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Episode 23: Will banking as a service trump core banking?
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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