In the age of innovation, it is now more important than ever to find technology solutions at every financial level. David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise Bank, explains how they built a strategy on inclusivity and underserved populations, where customer driven innovation powered their rapid growth and when the community succe... more
Michelle Tinsley isn’t so ready to kiss the bank branch goodbye. As an expert in retail digital transformation, she thinks that the personal will become more valuable, not less, as technology continues to become an greater part of our environments. Branches are using a combination of creating co-working spaces and ... more
YOU’VE BEEN HACKED. Three words no financial institution wants to hear. Financial losses that might not be covered depending on whose at fault. Answering to angry customers and regulators. How do you guarantee that it won’t happen again.Michiel Prins is a professional hacker, but instead of exploiting vulnerabil... more
Jake Tyler wants you to control your money with the ease that you ask Alexa for the weather or Siri for the best ramen in town. He and his partners have built Finn.ai. Think Siri, or Google, but for banking.So, why not use Siri or Google? Finn.ai works exclusively with banks so it can truly access the data that ... more
Michael Diamond, SVP and GM of Payments at Mitek Systems, wants you to know he is from Wisconsin. He is not some soft beach dweller. And that background has given him the resilience, grit, and character to close deals in Silicon Valley.Mitek provides a lot of the background technology for identity in Mobile channels.... more
There is nothing like being stuck in a foreign country without your wallet to make mobile payments vividly imperative.Elise Moussa founded Snapay to solve the problem of in store mobile payments. To do that, she needed to make the process as painless for the merchants as it would be for the customer. She saw that t... more
The only constant is change. And the only sure thing is disruption. Which is why Mike Laven doesn’t think of it as disruptive at all, but as part of the natural evolution of the world, constantly making things work faster. Maybe he got that insight from his mother, who at 93, was still the greatest person he knew.... more
Fintech- The new tech that is being developed to enhance financial services.Sandhog: member of elite team of tunnel and foundation builders who make it so we can travel swiftly and safely on bridges and tunnels.Financial services is undergoing a massive infrastructure overhaul. As money can now move faster and cheape... more
Noah Breslow has spent a decade in the fintech trenches and if you ask him about disruption, he rolls his eyes. He is really over the term disruptive. He thinks that is just a synonym for life. But it doesn’t change the fact that he has been part of a business inciting change for his entire career. And when it co... more
Travis Dulaney is a payments guru. Founder and CEO/CTO of Push Payments, he has over 20 years of experience working in payments and has been on the forefront of the digitalization of money. His list of professional accomplishments include serving on the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force that recently gave guidelines t... more
Dominic Venturo, the Chief Innovation Officer at U.S. Bank, is one of those industry legends who floats under the radar somehow. Those of us in the industry consider him to be one of the best in the business, someone who pretty quietly just gets things done.More importantly, somehow I missed in my research how talen... more
Dominic Venturo, the Chief Innovation Officer at U.S. Bank, is one of those industry legends who floats under the radar somehow. Those of us in the industry consider him to be one of the best in the business, someone who pretty quietly just gets things done.More importantly, somehow I missed in my research how talen... more
I finally met someone who can explain "cognitive banking" to me! Devika Thapar, IBM Watson's Chief of Staff for Financial Services, is one of those rare techies who can explain deep AI concepts in simple English, or Hindi for that matter. We lift up the curtain a bit on Watson and where IBM is headed with their indus... more
I immediately hit it off with Stephen. We were introduced by Kim Hong from Trullio and we spent must of the interview cracking jokes and riffing off each other. Therefore, for this write-up, I'm going to continue giving Stephen a hard time. He is one of those younger, hip, good looking, in shape, well-dressed, succe... more
I immediately hit it off with Stephen. We were introduced by Kim Hong from Trullio and we spent must of the interview cracking jokes and riffing off each other. Therefore, for this write-up, I'm going to continue giving Stephen a hard time. He is one of those younger, hip, good looking, in shape, well-dressed, succe... more
Ohad Samet describes himself this way on this Twitter profile: "One of the best Ohad Samets in the world." That one sentence pretty much sums up Ohad. He is funny as hell, smart as hell, sharp witted as hell, and he is the founder of one hell of a product in TrueAccord.
Yes, Margaux Avedisian was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. Yes, she is a bitcoin comic. Yes, she is quite funny. But Margaux is also one sharp entrepreneur when it comes to cryptocurrency and the future of money. During the day she is the world's funniest EVP at Transform Group and can pretty much tell you an... more
Richard leads a team of engineers and innovators looking at emerging technologies and their application across RBS. His current focus is on the application of distributed ledger technology including blockchain across RBS. Or as Richard puts it, I've been focused on innovating banking ledgers way before this was cool.... more
Bianca has done more in her brief time on the tech scene than most people have accomplished in a 30 year career. She's founded multiple companies stretching across multiple industries and has now fully grasped the impact biometrics can have on the question of digital identity. Make sure you check out Bioconnect.Spe... more
Bianca has done more in her brief time on the tech scene than most people have accomplished in a 30 year career. She's founded multiple companies stretching across multiple industries and has now fully grasped the impact biometrics can have on the question of digital identity. Make sure you check out Bioconnect.Spe... more
Chloé James is Group Media and PR Director and Editor of the Australian Retail Banker and Global Retail Banker for global business intelligence and digital media provider, RFi Group. She is also a presenter on Sky News Australia. What makes Chloé stand out in my opinion is the authenticness of her love of tech and... more
There are several reasons I'm friends with Dion. 1) He's smart as hell; 2) he heads up fintech for CapGemni so we basically have the same job; 3) he has less hair than I do; and 4) he is a huge Arsenal football fan. What more could you ask for in a friend?
At this point Fidor Bank is a fintech dinosaur, which is actually a compliment. Matthias Kröner, the CEO of Fidor, founded the bank in Germany back in 2009. Many of the current concepts and themes of "Neo" and "Challenger" banks have their roots in the Fidor ethos. Matthias has, and continues to be a true revolution... more
This one is simple. If you have any interest in marketing and/or insurance, then you should be following Danielle Guzman. Danielle the global solutions marketing leader for Mercer. She has over 20 years of experience as an insurance marketer and is quickly becoming one of the top voices in the space. She was recen... more
Jennifer Tescher is the founder, president and CEO of the Center for Financial Services Innovation. That's CFSI. Not CSFI as I, in my perpetual ADHD state, consistently call it. Call it whatever you want, what really matters is the influence the organization and Jennifer has had over the past fifteen years or so. T... more