Breaking Banks Asia Pacific

Breaking Banks Asia Pacific


Latest Episodes

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

Episode 17: You can bank on it: trust and winning customers from incumbent banks
November 14, 2023

Trust in banks in some markets in the Asia Pacific is at an all time low - so youd think that would give fintechs and neobanks a red hot chance at stealing main bank customers - think again! In this

Episode 16: India’s green shadow banking system
November 07, 2023

India is putting the legal building blocks in place that will create real domestic carbon markets, and it is opening the door for fintechs to begin playing a significant role in fixing the countrys e

Episode 15: Can we trust banks to use AI responsibly?
October 10, 2023

The Australian government is in the middle of a review of AI use, fielding submissions in response to a paper it put out in June on government mechanisms to ensure AI is developed and used safely and

Episode 14: How Asia’s Gen Z will change global fintech
September 22, 2023

There's no doubt Gen Zs will change fintech as we know it, but the ones likely to have the most influence? Kids today in Asia. Fintech ideas born in Asia are starting to influence trends around th