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Sheila Warren on Crypto Regulation, DeGlobalization, and Contagious Policy
Julian Ha interviews Sheila Warren, the CEO of CCI, on Global Trends in Crypto Regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fintech For Farmers?
Chris Brummer sits down with AcreTrader Founder Carter Malloy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Hope Bryant on Entrepreneurialism and Financial Literacy
John Hope Bryant, the famed American financial literacy entrepreneur and businessman, joins the podcast with QED's Amias Gerety to talk about Black Wealth, Entrepreneurs, and Financial Literacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SEC's Allison Lee on Climate, Private Markets and Accredited Investors
Allison Lee sits down to talk priorities and interests as she reaches her final stretch as Commissioner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire co-hosts with Chris Brummer to talk Disclosure NFTs, Disclosure DAOs and More
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire joins the show to co-host and ask Chris Brummer anything and everything about his new white paper, "Disclosure, Dapps and DeFi." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ro Khanna on dignity, big tech, and crypto
Ro Khanna, whose district lies at the center of Silicon Valley, talks about his book "Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us" and how to decentralize opportunity beyond Northern California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Navigating housing inflation, homeowners, and data: A conversation with Finlocker's Brian Vieaux
Brian Vieaux, the President of Finlocker, sits down to talk about the economy and how to reach prospective homeowners "before the point of thought." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: Cryptodollars vs. Digital Dollars
Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, and Fennie Wang, the former associate general counsel of MakerDao, discuss and debate the value of stablecoins and what they mean for central bank digital currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The MLK Day Debrief: Equity crowdfunding at Seed at the Table
Pierre Le Veaux talks about how Seed at the Table is transforming equity crowdfunding to create new opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs. Also: what regulation needs to do its job better for minority communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What's the definition of emeritus? The Fintech Beat awards for 2021
Host Chris Brummer discusses with fintech guru Dan Gorfine what the media missed, and should have ignored, in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: Why does crypto love Twitter?
Lana Swartz discusses cryptotwitter and her book “New Money: How Payments Became Social Media". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The fintech job market for 2022
Executive recruiter David Richardson joins the podcast to talk about where the fintech jobs will be in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why the FTC matters for fintech
Duane Pozza, a former top FTC consumer protection official, explains where unexpected regulatory risk may lurk for privacy, competition, and crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Circle Impact means for crypto's inclusion conversation
Circle's Dante Disparte breaks down the company's inclusion plans and how the stablecoin giant is aiming to reshape crypto's conversation with minority banks, HBCUs and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
D-Cash: How the Eastern Caribbean created one of the first CBDCs
Timothy Antoine, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, shares how the central bank launched one of the world's first central bank digital currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: Bank charters, fintech charters, and crypto
Michele Alt, Dan Awrey and Caitlin Long provide an overview of the world of bank charters and fintech charters — and what they mean for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Fintech Weeks of 2021
Conan French, senior advisor at the Institute of International Finance, sits down with Fintech Beat to talk about the major regulatory themes and developments in the IIF, IMF, World Bank, and DC Fintech Week conferences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Minority banks and the technology stack
Nicole Elam, CEO of the National Bankers Association, and Larry Parks discuss what digital transformation looks like for minority-owned and rural banks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
China's Mu Changchun on the digital yuan
Mu Changchun, director-general of China's central bank digital currency project, talks about the country's "wait and see" innovation path and the design of the digital yuan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: Fintech’s free will
Jenny Xia Spradling, the co-founder of Free Will, recounts her journey, why she walked away from her first startup, and how her new big venture has enabled over $1 billion of donations to nonprofits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why does crypto love Twitter?
Lana Swartz discusses cryptotwitter and her book “New Money: How Payments Became Social Media". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Black and Brown perspectives on crypto and inclusion
Dante Disparte, Tonya Evans and Carmelle Cadet, three of the most visible minorities in crypto, talk about digital assets and financial inclusion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Innovating the gig economy
Matt Spoke, the CEO of Moves Financial, talks about what it takes to innovate for the gig worker and change labor's relationship to capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The bill to bring crypto clarity?
Congress is trying to bring clarity to crypto. In this episode, we discuss the most ambitious proposal to date with former CFTC General Counsel Patrick McCarty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Exit interview with Brian Quintenz
Former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz joins Fintech Beat to talk about his tenure and the recent confrontations between the crypto industry and government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: Non-Fungible Tokens: Hope or hype?
Nic Carter and Amy Luo explain how NFTs work, and what their meteoric rise means for the mainstreaming of blockchain technology and securities law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: Innovating informal economies through COVID-19
The United Nations Capital Development Fund’s lead for digitalization in West Africa provides an insider’s account of the region's innovation curve, and how mobile payments, digital identities and ecommerce solutions are transforming what it means to have an “informal” economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Does the Fed innovate?
