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Looming defaults and the potential for heavier regulatory scrutiny have prompted banks to pull back from the sector. Is that a good thing?

Kate Fitzgerald, senior editor at PaymentsSource, talks to Kurt Kumar, vice president of marketing and business development at RocketFuel, about the growing use of crypto in payments exhibited by Visa, PayPal and others.

Michael Moeser, senior analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Simon Powley, head of advisory services at Diebold Nixdorf, about the importance of cash as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

Many big companies have made pledges to diversify their workforces, treat minority communities more fairly and clean up the environment to burnish their images, says Meredith Benton, CEO of the consultancy Whistle Stop Capital. But few are willing to share data to prove it's all more than a PR campaign, she says.

Regulators around the world are exploring how to assess banks' exposures to climate change risks. But they'll have to tackle legal, economic and modeling problems that don’t have obvious solutions.

Michael Moeser, senior analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Dustin Eide, CEO of CanPay, about payments innovation in the legalized cannabis industry.

John Adams, Executive Editor at PaymentsSource, talks to Debbie Gamble, chief officer of Innovation Labs and New Ventures at Interac, about Canada's growing digital needs.

Vanessa Colella taught earth science and biology to middle schoolers through Teach for America before becoming Citigroup's new chief innovation officer. Her experience in the classroom still sticks with her today.

Michael Moeser, senior analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Atif Siddiqi, Founder and CEO of Branch, about the future of providing faster access to earned wages.

The average American’s financial picture is bleaker than government data suggests, according to the former comptroller of the currency. Research from his new organization, the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, has found that unemployment is higher and household wages are lower than reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.