Barefoot Innovation Podcast
Business
Jo Ann Barefoot discusses disrupting innovation in the financial services sector and beyond.
Location:
Boston, MA
Description:
Jo Ann Barefoot discusses disrupting innovation in the financial services sector and beyond.
Twitter:
@joannbarefoot
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.jsbarefoot.com/
Email:
jo@jbarefoot.com
Episodes
Community Banks: Darragh Buckley on a Tech-Enabled Future
4/18/2024
Community banks face a tech revolution. Explore the challenges & opportunities with Increase CEO Darragh Buckley, who has a unique perspective and novel ideas. Hear his thoughts on how smaller banks can survive & thrive in a changing landscape.
Duration:00:36:35
Cutting Edge Consumer Finance: Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche
4/11/2024
Upgrade's visionary CEO, Renaud Laplanche, unpacks his pioneering thinking on consumer finance. He unveils 3 key financial consumer needs and explores the evolving landscape of fintechs — progress, challenges and what's next.
Duration:00:46:04
Women’s History Month: Jo Ann Joins Shelley Anderson to look back and forward
3/26/2024
To mark Women’s History Month, AIR’s Shelley Anderson interviews Barefoot Innovation host Jo Ann on her perspective about the progress, and lack thereof, on efforts to drive toward gender equality.
Duration:01:02:32
Fintech 2.0: Itai Damti and Alex Acree of Unit
3/12/2024
Itai Damti and Alex Acree delve into Unit's design as a "technology operating system" for bank-fintech partnerships, the legal framework they establish between partners, and their view that compliance must be built into these systems from the start.
Duration:01:01:43
Innovation in Africa: Bank of Ghana’s Kwame Oppong
2/26/2024
Kwame is the charismatic head of innovation at the Bank of Ghana. He shares advice for regulators on how to adapt to tech transformation and emphasizes collaboration to break down silos and foster innovation
Duration:00:58:51
How to Include Everyone: The Gates Foundation’s Michael Wiegand
2/5/2024
Michael talks about the global evolution of financial inclusion and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s ongoing efforts. Learn about digital financial inclusion, consumer protection, digital public infrastructure, and barriers to fair finance.
Duration:00:52:50
Presidential Assistant Elizabeth Kelly: White House Policy on AI
1/23/2024
Kelly serves on the White House National Economic Council and helped lead the executive order issued in 2023 on AI. She discusses what the order requires, the challenges it aims to address and the upside opportunity of the technology.
Duration:00:39:37
Year-End Roundup from Digital Dollar Foundation Head Chris Giancarlo
12/11/2023
Former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo updates on the evolution of Central Bank Digital Currencies around the world and predicts where we’re headed.
Duration:00:58:57
How Minority-Backed Institutions Can Stay Competitive in Digital Age
11/14/2023
In this special episode recorded live at the Annual Conference of the National Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., Jo Ann speaks with three innovators working to help Minority Depository Institutions modernize their technology to continue serving communities of color.
Duration:00:35:14
AI, AI and AI: Game-Changing Technologies Will Dominate Fall Gatherings
10/25/2023
Generative artificial intelligence is sure to be a hot topic for regulators and financial innovators on the upcoming conference circuit. Here is how attendees can get the most out of events likely to be a harvest of new ideas.
Duration:00:08:16
Fully Fair Lending: NFHA CEO Lisa Rice
9/28/2023
Discrimination in the credit markets is a persistent problem. Lisa Rice, head of the National Fair Housing Alliance, says we can solve it if we understand the role of structured, hidden bias, and use new technology to root it out.
Duration:01:02:15
Jason Cave on FHFA’s Goal to Modernize Mortgage Process With New Tech
9/18/2023
Following the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Velocity TechSprint, the official leading the agency’s conservatorship and fintech strategies joins Jo Ann to discuss all the ways the mortgage market is ripe for a technology overhaul.
Duration:00:46:56
How the FCA is Attacking Both Prongs of Regulatory Innovation
8/18/2023
Most agencies focus largely on how technology affects the industries they oversee, but the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority’s innovation approach is also inward-focused. Jessica Rusu and Nathalie Lowe, two leaders driving the FCA’s strategy, discuss the regulator’s achievements.
Duration:01:12:05
NCRC’s Van Tol on How Technology Can Change Consumer Finance
8/1/2023
Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, joins Jo Ann for a discussion on the upsides and downsides of technologies designed to expand access to homeownership and small business capital.
Duration:01:26:41
Making Payments FASTT: The World Bank’s Holti Banka
6/30/2023
Banka helps lead the World Bank’s initiative to make payments interoperable and fast. In this episode, he discusses the launch of Project FASTT, the principles that make fast payments work and how to meet key financial inclusion goals.
Duration:00:51:31
How Delicia Reynolds Hand Works to Empower Fintech Consumers
6/15/2023
Hand, the Director of Financial Fairness Advocacy at Consumer Reports, leads the magazine’s initiative to evaluate new fintech products to give customers greater awareness of the rapidly changing financial services market. The ratings system could be a game-changer for pricing and product development.
Duration:00:54:35
Barefoot Innovation Podcast Hits 200-Episode Milestone
6/2/2023
It has been quite a ride since our first episode in 2015. Over more than eight years, this show helped mark AIR’s founding, unpacked what the pandemic and other events meant for financial regulation, and hosted so many enlightening discussions about disruptive technology.
Duration:00:54:33
Brave New World: A Conversation with ChatGPT
4/26/2023
In this episode, Jo Ann interviews the most famous generative AI. The chat is “unsmart” but it gave responses to complex questions that were accurate and displayed the ability to grasp subtle issues.
Duration:00:44:52
Cecilia Skingsley on How BIS Innovation Hub Showcases ‘Art of the Possible’
4/19/2023
The head of the Bank for International Settlements’ innovation initiative offers insight on ways that central banks and other regulatory organizations can boldly explore technological change.
Duration:00:38:31
Demystifying DeFi and Web3 with Tomicah Tillemann
4/5/2023
Tillemann, Chief Policy Officer of Haun Ventures, shares his views about the crypto winter and how the confluence of blockchain, open source and digital tokens could solve stubborn problems.
Duration:00:58:30