This show sets a Barefoot Innovation record -- it’s the first time we’ve had a guest come back for a fourth conversation (you’ll note that I say in the recording that this is his third appearance, but I actually undercounted). We did two shows with Christopher Giancarlo while he was Chairman of the USCommodity Futures Trading Commission, and then another after he returned to the private sector and co-founded the Digital Dollar Project with Daniel Gorfine. We’ll link to all of those in the show notes.
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Happy New Year everyone! As we enter 2022 and hope it turns out better than its two predecessors, one of my goals for the year is to invite you on a journey with me to explore the frontiers of change in finance, and of course therefore, financial regulation. We’re going to look at Web 3.0, DeFi, crypto, blockchains, tokenization, DAOs, embedded finance, and the whole universe of mold-breaking innovation flooding into the financial sector. To kick it off, I’ve invited our second-ever four-time guest onto the show. In our final episode of 2021, I featured our first four-time guest on Barefoot Innovation – Chris Giancarlo, talking about his great new book, CryptoDad. Today, we’re talking for the fourth time with Shamir Karkal – and for very good reason.
January 16, 2022
READ MOREThis show sets a Barefoot Innovation record -- it’s the first time we’ve had a guest come back for a fourth conversation (you’ll note that I say in the recording that this is his third appearance, but I actually undercounted). We did two shows with Christopher Giancarlo while he was Chairman of the USCommodity Futures Trading Commission, and then another after he returned to the private sector and co-founded the Digital Dollar Project with Daniel Gorfine. We’ll link to all of those in the show notes.
December 14, 2021
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My guests today are Lisa Rice, CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance, and Kareem Saleh, founder and CEO of Fairplay. Lisa is a civil rights activist. Kareem is a tech guy who founded a startup that uses AI analytics to deliver what he calls Fairness as a Service. They come from two different worlds, but they have teamed up to work on the problem of unfair lending.
November 10, 2021
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A half century ago, the US government embarked on an effort to protect financial consumers through proactive regulation. Starting with the Truth In Lending Act in 1968, Congress enacted an ever-growing set of laws, and regulators and industry undertook an ever-growing effort to implement them. So, how’s it going, 53 years later? Are consumers now well-protected? Is it a rarity for consumers to be harmed in the financial system, like it’s a rarity for planes to crash, or drinking water to make people sick. Do we have a situation where failures shock us and make news? Most of us -- certainly I -- would say no.. But, think also about this: we really have no idea how well we’re doing.
October 27, 2021
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Today I have something different for you. Last spring, I recorded a conversation for the virtual South by Southwest conference with Cleve Mesidor. Cleve founded the National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain, among other roles. SX had us to talk about the lack of diversity in the tech sector, and what to do about it. We had a great conversation, and we got permission to share it with you as a podcast.
October 11, 2021
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My guest today is one of the most high-ranking women in the world of banking. Stephanie Cohen is Global Co-Head of Consumer and Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs. In that role, she co-leads Goldman’s digital bank, Marcus. We have talked on the show before -- and we do so again today -- about the uniqueness of Marcus. It’s a rare hybrid: a wholly new financial company, created by an old one -- in this case, by one that is 152 years old.
September 21, 2021
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The single most critical factor in meeting this challenge is to equip regulators with really sound, empirical, trustable information about how these technologies will affect the public. And that’s why I’m excited to welcome today’s guest. Melissa Koide is CEO of FinRegLab, and she joins me to talk about how she and her colleagues are meeting this need.
August 26, 2021
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Last spring, AIR launched an initiative called the Crypto Climate Accord, a voluntary effort to make the crypto sector carbon neutral by 2030. Our partners in this project are two other nonprofit organizations -- the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Energy Web Foundation. My guest today is Jesse Morris, Energy Web’s CEO and one of the most visionary innovators in the climate space. In this conversation, we talk about the Accord -- what we’re doing and who is joining in. The group includes crypto miners, crypto exchanges, renewable energy providers, and financial services firms offering crypto options. Please note that all kinds of entities that work with crypto are invited to participate.
August 05, 2021
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