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UK crypto regulation (and MiCA)

By Chris Brummer
Posted April 19, 2023 at 9:00am

 Is this crisis (really) like 2008?

By Chris Brummer
Posted March 24, 2023 at 5:52pm
Ayo Omojola, head of product for Carbon Health.

Product market fit

By Chris Brummer
Posted March 21, 2023 at 1:26pm
Circle’s Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte

Dante Disparte on Circle, stablecoins and Silicon Valley Bank’s lessons for policymakers

By Chris Brummer
Posted March 13, 2023 at 2:43pm
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein and General Counsel Craig Salm

Grayscale’s oral argument

By Chris Brummer
Posted February 28, 2023 at 5:16pm
Stu Levi of Skadden Arps joins this week.

ChatGPT’s IP land mines

By Chris Brummer
Posted February 22, 2023 at 3:45pm
Historian Margaret O’Mara joins this week’s episode of Fintech Beat.

The past and future Silicon Valley

By Chris Brummer
Posted February 13, 2023 at 1:36pm

‘Howey’ gonna regulate crypto?

By Chris Brummer
Posted January 18, 2023 at 10:02am
Steve McLaughlin, founder and CEO of FT Partners.

After the asteroid: What’s next for fintech in 2023?

By Chris Brummer
Posted January 12, 2023 at 3:00pm

The vanishing fintech IPO

By Chris Brummer
Posted January 4, 2023 at 3:28pm
Chee Kin Lam, head of legal and compliance at DBS.

Crypto after the crash: The view from Singapore

By Chris Brummer
Posted December 21, 2022 at 11:35am

What’s the carbon footprint of your bank account?

By Chris Brummer
Posted December 13, 2022 at 3:52pm

Figure CEO Mike Cagney on (real world) blockchain applications

By Chris Brummer
Posted November 15, 2022 at 7:30am
Karen Webster

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

By Chris Brummer
Posted November 2, 2022 at 1:03pm
Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Commissioner Mairead McGuinness talks to media in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on February 2, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium.

Mairead McGuinness on Innovation, Crypto Regulation and Europe

By Chris Brummer
Posted October 19, 2022 at 5:21pm
Jo Ann Barefoot, CEO of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation, on March 6, 2020.

What fintechs and regulators have in common

By Chris Brummer
Posted October 7, 2022 at 4:54pm
Chris Brummer (left) talks with Dante Disparte, chief strategy officer and head of global policy at Circle.

Converging on DC Fintech Week

By Chris Brummer
Posted October 6, 2022 at 12:06pm
Stuart D. Levi, co-head of Skadden’s Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions Group

 Do NFTs require decentralized law?

By Chris Brummer
Posted September 28, 2022 at 6:40pm

Why the US housing regulator is looking into fintech

By Chris Brummer
Posted September 19, 2022 at 1:32pm
This episode of Fintech Beat delves into cryptocurrency security and ransomware.

Ransomware (and Crypto) 101

By Chris Brummer and Julian Ha
Posted August 29, 2022 at 11:46am
European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili and the EU’s Peter Kerstens.

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

By Chris Brummer
Posted July 29, 2022 at 9:06am

Richard Bookstaber on fintech, diversification and the volatility paradox

By Chris Brummer
Posted July 22, 2022 at 2:37pm
Blockchain technology is being used to aid financial inclusion in Africa.

Blockchains as ‘Last Mile’ Infrastructure in the Global South

By Chris Brummer
Posted July 13, 2022 at 12:37pm
Payments expert Sophia Goldberg

The ‘How’ of the global economy

By Chris Brummer
Posted July 6, 2022 at 5:02pm
Hyun Song Shin is economic adviser and head of research at the Bank for International Settlements.

BIS’s Hyun Song Shin on crypto, CBDCs, and designing money

By Chris Brummer
Posted June 29, 2022 at 3:55pm
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday in New York City. Stocks fell sharply in morning trading as investors react to the Federal Reserve’s largest rate hike since 1994.

Market swings, software-based investing — and community banking

By Chris Brummer
Posted June 16, 2022 at 7:09pm
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women’s World Banking

There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Mary Iskenderian on Microfinance

By Chris Brummer
Posted June 7, 2022 at 1:04pm
The Robinhood logo displayed on a smartphone screen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on January 31, 2021.

