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PODCAST

Barefoot Innovation Podcast

Jo Ann Barefoot

The Barefoot Innovation podcast, hosted by the Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) CEO Jo Ann Barefoot, explores better solutions for financial consumers at the intersection of technology innovation and regulation.

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39:57

Agile Regulation -- CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo

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2019/07/11

I’m calling today’s show “agile regulation.” I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but today, agile regulation is actually on its way. Financial regulators all over the world are realizing that they will have to update their tools, digitize their information and, above all, speed up, to keep pace with the exponential rate of technology change in the industry they regulate. In the United States, the leading voice in this new vision has been our guest today -- the Chairman of the Commodity Futures

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01:00:29

Fighting Financial Crime with Science: Giant Oak CEO...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/06/11

We know that the money launderers are winning. We know that law enforcement is losing. By now, you’ve probably heard the UN’s statistics on this, that we catch less than 1% of these crimes, which add up to an estimated $1.6 trillion a year. At the heart of this problem is asymmetrical technology. The bad guys have sophisticated, networked, rapidly improving technologies, and the good guys are stuck in the past.

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34:48

The Promise of Digital ID: David Shrier of Distilled...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/05/21

There are some challenges in fintech and regtech that transcend the others -- problems that have to be solved in order to “unstick” numerous other kinds of exciting innovation. Of these core enabling solutions, none is more important than digital identity. A few months ago I sat down with one of the people leading the work in this field. David Shrier is founder and CEO of Distilled Identity, an AI biometric software company that helps financial institutions and governments build better identity

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46:02

Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, Craig...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/05/07

Our conversations on Barefoot Innovation always grapple with the regulatory challenges arising as technology transforms finance. Most of our guests have good ideas about this, but very few are in a position to make things happen. Today’s guest is different. He is Craig Phillips, who is the Counselor to the US Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnunchin. The Counselor role spans everything from fiscal operations to America’s debt management, but for our audience he is best-known for leading the office

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29:31

Prince Michael of Liechtenstein: Imagining Finance in...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/04/23

Bill Gates famously said, “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.” That gets quoted often these days, because it so well captures the times we live in. In that vein, it was a special pleasure to be invited recently to a roundtable aimed at envisioning the financial system of 2030. The event was the second in a series hosted by Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, a

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59:20

A New Breed of Community Bank: My Fun and Fascinating...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/04/09

If you’re ready for a breath of fresh air, today’s show is for you. It’s fun, it’s fascinating, and it’s filled to the brim with ideas that many of us haven’t heard before. NBKC bank is a community bank that thinks and acts like a start-up company. My guests are its CEO, Brian Unruh, and Zach Pettet, who is the bank’s Fintech Strategist and who heads its Fountain City Fintech affiliate, which is the first “partnership accelerator” run by a community bank.

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Bonus Episode: Futurist Brett King

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/03/27

Today’s show is a bonus episode, and an extra-special one, because I sat down with my friend, the futurist and financial technology guru Brett King.This is our second show with Brett -- we also had one we recorded over a delightful breakfast in London a while back. We wanted to talk again because he’s put out his new book, Bank 4.0, for which I co-wrote the chapter on financial regulation. We made that chapter 2 of the book, right after the opening, because regulation has become absolutely central

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53:57

Talking Cryptocurrency with Brian Brooks of Coinbase

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/03/19

I have a real treat for you today. Brian Brooks is the Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase and is also one of the smartest and most thoughtful people anywhere in the financial world. His past roles include being General Counsel at Fannie Mae and Vice Chairman of OneWest Bank, where he worked with both now-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and now-Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting. If his name seems familiar, it may be because was in headlines a while back as a short-list candidate to be Deputy

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55:04

Women in Fintech

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/03/08

Today is International Women’s Day, and we’re honoring it with a very special bonus episode of Barefoot Innovation, on Women in Fintech...and with Women in Fintech. My four guests are Laura Spiekerman, the CRO of Alloy, Melissa van Kluyve, Associate at Clocktower Technology Ventures, Zoe Chaves, the Product Manager of Splitwise, and Lyn Farrell, the Regulatory Strategy Advisor of Hummingbird Regtech.

