Episodes

  • ‘You can’t make it a side gig’: Brett Pharr on banking as a service

    ‘You can’t make it a side gig’: Brett Pharr on banking as a service
    May 6 2025
    It takes $50 million to $100 million dollars, three to five years of losses and a complete commitment from the board to make it as a banking-as-a-service bank, the CEO of Pathward bank says in the latest American Banker podcast.
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    17 mins
  • How J.P. Morgan is helping to build connected cars

    How J.P. Morgan is helping to build connected cars
    Apr 30 2025
    Rob Abrams, CEO of Mobility Payment Solutions at J.P. Morgan Payments, is overseeing the development of in-car wallet systems that turn cars into rolling credit cards. He explains his vision of what connected cars could look like and do in the future.
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    22 mins
  • Banks struggle to keep up with threat of AI deepfakes

    Banks struggle to keep up with threat of AI deepfakes
    Apr 15 2025
    Valerie Abend, Accenture’s financial services cybersecurity lead, explains what banks get wrong about fending off AI-based threats and what they should do instead.
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    15 mins
  • 'It can eliminate things we don't like doing': Vlad Lukic on AI

    'It can eliminate things we don't like doing': Vlad Lukic on AI
    Apr 1 2025

    Generative AI will remove toil from our day to day jobs, argues Lukic, who is managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group.
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    19 mins
  • Could industry standards prevent the next Synapse-style mess?

    Could industry standards prevent the next Synapse-style mess?
    Mar 18 2025
    “We want to put banks in the risk management driver’s seat,” says Sima Gandhi, co-founder of the Council for Fintech Ecosystem Standards, which has worked with a group of fintechs to create risk and compliance standards banks can use to evaluate their fintech partners.
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    17 mins
  • ‘It’s a tremendous priority’: Huntington CFO Wasserman on AI

    ‘It’s a tremendous priority’: Huntington CFO Wasserman on AI
    Mar 4 2025
    Software code generation and knowledge management are two of the places the bank has begun using generative AI to improve efficiency.
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    23 mins
  • How one New York bank is getting younger people to save

    How one New York bank is getting younger people to save
    Feb 18 2025

    Thomas Rudzewick, CEO of Maspeth Savings Bank worries about the growing crisis of low savings among millennials and Gen Z. He believes banks like his can help reverse this trend with financial literacy and innovative savings tools.

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    17 mins
  • East West Bank’s CEO on how the bank coped with LA wildfires

    East West Bank’s CEO on how the bank coped with LA wildfires
    Feb 4 2025

    The bank, which is headquartered in Pasadena, had to quickly switch to remote work for many employees and come up with relief programs for customers whose homes and businesses were destroyed by fire.
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    31 mins