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Irish Tech News are Ireland's number one online tech publication and often Ireland's number one tech podcast too. We aim to cover innovation, entrepreneurs, startups, green tech, clean tech and tech for good that aims to help the planet. If you have a good story drop us a line.

  1. 1d ago

    A Bag of M&Ms | Briana Marbury on Financial Exclusion

    Briana Marbury grew up in Detroit with one bank in the neighborhood. She opened an account after her first job. Then came the overdraft fees, and the fees on the fees. She had a choice: gas and groceries, or the bank. The bank account closed. So she went to the check-cashing place on the corner, five dollars at a time, for years — while the unpaid fees went to collections and marked a credit file that had barely started.   Financial exclusion doesn't always look like someone outside the banking system. Sometimes it looks like a closed account, a check-cashing counter, and a damaged credit file. Briana Marbury, President & CEO of Interledger Foundation, joins Theodora Lau to talk about living it — and about the unglamorous infrastructure work that could stop it happening to someone else. But technology in and of itself was not going to be enough. They close the conversation on what’s next: Mexico, Colombia, and a growing push into US community banks and CDFIs. And on what gives Briana hope: that when she walks into a room with a government, they're not asking whether interoperability matters. They're asking how fast it can happen. Hot take 🔥"I have a choice between either buying gas, buying groceries, or paying a bank fee bill — when I can go access my money right away at this corner store for five dollars." 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Keywords: fintech, personal finance, financial inclusion, payments, cross-border payments, remittances, Interledger Protocol, Briana Marbury, Interledger Foundation #FinancialInclusion #CrossBorderPayments #Fintech #Payments Timestamp: 00:00 Welcome and Introductions 01:09 Interledger Foundation Origins 02:59 Hidden Financial Exclusion 05:54 Personal Stories and Literacy 07:55 Interoperability for Inclusion 09:16 Fixing Cross Border Payments 13:48 Why Fees Persist 15:50 Lessons Working with Regulators 18:11 Plans for 2027  More about our guest  🌐Briana Marbury on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianamarbury/  🌐Interledger Foundation: https://interledger.org/   More about our host and One Vision Podcast  🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/  🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/  🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/  🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision  **

    A Bag of M&Ms | Briana Marbury on Financial Exclusion

  2. 3d ago

    There is a real need for web data Shane Evans, Founder and CEO Zyte

    Cork-based Zyte  recently released new research, after analysing 25,000 websites across the globe. The data suggests that the Open Web is Now ‘The Controlled Web’. Tech leaders are facing a strategic decision: allow open access to maximise visibility in search, or erect technical barriers to protect their content. I recently caught up with Shane Evans, the Founder and CEO Zyte to find out more about this. Shane talks about his background, what Zyte does, AI, Zyte’s new research, and more. More about Zyte: Zyte believes that businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data. For more than a decade they have led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use ways to collect, format and deliver web data, quickly, dependably and at scale helping thousands of organisations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage and drive sustainable growth.

    There is a real need for web data Shane Evans, Founder and CEO Zyte

  3. Sep 29

    A lot of people like the lifestyle Marianne Lee, Vice President, HR Europe for TrendAI 

    Cork has become a cybersecurity success story, and the city's talent, universities and quality of life have helped attract and retain global technology companies for more than two decades. To find out more about this I caught up with Marianne Lee, Vice President, HR Europe for TrendAI, a business unit of global cybersecurity leader Trend Micro. Maruanne talks about her background, why Cork has become a cybersecurity success story, Ireland's growing influence in global cybersecurity, how AI is hanging cybersecurity careers and more. More about Marianne Lee: Based in Cork, Marianne has been with the company since it established its European HQ in the city in 2003 and has had a front-row seat to both the evolution of the cybersecurity industry and Cork's growth into a major technology hub. Today, Trend AI employs almost 300 people at its Model Farm Road campus and continues to invest in talent development, university partnerships and emerging technologies, particularly in AI and cybersecurity.

    A lot of people like the lifestyle Marianne Lee, Vice President, HR Europe for TrendAI 

  4. Sep 24

    Platform or Pipe: Why Most Banks Already Chose

    Every few years someone tells us banking is about to be disrupted. It never quite happens.  So when Dharmesh Mistry and Lou Carlozo came on to talk about their new book, The Intelligent Ledger, I asked: Why is this time different? Dharmesh's take? Banking has adopted plenty of individual technologies, from mainframe to client-server, internet, mobile, cloud. None of them disrupted anything. But the iPhone didn't win by being a better phone. Nokia was building a better phone. Kodak was building a better camera. Garmin was building a better GPS. The iPhone was all of them at once, and the market reorganised around it in under five years. His claim is that banking now has its own version of that convergence — what he and Lou call the Quanvergence: open, accessible data; agentic AI; tokenisation; and quantum, arriving together rather than in sequence. Not the best AI bank. Not the best tokenised rails. All of it, in one place.  So platform or pipe? And who will win?  📱The Intelligent Ledger ships at the end of September from Palgrave Macmillan. Hot take 🔥"Banks have already chosen pipe, but they're not admitting it. Nobody wants to hear it. If you're selling products and that's all that you're doing, you're making your money from margin on a product — that makes you a pipe. So just admit it and get on with it." — Dharmesh Mistry Hot take 🔥"Change or die by 2032." — Lou Carlozo 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Keywords: Fintech, Financial Services, Agentic AI, AI, Quantum, Digital Transformation, Tokenization  Timestamp: 00:00 Welcome and Guests 00:50 Introducing The Intelligent Ledger 03:29 Why Five Years 06:58 Convergence and Platform Shift 09:31 Skepticism and CEO Courage 13:38 Four Forces  17:10 Small Banks Can Compete 22:05 Bold Claims and 2032 Deadline 34:37 Release Dates and Where to Buy More about our guests  🌐Dharmesh Mistry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharmeshmistry2020/  🌐Lou Carlozo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucarlozo/  More about our host and One Vision Podcast  🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/  🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/  🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/  🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision

