American Banker Podcast

Brandon Krieg, co-founder and CEO of StashInvest, shares what his company is doing to create a comfortable, "frictionless" point of entry for investing.

Dek: Breaking Banks producer Rachel Morrissey visits the Mastercard Innovation Lab in Nairobi and reports on ideas under development there.

Celent analysts Alenka Grealish and Stephen Greer explain how banks in Europe and the Netherlands have built business models around open banking.

A CapGemini study found that within three years, 40% of consumers will use voice assistants rather than a website or app (compared to 24% today). What does this mean for banks' business models?

Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the CFPB, sent strong signals in a memo to all bureau staff last week that he wants to crack down on unscrupulous debt-collection firms as well as be less mission-driven and more data-focused. Kate Berry reports.

Dan Kimerling, an open banking pioneer turned venture capitalist who recently founded Deciens Capital, explains what open banking is, why an excessive focus on risk management prevents U.S. banks from adopting it, and why it would make sense for them to take on the platform model.

Venture capitalist Spiros Margaris offers a level-headed perspective on the hotly debated cryptocurrency alternative to traditional methods for funding young companies.

How politics, corruption, population growth and new technology are reshaping banking in Central and South America.

This week, Brett King interviews Ben Goertzel, chief scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics, about the strengths and weaknesses of Hanson's humanoid Sophia robot. "We're teaching her to understand what she sees and hears and hold conversations about what happens in her everyday environment," he said. Goertzel, who is also founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace, shares how he's trying to build interconnected artificial intelligence engines that can solve problems better than people can, yet also empathize with humans.

Jon Stein, CEO of Betterment, uses behavioral biology and machine learning to to make his robo-advisor software's suggestions continuously more intelligent and personalized.