Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host, Julian Lamar, and I have with me

on the line, Robert Roddenrick. He is the VP of Strategy and Marketing at Global BBVA Bank and Denizen.

Welcome, Robert. Hi, thank you very much for having me. Absolutely. Why don't you give us a little

bit of an overview of Denison as a company? Sure. Denison is, I'll start with a kind of a a step back from Denison. So, BBBA, we are the 30th

largest bank in the world. We're in mostly Spanish-speaking countries, largest bank in Mexico,

fourth largest bank in Europe. And for us, the bank decided the world is moving into digital.

And banks are traditionally brick and mortar.

You know, you have to walk inside a building.

And a lot of banks, unlike Amazon's of the world, the Facebooks of the world,

they weren't pushing as hard into digital.

So two years ago, our CEO of the global bank,

three years ago, the CEO of the global bank, three years ago, the CEO of the global

bank said, we need to put a stake in the ground and say, let's move into digital and do it the

right way. So we created an office in San Francisco in downtown in the heart. We're actually

right across from Facebook's new Instagram building. And they said, they want us to build digital only startups to

help re-energize the bank and move into a digital world. And from that, two years ago,

came Denison. A year was about research, and this last year, which finally, you know, the rubber met the road,

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