    Platform or Pipe: Why Most Banks Already Chose

  5. Sep 22

    We need political solutions to the issues around misinformation Kyle Duck, founder and CEO of Alli AI

    Alli AI, an AEO and SEO automation and white-label platform, recently published a really interesting white paper about invisibility for Fortune 500 companies, and the problem is true for European companies too, including Irish ones and could be a huge revenue depressor. Alli AI has also released a Chrome extension that shows how visible websites are to AI. For example, if you run Costco through the Chrome extension you get 7 percent visibility. In Ireland the number is even worse with Musgrave Marketplace getting 1 percent visibility. To find out more about this I spoke to Kyle Duck the founder and CEO of Alli AI. Kyle talks about his background, AI,  Alli AI Crome extension, Cloudflare and more. More about Kyle Duck: Kyle Duck is the founder and CEO of Alli AI, an AEO and SEO automation and white-label platform. Alli AI has served over 26,000 companies, from agencies to enterprise teams. Kyle's recent work focuses on how the internet is splitting between serving the needs of humans vs AI agents.  Alli AI and Kyle have been featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Hubspot, ClickUp, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal and more.

    We need political solutions to the issues around misinformation Kyle Duck, founder and CEO of Alli AI

  6. Sep 18

    Reduced healthcare costs by 92% Eamonn Costello, CEO of patientMpower

    A new digital healthcare approach, developed by patientMpower, an Irish digital health company specialising in solutions for remote patient monitoring, has been found by independent researchers to reduce health service costs by 92% and cut outpatient appointments by 80%.        The results were confirmed in a randomised controlled trial conducted by researchers in Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Manchester.      To find out more about this I spoke to Eamonn Costello, CEO of patientMpower. Eamonn talks about his background, what patientMpower does, wearable devices, and more. More about patientMpower: patientMpower is a specialist provider of digital healthcare solutions, initially founded by CEO Eamonn Costello in 2015, following his own experiences in caring for his father. Their mission is to empower patient-centred specialist healthcare and data insights through digital innovation. Today, patientMpower enables clinical care and research in diverse condition types, empowering thousands of patients, in centres across the US, UK and EU. But those founding principles of innovation, patient-centricity and partnership remain central to their work.

    Reduced healthcare costs by 92% Eamonn Costello, CEO of patientMpower

  7. Sep 15

    Do they not want us to find these supports? Dan O’Hara, Founder Irish Grants & Supports

    Here at Irish Tech News we love hearing about new Irish tech, websites, apps and startups. A new Irish website that caught our interest is Irish Grants & Supports, a free online website that brings  all the grants, payments and supports together in one place and make them easier for people to find. I recently caught up with Dan O’Hara the  founder of Irish Grants & Supports to find out more. Dan talks about his background, how he started Irish Grants & Supports. and more. More about  Irish Grants & Supports: Irish Grants & Supports went live two months ago and in the first few weeks and it's already had over 800 questions from 15 countries, with hundreds clicking straight through to start a claim. People in Ireland and right across the diaspora are using it daily. Irish Grants & Supports can also be found on Instagram.

    Do they not want us to find these supports? Dan O’Hara, Founder Irish Grants & Supports

  8. Sep 10

    Agentic Commerce's Real Bottleneck Isn't the Technology

    🎙️Agentic Commerce's Real Bottleneck Isn't the Technology — with Jas Shah A year and a half ago, agentic commerce was going to change everything. Type a prompt, get a package. So what actually happened? In this episode of One Vision Podcast, Theodora Lau sits down with fintech product expert Jas Shah for a clear-eyed look at where agentic commerce really stands. The technology has mobilized, but as Jas puts it, becoming ready is not the same as being ready. Disputes, chargebacks, and fraud liability haven't been solved for a world where transaction volume could rise exponentially. And consumer behavior hasn't moved at all: they will use AI for discovery, then still tap Apple Pay to buy.  The conversation turns on a single test: utility. Where an agent removes genuine administrative burden, it wins. Where the person actually wants to choose, it doesn't. Which is why Jas argues the real early adopters are businesses: inventory systems, product codes, predictable repeat purchasing, and a procurement decision that comes down to price and delivery speed.  Ready for a bold bet for 2030? It involves a wallet …  💬Hot take: "The tech is becoming ready, but I don't think anyone can say it's ready yet." 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Keywords: Fintech, Financial Services, AI, Agentic Commerce  Timestamp: 00:00 Welcome and Intro 00:57 Agentic Commerce Reality Check 04:45 Trust and Value Exchange 08:55 Why Businesses Adopt First 11:29 Authorization and Fraud Guardrails 13:22 PSPs and Wallets Strategy 17:27 What People Get Wrong 19:23 Agentic Finance for SMEs 24:37 Personal Finance Utility 27:18 Bold Bet for 2030 More about our guest  🌐Jas Shah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jas-shah/  More about our host and One Vision Podcast  🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/  🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/  🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/  🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision

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