Fintech Beat: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to Fintech Beat, the intersection of finance, technology, policy and regulation. Each episode features the latest trends, movers and shakers, ideas and policies in financial technology. Host Chris Brummer, a Georgetown law professor and world-renowned fintech expert, partners with the CQ Roll Call newsroom — Washington's leader for nonpartisan legislative and regulatory analysis — to bring insights that make this a must listen for anyone interested in finance.
Dan Zinn, general counsel of the OTC Markets Groups, gives the 101 course on Over the Counter market structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola joins the show to demystify building digital infrastructure in Africa, and lessons learned in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SaaStr CEO Jason M. Lemkin demystifies everything you need to know about SaaS, and the joys of recurring revenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Simon Taylor, the founder of fintechbrainfood.com, hops on the show to talk about the future of fintech, banks, AI and crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Famed BIS economist Hyun Song Shin breaks Tokenization, Payments and the possible future of central banking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dea Markova walks through the EU's "Super Wednesday" for digital finance and why electoral politics matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FDIC Vice Chair Travis Hill talks about banking policy and minority and community banks after the collapse of Silicon valley Bank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Acting Comptroller Mike Hsu talks about banking policy and minority and community banks after the collapse of Silicon valley Bank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Happy Thanksgiving! This special episode is taken from one of our favorite conversations of 2022, Peter Kerstens and Eva Kaili join the podcast to discuss the EU's new rules for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mike Cagney joins Chris Brummer to talk about concrete use cases for blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Co-host Amias Gerety asks Karen Webster about her origin story, and the future of media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Commissioner McGuiness, Europe's most powerful regulator, discusses crypto regulation and innovation policy at DC Fintech Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jo Ann Barefoot joins co-host Amias Gerety to explain the necessity of taking policy, and innovation, seriously. You can check out Jo Ann’s podcast, The Barefoot Innovation Podcast, at https://www.jsbarefoot.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dante Disparte and Chris Brummer sit down to talk about the Circle's Converge conference and DC Fintech Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stu Levi, a partner at Skadden, breaks down what IP law means for NFTs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jason Cave, Deputy Director of the FHFA talks fintech and what the agency's new office for innovation might mean for mortgage markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elementus founder Max Galka joins Julian Ha to talk ransomware and crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Kerstens and Eva Kaili join the podcast to discuss the EU's new rules for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Richard Bookstaber, author of the End of Theory and Demons of Our Own Design, Demystifies Fintech Market Volatility Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robby Greenfield shares how Umoja Labs are leveraging blockchain-based tools to deliver financial inclusion in Africa and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Author of “The Field Guide to Global Payments, Sophia Goldberg, joins Amias Gerety to answer the age old question: Are payments companies getting paid too much (or too little) for the value they provide? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hyun Song Shin, the BIS economic advisor, joins the show to talk about recent disruptions in crypto markets, and the advantages of CBDCs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amias Gerety interviews M1 CEO Brian Barnes on relationship investing and automation in the fintech economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, the CEO of Women's World Banking, talks about her new book and the opportunities and challenges facing women entrepreneurs in developing countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher joins Fintech Beat to talk about what changes in the economy and regulation mean for the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Julian Ha interviews Sheila Warren, the CEO of CCI, on Global Trends in Crypto Regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris Brummer sits down with AcreTrader Founder Carter Malloy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Hope Bryant, the famed American financial literacy entrepreneur and businessman, joins the podcast with QED's Amias Gerety to talk about Black Wealth, Entrepreneurs, and Financial Literacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Allison Lee sits down to talk priorities and interests as she reaches her final stretch as Commissioner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire joins the show to co-host and ask Chris Brummer anything and everything about his new white paper, "Disclosure, Dapps and DeFi." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ro Khanna, whose district lies at the center of Silicon Valley, talks about his book "Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us" and how to decentralize opportunity beyond Northern California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brian Vieaux, the President of Finlocker, sits down to talk about the economy and how to reach prospective homeowners "before the point of thought." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, and Fennie Wang, the former associate general counsel of MakerDao, discuss and debate the value of stablecoins and what they mean for central bank digital currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pierre Le Veaux talks about how Seed at the Table is transforming equity crowdfunding to create new opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs. Also: what regulation needs to do its job better for minority communities.