Robinhood on Volatility, Regulation, and the New Retail Investor

By Chris Brummer
Posted May 18, 2022 at 8:00am
Sheila Warren is the CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI).

Sheila Warren on Crypto Regulation, Deglobalization, and Contagious Policy

By Chris Brummer
Posted May 10, 2022 at 6:52pm
Carter Malloy is the founder and CEO of AcreTrader.

Fintech for Farmers?

By Chris Brummer
Posted May 4, 2022 at 12:27pm
John Hope Bryant is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of nonprofit Operation HOPE.

John Hope Bryant on entrepreneurialism and financial literacy

By Chris Brummer and Amias Gerety
Posted April 27, 2022 at 7:00am
Allison Herren Lee is a commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

SEC’s Allison Herren Lee on climate, private markets and accredited investors

By Chris Brummer
Posted April 13, 2022 at 5:30am
Fintech Beat host Chris Brummer, left, talks with Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire about NFTs.

Disclosure NFTs, disclosure DAOs and more

By Chris Brummer
Posted April 8, 2022 at 12:09pm
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is seen during a house vote in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, September 22, 2021.

Ro Khanna on dignity, big tech and crypto

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted February 15, 2022 at 4:00am
FinLocker is a software firm that leverages big data and artificial intelligence to assist people looking for mortgages before they even to start to think about owning homes.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted February 1, 2022 at 4:00am
Calcie Cooper (L), Pierre Le Veaux II (R) attend Susan Fales-Hill's "One Flight Up" Book Launch Party Hosted by Isaac Mizrahi at Isaac Mizrahi Store on August 03, 2010 in New York City.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted January 18, 2022 at 11:56am
The Bitcoin logo is displayed on the side of a Bitcoin ATM in Los Angeles, California.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted January 11, 2022 at 4:00am

The fintech job market for 2022

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted December 21, 2021 at 4:00am
The seal of the FTC is seen on a podium at FTC headquarters in Washington in 2019.

Why the FTC matters for fintech

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted December 14, 2021 at 4:00am
Dante Disparte, chief strategy officer and head of global policy at Circle.

What Circle Impact means for crypto’s inclusion conversation

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted December 7, 2021 at 4:00am
An aerial view of Coco Point in the Eastern Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted November 23, 2021 at 4:00am

The Fintech Weeks of 2021

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted November 9, 2021 at 4:00am
Minority and community banks, known as MDI’s, provide essential funding for people for minority communities.

Minority banks and the technology stack

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted November 2, 2021 at 4:00am
Mu Changchun, head of China's digital currency research institute, attends the China International Financial Annual Forum 2020.

China’s Mu Changchun on the digital yuan

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted October 26, 2021 at 4:00am
Twitter is the de facto space where you can see the latest from some of the biggest names in crypto opine publicly about their investments, predictions, lawsuits, and more. 

Why does crypto love Twitter?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted October 12, 2021 at 3:02pm
Minorities own more crypto as a percentage of their population than any other group.

Black and brown perspectives on crypto and inclusion

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted October 5, 2021 at 10:23am
The issue of gig economics and the welfare of the gig worker has become a larger issue as more people rely on the platforms for employment and financial security.

Innovating the gig economy

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 28, 2021 at 4:00am
The Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., is one of the most ambitious efforts to address some of the legal ambiguities for digital assets.

The bill to bring crypto clarity?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 21, 2021 at 4:00am
After departing the CFTC, Brian Quintenz, right, joined a16z, the crypto wing of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Exit interview with Brian Quintenz

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 14, 2021 at 4:00am
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building on Constitution Avenue Northwest in Washington is pictured on Aug. 17.

Does the Fed innovate?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted August 24, 2021 at 4:00am
A conservator works on the ceiling of the Senate Reception Room after the Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, August 10, 2021. The bipartisan package passed 69-30.

Crypto goes to Washington

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted August 17, 2021 at 4:00am
Fintech founders and enthusiasts have often touted the democratization of finance.

Curated fintech

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted August 10, 2021 at 4:00am
Over the past decade, an explosion of innovation has initiated the unbundling of core operations of banks, with fintech firms aiming to replace slices of the supply chain of lending, custodying and underwriting.

Bank charters, fintech charters and crypto

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted August 3, 2021 at 4:00am
Sustainable investment is rising in the private sector, with companies such as BlackRock and Vanguard pushing entire industries toward assessing the sustainability of supply chains and risk exposure to climate change, along with disclosing board diversity.

