BLOG • Power of empowerment: Swanari TechSprint Takeaways
AIR was a partner with India’s Reserve Bank Innovation Hub on a tech competition and ideas forum exploring digital financial services solutions for women’s economic advancement.
PODCAST • The Reserve Bank of India’s Path to Financial Inclusion
Rajesh Bansal is head of India’s Reserve Bank Innovation Hub, which along with AIR hosted the Swanari TechSprint looking at ways to expand financial services access for women. He speaks with Jo Ann about the country’s pioneering innovation strategy.
PODCAST • Castles and Sandboxes: The Gates Foundation’s Kosta Peric
Jo Ann’s guest is Kosta Peric, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Deputy Director of Financial Services for the Poor. In this episode, he discusses the uniquely difficult problem-solving needed to achieve full financial inclusion.
PODCAST • The Mojaloop Foundation’s Drive for an Interoperable Financial System
The foundation’s leaders, Paula Hunter and Lesley-Ann Vaughan, speak with Jo Ann about their work to expand financial inclusion through open-source software with interoperability as a central component. The word mojaloop means “one” in Swahili.
PODCAST • Kenya Is Proof of How Emerging Markets Can Lead on Regulatory Innovation
Jo Ann speaks with Sheila M’Mbijjewe, deputy governor of the Kenya Central Bank, about the African country’s leadership in mobile-payments development and adoption. Half of the nation’s GDP has moved onto the M-Pesa rails.
TECHSPRINT • AIR, U.K. Regulator Team Up on Women’s Empowerment TechSprint
The Alliance for Innovative Regulation and Financial Conduct Authority partnered on a transatlantic competition and conference examining ways to address the disproportionate impact of the COVID pandemic on women.
PODCAST • The Bold Vision of Singapore Central Bank Chief Ravi Menon
Ravi Menon, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, has charted a bold course on regulatory innovation, inventing new models that are being emulated throughout the world.
PODCAST • Demystifying DeFi and Web3 with Tomicah Tillemann
Tillemann, Chief Policy Officer of Haun Ventures, shares his views about the crypto winter and how the confluence of blockchain, open source and digital tokens could solve stubborn problems.
PODCAST • Barefoot Innovation Podcast Hits 200-Episode Milestone
It has been quite a ride since our first episode in 2015. Over more than eight years, this show helped mark AIR’s founding, unpacked what the pandemic and other events meant for financial regulation, and hosted so many enlightening discussions about disruptive technology.
Stay informed by joining our mailing list