Sunayna Tuteja, The Federal Reserve's Chief Innovation Officer, gives her first interview since taking the post and offers insight on the Federal Reserve, and what it takes to move from the private sector to government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crypto goes to Washington
Kristin Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at the infrastructure bill and crypto-lobbying in Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Curated fintech
Venture capitalists Tyler Griffin and Ryan Falvey break down how the next generation of fintech is leveraging technology to both scale and serve diverse customer bases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bank charters, fintech charters, and crypto
Michele Alt, Dan Awrey and Caitlin Long provide an overview of the world of bank charters and fintech charters — and what they mean for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The sustainable investing start-up
Fintech Beat sits down with Stefania Di Bartolomeo, CEO of Physis Investment, to talk about impact investing and the rising tide of startups aiming to shape ESG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dan Tarullo and Caitlin Long on capital rules for crypto
Former Federal Reserve Board Governor Dan Tarullo and Avanti founder Caitlin Long discuss the Basel Committee’s proposed guidance on capital rules for crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Regulated liabilities and the internet of value
Digital assets have very different technical features. What is regulation's role in their interoperability? Citi's Tony McLaughlin and Jai Messari join the show to discuss McLaughlin's new paper, “The Regulated Internet of Value”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our 100th Episode: Barry Eichengreen on CBDCs and the dominance of the US dollar
This week we celebrate our 100th episode with an encore presentation of our conversation with Barry Eichengreen on whether a foreign CBDC could displace the US dollar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Special edition: BIS head of research on bank’s annual CBDC overview
Hyun Song Shin, the economic adviser and head of research for the Bank for International Settlements, breaks down the bank’s assessment of central bank digital currencies in its annual economic report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Rogers Jr. and Robert Smith on Black banks and the digital economy
John Rogers Jr., the co-CEO of Ariel Investments, the oldest Black-owned asset management firm, and Robert Smith, Vista Equity’s CEO and the wealthiest Black person in America, talk about Black banks and the challenges of digitalization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ESG or crypto: Which is the unstoppable force?
The World Economic Forum’s Sheila Warren and Global Digital Finance’s Jeff Bandman discuss whether ESG — and by extension, climate, governance and diversity considerations — will impact the future of crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The startup innovating the fintech of food stamps
The CEO of Propel, a startup dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health, sits down to talk about how his venture capital-backed startup is innovating how food stamp recipients manage their benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: All you need to know about Ant Group (and its cancelled IPO)
Fintech Beat is off for Memorial Day, so we decided to look back at an episode with Hong Kong University professor Douglas Arner where we talked about the origins of Ant Group, its regulatory shortcomings in the Chinese financial system, and when he expects to see an IPO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Platform gamification, video games and addiction
Therapist and social worker Andrew Fishman joins the show to talk about video games, addictive apps and investing platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Demystifying DeFi
Rebecca Rettig, the General Counsel of Aave, breaks down open-source, non-custodial protocols, and the operational mechanics of decentralized finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The GameStop hearings — and what comes next
Dennis Kelleher, the CEO of Better Markets and point man for investor advocacy in D.C., provides an insider account of the GameStop hearings — and what comes next at the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Singapore’s fintech chief breaks down Partior, its blockchain-based cross-border payments system
Sopnendu Mohanty, Singapore’s fintech chief, breaks down Partior, the “watershed” blockchain-based platform for cross-border payments announced by JPMorgan Chase, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings and DBS Group Holdings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crypto custody 101
Ed Nalbantian and Mark Rasmussen join the podcast to compare crypto custody in the EU and US—and whether custodians have to return forked cryptoassets to account holders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The fintech jobs market
Executive recruiter David Richardson joins the show to talk about where the fintech jobs are, and what sectors have been most impacted by the industry's explosive growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mapping fintech in Latin America
Venture capitalists Ben Savage and Jonathan Whittle join Korefusion’s Alejandro Gonzalez Sanchez to break down investing in the immense region, and how it differs from the rest of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why startup employees don’t exercise their stock options
Frederik Mijnhardt, CEO of Secfi, joins Fintech Beat to explain why 80 percent of startup employees don’t exercise their stock options — and what that means for drivers of wealth in the innovation economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Encore: The tax man
Tax season is upon us, so Fintech Beat wanted to take the opportunity to look back at an episode with one of the IRS’s top crypto cops to discuss how the agency views crypto and what it does with crypto seizures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Non-Fungible Tokens: Hope or hype?
Nic Carter and Amy Luo explain how NFTs work, and what their meteoric rise means for the mainstreaming of blockchain technology and securities law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices