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Breaking Banks: Fintech and the refugee crisis
Breaking Banks: Fintech and the refugee crisis
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Brett King, Marc Hochstein of American Banker, and Peter Renton, Founder of LendIt Academy, talk about the upcoming Digital Identity Crisis Webinar, The LendIt Conference at the Javits Center in NYC, and the proposed Fintech Charter and what that can mean for changes in banking in the US. Sam Maule takes the helm in the second half, and talks to Zeina Shuhaibar from the IRC, Ashish Gadnis, Founder/CEO of BanQu Inc., and Aneesh Varma, Founder of Aire (Credit scores for humanity @AireScore) to talk about fintech solutions to help refugees regain some economic stability and contribute to the economies of their new domiciles.
Released:
Feb 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Can Blockchain Tech Help Human Rights Victims?: Julio Alejandro, CEO of Humanitarian Blockchain in London, thinks so. Some of his projects, such as providing bitcoin Visa debit cards to refugees and digital identities for ex-cons, are ideas financial services firms could implement here. by American Banker Podcast