Podcasts

Today, our nation’s banks are confronting a number of emerging threats. FDIC Chief Innovation Officer Sultan Meghji sits down with former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to address resilience in the banking system.  What is resilience?  As Sec. Chertoff put it, “the ability to take a punch and get back up on your feet.

Everyone is talking about innovation in banking these days, but what is being done to engineer innovation into our banking sector? FDIC’s Chief Innovation Officer Sultan Meghji sits down with Jimmie Lenz of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering to discuss how to build the banking system of the future.

Today, it’s no longer a question of whether to innovate —Innovation is a fact of life. In the first episode of a special series of the FDIC Podcast, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and Chief Innovation Officer Sultan Mehgji discuss how innovation can drive a safer, resilient and more inclusive financial system.

During the current global pandemic, how are the nation’s community banks performing in extending credit to struggling small businesses through the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)? The FDIC’s Diane Ellis and Angela Hinton discuss new evidence that reveals the deep roots community banks have into the nation’s small business sector.