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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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56:18

Is Consumer Protection Working? A Bold Alternative...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/10/27

Corey and Todd argue that, as with so many other things, new technology is opening new possibilities. In this case, they think the tough old problem of financial consumer protection and financial health should be looked at afresh because….yes, you guessed it: because we now have digitized data that changes the whole game.

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49:29

Diversifying Tech: Cleve Mesidor, Founder of Women of...

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2021/10/12

Today I have something different for you. Last spring, I recorded a conversation for the virtual South by Southwest conference with Cleve Mesidor. Cleve founded the National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain, among other roles. SX had asked us to talk about the lack of diversity in the tech sector, and what to do about it. We had a great conversation, and we got permission to share it with you as a podcast.

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36:32

Best of Both Worlds: Goldman Sachs’ Stephanie Cohen

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2021/09/21

My guest today is one of the most high-ranking women in the world of banking. Stephanie Cohen is Global Co-Head of Consumer and Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs. In that role, she co-leads Goldman’s digital bank, Marcus.

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57:27

Empirical Policymaking: FinRegLab CEO Melissa Koide

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2021/08/26

Melissa Koide is the CEO of FinRegLab, a nonprofit financial innovation and research center that examines how technology and data can help achieve public policy aspirations, address regulatory requirements, and lead to a more efficient and inclusive financial marketplace. FinRegLab provides an independent platform for financial stakeholders and policymakers to dialogue and gain an evidence-based understanding of new financial technologies.

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51:51

Crypto and Climate: Energy Web CEO Jesse Morris

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/08/03

Jesse Morris is the current CEO and former CCO of the Energy Web Foundation. Throughout his career in the electricity sector, Jesse has had one focus: to partner with utilities, technology providers, developers, and regulatory stakeholders to help clean energy become an integral, widely-accessible part of the global electricity system. Last spring, AIR launched an initiative called the Crypto Climate Accord, a voluntary effort to make the crypto sector carbon neutral by 2030. Our partners in this

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58:55

The Courage to Step Forward: Kenya Central Bank...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/07/07

My guest today, Sheila M’Mbijjewe, is the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya and is helping lead the way to a new world of financial services and financial regulation. In our conversation, she describes what it was like for the regulators who faced that cutting edge situation, new terrain that no one had navigated before them. They saw the powerful potential for full financial inclusion. She says there wasn’t much money spent on marketing M-Pesa -- that people just saw immediately what

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58:07

The Regulatory Engineer: FDIC Chief Innovation...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/06/23

In our talk, Sultan lays out the themes of the agency’s innovation work and says that the most urgent one is financial inclusion. He says the evolution of the banking system has lagged the evolution of the population, and talks about how it needs to be “engineered.” He also talks about using technology to build the system’s resilience, its ability to “take a punch.” He looks, too, at how to “protect the future,” to keep up with trends like digital assets, AI and, as he says, “banking on Mars.”

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01:14:25

The Regulator’s Journey: Amy Friend on the UK...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/06/20

Amy has had a long career in public service with over 25 years of experience in shaping financial services policy and regulatory issues on Capitol Hill in both the House and the Senate, and at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. From February 2013 to November 2017, she was Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where she oversaw a 200-plus person law division as well as the licensing department. Amy led the agency’s efforts to

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45:24

A Financial Health Moon Shot: PayPal’s Dan Schulman

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/06/04

Dan Schulman is CEO of Paypal. With extensive corporate experience and a lifelong commitment to social justice, Dan Schulman believes the private sector has a responsibility to serve multiple stakeholders and to improve the state of the world. Dan has frequently been recognized by Fortune as one of the top 20 Businesspersons of the Year.