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Host Chris Brummer discusses with fintech guru Dan Gorfine what the media missed, and should have ignored, in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lana Swartz discusses cryptotwitter and her book “New Money: How Payments Became Social Media". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Executive recruiter David Richardson joins the podcast to talk about where the fintech jobs will be in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duane Pozza, a former top FTC consumer protection official, explains where unexpected regulatory risk may lurk for privacy, competition, and crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Circle's Dante Disparte breaks down the company's inclusion plans and how the stablecoin giant is aiming to reshape crypto's conversation with minority banks, HBCUs and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Timothy Antoine, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, shares how the central bank launched one of the world's first central bank digital currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michele Alt, Dan Awrey and Caitlin Long provide an overview of the world of bank charters and fintech charters — and what they mean for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Conan French, senior advisor at the Institute of International Finance, sits down with Fintech Beat to talk about the major regulatory themes and developments in the IIF, IMF, World Bank, and DC Fintech Week conferences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nicole Elam, CEO of the National Bankers Association, and Larry Parks discuss what digital transformation looks like for minority-owned and rural banks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mu Changchun, director-general of China's central bank digital currency project, talks about the country's "wait and see" innovation path and the design of the digital yuan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenny Xia Spradling, the co-founder of Free Will, recounts her journey, why she walked away from her first startup, and how her new big venture has enabled over $1 billion of donations to nonprofits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lana Swartz discusses cryptotwitter and her book “New Money: How Payments Became Social Media". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dante Disparte, Tonya Evans and Carmelle Cadet, three of the most visible minorities in crypto, talk about digital assets and financial inclusion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt Spoke, the CEO of Moves Financial, talks about what it takes to innovate for the gig worker and change labor's relationship to capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Congress is trying to bring clarity to crypto. In this episode, we discuss the most ambitious proposal to date with former CFTC General Counsel Patrick McCarty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz joins Fintech Beat to talk about his tenure and the recent confrontations between the crypto industry and government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nic Carter and Amy Luo explain how NFTs work, and what their meteoric rise means for the mainstreaming of blockchain technology and securities law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The United Nations Capital Development Fund’s lead for digitalization in West Africa provides an insider’s account of the region's innovation curve, and how mobile payments, digital identities and ecommerce solutions are transforming what it means to have an “informal” economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunayna Tuteja, The Federal Reserve's Chief Innovation Officer, gives her first interview since taking the post and offers insight on the Federal Reserve, and what it takes to move from the private sector to government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kristin Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at the infrastructure bill and crypto-lobbying in Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Venture capitalists Tyler Griffin and Ryan Falvey break down how the next generation of fintech is leveraging technology to both scale and serve diverse customer bases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michele Alt, Dan Awrey and Caitlin Long provide an overview of the world of bank charters and fintech charters — and what they mean for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat sits down with Stefania Di Bartolomeo, CEO of Physis Investment, to talk about impact investing and the rising tide of startups aiming to shape ESG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former Federal Reserve Board Governor Dan Tarullo and Avanti founder Caitlin Long discuss the Basel Committee’s proposed guidance on capital rules for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Digital assets have very different technical features. What is regulation's role in their interoperability? Citi's Tony McLaughlin and Jai Messari join the show to discuss McLaughlin's new paper, “The Regulated Internet of Value”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we celebrate our 100th episode with an encore presentation of our conversation with Barry Eichengreen on whether a foreign CBDC could displace the US dollar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hyun Song Shin, the economic adviser and head of research for the Bank for International Settlements, breaks down the bank’s assessment of central bank digital currencies in its annual economic report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Rogers Jr., the co-CEO of Ariel Investments, the oldest Black-owned asset management firm, and Robert Smith, Vista Equity’s CEO and the wealthiest Black person in America, talk about Black banks and the challenges of digitalization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The World Economic Forum’s Sheila Warren and Global Digital Finance’s Jeff Bandman discuss whether ESG — and by extension, climate, governance and diversity considerations — will impact the future of crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The CEO of Propel, a startup dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health, sits down to talk about how his venture capital-backed startup is innovating how food stamp recipients manage their benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat is off for Memorial Day, so we decided to look back at an episode with Hong Kong University professor Douglas Arner where we talked about the origins of Ant Group, its regulatory shortcomings in the Chinese financial system, and when he expects to see an IPO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Therapist and social worker Andrew Fishman joins the show to talk about video games, addictive apps and investing platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rebecca Rettig, the General Counsel of