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,

David Reiling - Banking and Social Responsibility

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.

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. -

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?

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. -

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,

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.

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. -

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 o...

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 ...

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,

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.

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,

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,

Bianca has done more in her brief time on the tech scene than most people have accomplished in a 30 year career.  She's founded multiple companies stretching across multiple industries and has now fully grasped the impact biometrics can have on the que...

Chloé James is Group Media and PR Director and Editor of the Australian Retail Banker and Global Retail Banker for global business intelligence and digital media provider, RFi Group.    She is also a presenter on Sky News Australia.  What makes Chloé  stand out in my opinion is the authenticness of her love of tech and its potential impact on improving consumers' financial lives.

There are several reasons I'm friends with Dion.  1) He's smart as hell;  2) he heads up fintech for CapGemni so we basically have the same job; 3) he has less hair than I do; and 4) he is a huge Arsenal football fan.  What more could you ask for in a friend?