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Fintech Beat — 189 episodes

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Banking on Blockchain: Ukraine’s First Instant Payments Rail

2

Brazil’s Real Backed Stablecoin—and What its Success Means for PIX, Dollarization and Instant payments

3

AI Agents, Crypto and the Law

4

ICO 2.0? How Legion Wants to Remake Crypto Fundraising

5

Nic Carter Talks Academic Philosophy, Chokepoint 2.0 and Stablecoins in Emerging Markets

6

The DOJ takes a bite of the big Apple

7

Appnesia, Screen Scraping and APIs

8

Genuine DeFi as Critical Infrastructure

9

Competing for Banking

10

Special episode: Colonel Sara Dudley on Digital Assets and National Security

11

The future of identity

12

Everything you need to know about the OTC Markets

13

Can Africa’s Payments Unicorn Conquer the World?

14

Grayscale's Oral Argument

15

Why Investors (Still) Love SaaS

16

Simon Taylor dishes out some (fintech brain) food

17

Hyun Song Shin on Unified Ledgers, Tokenized Deposits, and Governance

18

What Elections in the EU and UK Mean for Crypto, CBDC and AI Legislation

19

MDIs after Silicon Valley Bank: A Conversation with FDIC Vice Chair Travis Hill

20

MDIs after Silicon Valley Bank: A Conversation with OCC Acting Comptroller Mike Hsu

21

Payments 101: Checks, ACH, FedWire, Stablecoins, CBDCs (and more)

22

UK Crypto Regulation (and MiCA)

23

What is (Good and Bad about) Embedded Finance?

24

Is this crisis (really) like 2008?

25

Dante Disparte on Circle, Stablecoins and Silicon Valley Bank’s Lessons for Policymakers

26

Product Market Fit

27

Chat GPT’s IP Landmines

28

The Past and Future Silicon Valley

29

Howey gonna regulate crypto?

30

After the Asteroid: What’s next for Fintech in 2023?

31

The Vanishing Fintech IPO

32

Crypto after the Crash: The View from Singapore

33

What's the carbon footprint of your bank account?

34

Thanksgiving Replay: European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili and EU's Peter Kerstens on MICA

35

Figure CEO Mike Cagney on (Real World) Blockchain Applications

36

Karen Webster, CEO of Pyments.com, joins the Beat

37

Mairead McGuinness on Innovation, Crypto Regulation and EuropM

38

What Fintechs and Regulators Have in Common

39

Converging on DC Fintech Week

40

Do NFTs require decentralized law?

41

Home Prices and Mortgage Costs: Why the US Housing Regulator is Looking Into Fintech

42

Ransomware (and Crypto) 101

43

European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili and EU's Peter Kerstens on MICA

44

Richard Bookstaber on Fintech, Diversification and the Volatility Paradox

45

Blockchains as "Last Mile" Infrastructure in the Global South

46

The "How" of the Global Economy

47

BIS's Hyun Song Shin on Crypto, CBDCs, and Designing Money

48

Market Swings, Software-Based Investing--and Community Banking

49

There’s nothing Micro about a Billion Women: Mary Iskenderian on Microfinance

50

Robinhood on Volatility, Regulation, and the New Retail Investor

51

Sheila Warren on Crypto Regulation, DeGlobalization, and Contagious Policy

52

Fintech For Farmers?

53

John Hope Bryant on Entrepreneurialism and Financial Literacy

54

SEC's Allison Lee on Climate, Private Markets and Accredited Investors

55

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire co-hosts with Chris Brummer to talk Disclosure NFTs, Disclosure DAOs and More

56

Ro Khanna on dignity, big tech, and crypto

57

Navigating housing inflation, homeowners, and data: A conversation with Finlocker's Brian Vieaux

58

Encore: Cryptodollars vs. Digital Dollars

59

The MLK Day Debrief: Equity crowdfunding at Seed at the Table

60

What's the definition of emeritus? The Fintech Beat awards for 2021

61

Encore: Why does crypto love Twitter?

62

The fintech job market for 2022

63

Why the FTC matters for fintech

64

What Circle Impact means for crypto's inclusion conversation

65

D-Cash: How the Eastern Caribbean created one of the first CBDCs

66

Encore: Bank charters, fintech charters, and crypto

67

The Fintech Weeks of 2021

68

Minority banks and the technology stack

69

China's Mu Changchun on the digital yuan

70

Encore: Fintech’s free will

71

Why does crypto love Twitter?

72

Black and Brown perspectives on crypto and inclusion

73

Innovating the gig economy

74

The bill to bring crypto clarity?

75

Exit interview with Brian Quintenz

76

Encore: Non-Fungible Tokens: Hope or hype?

77

Encore: Innovating informal economies through COVID-19

78

Does the Fed innovate?

79

Crypto goes to Washington

80

Curated fintech

81

Bank charters, fintech charters, and crypto

82

The sustainable investing start-up

83

Dan Tarullo and Caitlin Long on capital rules for crypto

84

Regulated liabilities and the internet of value

85

Our 100th Episode: Barry Eichengreen on CBDCs and the dominance of the US dollar

86

Special edition: BIS head of research on bank’s annual CBDC overview

87

John Rogers Jr. and Robert Smith on Black banks and the digital economy

88

ESG or crypto: Which is the unstoppable force?