Aave, breaks down open-source, non-custodial protocols, and the operational mechanics of decentralized finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dennis Kelleher, the CEO of Better Markets and point man for investor advocacy in D.C., provides an insider account of the GameStop hearings — and what comes next at the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sopnendu Mohanty, Singapore’s fintech chief, breaks down Partior, the “watershed” blockchain-based platform for cross-border payments announced by JPMorgan Chase, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings and DBS Group Holdings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ed Nalbantian and Mark Rasmussen join the podcast to compare crypto custody in the EU and US—and whether custodians have to return forked cryptoassets to account holders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Executive recruiter David Richardson joins the show to talk about where the fintech jobs are, and what sectors have been most impacted by the industry's explosive growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Venture capitalists Ben Savage and Jonathan Whittle join Korefusion’s Alejandro Gonzalez Sanchez to break down investing in the immense region, and how it differs from the rest of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Frederik Mijnhardt, CEO of Secfi, joins Fintech Beat to explain why 80 percent of startup employees don’t exercise their stock options — and what that means for drivers of wealth in the innovation economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tax season is upon us, so Fintech Beat wanted to take the opportunity to look back at an episode with one of the IRS’s top crypto cops to discuss how the agency views crypto and what it does with crypto seizures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nic Carter and Amy Luo explain how NFTs work, and what their meteoric rise means for the mainstreaming of blockchain technology and securities law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff joins Fintech Beat to explain the operational mechanics and economics of roboadvising, and how the technology in the industry differs from the rest of the fintech ecosystem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Coil CEO Stefan Thomas talks to Chris Brummer about how he stored 7,002 Bitcoins in a digital wallet, only to forget the password. Plus, what lessons he thinks his case holds for the crypto industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emory law professor Kristin Johnson joins former Commodity Futures Trading Commission general counsel Patrick McCarty and Columbia University’s Josh Mitts to talk about fairness, hedge funds and social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kyckr CEO Ian Henderson joins Chris Brummer to share the company's latest report canvasing where anti-money laundering enforcement has taken off and why. Plus: Do local authorities tend to target international companies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker and top lawyer Michael Zuckert join Fintech Beat along with Kate Waldock and YeshaYadav to discuss the ins and outs of one of the most influential banks in the innovation economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode we first ran last year, Chris Brummer talks with Benoit Cœuré, the fintech lead at the Bank for International Settlements, about how the organization’s role has evolved along with the very definition of money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat talks with Zest AI's top executives to learn about the role of machine learning software in credit underwriting and whether better math can lead to better outcomes when it comes to tackling racial bias in lending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amias Gerety interviews Ben Mezrich, author of the nonfiction account on which the movie "The Social Network" was based, about his latest book on Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss' foray into Bitcoin and his opinion on the cryptocurrency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this MLK Holiday, Fintech Beat welcomes Paul Butler, Cleve Mesidor, Kathryn Judge, and Robert Greenfield to talk about Coinbase, its controversial policies on race and political engagement, and the possible implications for its IPO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emmalyn Shaw, the Managing Partner at Flourish, the socially-minded VC fund founded by Ebay Founder Pierre Omidyar, joins the podcast to talk fintech in our latest investor interview with Amias Gerety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Famed venture capitalist Matt Harris joins Amias Gerety to discuss how important it is to understand fintech’s past if one wishes to invest in its future — and how another pandemic first ignited digital payments nearly two decades before COVID-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hong Kong University professor Douglas Arner joins the Fintech Beat podcast to talk about the origins of Ant Group, its regulatory shortcomings in the Chinese financial system, and when he expects to see an IPO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amias Gerety co-hosts Fintech Beat to interview Tricia Kemp, one of the country's most successful venture capitalists, to unbundle just what digital "infrastructure" is and what the answer means in the race for the perfect payment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adeyemi Ajao talks about how he started a $100 million company from a dorm room in Spain, and shares his views on Silicon Valley, being a Black venture capitalist, and the immigrant experience in tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jenny Xia Spradling, the co-founder of Free Will, recounts her journey, why she walked away from her first startup, and how her new big venture has enabled over $1 billion of donations to nonprofits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Fintech Beat teams up with FRT to cover October’s whirlwind of fintech discussions taking place at the Institute of International Finance, DC Fintech Week, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Henrique DuBugras, the founder and co-CEO of Brex, the multibillion dollar payments company, jumps on the show as Fintech Beat’s first co-host and interviews Chris about fintech—and his research on Black financial regulators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark Branson, the top regulator in Switzerland, explains how Libra came to be based in the country, and how he intends to regulate the cryptocurrency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Patrick Njoroge, the Governor of the Central Bank at Kenya, speaks with Chris Brummer at DC Fintech Week 2020 to discuss how Mpesa, one of the world's most successful mobile money transfer services, impacted Kenya’s economic development, and what central bank digital currencies and the rise of crypto mean for Mpesa, and vice versa.
