Episodes

On this episode, Dara is joined by two top financial services lobbyists from each side of the aisle, Peter Freeman of FS Vector and Izzy Klein of Klein/Johnston Group, to do a post-election breakdown and discuss what the outcome means for financial services, fintech and technology regulations.

In this episode, Dara discusses the history of the U.S. attempts at federal privacy legislation and the newest bipartisan bill being proposed. What are the obstacles and likely objections to the proposal? Will anything actually get done in an election year? Dara and James discuss these topics and more.

SXSW is a safari to the future according to Todder Moning, Lead Futurist at U.S. Bank. But, as Mike Bechtell, Chief Futurist at Deloitte, pointed out in his Fintech House fireside last year: futurists are always wrong. Why attempt to predict the future if you are likely to be wrong? This year Todder and Eric Schurr, Chief Strategy Officer at Sunrise Banks and host of the Social Currency podcast at Provoke.fm, have a fireside chat with Dara Tarkowski, Founder of Actuate Law and host of the Tech...

Joined by Michael Johnson, CEO of Metrc, we discuss the evolution of regulation in the Cannabis industry. Metrc is a leading platform to track and trace cannabis from seed to sale which allows distributors to maintain compliance across multiple states. As legalization across the country unfolds, technology will be the key to efficiency and compliance.

We sit down with Matthew Gibson, Co-Founder and CEO of Syngrafii, to discuss the digitization and compliance of signatures. Syngrafii has changed the landscape of biometric signature capabilities through virtual signing rooms, secure e-signature links, remote pens and more. While compliance and safety are the main concerns of digital signatures, Matthew tells us how Syngrafii is tackling those challenges head on.

ForUsAll is the first 401 K platform to offer access to cryptocurrency in retirement planning. We sit down with David Ramiriez, CEO of ForUsAll, to talk about investment portfolios, retirement planning, Cryptocurrency entering the industry and what impact this has for regulations on digital assets.

We welcome Soumyadip Rakshit, Co-Founder and CEO of MysteryVibe. MysteryVibe is a sexual health company that produces smart vibrators toys that address major sexual health issues such as erectile dysfunction, dryness & pain during intercourse. While the health benefits of sexual stimulation are clear, navigating the sex-tech space as a start-up has proven to be quite challenging. From investing to advertising, we learn how MysteryVibe is paving the way for technology and sexual health.

We welcome Federico Baradello, CEO and Founder of Finalis, to discuss disruption in the brokerage industry. Finalis is a platform that helps private securities brokerages to operate legally and compliantly. As technology grabs hold of the finance industry, how can companies be proactive and solve functional problems?

Beni Gradwohl, Co-founder and CEO of Cognovi Labs, joins us to explore emotional artificial intelligence. Cognovi Labs is dedicated to leveraging technology to measure human emotion through an artificial intelligence platform to understand and measure emotional responses. But, if artificial intelligence can measure and even predict human emotional responses, can we influence the masses for the greater good?

We sit down with Amanda Cohen, Director of Products at Resolver to talk about our favorite, Reg-Tech, and risk management. Resolver is changing the landscape of risk management by analyzing risk data in context to use risk as a strategy in business development. By leveraging technology like Resolver, modern businesses are now able to keep a pulse on the regulatory market and transform into risk-intelligent entities.

We welcome Tim Collins, Chief Customer Officer at Indebted, to talk about a modern way of collecting debt. In a historically client focused Industry, debt collection is shifting to the digital world with companies like Indebted that are shifting the focus from client to customer. Digitizing the debt collection customer experience has paved the way for efficiently managing outstanding accounts and debt recovery.

Colin Gounden, CEO and Co-founder of VIA, joins us to discuss the future of the energy industry. The energy industry, and the data within it, are heavily regulated by the government, which has made it extremely difficult to come up with solutions to improve energy infrastructures across the world. VIA was founded in 2016 to help address this problem by using blockchain and AI to analyze data while keeping it private. Could decentralizing data be the answer to clean energy?