89

The startup innovating the fintech of food stamps

90

Encore: All you need to know about Ant Group (and its cancelled IPO)

91

Platform gamification, video games and addiction

92

Demystifying DeFi

93

The GameStop hearings — and what comes next

94

Singapore’s fintech chief breaks down Partior, its blockchain-based cross-border payments system

95

Crypto custody 101

96

The fintech jobs market

97

Mapping fintech in Latin America

98

Why startup employees don’t exercise their stock options

99

Encore: The tax man

100

Non-Fungible Tokens: Hope or hype?

101

Roboadvising 101 with Wealthfront’s Andy Rachleff

102

An interview with the developer who owns $400 million in Bitcoin — but forgot his password

103

Did social media 'manipulate' GameStop?

104

Kyckr gives the scoop on anti-money laundering compliance

105

Silicon Valley Bank on financing startups, ESG and the future of risk

106

Encore: The Bank for International Settlements tackles Central Bank Digital Currencies

107

Tackling bias with math and Zest

108

Ben Mezrich on the Winklevoss twins and Bitcoin

109

MLK Day Special: Coinbase and race

110

Making fintech flourish

111

Fintech’s futures past

112

All you need to know about Ant Group (and its cancelled IPO)

113

What’s digital “infrastructure”?

114

The outsider

115

Fintech’s free will

116

What to make of 2020's fintech conferences

117

Brex founder and co-CEO Henrique DuBugras co-hosts Fintech Beat to discuss regulatory diversity

118

How Switzerland will regulate Libra

119

How Mpesa has transformed the world

120

The Fed, fintech, and corporate bond markets

121

Fundbox's big payback

122

How the EU is revolutionizing stablecoin (and crypto) oversight

123

The case for caution with central bank digital currencies

124

Who should be an accredited investor?

125

The ethical algorithm

126

Cognitive diversity and the smart team

127

What do the US sanctions of WeChat and TikTok mean for fintech?

128

Innovating informal economies through COVID-19

129

Wirecard vs. the Twitter hack

130

Engineering the lean startup

131

Cryptodollars vs. Digital Dollars

132

Fintech goes Public

133

Brian Brooks on the Community Reinvestment Act—and fintech

134

The Bank for International Settlements tackles Central Bank Digital Currencies

135

Is fintech the future of the internet?

136

NY’s top financial regulator talks justice — and launches “DFS FastForward”, Ep. 54

137

Banking on women and the underserved during COVID-19, Ep. 53

138

The futures of Ether, Ep. 52

139

Could a CBDC topple the US dollar? Ep. 51

140

China’s digital yuan gets ready for prime time, Ep. 50

141

Is Libra 2.0 Good Enough? Ep. 49

142

Comparing COVID-19 and fintech in Hong Kong and China, Ep. 48

143

E-commerce, surveillance, and COVID-19 in China, Ep. 47

144

Save that money, Ep. 46

145

How will fintechs survive a new financial crisis? Ep. 45

146

Fintech and the coronavirus pandemic, Ep. 44

147

Fintech in the UK after Brexit, Ep. 43

148

Crypto, correlation and the coronavirus, Ep. 42

149

Fintech in the Caribbean, Ep. 41

150

Mapping Financial Inclusion, Ep. 40

151

Crypto Derivatives, Ep. 39

152

Wall Street Czar Linda Lacewell, Ep. 38

153

Bitcoin Intermediaries, Ep. 37

154

Iran, North Korea and Crypto, Ep 36

155

The Ethical Algorithm, Ep. 35

156

Open Banking 2.0, Ep. 34

157

The Year in Fintech, Ep. 33

158

Fintech Beat sits down for a one on one with Maxine Waters, Ep. 32

159

The Transfer Agent, Ep. 31

160

Curing the Small Business Recession, Ep 30

161

The Digital Redback, Ep. 29

162

Open Banking 101, Ep. 28

163

The Fintech Week, Ep. 27

164

Ethereum 2.0, Ep. 26

165

The "Bridge" Currency, Ep. 25

166

Blockchain and Remittances, Ep. 24

167

Uber meets Fintech, Ep. 23

168

The Magic Number, Ep. 22

169

The Bad Money Episode, Ep. 21

170

The Tax Man, Ep. 20

171

The Investors, Ep. 19

172

The Building Buyer, Ep. 18

173

The Comptroller of the Currency, Ep. 17

174

The Playlist, Ep. 16

175

The Central Bank Digital Currency, Ep. 15

176

The Feedback and the Pacte Ep. 14

177

The Architect, Ep. 13

178

The Bank of England, Ep 12

179

The Blockchain Detective, Ep. 11

180

The Blurred Lines, Ep 10

181

The Economist, Ep. 9

182

The Crypto Spring, Ep. 8

183

The European Regulator, Ep. 7

184

The Facebook Coin, Ep. 6

185

The Fintech Trade Wars, Ep. 5

186

The Exchanges, Ep. 4

187

The Wallet, Ep. 3

188

The Regulator, Ep. 2

189

The Presale, Ep. 1