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Chris White, the CEO of Bondcliq, explains why the Fed's attempts to save the economy through corporate debt purchases needs an upgrade, starting with the bond market itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Prashant Fuloria, the CEO of Fundbox, explains how the upstart fintech spent $100 million on data modeling, and avoided the worst of the pandemic. Plus, how fintechs differ in terms of their operational and business strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Kerstens, the European Commission’s lead on digital finance policy and regulation, explains why—and how—the bloc's new crypto proposals are poised to create the largest regulated market for digital assets in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FT Alphaville editor Izabella Kaminska and Citi exec Tony McGlaughlin warn that central bank digital currencies could have unpleasant consequences for banking, lending and the balance of power in the monetary system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joins the podcast to talk about artificial intelligence and capital markets for a live conversation at the HPC + AI Wall Street conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're revisiting a conversation on if, and how, an algorithm can be ethical. Algorithms have evolved into to powerful engines of financial technology. But they don’t always live up to the hype, as algorithmic models fail to take account of basic societal concerns like fairness, privacy and bias. Fintech Beat sits down with Michael Kearns to find out what can be done to make algorithms “ethical.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Uri Ort and Reece Akhtar, co-founders of the AI psychometrics tool Deeper Signals, walk listeners through how differences in how people think and interpret the world impact how companies innovate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trade experts Robert Chesney and Kathleen Claussen join international lawyer Robin Nunn to explain the U.S. government’s actions against WeChat and TikTok, and what the actions mean for Chinese (and U.S.) fintech.
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The United Nations Capital Development Fund’s lead for digitalization in West Africa provides an insider’s account of the region's innovation curve, and how mobile payments, digital identities and ecommerce solutions are transforming what it means to have an “informal” economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charles Delingpole, the founder of Complyadvantage, and Jonathan Levin, the co-founder of Chainalysis, demystify the historic Wirecard accounting scandal and the role of Bitcoin in the massive hack of Twitter and its most high-profile customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New York Times bestselling author Brant Cooper talks about what it takes to engineer innovation in an age of maturing technology, Black Lives Matter and the coronavirus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, and Fennie Wang, the former associate general counsel of MakerDao, discuss and debate the value of stablecoins and what they mean for central bank digital currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jannick Malling, the CEO of Public, a social investing app backed by the likes of Will Smith and JJ Watt, explains how platform technologies are transforming the "experience" of investing for millennials. Plus, how the company won international plaudits for its decision to block its customers from participating in Hertz’s troubled $1 billion stock offering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks offers his first interview in response to the vote by the House to overturn his agency's change in community reinvestment rules for banks. Plus: a discussion about how internet banks being held to the same commitments to low-income communities as brick-and-mortar financial institutions can help tackle inequality.
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Benoît Cœuré, the fintech lead at the Bank for International Settlements - the global “Central Bank for Central Banks” - offers the first interview concerning its highly anticipated annual economic report, and discusses how the organization’s role has evolved along with the very definition of money.
