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Episode 33: Bitcoin people will not eat your children
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
StraitsX isthe issuer of the world's first Singapore Dollar stablecoin, XSGD, and XIDR, theStraitsXIndonesian Rupiah stablecoin, and is also a Major Payment Institution in Singapore, enabling accou
Episode 31: When open banking goes global
With Asian markets making the leap intoopen 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 Jon
Episode 30: How to get people to switch from cash to digital
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, c
Episode 29: Hot takes from Money20/20 Asia
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, thekey themes coming out of
Episode 28: What will kill cash? Part II
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”
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 to
Episode 26: What will kill cash?
In Part 1 of this two-part showwe 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 ca
Episode 25: Untangling Filipinos’ complicated financial lives
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,
Episode 24: Who guards bankingland’s walled garden? These guys
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 t