn This Episode Banks are evolving beyond traditional financial products to offer value-added services that deliver outcomes that matter in customers' everyday lives. In this…
  • Fintech’s Adolescence: What’s Real, What’s Loud and What’s Next · 43 minIn This Episode Which trends are genuinely reshaping and transforming banking? Is fintech hitting its "awkward adolescent phase"—past the hype but not yet fully mature? Today…
  • Hot Takes: Chartering vs. Becoming a Bank: A Critical Distinction · 17 minIn This Episode The current regulatory regime in the US promised a lighter touch and more de novo charters. Sure enough, there has been a flurry of activity with a wide range of…

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