American Banker Podcast

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How money anxiety is affecting Americans' financial decisions Jun 27, 2017

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Dr. Dan Geller, behavioral economist and author of the book Money Anxiety, explains why Americans are more stressed about their finances than ever before and how fear affects their decisions about financial products and banks. Due to the July 4 holiday, the next American Banker podcast will air July 11.

Breaking Banks: Removing the mystery of money movement Jun 23, 2017

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Why does it cost so much to move money? If every record is computerized, if all the movement is recorded electronically- then why the fees to get money out of a different banks atm? Why the fees to spend your money in another country? Is it that expensive to move money? And does it need to be anymore?

On today's show, Brett King hosts Bill Barnhydt of Abra, and Shachar Bialick of Curve- two fintech companies trying to solve this issue, making it better, cheaper and smarter to use your money where you are and how you need.

Also, Penny Crosman joins from American Banker, to give the news overview.

Credit scores will change in July — what lenders can expect Jun 20, 2017

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Next month, the credit bureaus will have to drop information about tax liens and civil judgments from credit scores unless they can independently verify the data. Eva Wolkowitz, manager of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, and Sarah Davies, senior vice president of VantageScore, share their take on what this means for the credit scores lenders use.

Breaking Banks: Watson fixes Regtech; crazy cryptocurrency Jun 16, 2017

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No one can decide if ICOs have caused cryptocurrrencies to really "arrive" or if this is just a cryptocurrency bubble. Today, we have people to help us make sense of it all. Dave Birch, Author of Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin is going to tell us why Bitcoin is not the savior we think it is, but it kinda is. We have on Charlie Shrem and Anthony Di Iorio from Jaxx Blockchain Interface- a multi-token blockchain wallet to take us through the ICO madness, and what we can expect in the near future. And we have Marc Hochstein from American Banker on to talk about why he was wrong about bitcoin.

Also- Marc Andrews, VP of Watson Financial Services Solutions explains how the famed AI- IBM Watson- is going to augment and fix with their new regtech cognitive solutions suite.

An online loan in five minutes? This startup says it's possible Jun 13, 2017

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Dan O'Malley, who until very recently ran the fintech incubator at Eastern Bank (and before that was at Capital One), now has a startup called Numerated Growth Technologies and software that he says can process loans in five minutes. O'Malley explains how it all works in this podcast.

Breaking Banks: Building bridges between AI and humans Jun 09, 2017

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To teach artificial intelligence to responsibly execute human goals, like driverless driving and automated loan decisions, there's a need to build bridges between human thought and language computers can understand, Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, explains in this week's episode of Breaking Banks.

How to catch the 'rogues' threatening your institution Jun 06, 2017

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Some of the biggest risks facing any large bank come from within, such as human error or mischievous traders. Andrew Waxman, a risk management consultant and author of the new book, Rogues of Wall Street, discusses how cognitive psychology and augmented intelligence offer help.

Breaking Banks: Bitcoin's backstory; Fintech in Charlotte Jun 02, 2017

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American Banker reporter Brian Eha shares stories and thoughts from his new book, "How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance," and two fintech leaders explain why Charlotte is destined to be the next big fintech hub.

Why small businesses are more willing than ever to switch banks May 30, 2017

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A new survey finds that 14% of small and medium-size businesses switched banks last year and 18% are considering switching this year. Having an appealing mobile app is critical to keeping small business owners happy, according to Doug Brown, senior vice president of FIS. He explains why, and also shares some of the study's observations about millennials.

Breaking Banks: AI, fintech and regtech May 26, 2017

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There is no question that AI presents exciting new solutions and happy additions to our lives. But in order for us to truly take advantage and prepare for a future when cars are not privately owned and are self-driving, energy is green, abundant, and cheap, and robots replace workers at a dramatic rate, changing the nature of work forever. To talk about this future and how fundamental "fintech" principles are to it, Brett is hosting thought leaders – JoAnn Barefoot of Barefoot Innovation, Greg Cross of Soulmachines, and Tony Seba, Author of "Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation"

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