We welcome John Wall, Partner and Head of Business Development at Trust Insights, to help us understand how to gather and use marketing data in a compliant and measurable way. We talk through data collection, privacy regulation (or lack thereof), and how companies are using these to market to consumers. But, when it comes to gathering personal information and marketing data, how far is too far?

We sit down with Evgeny Likhoded, CEO of Clausematch, to address regulatory compliance and how to make it more manageable using technology. SaaS solutions have been very limited in serving the needs of regulatory compliance, but we have seen companies like Clausematch take this challenge head-on to answer the burning question, can you stay compliant with artificial intelligence?

We sit down with Jeannette Spaulding, CEO of Inveniam Asset Management to talk about investing in crypto assets and blockchain. Inveniam Asset Management monitors crypto assets using cutting edge technology to analyze and measure the volatility of cryptocurrency, opening the door for other use cases for blockchain.

We bring back Joseph Borstein, Co-Founder of LexFusion, to give us an update on the adoption of Alternative Legal Service Providers and how the legal space started to incorporate innovative tech to work more efficiently. Catch him on our last episode together, “Pick Up the Pace Already: Speeding Law’s Adoption of Innovative Tech” aired November 10, 2020.

We sit down with Cody Owens to talk about the new way of debt collection through streamlined technology service, Equabli. Using predictive modeling, Equabli takes consumer behavior and strategizes how best to engage in debt collection.

On this episode, Dara takes a deep dive on the evolution of artificial intelligence with Peter Voss, founder of Aigo. We discuss the new term “Artificial General Intelligence”, how to measure it, and the future of personal assistants, Chat- Bots with brains.

On this episode, Dara sits down with Dr. Eric Daimler, founder of Connexus and Presidential Innovation Fellow during the Obama administration, to discuss the biggest dangers lurking in AI, the first ever spin-out from MIT’s math department and how its addressing today’s AI challenges, and Eric’s views on how the heck we go about trying to regulate an algorithm.

On this episode, Dara sits down with Manny Newburger, Adjunct Professor of Consumer Law at UT Austin School of Law and VP of Barron and Newburger, to discuss what the CFPB and FTC have been up to the last few months. From the “Holder Rule” to credit reporting and fascination with Buy Now Pay Later, Dara and Manny break down some complex topics and make some predictions for what regulation and enforcement will look like into 2022 and beyond.

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) officially launched in 2021. Already dubbed the “mini-CFPB,” on this episode, Dara speaks with two experts and California natives – Mark Naiman, a member of the DFPI’s advisory board and financial services professional and Lauren Valenzuela, regulatory counsel at Actuate Law. We discuss the vision for the DFPI, who they are regulating, what they are innovating, developments over the past year, and what it’s going to be like ...

Recent discussions around data privacy, “fake news”, bots, – not to mention the almost daily revelations about hacks, data and identity theft, have MADE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR that today’s Internet has some serious defects.Today it is not the Internet, but the social media platforms, search engines, e-commerce sites or financial institutions built on top of it, that provide us with our online identities, hold our personal data, and act as gatekeepers of information. On this episode, Dara is joined by ...

Diversity, equity and inclusion remain challenging for the fintech community and financial services as a whole. Despite significant strides and efforts being made over the years, the COVID-19 pandemic has unquestionably impacted women in the workplace disproportionately. This week, Dara is joined by Angela Yore, to discuss findexable’s Fintech Diversity Radar, what the study hopes achieve and how we continue to address these important issues in the new normal.

SexTech has seen a massive acceleration in our post pandemic world. Slowly but surely, the industry is moving from vice to mainstream, though the regulatory environment, existing laws, and pre-conceived notions and biases continue to be obstacles. For Tech on Regis fall season opener, Dara is joined by returning guest, Dominique Karetsos, for her take on the future of SexTech, recent progress and achievements in the Healthy Pleasure Group Lab and how we continue to push the industry into the mai...