The sustainable investing startup

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted July 27, 2021 at 4:00am
Caitlin Long, left, founder of Avanti and Daniel Tarullo, former Federal Reserve Board Governor.

Dan Tarullo and Caitlin Long on capital rules for crypto

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted July 20, 2021 at 4:00am
Is the proliferation of digital assets leading to a revolution in financial services, and how can it be regulated?

Regulated liabilities and the internet of value

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted July 13, 2021 at 4:00am
Hyun Song Shin is economic adviser and head of research of the Bank for International Settlements.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted June 23, 2021 at 3:18pm
John Rogers Jr. (left), the co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and Robert Smith (right) CEO of Vista Equity, join Fintech Beat to discuss whether or not Black and Brown banks can compete in a digital economy.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted June 22, 2021 at 4:00am
Critics around the world have criticized Bitcoin's electricity usage, with crypto advocate Elon Musk calling on environmental reforms before his company Telsa agrees to accept the cryptocurrency for transactions.

ESG or crypto: Which is the unstoppable force?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted June 15, 2021 at 4:00am
Propel wants to modernize the ability for poor and lower-income people to access information about money available to them under government public assistance programs, and also help direct recipients to other opportunities, including jobs.

The startup innovating the fintech of food stamps

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted June 8, 2021 at 4:00am
With the rise of retail investing and trading, some critics say that investment apps like Robinhood are starting to gamify their platforms to make people addicted to trading.

Platform gamification, video games and addiction

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted May 25, 2021 at 4:00am
Decentralized finance, commonly referred to as DeFi, is a blockchain-based form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges or banks to offer traditional financial instruments.

Demystifying DeFi

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted May 18, 2021 at 4:00am
Gary Gensler, left, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday on the GameStop and Robinhood issue from earlier this year.

The GameStop hearings — and what comes next

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted May 11, 2021 at 4:00am
Sopnendu Mohanty is the chief fintech officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Singapore made headlines recently with the announcement of the world’s first blockchain-based, cross-border payment system.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted May 4, 2021 at 4:00am
Crypto custody is central to crypto finance and the overall crypto economy.

Crypto custody 101

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted April 27, 2021 at 4:00am
The economy is booming, so what does it mean for the fintech job market?

The fintech jobs market

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted April 20, 2021 at 4:00am
São Paulo skyline at sunset in Brazil. São Paulo is one of the world's largest cities, with a population of over 10 million.

Mapping fintech in Latin America

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted April 13, 2021 at 4:00am
Stock options are often given to employees at startups in exchange for a lower salary and loyalty to the company.

Most startup employees don’t exercise their stock options. Here’s why

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted April 6, 2021 at 4:00am
Non-fungible tokens enable issuers to take anything, from art to basketball highlights, and pin it on a token that has a unique identification code that distinguishes it from all others.

Non-fungible tokens: Hope or hype?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted March 23, 2021 at 4:00am
Originally conceived as a means of automating investment opportunities, roboadvising has grown to encompass wealth management and, more recently, even banking.

Roboadvising 101 with Wealthfront’s Andy Rachleff

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted March 16, 2021 at 4:00am
At the time Coil CEO Stefan Thomas realized he forgot the password to his Bitcoin wallet, it was valued at $148,000. Since then, that number has ballooned into the hundreds of millions with the rise of Bitcoin's value.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted March 9, 2021 at 4:00am
The social media driven squeeze in Gamestop stock has spurred many questions about the regulatory issues the volatility has raised.

Did social media ‘manipulate’ Gamestop?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted March 2, 2021 at 4:00am
A tidal wave of increased global regulation, and fines, has made Know Your Customer, or KYC, compliance more important than ever.

Kyckr gives the scoop on anti-money laundering compliance

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted February 23, 2021 at 4:00am
In this photo illustration the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted February 16, 2021 at 7:37am
Zest is an AI company that creates the software for machine learning in credit underwriting, all with the aim of reducing risk and automating compliance.

Tackling bias with math and Zest

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted February 2, 2021 at 4:00am
Ben Mezrich's book "Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption" follows the story of the Winklevoss' big bet on Bitcoin, and how it's paid off.

