• 25 minutes 46 seconds
    Crypto banks are safer than insured banks: Bitgo's CEO

    The crypto companies getting trust charters hold 100% reserves and thus are lower risk than traditional banks that hold fractional reserves, Mike Belshe argues.

    7 July 2026, 4:06 pm
  • 22 minutes 33 seconds
    Why big banks bet on Besu

    Citi, DTCC and others are quietly using Hyperledger Besu as neutral, enterprise-grade rails for tokenized deposits and collateral. Daniela Barbosa, general manager of decentralized technologies at the Linux Foundation, explains why.

    9 June 2026, 12:55 pm
  • 15 minutes 46 seconds
    What's life like after crypto firms get trust bank charters?

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved several national trust bank charters for crypto companies. Fabian Dori, head of asset management at Sygnum Bank, a digital asset bank based in Zurich that has operated as a crypto bank for more than six years, shared what happens after the charter.

    26 May 2026, 1:46 pm
  • 27 minutes 42 seconds
    'Credit access is absolutely a problem': Upstart's Paul Gu

    The company's new CEO, and long-time chief technology officer, shares his views on why some banks are stuck in old ways of determining creditworthiness, how Upstart has been modifying its underwriting models and the objections people sometimes have to AI-based lending.

    12 May 2026, 12:55 pm
  • 22 minutes 56 seconds
    Is AI the way to get credit to the underbanked?

    Rodney Hood, former acting Comptroller of the Currency and former chair of the National Credit Union Administration, says the credit scoring system is broken and AI can fix it.

    28 April 2026, 12:55 pm
  • 29 minutes 39 seconds
    What a 'moral architecture' for AI in banking would look like

    Surjit Chana, a board member of Beneficial State Bank, a Harvard Fellow and a tech committee member of the Global Alliance for Banking Values, explains why there's a need for what he calls a moral architecture for AI

    14 April 2026, 12:55 pm
  • 24 minutes 2 seconds
    Solana 101: What it is and why some banks use it

    JPMorganChase, Citi, Bank of America and Anchorage Digital are among the banks that are using or planning to work with the Solana distributed ledger and network. Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine explains how it works.

    31 March 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 22 minutes 32 seconds
    Grasshopper's taking AI beyond the 'confident intern' stage
    Peter Chapman, chief technology officer at Grasshopper Bank, initially saw AI as "the best intern that you could ever have." Today the technology is taking on more advanced work at the bank.
    17 March 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 18 minutes 3 seconds
    How Clearview FCU's CIO gets employees to use and trust AI
    "AI may not take your job, but somebody who knows AI will," says Raymond George, CIO of Clearview Federal Credit Union.
    2 March 2026, 6:30 pm
  • 19 minutes 17 seconds
    What is Ethereum and why should you care? Paul Brody at EY

    JPMorganChase, Citi, Vantage Bank and Custodia Bank have all chosen Ethereum as the underpinning for blockchain projects such as tokenized deposits. The chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance explains its appeal.

    17 February 2026, 1:55 pm
  • 23 minutes 16 seconds
    Thread Bank's Chris Black sees opening in bank charter boom

    Some traditional bankers are unsettled by the wave of crypto and fintech banks getting bank charters. This Nashville bank CEO sees opportunity.

    3 February 2026, 1:00 pm
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