Barefoot Innovation Podcast
218 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJo Ann Barefoot discusses disrupting innovation in the financial services sector and beyond.
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Collaboration Innovation: Charlotte Crosswell and Dan Morgan of Innovate Finance
March 07, 2018 22:25 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBI always love it when we find innovation in unexpected places, not just in the financial products and channels and regulatory issues we discuss, but also in people inventing new ways to get things done. Today’s guests talk about taking a very old kind of entity -- the industry trade association -- and updating it for the 21st century financial world. As often happens with innovation, the thing that’s new is actually very simple, maybe even obvious, and yet when you set it in motion, things...
Finance and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Tim Pawlenty, CEO of Financial Services Roundtable
February 12, 2018 04:52 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBToday’s guest is a familiar name and face for everyone who follows U.S. politics. He is Tim Pawlenty, CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable. Tim was previously Governor of Minnesota and became well-known to most of us when he ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He’s been a prominent voice on public policy for many years. He was also a speaker on a panel I moderated last fall at Money 2020 on financial innovation and regulation. We decided to continue that conversation ...
The Data Economy: A Lively London Debate on Fintech in Europe and Africa
January 28, 2018 21:15 - 1 hour - 117 MBThis is the most fun show we’ve done in ages, or maybe ever. My friend Jean-Stephane Gourevitch offered to gather some really interesting people in London to talk about the data economy. We finally sat down last fall, during London’s Regtech Rising conference, and wow, did we talk. Jean-Stephane himself is French, based in London, and works with fintech startups throughout the world. His guests were, first, Edward George, who leads both research and the UK representative office for the pan...
The Future of Regulation: The FCA's Reg-Tech Leader, Nick Cook
January 09, 2018 02:56 - 1 hour - 106 MBWhat if regulation, as we know it, might disappear? Regulation will never stop, of course, but what if some of it will take on a new form, shaped by technology? What if we’re entering into a new era of what we could call “digitally-native” regulation, that’s as agile and intuitive about regulation as digitally-native consumers are about consumer technology? Of all the shows we’ve ever done, I think this is the most mold-breaking and thought-provoking. My guest comes from the agency that ...
Innovating in Payments: Wells Fargo Head of Partnerships and Industry Relations - Braden More
January 02, 2018 17:06 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBI could tell I was walking into an innovation lab even before I saw the space, because I could hear the ping pong game underway as I stepped off the elevator. It was great fun to be in San Francisco, on a sunny day in early fall, to talk with Braden More, Wells Fargo’s head of partnerships and industry relations -- and to see their fascinating innovation facility, which includes what they call their R&D Garage. As Braden explains in our talk, Wells Fargo has reorganized to establish an in...
Regulation Innovation: The FCA's Christopher Woolard
December 10, 2017 15:52 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBI’ve been looking forward to today’s show since my very first visit to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, over two years ago. It was clear even then that they were doing something completely new for a regulatory agency. They were innovating. Not just creating new regulations, but actually rethinking how to create them. Reinventing the regulatory process itself. Specifically, they were responding to the novelty and especially the rapid pace of technology change in finance by creating an...
Real Lives: Rachel Schneider and the Financial Diaries
November 02, 2017 01:15 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBIf you spend a lot of time in Washington, as I do, you see a lot of issues framed around statistics about people, especially medians, and averages. For instance, policies aimed at helping lower-income people typically stratify Americans into categories, in bands above and below median income, or median incomes in their census tracts. I’ve worked with programs like this for decades -- HUD housing and mortgage programs, the Community Reinvestment Act, and many others. And then one day, some...
Big Banks and Big Ideas: Citi FinTech's Andres Wolberg-Stok
October 01, 2017 18:24 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBMy guest today is Andres Wolberg Stok, Global Head of Policy at Citi Fin Tech. We got to know each other this year on a panel at FinXTech in New York, and something I immediately noticed is that he has a special way of talking about innovation -- a very fresh way with words. It might be because he’s lived all over the world, or because he was once a journalist -- see his biography below for a sampling of his journalism adventures, which sound like plots of action/adventure movies. All lar...