Ben Mezrich on the Winklevoss twins and Bitcoin

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted January 26, 2021 at 4:00am
Coinbase’s attempt to make their workspace “apolitical” by discouraging discussion of politics in the office has come under scrutiny.

Coinbase and race

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted January 19, 2021 at 7:10am
Fintech Beat sits down with Emmalyn Shaw to discuss what role technology and venture capital can play in solving problems that have been overlooked by mainstream finance.

Making fintech flourish

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted January 12, 2021 at 4:00am
After the COVID-19 pandemic upended 2020, how will fintech look in 2021?

Fintech’s futures past

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted December 22, 2020 at 4:00am
A logo of Ant Group is seen at the company's headquarters.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted December 15, 2020 at 4:00am
Patricia Kemp and Amias Gerety join to talk digital infrastructures. They're all the buzz in the fintech world, as companies attempt to show that they are more than just one-dimensional service providers.

What is digital “infrastructure”?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted December 8, 2020 at 4:00am
Adeyemi Ajao, the son of a Spainish mother and Nigerian father, founded a social media company, Tuenti, while in school, which was ultimately sold in 2010 for $100 million

The outsider

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted November 24, 2020 at 4:00am
Free Will, a fintech startup, uses technology to help people plan their estates for free.

Fintech’s free will

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted November 17, 2020 at 4:00am
Every year, DC Fintech Week charts an agenda canvassing the regulatory ecosystem.

What to make of 2020’s fintech conferences

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted November 10, 2020 at 4:00am
Brex is the first credit card specifically designed for startups, and it was created by Henrique DuBugras and his business partner, Pedro Franceschi, in 2017.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted November 2, 2020 at 9:27am
Following controversy, a slimmed down Libra Association reconfigured the Libra coin and entered into negotiations with regulators around the world, all in an effort to ensure that their new payments system would be in compliance with a web of global supervisory frameworks and requirements.

How Switzerland will regulate Libra

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted October 27, 2020 at 4:00am
Central Bank of Kenya Governor Patrick Njoroge attends a press conference in Nairobi.

How Mpesa transformed the world of fintech

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted October 20, 2020 at 2:00pm
The Federal Reserve has sought to prop up the coronavirus-stricken economy by leveraging corporate bond markets as corporate life support systems.

The Fed, fintech and corporate bond markets

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted October 13, 2020 at 4:00am
Prashant Fuloria, the CEO of Fundbox, explains how the upstart fintech spent $100 million on data modeling, and avoided the worst of the pandemic.

Fundbox’s big payback

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted October 6, 2020 at 4:00am
Are the EU's new crypto proposals poised to create the largest regulated market for digital assets in the world?

How the EU is revolutionizing stablecoin (and crypto) oversight

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 29, 2020 at 4:00am
Could CBDCs have unpleasant consequences for banking, lending and the balance of power in the monetary system?

The case for caution with central bank digital currencies

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 22, 2020 at 4:00am
SEC commissioner Hester Peirce joins Fintech Beat to talk about artificial intelligence and capital markets.

Who should be an accredited investor?

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 15, 2020 at 2:05pm
Can, and should, and algorithm be ethical?

The ethical algorithm

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 8, 2020 at 4:00am

Cognitive diversity and the smart team

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted September 1, 2020 at 4:00am
A symbol of TikTok (Douyin) is pictured at The Place shopping mall at dusk in Beijing.

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

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted August 25, 2020 at 3:23pm
A hostess of the Orange Money company pays a bill from a mobile phone account in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Innovating informal economies through COVID-19

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted August 18, 2020 at 5:00am
Olaf Scholz (SPD), federal minister of finance, speaks to reporters after a meeting of the Bundestag's Finance Committee on the Wirecard scandal. The opposition sees open questions as to when the government became aware of irregularities at the now insolvent Dax group Wirecard and what it did about them.

Wirecard vs. the Twitter hack

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted August 4, 2020 at 4:00am
Staff at work in the Boatsetter office, a South Florida based boat-renting tech company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Engineering the lean startup

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted July 28, 2020 at 4:00am
What are the value of stablecoins and what do they mean for central bank digital currencies?

Cryptodollars vs. Digital Dollars

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted July 21, 2020 at 4:00am
Public, a social-investing app that offers "fractional investing" for its users, has seen an uptick in interaction among its members since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fintech goes Public

By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted July 14, 2020 at 4:00am