Rachel Anderika, chief operating officer at Anchorage Digital Bank, sees the Federal Reserve's proposal to give crypto companies limited access to its payment rails as "a really great signal to the market."

Editor's note: This conversation was recorded on April 17. On April 26, Custodia Bank filed a notice of appeal, signaling that it will challenge the district court decision in favor of the Federal Reserve.

In this difficult security environment, a hyper focus on integration is critical. FIs should look to consolidate tools to fewer vendors so they have less to manage. Many are grappling to understand their security posture and vulnerabilities, how to efficiently manage cloud-based applications, and whether they should buy or build their own security solutions. In this podcast, experts in the field will tell stories from the trenches – the good, the bad, and the ugly when protecting some of the largest, most complex networks in banking.

The Faster Payments Task Force of the Federal Reserve  just released its final report with proposals to be adopted by 2020.   Today, Ron Shevlin hosts a member of that task force-  Travis Dulaney, Founder and CEO of Push Payments.   James Wester, Research Director of Worldwide Payment Strategies at IDC will also being joining to discuss the 10 different proposals, the future of banking, and the idea of virtual accounts vs legacy accounts.

Also, we are talking about #VoicePay and #AmazonPay with Brian Roemmele.

Julie Conroy, from Aite Group, talks to Ron about the new uses of AI and how it will enhance faster payments and assist fraud prevention accuracy.

This episode of Breaking Banks was sponsored by NTT DATA… They get stuff done. We were guests at the Money 2020 conference, and had the chance to do lots of amazing interviews.

The theme of the conference was Fintech Superheroes, and this show highlights just 4 of many Fintech fighters that are working to make the system better, smarter, faster, cheaper, and more honest.

First we meet Neobank hero- Norris Koppel, the founder of Monese, which was started out of his own need to as a migrant to open a bank account. Like many heroes, he decided to solve the problem for everyone after him!

Next, we meet Frederic Nze, whose Oakam is transforming microlending in London, strengthening communities and giving opportunity to the financially underserved.

Then we go to Marta Piekarska at the bright star of Hyperledger, working on blockchains that could solve problems of trust, transparency, and tranfers forever.

And last, but hardly least, is our own Fintech "Q", Steve Kirsch. As CEO and Founder of Token, he is solving the problem of banks accuracy, agility, and speed.

In coming weeks, we will bring you more stories from the conference…

On today's show, Brett King hosts Bill Barnhydt of Abra, and Shachar Bialick of Curve- two fintech companies trying to solve this issue, making it better, cheaper and smarter to use your money where you are and how you need.

Also, Penny Crosman joins from American Banker, to give the news overview.

No one can decide if ICOs have caused cryptocurrrencies to really "arrive" or if this is just a cryptocurrency bubble.
Today, we have people to help us make sense of it all.  Dave Birch, Author of Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin is going to tell us why Bitcoin is not the savior we think it is, but it kinda is.
We have on Charlie Shrem and Anthony Di Iorio from Jaxx  Blockchain Interface-  a multi-token blockchain wallet to take us through the ICO madness, and what we can expect in the near future.  And we have Marc Hochstein from American Banker on to talk about why he was wrong about bitcoin.

Also-  Marc Andrews, VP of Watson Financial Services Solutions explains how the famed AI-  IBM Watson- is going to augment and fix with their new regtech cognitive solutions suite.

There is no question that AI presents exciting new solutions and happy additions to our lives. But in order for us to truly take advantage and prepare for a future when cars are not privately owned and are self-driving, energy is green, abundant, and cheap, and robots replace workers at a dramatic rate, changing the nature of work forever. To talk about this future and how fundamental "fintech" principles are to it, Brett is hosting thought leaders – JoAnn Barefoot of Barefoot Innovation, Greg Cross of Soulmachines, and Tony Seba, Author of "Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation"

Today, Sam Maule hosts Chris Rentner from Akouba Credit and Viola Lewellyn from Ovamba to discuss the different strategies they have created to help address the needs from small communities in North America to African Continent.

Also: Travis Dulaney, chief executive of Push Payments, talks instant payments; Mary Wisniewski of American Banker discusses the week's news, including the OCC's fintech charter, data aggregation battles and alternative data.

It is easy for banks and fintechs who know that they need to innovate to get caught up in what looks innovative, or what sounds innovative, but ends up being more for show than for dough. To avoid the pitfalls, and help everyone invest in true innovation that can enhance customer experience and truly add value, we are talking about Innovation Theater- how to avoid it and find implement true innovation. Ron Shevlin guest hosts, with guests Nick White from Monotise, and Marc Hochstein and Penny Crosman from American Banker. Also Gaia Fasso joins to talk about the Anthemis Fellowship

Sam Maule takes the helm in the second half, and talks to Zeina Shuhaibar from the IRC, Ashish Gadnis, Founder/CEO of BanQu Inc., and Aneesh Varma, Founder of Aire (Credit scores for humanity @AireScore) to talk about fintech solutions to help refugees regain some economic stability and contribute to the economies of their new domiciles.

Today, Breaking Banks tells the story of MPESA, and how it came to partner with banks, particularly KCB,  to give all people access to banking services, to easy movement of their money, increasing their ability to save and build wealth in their lives.

In this episode, guest host JP Nichols talks to an innovative team at Capital One who are rethinking the very nature of a bank for customers, employees, and entrepreneurs.

In this episode, guest host Ron Shevlin talks to American Banker's Rob Blackwell and Joe Adler and the Financial Brand's Jim Marous about what to expect from the next administration. Also, Megan Caywood, chief platform officer of Starling Bank, talks about creating an open API for developers outside the U.K. startup bank.

In this episode: American Banker's Innovator of the Year, John Hope Bryant of Operation Hope; Richard Brown and Charley Cooper of the blockchain consortium R3; and Ravi Srinivasan, who describes India's drastic move to stamp out cash.

In this episode: Brett King traveled to Helsinki and Tokyo and spoke to experts about how artificial intelligence and augmented reality will change people's financial lives. He interviewed Kristian Luoma, who runs an accelerator program at Finnish financial services firm OP Financial; Ville Hulkko from fintech startup Valossa, which has built an artificial intelligence engine that watches videos and can describe what happens in them; Megan Beck, author of The Network Imperative, a book about digital transformation; Natalie Shiori Fleming and Hiroki Kudo from Fintech Association Japan; and Toshi Taki from Money Forward, a personal financial management software startup in Japan that uses AI to categorize transactions.

In this episode: Brett hosts Keith Teare, a founding member of tech media company TechCrunch and startup accelerator Archimedes Labs; and Brian Solis, an expert in technology and customer behaviors who shared thoughts from his new book X: The Experience When Business Meets Design.

In this episode: Brett hosts a group of fintech influencers — including Chris Skinner, Jim Marous, Dave Birch, and Ghela Boskovich — to review a bit of 2016 and talk about the trends and predictions for 2017. What's next?

This week's show is a remix of Brett King's interview with Bruce Cahan, Stanford professor and creator of GoodBank and Manu Saadia, author of Trekonomics, a book about the economics of Star Trek. In the second half, Sam Maule, director and senior practice lead at NTT Data Americas, and Marc Hochstein, editor in chief of American Banker, speak with John Hope Bryant, American Banker Innovator of the Year and creator of the "Silver Rights Movement."