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One Year Anniversary Special: Breaking banks with Brett King

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Brett King is a speaker, author, founder, podcast host, pilot, gamer and a scuba diver, based in New York, NY. Founder and host of #1 FinTech podcast and radio show, Breaking Banks. Founder and Executive Chairman of Moven, an enterprise-focused challenger bank.  Brett has an insightful new booking coming out this year; you can pre-order it on Amazon: The Rise of Technosocialism. Check out also the episode of Breaking Banks: Sci-Fi Legends talk COVID-19 mentioned in this podcast.

In this Voice of FinTech's One Year Anniversary Special, we talk about:

  • Virtual events during the lockdown - are they here to stay? Do traditional conferences have a future?

  • Breaking banks podcast and radio show - beginnings, regional spin-offs, focus on the content and high profile guest focus (previous guests included Elon Musk or Boris Johnson)

  • Science-fiction as an inspiration for the future of banking

  • His new book, The Rise of Technosocialism: what are the possible scenarios for humans as species. Brett argues the technosocialism, which is a highly automated society, broad quality and prosperity and ubiquitous technology infrastructure which provides for the health, education transport is the preferred scenario 

  • The founding of a challenger bank Moven, pivoting to enterprise clients to drive the growth and journey to scale worldwide

  • Plans for the rest of the year, including hopefully spending more time in Thailand

  • How to get noticed  - tips for when approaching time-poor influencers