Breaking Banks: Fintech superheroes
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 confer...
30 Jun 201757min
How money anxiety is affecting Americans' financial decisions
Dr. Dan Geller, behavioral economist and author of the book Money Anxiety, explains why Americans are more stressed about their finances than ever before and how fear affects their decisions about fin...
27 Jun 201712min
Breaking Banks: Removing the mystery of money movement
Why does it cost so much to move money? If every record is computerized, if all the movement is recorded electronically- then why the fees to get money out of a different banks atm? Why the fees to ...
23 Jun 201755min
Credit scores will change in July — what lenders can expect
Next month, the credit bureaus will have to drop information about tax liens and civil judgments from credit scores unless they can independently verify the data. Eva Wolkowitz, manager of the Center ...
20 Jun 201726min
Breaking Banks: Watson fixes Regtech; crazy cryptocurrency
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 Bef...
16 Jun 201756min
An online loan in five minutes? This startup says it's possible
Dan O'Malley, who until very recently ran the fintech incubator at Eastern Bank (and before that was at Capital One), now has a startup called Numerated Growth Technologies and software that he says c...
13 Jun 201715min
Breaking Banks: Building bridges between AI and humans
To teach artificial intelligence to responsibly execute human goals, like driverless driving and automated loan decisions, there's a need to build bridges between human thought and language computers ...
9 Jun 201754min
How to catch the 'rogues' threatening your institution
Some of the biggest risks facing any large bank come from within, such as human error or mischievous traders. Andrew Waxman, a risk management consultant and author of the new book, Rogues of Wall Str...
6 Jun 201721min
