Brett King
Born: April 24, 1968 – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Brett King is an Australian futurist and author focused on fintech, digital banking, artificial intelligence, and the future of business. He wrote Bank 4.0, Augmented, and Breaking Banks, and founded the fintech media brand Breaking Banks. An international bestselling author, he was inducted into the Fintech Hall of Fame in 2020.
Biography & Author's Journey
Brett King emerged from Melbourne, Australia, with an early, intensely practical relationship to technology. As a teenager he bought a Vic-20, taught himself BASIC, sold a computer game while still in school, and moved quickly from coding work into part-time computing study at Monash University, though he later deferred. In the late 1980s and 1990s he founded a software company, later bought an internet-service-provider franchise, then moved into senior digital roles at Deloitte and Modem Media, including work in Hong Kong on financial-services strategy. Those years established the pattern that would define his later career: translating between technologists and executives, and treating banking not as a fixed institution but as a problem that could be redesigned. ((https://irishtechnews.ie/fintech-has-already-changed-the-world-brett-king-moven-breaking-banks-fintech-mafia-thought-leader-interview-pt-1/))
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Community Voices
"As one of the financial industry's biggest and most outspoken influencers, Brett King is well known for provocative predictions"
— The Financial Brand
"After I read one of Brett King's books, I am always uneasy because it makes me realize how fast banking is changing"
— Jane Haskin
"Brett King is arguably the most influential voice in the history of digital banking"
— FinTech Magazine
"Brett King is the author of Bank 4.0, the founder of Moven, the host of Breaking Banks, and Bank Think's 2012 Innovator of the Year"
— American Banker
"Brett King has been beating the drum for change for years"
— FinAi News
"Brett King is the author of Banking 2.0, a widely-known book that explores the effect of new technology on consumer behaviour and banking"
— FinTech Futures
"Brett King, banking futurist and consultant, wrote BANK 2.0"
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"In the financial services industry, Brett King is well-known as the author of the seminal book Bank 2.0"
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