The VC Perspective: Miles Reidy of QED Investors
September 19, 2017 14:40 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBThis episode is a special treat because it’s both fascinating and fun. My guest is Miles Reidy, partner at QED Investors in Alexandria, Virginia. Many people know that QED was founded by former leaders of Capital One, including Cap One co-founder Nigel Morris. They have a terrific track record of investing, focused mainly especially on fintech. Miles and I discussed two topics. One is the outlook for regtech, which he’s excited about and so am I. The other, which I know is going to be an ...
A Healthy Credit Card: Jason Gross, CEO of Petal
September 12, 2017 14:22 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBI love having guests on the show who look at something that everyone takes for granted and said, why do we do it that way? That’s what today’s guest, Jason Gross, has done with credit cards. Jason is the CEO of Petal. He and his co-founders have designed a card that has a different business model and aims at a different market. Credit cards have always sparked mixed feelings among consumer advocates and policymakers. On the upside, they provide incredible convenience and safety, over cash...
The ABA's Regulatory Compliance Conference (Part 2)
September 06, 2017 19:50 - 1 hour - 115 MBGift from Gene Ludwig - Compliance isn't Mickey Mouse This is a very special show because we recorded it directly from the bustling floor of the American Bankers Association’s 2017 Regulatory Compliance Conference. The RCC has long been the preeminent gathering of compliance professionals in the United States and, not surprisingly, it’s growing -- with another attendance record this year at 1800 people. That makes it one of the largest events of the US banking industry. We gathered in...
The ABA's Regulatory Compliance Conference (Part 1)
September 06, 2017 19:48 - 1 hour - 116 MBFrom the main stage This is a very special show because we recorded it directly from the bustling floor of the American Bankers Association’s 2017 Regulatory Compliance Conference. The RCC has long been the preeminent gathering of compliance professionals in the United States and, not surprisingly, it’s growing -- with another attendance record this year at 1800 people. That makes it one of the largest events of the US banking industry. We gathered in Orlando this summer to grapple wi...
Access For All: CIIE’s Sanjay Jain and the India Stack
August 23, 2017 06:00 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBMy guest today is Sanjay Jain, Chief Innovation Officer at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). Among many high-impact achievements, Sanjay helped lead creation of one of the most ambitious government infrastructure initiatives ever undertaken -- the so-called India Stack that is connecting everyone in India to the financial system and mainstream commerce, by providing a biometric ID. I met Sanjay at the Jakarta international regulator meeting I’ve mentioned b...
We Have Less Time than We Think: Singapore's Sopnendu Mohanty
August 16, 2017 15:56 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBI met today’s guest, Sopnendu Mohanty, about 18 months ago. I moderated a panel on blockchain for last year’s MIT Fintech Conference, and Sop, who is the Chief Fintech Officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, was a panelist -- explaining how MAS was building a regional innovation hub that included blockchain strategies. Since then I’ve seen him three more times -- once at Harvard, which he visited with the visionary head of MAS, Ravi Menon; once when I spoke at MAS’s enormous confer...
Banks and Community : CSBS President John Ryan
August 07, 2017 21:27 - 1 hour - 126 MBMy favorite episodes of Barefoot Innovation are the ones that take a philosophical turn. That happened with John Ryan, the thoughtful president of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, which is the organization that coordinates America’s state-level financial regulators. As you would expect, John and I began by discussing the events that have CSBS in the news these days. One is the launch of its Vision 2020 project to streamline state licensing and examinations for nonbank fintechs, ...
Breakfast with the Best - Brett King
July 26, 2017 19:05 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBBrett King and I see each other often, partly because we often speak at the same conferences and partly because we’re both on the board of the Center for Financial Services Innovation. For some reason, though, we went for over a year trying unsuccessfully to find time to record a podcast. So we we ended up getting together in London. We both participated in the wonderful Innovate Finance Global Summit at the Guildhall, in the old City, where we carved out some early morning time, met at a...
From Analog to Digital Regulation - CFTC Acting Chairman Christopher Giancarlo
July 18, 2017 18:33 - 41 minutes - 57 MBToday’s program is a very special one -- a conversation about regulatory innovation, with the very innovative acting Chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Christopher Giancarlo. As regular listeners know, I’ve spent many years in and around Washington where there is a deeply entrenched belief that regulations, and regulators, simply can’t change very much. Regulators are generally, by both nature and design, deliberate, and cautious, and risk-averse. That’s exactly how t...
