Breaking Banks
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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November 20, 2025 • 40 mins
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Today, we turn the show over to our friends at Breaking Banks Europe, as we celebrate their 6th anniversary.
What began as a podcast experiment has grown to over 280 episodes, more than 570 guests, thousands of listeners from every corner of the world, and countless debates.
Over the past 6 years, the show has:
Shaped conversations around open banking, fintech, DeFi, payments, digital innovation and eve...
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November 13, 2025 • 38 mins
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Today on Breaking Banks we feature the newest addition to the Provoke.fm family, Breaking Banks Africa.
In this episode Breaking Banks Africa Host and Executive Producer Matteo Rizzi sits down with Sandra Yao, Ecobank's Group Head: Cross Border Remittance, Payments & BaaS (Fintech). With 20 years of experience driving fintech and payment innovation across Africa, Sandra brings a unique “builder’s mindset” into...
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November 6, 2025 • 52 mins
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Markets are whipsawing, rate paths are murky, and headlines keep revising “the facts”, but no matter where we are in the economic cycle, the future presses on regardless. Our resident futurist Brett King and our resident “recovering banker” JP Nicols debate what that means for incumbent financial institutions and insurgent fintechs.
We unpack how AI is shifting from pilots to profit (and where it’s still hype)...
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October 30, 2025 • 16 mins
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This episode of Breaking Banks features host Jason Henrichs sharing thoughts and key take-aways fresh from Money 20/20 USA.
Stablecoins, Agentic AI and especially Agentic Commerce dominated many conversations at this year's Money 20/20 event. Cross Border Payments another big topic not to mention AI, how it's changing the game and being used by financial institutions.
Jason had the opportunity to speak with...
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October 23, 2025 • 27 mins
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Inside The Futurists X Summit: Preparing For An AI Powered Future
This week Breaking Banks comes to you from The Futurists X Summit in Dubai, the world's largest gathering of top-ranked futurists. This summit brings together leaders, innovators and policymakers from around the globe for meaningful dialogue on the future of technology, business and society.
Tune in as Breaking Banks and The Futurists host Br...
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October 16, 2025 • 26 mins
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Many bank leaders are currently grappling with the same paradox: despite having access to more data than ever, it's increasingly difficult to discern what truly matters. Budgets are tight, initiatives are piling up, and the market sends conflicting signals, all while the imperative to remain relevant to customers persists.
Breaking Banks did a show on VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) t...
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October 9, 2025 • 28 mins
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Dr. Antoine Khadige, Senior Partner at Strategy+ GCC, and Mohamed AlSabea, Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer at barq, join host Brett King for a special episode, live from The Money Pot studio at Money20/20 Middle East in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Together, they share insights on the Gulf’s fintech transformation and on Riyadh's growing reputation as the gateway to one of the world’s fastest-moving financial ...
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October 2, 2025 • 33 mins
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This week on Breaking Banks we finish our series on Brett King's new book, Branch Tomorrow where we've featured interviews with Brett's contributing authors: Bruno Diniz, Efi Pylarinou, Jim Marous, Paolo Sironi, and Richard Turrin. Each author brings a specialty in a different market, giving Branch Tomorrow a multi-perspective look at banking, banking culture, changes in 'branching' and the future of financial se...
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September 25, 2025 • 34 mins
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This week onBreaking Banks, we spotlight the newest member of the Provoke.fm family, Bankers' Bookshelf, hosted by Paolo Sironi.
This episode features Paolo's interview with Sangeet Paul Choudary, author of the new book, Reshuffle: Who Wins When AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy.
Paolo and Sangeet discuss how AI is set to transform the global economy and company operations by redistributing power among key ...
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Gyrating securities prices, perplexing consumer confidence numbers, multiple revisions of jobs numbers, varying interest rate forecasts- that’s VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Tim Mahedy is Founder and Chief Economist at Access Macro and serves as the Chief Economist at Alloy Labs, and his perspective, shaped by time at the IMF, as the Chief of Staff at the San Francisco Federal Reserve,...