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40:31

How to Digitize a Bank: Citizen’s Lamont Young

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/02/26

I love how technology is bringing new kinds of people into finance. Today’s guest, Lamont Young, is a great example. He started his career in the fashion industry. Today, he is at Citizens Bank, as the Head of Digital and Multi-Channel Marketing.

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48:01

AI’s Potential and Perils for Finance: Steve Cohen of...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/02/20

I had a fascinating conversation in Boston this winter with Steve Cohen, who is Cofounder, EVP, and COO of Basis Technology. Basis is a world-leading innovator in text analytics and the branch of artificial intelligence known as natural language processing. Over the last two decades. they have built a suite of tools that can analyze information produced by people in text form, in virtually any language, and distill patterns that reveal meaning and connections.

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01:05:18

Crossing Party Lines with Fintech Foxes Jon Bouker,...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/02/06

Amidst all the collective angst about our political discourse, I found myself, one afternoon last fall, in a meeting with the leadership team of the government affairs group at the law firm, Arent Fox. One partner, Jon Bouker, is a Democrat. Another, Dan Renberg, is a Republican. And as we talked, they kept making me laugh. Watching them interact, watching them brainstorm together, watching them riff on each other’s points, I realized we could all use a little more of whatever makes them effective

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52:10

The CFPB Innovation Director Paul Watkins

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/02/04

Today’s show is a bonus episode that we added to the schedule because it has a deadline connected with it. My guest is Paul Watkins, Assistant Director of the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Director of its new Office of Innovation. And the deadline is February 11, which is the last day that the CFPB will be accepting public comment letters on its proposals for organizing a Product Sandbox and for issuing No-Action Letters on innovative products and practices. The Bureau is very

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55:36

Making Hard Things Easy and Boring Things Fun with...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/01/30

Today’s guest is Walter Cruttenden, cofounder of Acorns and founder of the gaming company, Blast.

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01:20:28

Biometrics, Blockchains, and Bots with David Birch

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/01/22

Today’s show is a special treat because my guest is brilliant and funny and original, and he’s also a friend. Dave Birch is a London-based author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services and Global Ambassador for Consult Hyperion. We often run into each other in different parts of the world, and in December we found time to sit down and catch up in London’s old City.

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38:37

Fintech in China and Around the World: Anju...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2019/01/10

Our first 2019 show brings us a global perspective on fintech. My guest is Anju Patwardhan, Managing Director of the CreditEase FinTech VC Fund. Anju has an incredible background. I first met her when she was starting at Stanford as a Fulbright Fellow and visiting scholar, at a time when I was a senior fellow at Harvard. We made an instant connection and since then, we’ve often run into each other in interesting places around the world. Late last summer, we finally found time to sit down and talk at

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46:01

The Human Side of Technology -- Sopnendu Mohanty,...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2018/12/28

This is our second show with Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. We recorded it at the MAS annual fintech festival in Singapore, which is a remarkable event. I think it’s probably the world’s largest financial conference, with an incredible 45,000 people attending this year from all over the world. Maybe even more surprisingly, it’s a “fintech festival” that is sponsored by a central bank!

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47:39

The American Dreamers: Earnup Cofounders Matthew...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2018/12/11

One of the things I love about our Barefoot Innovation conversations -- and about fintech, for that matter -- is the passion you find in so many founders, these people who really believe they can do better for consumers. You hear it in the voices of many of the guests we’ve had on the show, the note of excitement, the sense that they can almost see a better future. They’re often people from the technology world who looked at some traditional, stuck feature of the financial system and said to

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59:38

Try Something New: Lend Academy and LendIt Founder...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2018/11/20

Today’s show is coming to you from London. I’m here to speak at the LendIt Fintech Europe conference, and I’m delighted to say that my guest is the cofounder of the LendIt Fintech conference series, Peter Renton, who is also the founder of Lend Academy.

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01:02:01

Moving The Regulatory Mountain: CEO of JWG and...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2018/11/14

My guest today is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on how to modernize financial regulation through technology. He is PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of JWG and founder of the global RegTech Council.

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