Regulators & Sandboxes: Wai-Lum Kwok on Abu Dhabi's Reglab
July 05, 2017 19:33 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MB“Sandboxes.” “Greenhouses.” “Pilot tests.” “Labs.” These are not words we normally associate with financial regulation. Yet suddenly, all over the world, regulatory agencies are giving these novel names to a new, unconventional kind of initiative. The break from tradition is being driven by a realization: they are going to need to find new ways to do their jobs well, in the face of fast-moving technology change and fintech innovation. My guest today oversees one of these fascinating...
Colleen Briggs : Financial Inclusion Innovation Powered by JP Morgan Chase
June 29, 2017 04:00 - 54 minutes - 75 MBToday’s guest is Colleen Briggs, Executive Director for Community Innovation and Corporate Responsibility at JPMorgan Chase. Colleen leads a visionary effort that is part of JPM’s commitment to building “more inclusive growth,” globally, by finding innovative models that build financial access and economic expansion. Our timing is great because just last week, the Center for Financial Services Innovation announced its new class of winners for the Financial Solutions Lab competition. The...
Making it Easy : Intuit's Al Ko
June 13, 2017 14:07 - 58 minutes - 80 MBHere’s a question: Would you like to file your taxes with just a keystroke, after your electronic devices automatically organized all your information and prepared the return? Here’s another -- do you think you’ll still be driving, five years from now? Today’s episode is a far-ranging conversation with Al Ko, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Consumer Ecosystem at Intuit. Among other things, he heads up Mint, which is deeply innovating about healthier ways for us to live ...
Fiat Currency Can be Virtual Too: Jonathan Dharmapalan, CEO of eCurrency
May 28, 2017 04:08 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBBitcoin began in 2009 -- only eight years ago -- and set forces in motion that are only starting to show their potential power. One was a byproduct -- the creation of the blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, DLT, is now on its way to disrupting activities far beyond payments, from value chains to contracts. The intentional innovation was establishing a new form of currency -- virtual or digital currency -- that functions as alternative payments system that operates on the internet...
Outspoken: Bill Harris, Founder and Chairman of Personal Capital and former CEO of Intuit and Paypal
May 22, 2017 02:46 - 1 hour - 115 MBIn the early days of Barefoot Innovation, one of my guests said something very provocative, that I knew would not sit well with some of our listeners. I considered whether to edit it out. Someone on my team pointed out that my website features a quote from Carl Sagan about the importance of truth-telling, and we decided that it’s the essence of this show to have a wide range of guests and let them speak as they want, without editing, and with the understanding that it’s their opinions rathe...
Heroic Compliance : Treliant's Lyn Farrell
April 30, 2017 21:54 - 1 hour - 120 MBThis episode is incredibly special, in two ways. First, Lyn Farrell is not only my former colleague, but one of my very best friends. We had such fun recording this at my apartment in Boston one weekend late last year. In many ways, it’s just a slice of a long conversation we’ve been having more or less continuously for years, including over countless meals on the road together, in the consulting life we used to share Second, I love it when our podcast discussions are actual brainstormi...
Financial Inclusion is Coming Fast - AFI Executive Director Alfred Hannig
April 05, 2017 22:37 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBI’m excited to share today’s conversation with Alfred Hannig, Executive Director of AFI. When you hear of an organization with a name like The Alliance for Financial Inclusion, you might picture a nonprofit advocating for credit opportunity or community reinvestment. AFI, though, is unique. Its members are governments -- central banks and financial regulators -- representing over 90 countries in the developing world. They all work at the cutting edge of financial transformation, because t...
A Millennial Building for Millennials - Ollie Perdue of Loot
March 10, 2017 04:22 - 34 minutes - 48 MBToday’s show features one of the most interesting startups in London. I was there in in late 2015 and looked up someone I’d been wanting to meet -- Jean- Stephane Gourevitch, (see more on Jean-Stephane below -- he is behind many of the most interesting fintech developments in Europe and will be on the show one day soon). We met for coffee on the south bank of the Thames, near the Shard hotel, and he brought along a young entrepreneur, Ollie Perdue of Loot. Ollie showed me a quick Loot ...