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Fintech Beat sits down with Stefan Thomas, the CEO of Coil, to talk about why the internet is becoming “centralized” — and how upgrading the internet’s payment structure could revolutionize how it operates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Linda Lacewell, New York’s top financial regulator, joins Fintech Beat to provide an insider’s account of the state’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and the George Floyd protests — and breaks news to announce the New York State Department of Financial Services’ “Fast Forward” program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, the CEO of Women's World Banking, joins Fintech Beat to discuss the ins and outs of the multibillion-dollar microfinance sector, what happens when microfinance firms become banks, and how COVID-19 could end up revolutionizing how low-income women access capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ErisX CEO Tom Chippas discusses his firm’s historic, first-ever launch of ether futures contracts in America — and how ether and bitcoin derivatives can serve very different purposes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Famed University of California Berkeley economist. Barry Eichengreen joins Fintech Beat to dig into whether a digital Euro or yuan would get the biggest competitive boost vis a vis the US dollar, and whether Libra 2.0 could still pose a systemic risk to the global economy.
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Fintech Beat sits down with the International Monetary Fund’s Sonja Davidovic and Jonathan Kiff to learn about the latest developments with China’s digital currency foray, and how its pilot compares thus far to others around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat sits down with Cornell University’s Daniel Awrey and Cato’s Diego Zuluaga to debate Facebook’s reforms to the Libra cryptocurrency--and whether consumers and the financial system are safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat talks to internationally renowned University of Hong Kong professor Douglas Arner to understand differences in Big Tech, fintech and digitization in Hong Kong, mainland China and the wider Asia region as countries face the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Fintech Beat sits down with Brian Miller, the Connecticut-born CEO of Easy China Warehouse, to talk about the extraordinary responses China took to tackle the coronavirus — and how his mainland company navigated unprecedented uncertainty and restrictions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat sits down with Linda Jeng and Dan Gorfine to talk about how online lending, open banking, and a digital dollar—with the right policies—could immediately improve the plight of those affected by the Coronavirus.
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Fintech Beat sits down with Jonah Crane to discuss how important (or not) is size in surviving the economic slowdown, and whether firms and customers can transition regulatorily and technologically in time to protect themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat sits down with Brookings’ Aaron Klein to talk about the Federal Reserve’s responses to Wall Street’s historic declines, and what the pandemic means for fintech in light of the sector’s strengths--and weaknesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat sits down with Barnabas Reynolds, the highly influential — and pro-Brexit — lawyer and regulatory adviser to discuss the future of fintech in the United Kingdom and which kinds of firms are poised to win, lose and escape unaffected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat sits down with Nic Carter, the founding partner of Castle Island Ventures, to discuss the impact of the coronavirus on digital assets, and the lessons the epidemic holds for investors interested in the space.
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Fintech Beat goes on location to Barbados to ask Avinash Persaud, a professor, investor and regulator, what small countries can do to compete as global financial technology markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Financial inclusion is the holy grail of fintech—though what it is, and how it’s delivered, differs dramatically depending on where in the world one lives. Fintech Beat sits down with Citi’s Head of Global Banks Research to talk about why—and how the US measures up when compared to the likes of India, China, Kenya and Nigeria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Derivatives are tricky. Crypto is tricky. But what happens when you get crypto derivatives? We’re already seeing new Bitcoin futures coming to market, but what does the future portend for other kinds of cryptocurrencies and products entering the market? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When it comes to regulating Wall Street, perhaps no one person is more important than Linda Lacewell, the Superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services. On her one year anniversary in office, she talks with Fintech Beat about changes to the BitLicense, the Apple Pay Card, and her 2020 priorities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bitcoin’s decentralized infrastructure has led to unprecedented questions about not only whether to regulate it, but also what, if anything, to regulate. Fintech Beat sits down with one of the world’s leading experts on Bitcoin law to learn about how nodes and mining pools power the ecosystem, and how they may one day be viewed as focal points of regulatory supervision.