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September 11, 2025 • 44 mins
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This week on Breaking Banks, we feature a fascinating and thought-provoking episode from our sister podcast, The Futurists, where Brett King welcomes celebrated experimental astrophysicist Professor Brian Cox.
Professor Cox, an English physicist and musician, is widely recognized for presenting science programs such as BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of... series. He is also the author o...
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September 4, 2025 • 40 mins
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This week on Breaking Banks we're continuing our series on Brett King's new book, Branch Tomorrow, featuring interviews with contributing authors: Bruno Diniz, Efi Pylarinou,Jim Marous, Paolo Sironi, and Richard Turrin. Each brings specialty in different markets giving Branch Tomorrow a multi-perspective look at banking, banking culture, and the future of financial services across the globe, from the US to India,...
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August 28, 2025 • 70 mins
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This week on Breaking Banks we're continuing our series on Brett King's new book, Branch Tomorrow. We feature interviews with some of Brett's contributing authors: Bruno Diniz, Efi Pylarinou, Jim Marous, Paolo Sironi, and Richard Turrin. Each author brings specialty in different markets giving Branch Tomorrow a multi-perspective look at banking, banking culture, changes in 'branching' and the future of financial ...
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August 21, 2025 • 35 mins
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This week on Breaking Banks we're excited to introduce Brett King's latest book, Branch Tomorrow. This new book re-examines our understanding of bank branches, banking culture, and the future of financial services across the globe, from the US to India, China and Latin America.
In a special Breaking Banks series, Brett interviews contributing authors Bruno Diniz, Efi Pylarinou, Jim Marous, Paolo Sironi, and Ri...
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August 14, 2025 • 42 mins
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In this episode, Breaking Banks delves into the evolving landscape of financial health standards, exploring how the Financial Health Network is pioneering a new set of standards aimed at designing financial products that prioritize consumer well-being. These standards, set to transform financial services by focusing on customer-centric outcomes, start with a focus on checking accounts and credit cards. encouragin...
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August 7, 2025 • 50 mins
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This week on Breaking Banks, we focus on a fundamental topic in financial services: trust. Trust is the cornerstone of any successful banking relationship. Consumers trust their financial institutions to protect their information and funds—and that trust is warranted. We have guarantees like FDIC insurance to back it up.
The importance of trust is acutely felt in community banking. In this episode, Jason Henri...
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July 31, 2025 • 61 mins
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Today we celebrate the 15th anniversary of Dodd-Frank!
Tune in as Alex Johnson (Fintech Takes), Kiah Haslett (writer and former banking and fintech editor at Bank Director), and Dara Tarkowski (Tech on Reg host and Partner at Actuate Law) join host Jason Henrichs. They dive deep into Dodd-Frank, discussing its successes and shortcomings as the most significant piece of regulatory overhaul of the last century. ...
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July 24, 2025 • 49 mins
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This week on Breaking Banks, join us as we explore how real-time data is helping lenders understand financial behaviors beyond traditional credit scores, as Plaid, the largest financial data network, and Experian, a leading data technology company join forces via their new partnership.
Listen as Michelle Young, Credit Product Lead at Plaid and Ashley Knight, SVP of Product Management at Experian connect with h...
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July 17, 2025 • 52 mins
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JPMorgan Chase has fired the first shot, announcing their plan to charge fintechs what some are calling exorbitant fees for access to customer data. It has the potential to shake the foundations of the open banking movement in the U.S. At the same time, the Section 1033 rule itself is under assault in the courts, and the future of consumer-driven finance hangs in the balance.
In this episode, host JP Nicols is...
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July 10, 2025 • 43 mins
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In June we lost a pillar of our community, Barb MacLean, a brilliant fintech mind and a beloved colleague. A guest turned co-host on Breaking Banks and an invaluable member of Alloy Labs. She was truly special, she never hesitated to pay it forward or to speak truth, albeit in the most polite Canadian way, whether on podcasts or the stages of Finovate.
Every week she curated a list of the most impactful things...
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