We chat to computer scientist and startup founder Paul McCarthy about new research based on a big data set he's working on showing just how different startup founders are to regular employees, and the personality types that make the best mix in a startup team. Following Paul, Cocoon Capital Managing Partner Michael Blakey discusses how he and other VC investors assess founder behaviour and work with founders to broaden their skill set.

With a global recession on the cards, capital-rich bank venture funds are in a powerful position. We explore how they are using that power and whether they are capitalizing on opportunities created by private venture capital drying up -- or not.

Open banking in India and the Philippines is opening the door for millions of people to take part in the formal banking sector, be it an individual opening a bank account or a small business getting a loan. We explore how new business models are being built in a region of empowered citizens who are more data rich than economically rich. 

Open banking in Australia has stalled. It's been active for two years, and before that had a three year runway to get the ground rules sorted out, but the promised influx of third party players hasn't yet happened. Some have even left. Furthermore, a series of data hacks this year across the Australian economy is making Aussies wary about who is doing what with their data.  We catch up with Brenton Charnley, former CEO of the Australia/New Zealand arm of UK open banking pioneer TrueLayer and get his thoughts on how things are working today, and cyber security expert Stephen Wilson to find out whether the regulations currently throttling open banking growth, might be its saviour in Australia.

We step back in time to 2010, the year Steve Jobs released the iPad, Instagram joined the socials scene and Uber, and with it the gig economy, were being born in New York. It was also the year Brett King released his first book - Bank 2.0 predicting the future for financial services. To set the scene for the new edition of Breaking Banks Asia, new host Rachel Williamson and Producer Charis Palmer dissect Brett’s predictions, what fintech has done for bank innovation and posit the question: Is it true to say the more things change the more banks stay the same?