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Breaking Banks: Blockchain developments encourage banks, frustrate purists Mar 03, 2017

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Much progress has been made lately, for bitcoin and blockchain. Bitcoin is now worth, literally, as much as gold. Thai Stock Exchange is planning to use blockchain for a new startup marketplace. Banks have signaled bullishness toward blockchain tech. But bitcoin and blockchain purists say ignorance around distributed ledger and cryptocurrency technology is leading to ill-informed choices.

How likely are fraud victims to leave their bank? Feb 27, 2017

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Professor Rahul Telang at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College analyzed the behavior of 500,000 bank customers over five years to observe their reactions to adverse events such as fraud on their bank account. It's a rare objective measure of the effect of fraud on customer retention.

Breaking Banks: Fintech and the refugee crisis Feb 20, 2017

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Brett King, Marc Hochstein of American Banker, and Peter Renton, Founder of LendIt Academy, talk about the upcoming Digital Identity Crisis Webinar, The LendIt Conference at the Javits Center in NYC, and the proposed Fintech Charter and what that can mean for changes in banking in the US.

Sam Maule takes the helm in the second half, and talks to Zeina Shuhaibar from the IRC, Ashish Gadnis, Founder/CEO of BanQu Inc., and Aneesh Varma, Founder of Aire (Credit scores for humanity @AireScore) to talk about fintech solutions to help refugees regain some economic stability and contribute to the economies of their new domiciles.

Should banks spell out how they invest customer deposits? Feb 14, 2017

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Trust and transparency can be strengthened and like-minded borrowers and banks can be brought together if transactions are "tagged" and investments are explained, argues Bruce Cahan, adjunct professor at Stanford University.

Breaking Banks: Mobile Money in Kenya Feb 10, 2017

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MPESA, the Swahili word for money, is Kenya's mobile money system developed by Safaricom. It has literally transformed the ability for people to work, save, pay for everything from groceries, bills, rents, and everything else. Kenya reports that use of MPESA has helped to lift 186,000 families out of poverty. That is nearly 2% of the entire population. And it has helped wealth grow across the board, helping to develop a stronger middle class.

Today, Breaking Banks tells the story of MPESA, and how it came to partner with banks, particularly KCB, to give all people access to banking services, to easy movement of their money, increasing their ability to save and build wealth in their lives.

Breaking Banks: Fintech in Asia Feb 03, 2017

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Hong Kong and Singapore have long been economic crossroads. China and India are economies with vast populations and huge potential. And Shenzhen is bursting with innovative creativity. All of these contribute to the Asian fintech market being far ahead in adoption and ecosystem creation.

What an MIT professor learned by monitoring traders' emotions Jan 30, 2017

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Andrew Lo straps sensors to traders and watches how their pulses and body temperatures change when markets dive or trades go bad. The technology could be used elsewhere in a bank to address problems before they escalate.

Breaking Banks: Digital Money Forum at CES Jan 27, 2017

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Insights from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: How can AI help consumers spend and save wisely? If friction should be added back into the system, can we put it where it is useful, not frustrating?

Breaking Banks: Why banks aren't quite ready for Amazon Alexa. Jan 23, 2017

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Guest host Sam Maule speaks with American Banker reporter Lalita Clozel, Sam Hodges, managing director of Funding Circle, and Normand Lepine, senior practice lead at NTT DATA about U.S. regulators' approach to fintech companies and trends in smart home devices. Sam then interviews Brian Roemmele, founder of PayFinders.com, about the growth of virtual assistants and the security and compliance issues of far-field versions like Amazon Alexa, and Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group, about digital marketing.

Small things make a big difference, mobile check deposit edition Jan 19, 2017

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Jim Van Dyke, CEO of futurion, discusses the correlations between mobile deposit features, the ratings of those features, and app adoption.

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