Fintech for Small Business: Former SBA Administrator & Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen Mills
January 30, 2017 00:28 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBToday we’re expanding beyond our usual Barefoot Innovation focus on consumer financial innovation, to explore the parallel issues arising for small businesses. We’ve touched on this before, but are so fortunate, today, to have a guest who deeply understands the whole range of these issues. She is Karen Mills, former head of the Small Business Administration and now senior fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she has just released a comprehensive paper on fintech and small business. ...
Getting People on to the Credit Ladder: LendUp CEO Sasha Orloff
January 15, 2017 22:47 - 52 minutes - 72 MBToday’s episode is about new ideas about a very old problem in consumer finance -- high-cost lending to high-risk borrowers. My guest is LendUp CEO Sasha Orloff, who is one of a new generation of fintech founders building alternatives to traditional payday lending. In public policy, there has been a long-standing assumption, sometimes implicit and sometimes explicit, that widespread access to credit -- especially mortgages -- is a good thing. A host of government regulations, programs, an...
The One Dollar Smart Phone -- Theo Cosmora, CEO of SocialEco
January 04, 2017 05:36 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBGreetings for the holiday season, and apologies for my recent backlog in posting podcasts. The main reason for the latter is that I have been traveling almost constantly. In November and December I was in Singapore, Geneva, San Francisco, London (twice) and Washington multiple times, and of course, back in Boston in between. And not long before that, I was in Fiji, where I recorded this podcast, with Theo Cosmora, CEO of Social Eco and the OneDollarSmartPhone. Developing countries are t...
Remaking the Financial Rails: Ripple CEO Chris Larsen
November 10, 2016 02:25 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBWelcome to today’s show. One night last summer I attended a small dinner in New York hosted by the editors of a global financial publication, on financial innovation. We had some of fintech’s brightest stars seated around the table, but I remember offering the view that the person there who was most likely to actually revolutionize the financial system was Chris Larsen, the CEO of Ripple. Most fintech innovators are building new things on the system’s old footings. Ripple is trying to re...
Colin Walsh of Varo
October 18, 2016 02:53 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MBI’ve been looking for a chance to do a podcast with today’s guest for months. Colin Walsh is the founder and CEO of Varo, an online tool that aims to make it easy and affordable for consumers to manage their financial lives. Colin and I first met at last year’s fintech conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and I’ve enjoyed, ever since, watching the rapid growth of his startup. Varo was still in development when we talked and is now in private beta, with plans to ...
Harvard's Brigitte Madrian on Saving for Retirement: "We are Not Making it Easy"
October 13, 2016 02:26 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBToday’s program is really special, because my guest is Brigitte Madrian. Brigitte is the Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School, and also co-director of the Household Finance working group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a leading expert in behavioral economics and consumer decision-making regarding both health and finance, and in finance,especially savings and retirement. Importantly to me, she is also my faculty adviso...
Innovation in Small Business Lending: Sam Hodges of Funding Circle
September 25, 2016 19:32 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBWelcome to our first conversation with an innovator in small business lending – my guest is Sam Hodges, Co-founder and U.S. Managing Director of Funding Circle. Funding Circle was founded in 2012 and is the world’s leading marketplace lender that’s exclusively focused on small businesses. It has made more than $2.5 billion in loans to 20,000 businesses in the U.S., Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK (where it is based). It customers borrow directly from a wide range of investors, ...
Innovation and Consumer Protection - Lauren Saunders, National Consumer Law Center
September 06, 2016 01:40 - 1 hour - 97.8 MBToday's show explores financial innovation through the eyes of one of America's most respected consumer advocates. My guest is Lauren Saunders, Associate Director of the National Consumer Law Center. The NCLC has been active in consumer financial protection for over 40 years. Lauren manages its Washington, DC office and directs its federal legislative and regulatory work on issues like prepaid cards, electronic payments, small dollar loans, credit cards, bank accounts, and consumer prote...