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An inside view from a former State Department and intelligence official on how sanctions and political gyrations between the Trump Administration and Iran and North Korea can impact financial technology. And how these regimes can use cryptocurrencies in nefarious ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Algorithms have evolved into to powerful engines of financial technology. But they don’t always live up to the hype, as algorithmic models fail to take account of basic societal concerns like fairness, privacy and bias. Fintech Beat sits down with Michael Kearns to find out what can be done to make algorithms “ethical.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Open banking’s benefits involve using customer consent to develop new financial products to revolutionize financial services. But critics claim open banking can at times bypass customer consent by using digital avatars and other online tools to infiltrate and collect customer data. Fintech Beat sits down with the former chief of the Federal Reserve’s open banking unit to get answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat celebrates the new year with an Awards show and a countdown of the biggest fintech developments of the year.
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How is Congress grappling with diversity in Artificial Intelligence and Fintech? What are the major policy issues concerning the Community Reinvestment Act? Chairwoman Maxine Waters of the Financial Services Committee sits down with Fintech Beat's Chris Brummer and explains how lawmakers are trying to keep up with Facebook, financial inclusion and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat speaks with innovator Jeffrey Bandman who served as the architect of LabCFTC. We take a deep dive to explore blockchain technology and how it can be applied to capital markets, and the infrastructure supporting digital securities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Despite all the talk about innovation in the US economy, start-up rates in America are near historic lows. Fintech Beat sits down with Kabbage, an Atlanta-based online lender for small businesses seeking to tackle the problem, and discusses risks and rewards of AI and automation in a world increasingly concerned with bias, privacy, and the cost of capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
China has sent shockwaves through the global financial system announcing that its central bank would soon introduce a digital version of its domestic currency, the yuan. Fintech Beat sits down with key IMF officials to learn about what a state-backed ‘cryptocurrency’ means for the yuan as a potential rival to the dollar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Open banking is set to shake up financial experiences for customers across the globe, enabling customers to allow third parties to access financial information needed to develop new apps and services. Fintech Beat sits down with the head of policy at Plaid, a unicorn fintech sitting in the middle of the revolution, to discuss the process of information sharing and how regulation shapes it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this joint podcast, FRT and Fintech Beat team up to cover October's whirlwind of fintech discussions taking place at the Institute of International Finance, DC Fintech Week, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank--and just after Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Capitol Hill about Libra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joe Lubin, the co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys, is planning a big upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain. Fintech Beat sits down with him to discuss the changes--as well as what he thinks about Libra and the CFTC's stance that Ether is a commodity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, is laser focused on building out XRP's use case as a bridge currency. Fintech Beat sits down with him to discuss Ripple's business strategy--and what he thinks about Libra, central bank digital currencies, and navigating regulatory uncertainty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Remittances are poised to grow to $550 billion this year - making them the single biggest source of external funding for recipient economies according to the World Economic Forum. More money is pumped into developing countries this way than by direct investment. But it's often costly and inefficient. But Fintech, specifically blockchain technology, may be able to help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is Uber? It’s not just a ride share company and definitely more than a technology company. Increasingly, it’s a fintech company, too. We speak to the CEO of Uber Payments LLC and Uber's associate counsel to explore the company's identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Uncertainty is the bane of the crypto industry, with limited predictability about the scope of securities laws—and more fundamentally, whether or not any cryptocurrency is a security. The principal of Notation Capital and the former general counsel of the CFTC join Fintech Beat to shed some light on Block.one’s settlement with the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is money? The answer is one of the most contested issues for regulators of fintech. As nonbank financial services and cryptocurrencies have hit the mainstream as substitutes for money, financial experts are also beginning to differentiate between "bad" and "good" money. Fintech Beat takes a closer look with the author of a new study conducted with SWIFT, the global payments firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cryptocurrencies are increasingly the tool of choice for drug dealers and corrupt actors. Prosecutors say they have seized nearly $1 billion worth of digital coins in busts around the world. But how is crypto treated as a matter of US law—and what does the IRS do with its seizures? To find out, Fintech Beat sits down with one of the IRS’s top crypto cops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat explores the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to investing in financial