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01:15:42

Networked Supervision: CSBS CEO John Ryan

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2021/05/27

My guest today, John Ryan, is the man of the hour. He is CEO of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, and CSBS is at the vortex of most of the currents of change swirling around the US financial system. What’s the future of banking charters? What’s the future for fintechs that want to operate nationwide? What’s the future for community banks? How will regulators keep up with the technology that’s transforming the markets they oversee? What’s the future of bank regulation itself? CSBS plays a key

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59:52

Around the World: Hong Kong University’s Douglas Arner

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2021/05/02

My guest is Douglas Arner, who is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at Hong Kong University, and the Director and Cofounder of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law. I’ve gotten to know Doug over the past year or so, and have been amazed by his kaleidoscopic grasp of the entire global landscape in fintech and regtech. So few people do work that is wide and deep at the same time -- especially in a field where things change at light speed. Douglas does this better than perhaps anyone I

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54:41

Community Banks in the Digital Age: ABA CEO Rob Nichols

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/04/23

America has about 5,000 banks -- more than any other country. My guest today leads their national trade group. He is Rob Nichols, CEO of the American Bankers Association. He joined me for a conversation about how technology is changing banking, and especially community banks.

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53:13

Power of One: Mojaloop Foundation’s Paula Hunter and...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/04/09

In our conversation, Paula and Lesley-Ann tell us about the problem they are solving: if you live in a developing country and do not have a bank account, how do you go about your daily business? Your life is cash-based. It takes a significant transportation effort to get yourself somewhere to make a payment. That process carries significant costs. Holding cash, and traveling with it, carry risks too. Mojaloop is building a system to help fix all that.

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01:17:19

Worldwide Financial Inclusion: Sharmista Appaya and...

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2021/04/03

My guests today are leaders in the drive to bring the world’s poor into the formal financial system. They are Sharmista Appaya, Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank Group, and Ivo Jenik, Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP. CGAP stands for the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and sits within the World Bank as essentially a financial inclusion think tank.

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56:54

Embrace the Heretic -- Hong Kong’s Pindar Wong

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/03/14

Pindar Wong is the chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd, a discreet Internet financial infrastructure consultancy and founder of Hong Kong's Smart Contracts Initiative that pioneered the 'Belt and Road Blockchain'. He is a Bitcoin protocol enthusiast and volunteers to help organise ScalingBitcoin.org. He co-founded the global blockchain research network 'Bsafe' and organised Coala's first Blockchain Workshop in Asia. Previously, he co-founded Hong Kong’s first licensed ISP in 1993, was the first

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58:51

Transforming Credit Access with Machine Learning -...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/02/26

My guests today are Mike de Vere, CEO of Zest AI, and Teddy Flo, the company's general counsel. Zest is seeking to revolutionize credit underwriting by leveraging more information and analyzing it through machine learning. They started out as a lender, but have pivoted to selling tools to banks and other lenders, to equip them to make better lending decisions.

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01:03:06

How to Partner -- Advice for banks and fintechs from...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/02/18

My guest is Maria Gotsch, CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City. The fund’s goal is to make New York City a technology innovation hub like Silicon Valley but focused on finance, leveraging New York’s role as global financial capital. Maria assembled a group of ten big banks to work with her on how to tap into the innovation wellsprings of tech startups and make them, in effect, the banks’ R&D arm, in ways that make the relationship worthwhile for both sides.

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44:42

Open Banking: BBVA’s Susan French

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/02/04

My guest today has the answers. She is Susan French, head of Products at BBVA’s Open Platform. BBVA, the global bank headquartered in Spain, has long been ahead of the curve in technology innovation in general, and in open banking specifically. “Open banking” is about the movement to make bank accounts easily connectable to other services through API’s. It takes a lot of forms, driven by the wide variety of problems that API connections can solve, for both consumers and providers. Susan leads the

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36:09

Bankers’ Core Challenge: Mantl CEO Nathaniel Harley

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/01/28

When talking about the future of community banks, the elephant in the room is their dependence on legacy core IT providers. Nathaniel has opinions on that technology, the contracts, and its impacts on customers. He shares striking numbers about customer drop off rates in account opening. Consumers today, in their first touch interacting with a new bank (or anything else) instantly size up tech. They know whether it’s good, or whether it ‘s old. If it’s old, and it’s clunky and frustrating, they

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01:01:01

A New Kind of Money: Digital Dollar Project...

Barefoot Innovation Podcast ·

2021/01/15

My guests are Christopher Giancarlo, former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Daniel Gorfine, who previously led the CFTC’s innovation program, LabCFTC. When they left the commission, they teamed up to found the Digital Dollar Project, advocating for why and how the United States needs to join the 80-plus other countries that are planning to issue Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC.

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