Insure-Tech : QED Founding Partner Caribou Honig
August 17, 2016 02:46 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBToday we have our first-ever episode on Insure-tech. Happily, it also turned out to be one of the most fun, funny and thought-provoking shows we've ever done. I'm pretty sure it's the first one where we've talked about the internet of things, and CRISPR gene research, transportation as a service, and drones. My fascinating guest is Caribou Honig, founding partner of QED Investors. QED is a venture fund cofounded by Caribou, Frank Rotman, and Nigel Morris, who first came together in the ...
Innovating in Compliance, Citi CCO Kathryn Reimann and Wells Fargo CCO Yvette Hollingsworth Clark
August 07, 2016 22:05 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBMy guests today are two of the most thoughtful people in the United States on the topic of regulatory compliance. They are the chief compliance officers of Citigroup and Wells Fargo – Kathryn Reimann and Yvette Hollingsworth Clark. Our listeners include a lot of people who are not fascinated by the topic of regulatory compliance, to put it mildly. The fact is, though, that compliance has shifted, rather suddenly, from being boring to most people, to being fascinating. And whether it fa...
CFPB'S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: DIRECTOR RICHARD CORDRAY
July 19, 2016 00:57 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MBWelcome to today's episode with my very special guest. He is the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray. We got together in Washington to mark the fifth anniversary of the CFPB's opening its doors, on July 21, 2011. I had the pleasure of serving on the Bureau's Consumer Advisory Board, or CAB, for its first three years. It's been fascinating to watch the launch of this agency, which is the first in many years to be built from scratch, as opposed to somet...
Fintech for Everyone : Vinay Patel and Max Gasner from Bee
July 14, 2016 02:27 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBI enjoy all my guests on Barefoot Innovation, but if someone forced me to choose my favorite episodes, this one would be on the list. It’s partly because my guests, the co-founders of Bee, were so fun to talk with, and so thoughtful. And it’s also because they are addressing one of the objections people raise to fintech – the notion that it’s only for millennials. Bee was founded in June of 2015 by Vinay Patel and brothers Max and Alex Grasner as an outgrowth of One Financial Holdings, a...
Cost Cutting with the Blockchain - Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset Holdings
July 06, 2016 01:12 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBBarefoot Innovation usually explores technology that touches financial consumers - new products and new ways of managing money. Today's episode pivots 180 degrees and looks internally, inside financial companies, at the equally transformative change underway in how financial products are made and delivered. My conversation is with Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, and our topic is the blockchain -- distributed ledger technology, or DLT. Most of our listeners know that the...
The Last Helicopter Pioneer – Innovation Insights from my Father, Glidden S. Doman
June 29, 2016 02:55 - 1 hour - 108 MBBarefoot Innovation has been in hiatus in recent weeks because my father passed away. I was in San Francisco and got a call saying he was suddenly ill and might not live through the day. I rushed for a redeye and flew all night home to Boston, where my son Matt met me and we drove to Harford in the wee hours. My brother and sister had rushed to our Dad too, and he had held on. In fact he began to do better, regaling us with stories in the ICU, bringing his sharp engineering mind to analyzin...
FINANCIAL INCLUSION: RAUL VAZQUEZ OF OPORTUN
May 12, 2016 03:44 - 53 minutes - 73 MBIn addition to our podcast, please take a look at Raul's keynote at the EMERGE Forum. I am constantly amazed by the fascinating and unpredictable course of our conversations on Barefoot Innovation - and what a fun one I had with Raul Vazquez, CEO of Oportun. I always like to ask my guests to tell us how they, themselves, keep up with technology. With Raul, I asked this just as I thought we were wrapping up, and the question launched us on a whole new conversation. He's definitely my first...
Effortless Investing : Jon Stein of Betterment
May 03, 2016 03:02 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWelcome to Barefoot Innovation and to a new dimension in the topics we explore. We've talked with many startups in lending, payments, and managing personal finance. Today, we're looking at the most exciting change underway in the investment space - "robo-investing." My guest is Jon Stein, the founder and CEO of Betterment. We met in their fast-growing offices in New York, a converted warehouse steeped in industrial character and with mouth-watering aromas wafting from a very substantial ...
