Podcasts

Tariffs

Podcast Tariff angst 'puts everyone on their back foot': Flushing Bank CEO

John Buran shares how his New York bank and its small business customers are faring with tariff uncertainty — and how some have quickly changed suppliers and modified business plans — in the latest American Banker podcast.

By Penny Crosman

July 15
Cryptocurrency

Podcast The digital asset opportunities opening up for banks

Staking activities and stablecoins are two of the possible ways banks could have a role in decentralized finance, said Margaret Butler, head of the financial services practice at the law firm BakerHostetler and Kristiane Koontz, director of Treasury Services and Payments at Zions Bank, in interviews recorded at the Digital Banking Conference in June.

July 1
Podcast 'Failures across the board': Dara Tarkowski on Synapse case

Tarkowski, managing partner at Actuate Law, shares a legal perspective on the lawsuit that savings app provider Yotta filed against Evolve Bank & Trust in September and recently amended.

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Podcast Can banks beat the 80/20 rule for generative AI?

Sid Khosla, EY Americas banking and capital markets leader, predicts that, over the next two years, 20% of generative AI cases will drive 80% of the value across financial institutions. In this podcast, he explains what those use cases are and how banks can make the most of them.

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Podcast What will AI-driven banking look like in the future?

Theo Lau, founder of Unconventional Ventures and author of the new book Banking on Artificial Intelligence, shares a vision of how banks could help consumers navigate financial uncertainties.

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Podcast 'You can't make it a side gig': Brett Pharr on banking as a service

It takes $50 million to $100 million, 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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Payments

Podcast How J.P. Morgan Payments is helping to build connected cars

Rob Abrams, CEO of J.P. Morgan Mobility Payments Solutions, 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.

By Penny Crosman

April 29
Podcast Banks struggle to keep up with threat of AI deepfakes

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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Podcast Could industry standards prevent the next Synapse-style mess?

"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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Podcast 'It's a tremendous priority': Huntington CFO Wasserman on AI

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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