Breaking Banks Asia Pacific

Breaking Banks Asia Pacific


Latest Episodes

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 to

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

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 
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,

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 t

Episode 23: Will banking as a service trump core banking?
February 13, 2024

Banks replacing their core banking has been likened to doing brain surgery with a spoon and there are plenty of public examples where the surgery partly or completely failed.Is Banking As A Service

Episode 22: Orwellian dystopia or sci-fi future? Australia grapples with a digital ID 
February 06, 2024

A bill to introduce a digital ID is making its way through the Australian Parliament to better protect government-based identities and stem the flow of consumer data from insecure vaults. Bank-based

Episode 21: What does 2024 hold for fintech in China? 
January 30, 2024

2024 is shaping up as the Year of the e-CNY, but can China be trusted with a global reserve CBDC? Our last guest Richard Holden says no. Cashless author Richard Turrin offers a full-throated reply, sa

Episode 20: Money in the 21st Century
January 16, 2024

Host Charis Palmer sits down with economist Richard Holden to chat about his new book: Money in the 21st Century and why he believes the US Fed needs to get going with a 'Fedcoin', and the global econ

Episode 19: Hot takes from the 2023 Singapore Fintech Festival
December 05, 2023

The hosts and producers of Breaking Banks Asia and Breaking Banks Europe get together to swap stories at the world's biggest fintech event. Plus interviews on the sidelines with DigiFT founder and for

Episode 18: Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters on why he loves fintechs
November 21, 2023

Hes the CEO of one of the worlds biggest banks, but has never been afraid of disrupting the mother ship with digital contenders. In Singapore recently for the fintech festival, we caught up with Sta