Fintech Beat

Prashant Fuloria, the CEO of Fundbox, explains how the upstart fintech spent $100 million on data modeling, and avoided the worst of the pandemic. Plus, how fintechs differ in terms of their operational and business strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Kerstens, the European Commission’s lead on digital finance policy and regulation, explains why—and how—the bloc's new crypto proposals are poised to create the largest regulated market for digital assets in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FT Alphaville editor Izabella Kaminska and Citi exec Tony McGlaughlin warn that central bank digital currencies could have unpleasant consequences for banking, lending and the balance of power in the monetary system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joins the podcast to talk about artificial intelligence and capital markets for a live conversation at the HPC + AI Wall Street conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're revisiting a conversation on if, and how, an algorithm can be ethical. Algorithms have evolved into to powerful engines of financial technology. But they don’t always live up to the hype, as algorithmic models fail to take account of basic societal concerns like fairness, privacy and bias. Fintech Beat sits down with Michael Kearns to find out what can be done to make algorithms “ethical.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uri Ort and Reece Akhtar, co-founders of the AI psychometrics tool Deeper Signals, walk listeners through how differences in how people think and interpret the world impact how companies innovate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trade experts Robert Chesney and Kathleen Claussen join international lawyer Robin Nunn to explain the U.S. government’s actions against WeChat and TikTok, and what the actions mean for Chinese (and U.S.) fintech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Charles Delingpole, the founder of Complyadvantage, and Jonathan Levin, the co-founder of Chainalysis, demystify the historic Wirecard accounting scandal and the role of Bitcoin in the massive hack of Twitter and its most high-profile customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Times bestselling author Brant Cooper talks about what it takes to engineer innovation in an age of maturing technology, Black Lives Matter and the coronavirus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices