Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks offers his first interview in response to the vote by the House to overturn his agency's change in community reinvestment rules for banks. Plus: a discussion about how internet banks being held to the same commitments to low-income communities as brick-and-mortar financial institutions can help tackle inequality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benoît Cœuré, the fintech lead at the Bank for International Settlements - the global “Central Bank for Central Banks” - offers the first interview concerning its highly anticipated annual economic report, and discusses how the organization’s role has evolved along with the very definition of money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fintech Beat sits down with Stefan Thomas, the CEO of Coil, to talk about why the internet is becoming “centralized” — and how upgrading the internet’s payment structure could revolutionize how it operates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Linda Lacewell, New York’s top financial regulator, joins Fintech Beat to provide an insider’s account of the state’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and the George Floyd protests — and breaks news to announce the New York State Department of Financial Services’ “Fast Forward” program.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Ellen Iskenderian, the CEO of Women's World Banking, joins Fintech Beat to discuss the ins and outs of the multibillion-dollar microfinance sector, what happens when microfinance firms become banks, and how COVID-19 could end up revolutionizing how low-income women access capital.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ErisX CEO Tom Chippas discusses his firm’s historic, first-ever launch of ether futures contracts in America — and how ether and bitcoin derivatives can serve very different purposes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Famed University of California Berkeley economist. Barry Eichengreen joins Fintech Beat to dig into whether a digital Euro or yuan would get the biggest competitive boost vis a vis the US dollar, and whether Libra 2.0 could still pose a systemic risk to the global economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fintech Beat sits down with the International Monetary Fund’s Sonja Davidovic and Jonathan Kiff to learn about the latest developments with China’s digital currency foray, and how its pilot compares thus far to others around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fintech Beat sits down with Cornell University’s Daniel Awrey and Cato’s Diego Zuluaga to debate Facebook’s reforms to the Libra cryptocurrency--and whether consumers and the financial system are safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fintech Beat talks to internationally renowned University of Hong Kong professor Douglas Arner to understand differences in Big Tech, fintech and digitization in Hong Kong, mainland China and the wider Asia region as countries face the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices