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Breaking Banks

by Breaking Banks - The #1 Global Fintech Podcast · English

The #1 global fintech radio show and podcast. Every week we explore the personalities, startups, innovators, and industry players driving disruption in financial services; from Incumbents to unicorns, and from the latest cutting edge technology to the people who are using it to help to create a more innovative, inclusive and healthy financial future.

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The Next Generation of Digital Banking

“The next generation of digital banking” and how AI agents (“the fourth channel”) will reshape banking by enabling customer-facing, conversational access to accounts and financial…

12 Nov 2026 · 24m · 11 chapters

Industrializing Innovation

How U.S. Bank has “industrialized” innovation over 20 years—turning innovation from a short-lived lab into an enterprise discipline with IP, measurable outcomes, and AI-accelerated workflows.

5 Nov 2026 · 27m · 14 chapters

The New Kid on the Neobank Block 

Bark (Arabic for “lightning”) is a Saudi neobank/payments platform that grew to 1M users in 3 weeks and ~15M users, processing ~$118B since launch.

22 Oct 2026 · 33m · 13 chapters

Nu Way of Banking: Nubank Makes Its Mark in the U.S. and More

Nubank’s U.S. launch and “New Global” expansion, and how Nubank’s product/design approach uses AI, platformized design systems, and agentic-ready thinking to redefine modern banking.

15 Oct 2026 · 27m · 6 chapters

Emerging Infrastructure for Next Gen AI-based Financial Tech

Emerging infrastructure for highly autonomous, AI/agentic financial services.

1 Oct 2026 · 52m · 21 chapters

Unlocking Financial Access

Global financial inclusion via Payjoy’s socially mission-based fintech that unlocks smartphone access and credit for people with little or no credit history, using phone security collateral and…

17 Sep 2026 · 35m · 15 chapters

Let’s Get Serious About AI

How BECU is “getting serious about AI” by focusing on decision-making, governance, and measurable member outcomes—not just chatbots—during early GenAI adoption in banking.

27 Aug 2026 · 33m · 14 chapters

Rip Out the Core

A podcast mashup reviewing Paul Krogdahl’s new book Rip Out the Core, focused on progressive core banking transformation (not “big bang” replacement).

20 Aug 2026 · 54m · 14 chapters

Killing It: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey

Max (WorkHound founder) recounts building a real-time worker feedback platform for the trucking industry—why he chose trucking, how WorkHound worked, the near-death moments (first-customer failures,…

6 Aug 2026 · 43m · 13 chapters