technology. Host Chris Brummer explores when it may make sense to invest and when it may not. Here is a sneak peak into the ABC's of fintech investing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Real-estate investing isn't just for the rich anymore. Now, it's possible for anyone to buy pieces of real estate from New York to Los Angeles on a phone. Fintech Beat talks with the CEO of Fundrise, a leading real estate crowdfunding platform, about radical changes coming to investing, and what an economic slowdown could mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When is a bank not a bank? This question goes to the heart of what the Comptroller of the Currency has to keep in mind when making regulatory decisions and Fintech. This and more on this week's episode of Fintech Beat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special Labor Day episode, the Fintech Beat podcast explores the unique relationship between hip-hop and crypto and unveils its first Fintech Beat playlist culled from listener suggestions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With China’s announcement that its central bank is close to launching a digital version of their currency, Fintech Beat sits down with IMF officials for a behind-the-scenes peek at what goes into a country's strategy. We will also reveal which country was first. It may not be what you think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat talks with one of our listeners, a former general counsel of the CFTC, who shares his thoughts on vulnerabilities in crypto exchanges. We then turn overseas to hear from France’s leading fintech regulator, Domitille Dessertine, to learn more about the country’s ambitious efforts to classify and conduct cryptocurrency transactions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat talks with the former head of Bank of America’s global quant business, and a co-founder of Sila Money, who has raised red flags about the Facebook Libra project. Alex Lipton argues that Libra's core design resembles the vision laid out in an open-source paper published by the Royal Society and Scientific American. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Bank of England is not only a pivotal player in Brexit, but it's also a major player in the development of global fintech policies–and is even considering how to allow fintech firms access to the Bank's balance sheet. Fintech Beat catches up with the head of fintech policy at the Bank to discuss the digital policy, Facebook and the role of fintech supervision in British banking (and Brexit) policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No issue has generated more concern about Facebook’s Libra than its potential abuse as a tool for terrorism finance and money laundering. In this episode Fintech Beat talks with Chainalysis, a data and analytics firm, about international regulatory efforts, so-called clustering and blockchain forensics. Chris also talks about his experience testifying before Congress on the new digital currency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A core challenge when it comes to fintech is the so-called blurred lines — when the definition of a word invokes different answers. The biggest blurring of all happens with the concept of decentralization — what it means, what it looks like, and why regulators care. In this podcast, from New York's Crypto Evolved conference, some of the leading minds from Wall Street tackle which terms are most prickly and explore the issues head on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, Libra, has inspired an unprecedented interest in digital assets as means of making cross-border payments. But could Libra spark chaos in monetary markets, and hamstring central bankers? And how important is trust in Facebook necessary as not only a matter of business necessity for the cryptocurrency, but also economic stability? We ask one of the top economists in the world for his views Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bitcoin had a wild week with its value hitting over $11,000. This begs the question: Is the crypto winter finally thawing out? Host Chris Brummer sits down to explore with Sunayna Tuteja of TD Ameritrade and Matthew Trudeau of ErisX to discuss what a Crypto spring means. Also, stay tuned for our segment Chris' World — where pop culture and fintech meet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Chris Brummer sits down for a rare interview with Steven Maijoor, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, Europe's top fintech regulator. Maijoor reveals his thoughts on the impact of Brexit on the EU's burgeoning regulation of fintech and where Europe stands versus the United States when it comes to regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Facebook is poised to enter and potentially reshape the cryptocurrency landscape. Fintech Beat host Chris Brummer mulls over what this means for fintech and society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is coming from Geneva, Switzerland at the World Trade Organization. Host Chris Brummer wades into a conversation about where China stands versus the U.S. when it comes to Fintech. The answers may surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is devoted to the wild west of crypto exchanges and assets. These new digital marketplaces are creating a world where traders will be able to exchange cryptographically secured bonds, stocks, currencies, and other kinds of securities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, host Chris Brummer tackles wallets and how to keep your crypto currency safe from cyber thieves. He takes the listener inside Consensus where industry heavyweights show off the latest offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech Beat's Chris Brummer has an exclusive sit-down with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Christopher Giancarlo — where they talk about innovation, breaking down barriers and what keeps him up at night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Presale is a sneak preview of Fintech Beat podcast with host Chris Brummer that will bring the listener onto the ground floor of what we plan to bring to market in future episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices