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In the age of innovation, it is now more important than ever to find technology solutions at every financial level. David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise Bank, explains how they built a strategy on inclusivity and underserved populations, where customer driven innovation powered their rapid growth and when the community succeeds, banking succeeds. David Reiling: David Reiling is a social entrepreneur, who is an innovator in community development finance and financial inclusion. He is the Chief...

Michelle Tinsley isn't so ready to kiss the bank branch goodbye. As an expert in retail digital transformation, she thinks that the personal will become more valuable, not less, as technology continues to become an greater part of our environments. Branches are using a combination of creating co-working spaces and mixed environments to change the experience. It will go far beyond putting a coffee shop in the lobby though. The same augmented reality that will empower consumers will change the...

YOU'VE BEEN HACKED. Three words no financial institution wants to hear. Financial losses that might not be covered depending on whose at fault. Answering to angry customers and regulators. How do you guarantee that it won't happen again. Michiel Prins is a professional hacker, but instead of exploiting vulnerabilities, he is alerting companies to their vulnerabilities. Michiel and his friends started coding as a kid, and began writing software programs as a teen. As he progressed, he...

Jake Tyler wants you to control your money with the ease that you ask Alexa for the weather or Siri for the best ramen in town. He and his partners have built Finn.ai. Think Siri, or Google, but for banking. So, why not use Siri or Google? Finn.ai works exclusively with banks so it can truly access the data that the bank has. It also increases the usability and improves the experience of the banks app. Finn.ai's natural voice recognition program has been trained in over a 1000 questions that...

Michael Diamond, SVP and GM of Payments at Mitek Systems, wants you to know he is from Wisconsin. He is not some soft beach dweller. And that background has given him the resilience, grit, and character to close deals in Silicon Valley. Mitek provides a lot of the background technology for identity in Mobile channels. If you want a pedigree- remember the Progressive Insurance commercial where Flo tells about getting an Auto Insurance quote with just a pic of your driver's license? Mitek...

There is nothing like being stuck in a foreign country without your wallet to make mobile payments vividly imperative. Elise Moussa founded Snapay to solve the problem of in store mobile payments. To do that, she needed to make the process as painless for the merchants as it would be for the customer. She saw that the hardware and cost to a merchant was too large a barrier, and hence was a barrier to the customer too. So, she phoned an engineer friend, told him to drop everything, and...

The only constant is change. And the only sure thing is disruption. Which is why Mike Laven doesn't think of it as disruptive at all, but as part of the natural evolution of the world, constantly making things work faster. Maybe he got that insight from his mother, who at 93, was still the greatest person he knew. Mike Laven, CEO of Currency Cloud, claims not to be Utopian, but he is obviously working at making money work better for everyone. Produced by Rachel Morrissey, Senior Producer,...

Fintech- The new tech that is being developed to enhance financial services. Sandhog: member of elite team of tunnel and foundation builders who make it so we can travel swiftly and safely on bridges and tunnels. Financial services is undergoing a massive infrastructure overhaul. As money can now move faster and cheaper, it also needs to move safer. At Marqeta, Dave led his team to recreate the payment foundations that other fintech innovators can build on. And that is why I am giving Dave...

Noah Breslow has spent a decade in the fintech trenches and if you ask him about disruption, he rolls his eyes. He is really over the term disruptive. He thinks that is just a synonym for life. But it doesn't change the fact that he has been part of a business inciting change for his entire career. And when it comes to the changes in lending markets and products, he has had a front seat to the entire landscape shifting. Produced by Rachel Morrissey, Senior Producer, Provoke Media

Travis Dulaney is a payments guru. Founder and CEO/CTO of Push Payments, he has over 20 years of experience working in payments and has been on the forefront of the digitalization of money. His list of professional accomplishments include serving on the Fed's Faster Payments Task Force that recently gave guidelines to update the entire US system of payments, and designed and developed a CRM chargeback system to which interfaced with Visa / MasterCard while enforcing Reg E regulations for...

Dominic Venturo, the Chief Innovation Officer at U.S. Bank, is one of those industry legends who floats under the radar somehow. Those of us in the industry consider him to be one of the best in the business, someone who pretty quietly just gets things done. More importantly, somehow I missed in my research how talented his daughter Sophia Venturo is. She just released her first EP - listen to the song "Denver" - the talent shines through.

I finally met someone who can explain "cognitive banking" to me! Devika Thapar, IBM Watson's Chief of Staff for Financial Services, is one of those rare techies who can explain deep AI concepts in simple English, or Hindi for that matter. We lift up the curtain a bit on Watson and where IBM is headed with their industry solution.

I finally met someone who can explain "cognitive banking" to me! Devika Thapar, IBM Watson's Chief of Staff for Financial Services, is one of those rare techies who can explain deep AI concepts in simple English, or Hindi for that matter. We lift up the curtain a bit on Watson and where IBM is headed with their industry solution.

I immediately hit it off with Stephen. We were introduced by Kim Hong from Trullio and we spent must of the interview cracking jokes and riffing off each other. Therefore, for this write-up, I'm going to continue giving Stephen a hard time. He is one of those younger, hip, good looking, in shape, well-dressed, successful founders you'd expect to find on the cover of a magazine. Well done Stephen.And he's smart too. Damn it Stephen.

I immediately hit it off with Stephen. We were introduced by Kim Hong from Trullio and we spent must of the interview cracking jokes and riffing off each other. Therefore, for this write-up, I'm going to continue giving Stephen a hard time. He is one of those younger, hip, good looking, in shape, well-dressed, successful founders you'd expect to find on the cover of a magazine. Well done Stephen. And he's smart too. Damn it Stephen.

Ohad Samet describes himself this way on this Twitter profile: "One of the best Ohad Samets in the world." That one sentence pretty much sums up Ohad. He is funny as hell, smart as hell, sharp witted as hell, and he is the founder of one hell of a product in TrueAccord.

Ohad Samet describes himself this way on this Twitter profile: "One of the best Ohad Samets in the world." That one sentence pretty much sums up Ohad. He is funny as hell, smart as hell, sharp witted as hell, and he is the founder of one hell of a product in TrueAccord.

Yes, Margaux Avedisian was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. Yes, she is a bitcoin comic. Yes, she is quite funny. But Margaux is also one sharp entrepreneur when it comes to cryptocurrency and the future of money. During the day she is the world's funniest EVP at Transform Group and can pretty much tell you anything you need to know about ICO's. Just ask her.

Yes, Margaux Avedisian was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. Yes, she is a bitcoin comic. Yes, she is quite funny. But Margaux is also one sharp entrepreneur when it comes to cryptocurrency and the future of money. During the day she is the world's funniest EVP at Transform Group and can pretty much tell you anything you need to know about ICO's. Just ask her.

Richard leads a team of engineers and innovators looking at emerging technologies and their application across RBS. His current focus is on the application of distributed ledger technology including blockchain across RBS. Or as Richard puts it, I've been focused on innovating banking ledgers way before this was cool.Yes, it's cool now. Stop your sniggering.