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BIGcast — 101 episodes

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Two Conferences, Two Coasts, One Exhausted Fintech Geek

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Agents & AI & Trust & Narrative Control

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Is the "Underbanked" Concept Ripe for a Rethink?

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Keeping It Small, Sustainable

5

Mission (Rock) Accomplished

6

The State(s) of Financial Regulation

7

Stablecoins and AI- Need We Say More?

8

Chicken Wings, Not Sharp Elbows

9

Credit Unions Acquiring Knowledge

10

Taking Turns, Catching Crucial Signals

11

Putting an Accent on Identity, Code Modernization and Fraud

12

Small Businesses, Big Policy Debates

13

How Many CUSOs Can Fit into a Yacht Club?

14

From One Nonprofit to Another

15

Unplugged, Unscripted, Unfiltered

16

2026: Do Markets Still Hate Uncertainty?

17

Turning the Page… or Marking a Checkpoint?

18

Calling "Bingo!" in a Crazy Year

19

Humans in the Loop, on the App, and Sometimes in the Branch

20

Talkin' Turkey with the Team

21

Venturing into the Credit Union Vanguard

22

Launching from Obscurity, Venturing into the Mainstream

23

Agents, Stablecoins, and a Touch of Friction

24

Muddying the Stablecoin Waters- Not a Genius Move

25

The Complicated Road to Financial Health

26

The Smart Money in Vegas

27

An Alternative Voice, an Assertive Approach

28

Fintech Pregaming Reaches New Heights

29

The Great Wealth Transfer/Great Inheritance Drain

30

Getting Real About Artificial Intelligence at Finovate

31

Pardon the Innovation

32

Answering the Innovation Challenge

33

It's a Small (and Chaotic) World After All

34

448 Minutes of Fintech Demos for 475 FIs (and Others)

35

Loaded Wallets, Long Tails- Paze Powers Forward

36

The Voice of Fintech Funding

37

Open Markets, Impatient Rates

38

Newborns, Tips and Decoding the New Rules

39

Starting Simple, Small and with Purpose

40

Consumers Pay in Mysterious Ways (it's alright, it's alright)

41

Circle's Stroke of Genius/Can Anyone Regulate AI?

42

Are Younger Generations Branching Out?

43

The Business of Trust

44

Have Your Bot Call My Bot

45

Will Pay By Bank Run FIs Off the Rails?

46

Getting Direct About ACH

47

Going Where the Trust Is

48

Big Ideas Cut Through the Chaos

49

DeepSeek, ByteDance, and the AI Arms Race

50

No Day of Rest for Payments on Sunday

51

All the News That's Fit To Share (Draft)

52

Defending and Debunking Credit Unions' Tax Status

53

Following the Smart Money at GAC

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A Taxing Week in Washington

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The Sky's the Limit for Credit Union Communication

56

Bringing Loans out of the Lab

57

Scams, Grievances and the Enduring Value of Trust

58

Reimagining Innovation, CUSOs and Big Ideas

59

Where Do the Chips Fall After DeepSeek?

60

How Quickly to Quantum?

61

Crypto Clarity- The Next Frontier

62

2025 Predictions: A Bingo Card for the Ages

63

Without Data, It's All Just Vibes

64

Well, That Just Happened….

65

Can Instant Payments Accelerate?

66

An Important Part of a Balanced Fintech Strategy

67

A Credit Union/Fintech Thanksgiving

68

Good Ideas, Good Investments

69

Identifying the Standouts at Money 20/20

70

Onboarding and Offboarding at Money 20/20

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A Path to Member Prosperity

72

Deliberating Debit, Contemplating Credit

73

AI, Open Banking are En Vogue

74

Show Me the Money

75

Discovering the Drama in Interchange

76

Digging Further at FinovateFall

77

The Best Things I Saw at FinovateFall

78

Retaining Member Trust amid the Decline of Authority

79

The Strange Bedfellows of Bitcoin

80

Ill Communication on Illinois Interchange

81

Big Startup Energy

82

The Evolving Ransomware Threat

83

The Way We Pay Today

84

Transformation in the Face of Turmoil

85

Now It's Getting Personal….

86

Identity, Reward Points and Coffee

87

The Road to Responsible AI

88

Algorithmic Discrimination- and Other Sci-Fi-Sounding Terms Relevant Today

89

Mission, Meaning, Member Value

90

The Familiar Sounds of Future AI

91

Opening Up, for Better or Worse…

92

Hitting Fifty, Still Gaining Speed

93

Combating the Negative Net Worth Mindset

94

Preparing for the 3 M's of AI, and Other Big Ideas

95

Preaching the CUSO Gospel

96

A Bluetooth for Open Banking?

97

Will Lower Broker Fees Upend the CU Mortgage Model?

98

Mining Direct Mail for Competitive Intel

99

Scouting the Next Franchise AI Quarterback

100

Consumers and Members- Unified Needs, Diverse Motivators

101

Navigating a "Vibe-cession," Advocating at Scale