Breaking Banks Asia Pacific

Breaking Banks Asia Pacific


Latest Episodes

Episode 33: Bitcoin people will not eat your children
June 27, 2024

Though Bitcoin is still deep in the valley of disillusion, innovators continue to find new ways to meet investor needs with Blockchain. In this episode we speak with two people at the frontline of cap

Episode 32: StraitsX Co-founder Liu Tianwei on stablecoins and the future of payments
June 11, 2024

StraitsX is the issuer of the world’s first Singapore Dollar stablecoin, XSGD, and XIDR, the StraitsX Indonesian Rupiah stablecoin, and is also a Major Payment Institution in Singapore, enabling account holders to manage payments

Episode 31: When open banking goes global
May 28, 2024

With Asian markets making the leap into open banking and open finance, there’s new talk of cross-border open banking and open finance. We sat down with opn payments and open banking experts Lauren Jones and Nilixa Devlukia at Money 20/20 Asia t

Episode 30: How to get people to switch from cash to digital 
May 14, 2024

Sometimes it takes out of the box thinking to get people to make the move from cash to digital money. And if there is one person who has had to think deeply around this issue, it’s Jojo Malolos, currently the CEO of Philippines payment service

Episode 29: Hot takes from Money20/20 Asia 
May 02, 2024

The team from Breaking Banks Asia meet forward thinkers to sum up last week’s Money 20/20 Asia conference with a focus on the investment outlook for startups and fintechs, the key themes coming out of the conference and how banks and their comp

Episode 28: What will kill cash? Part II
April 16, 2024

In this second part of our series on cash, cards and digital wallets, we shift our focus to the challenges and opportunities of an entirely digital payments world and look to the innovation happening

Episode 27: “Don’t be a dick” 
March 27, 2024

Debanking is a real problem for fintechs operating in Australia. Local companies and foreign intrants alike are not immune to a 30-minutes-to-midnight text saying “your accounts will be closed from tomorrow”. Stuart Stoyan, founder of Mo

Episode 26: What will kill cash?
March 19, 2024

In Part 1 of this two-part show we explore the resilience of cash for payments.From cards and digital wallets to superapps and digital currency, we ask the experts whats the killer app to kill cash in Asia, and what would mass uptake of global digi

Episode 25: Untangling Filipinos’ complicated financial lives 
February 27, 2024

There’s a story told by the World Bank that in 2009 more people in the Philippines had a mobile phone than a bank account despite there still being some 450 rural banks alone in the country. Today, that story might be apocryphal and it also doesn&

Episode 24: Who guards bankingland’s walled garden? These guys 
February 20, 2024

Regtech is the unloved tech cousin of the fintech world. It’s the one which follows the rules and makes sure everyone else does too. But in an industry where not following the rules leads to some of the most spectacular catastrophes in history, it&#