Its Still Simple : Josh Reich One Year Later
April 19, 2016 02:31 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBThis episode updates one of the very first ones we did in our Barefoot Innovation series, last year. Episode Two featured the two co-founders of Simple, Josh Reich and Shamir Karkal. A year later, we all found ourselves back at the same conference where we'd recorded that program. Shamir has now taken on a new role, leading the open platform innovation of the very innovative bank that bought Simple, BBVA. Josh, though, is still CEO of Simple (a fact that he says tends to surprise people). ...
CFSI's Innovation Contest
April 04, 2016 01:50 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBWe have a very special show today. I realized – rather late – that we should do an episode on the CFSI financial solutions lab competition. It’s belated, because the contest is open, now, for its second year of applications, and the deadline is April 7 – just a few days from now. My guests are Ryan Falvey, who heads the lab, plus three of last year’s 9 winners. They are Sheri Atwood of SupportPay; Jerry Nemorin, of LendStreet, and Quinten Farmer of Even. They explain how the competition w...
At the Front with NFCC's Susan Keating
March 22, 2016 01:23 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBIn 1967, the Beatles sang: "I get by with a little help from my friends." That sentiment captures something at the heart of many people's financial lives today, and it embodies the idea behind the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), the oldest and largest nonprofit credit counseling organization in the U.S. I have known Susan Keating, NFCC's President and CEO, for about 30 years. I've been wanting to record a Barefoot Innovation episode with her, because the NFCC is on the ...
Consulting the Source - Leonard Chanin of Morrison & Foerster
March 16, 2016 01:27 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBI’m calling this episode “Consulting the Source.” My guest would be the first to say he is not the source of our consumer financial protection rules -- that would be Congress. Still, no one has had more to do with translating law into regulatory form than Leonard Chanin. When Leonard left the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for his current position at the law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP, it was big news. American Banker wrote: “Morrison & Foerster can’t say it hired the attorney who...
Transforming Payments: Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire
March 02, 2016 03:59 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBWelcome to our first episode focused on Bitcoin, digital currency, and the blockchain. My guest is one of the most thoughtful people anywhere on this topic and on payments overall: Circle CEO and Founder Jeremy Allaire. I met with Jeremy at his office in south Boston's "Innovation District," a few blocks from where I live myself. They have quintessential startup space in an old brick warehouse, and we sat down on a New England winter day for a really fascinating conversation. I often ...
Effortless Saving: Digit CEO Ethan Bloch
February 26, 2016 04:51 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBThis is one of my favorite episodes we've ever done - my conversation with Digit founder and CEO, Ethan Bloch. Digit has set out to solve one of the core problems in consumers' financial lives - how to save. Their solution is to make savings effortless, using an intelligent algorithm that analyzes your spending and income patterns and automatically moves funds into savings. I had dinner with Ethan last summer and suddenly realized he was describing an "Uberization" of savings, parallelin...
Innovating at a Bank : Dominic Venturo of US Bancorp
February 09, 2016 15:00 - 1 hour - 83 MBDominic Venturo, CIO of US Bank Visiting Dominic Venturo is a little like walking onto a James Bond movie set during the Q gadget briefing scene. There is a wonderful "wow" factor in encountering the most fascinating new technologies in banking. The title "CIO" used to mean Chief Information Officer. It still does, of course, but today that "I" increasingly stands for another word too: innovation. Dominic Venturo, the Chief Innovation Officer of U.S. Bank, reflects a growing trend of...
Insights from Michael Barr
February 05, 2016 03:51 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBI am absolutely delighted to share today's episode -- my conversation with Michael Barr. Most of our listeners know Michael as the former Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Institutions who shepherded the Obama administration's efforts on the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Fewer people may know of his role in developing the proposal for, and negotiating the enactment of, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is when I got to know him. He is now back at the University...
The Regulatory Sandbox : BMO's Nitish Pandey
January 16, 2016 21:57 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBWelcome to Barefoot innovation as we start into a fresh new year. Being appreciated! We are kicking off 2016 with a wonderful guest, Nitish Pandey of BMO, and also with exciting momentum for Barefoot Innovation. In December, we were named one of the top 9 fintech podcasts by FintechNews Switzerland. We are delighted to be counted among the best in the world, including the Breaking Banks show of my friend Brett King. (If you’re enjoying Barefoot Innovation, please do consider donating ...