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American Banker Podcast — 395 episodes

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'Credit access is absolutely a problem': Upstart's Paul Gu

2

Is AI the way to get credit to the underbanked?

3

What a 'moral architecture' for AI in banking would look like

4

Solana 101: What it is and why some banks use it

5

Grasshopper's taking AI beyond the 'confident intern' stage

6

How Clearview FCU's CIO gets employees to use and trust AI

7

What is Ethereum and why should you care? Paul Brody at EY

8

Thread Bank's Chris Black sees opening in bank charter boom

9

How banks can reap revenue from AI: Accenture's Mike Abbott

10

'Optimism is a moral duty': Paul Achleitner

11

From day-trading bar mitzvah cash to founding Hiro: Ethan Bloch

12

'Policy leaders are being shown a rosier picture': Ludwig

13

'The household balance sheet is fragile': Sarah Biller

14

Anchorage COO is a fan of the Fed's 'skinny' master accounts

15

'Crypto will always be a target for scammers': Amanda Fischer

16

How banks can mitigate AI workslop and errors

17

'That's a lawless way of proceeding': Cordray on CFPB cuts

18

Advice on coping with stablecoins: Anchorage CEO McCauley

19

JPMorganchase's Waldron, Starion's Rogstad on new projects

20

Tariff unease 'puts everybody on their back foot': Flushing Bank CEO

21

The digital asset opportunities opening up for banks

22

'Failures across the board': Dara Tarkowski on Synapse case

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

Banks struggle to keep up with threat of AI deepfakes

28

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

29

Could industry standards prevent the next Synapse-style mess?

30

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

31

How one New York bank is getting younger people to save

32

East West Bank's CEO on how the bank coped with LA wildfires

33

Where Citi Ventures is placing its fintech bets in 2025

34

Why banks keep failing at money laundering

35

The banks that implement AI well, from titans to mavericks

36

The case for a human crime officer in every bank

37

AARP's Jilenne Gunther has advice for banks on elder fraud

38

Southern Bancorp's answer to the home affordability crisis

39

'Job satisfaction will go up': How generative AI is changing work

40

How banks' use of generative AI has evolved over the past year

41

Upstart's CEO Dave Girouard explains brighter outlook for rest of 2024

42

'These models will always hallucinate': Seth Dobrin on LLMsDek

43

'Fraud is pervasive throughout the entire industry': Crypto insider

44

Some banks are making a Faustian bargain with fintechs: Karen Petrou

45

What military members need from their banks

46

Regulators are wise to be more careful' after Chevron ruling

47

Climate First Bank's plans to expand nationwide

48

Can data ownership be preserved in generative AI?

49

What might digital identity look like in the future?

50

"The law was very clear" inside the Fed master account debate

51

'There are risks': Betsy Cohen on banking as a service

52

Is 'technofeudalism' killing capitalism?

53

'Not all fintech is good for people': Jennifer Tescher

54

How banks are helping the fight against illegal wildlife trading

55

'Don't fall for the sales pitches': Advice on deploying AI

56

How challenger bank Upgrade grew during a dismal 2023

57

How generative AI could reshape financial services in 2024

58

Has the fintech movement lived up to its promise?

59

What to expect from VCs in 2024: Amy Nauiokas, Anthemis Group

60

2023 was a rough year for bank regulators. What might 2024 bring?

61

What fintechs think of the CFPB's proposed data-sharing rule

62

How community banks can use tech to stay relevant

63

What might the Sam Bankman-Fried trial mean for banks?

64

Citizens' plans for using generative AI ethically: Beth Johnson

65

Why Ready Life CEO Ashley Bell is buying a Utah bank

66

Are subprime cards a raw deal for people living paycheck to paycheck?

67

Partner Insights from ExtraHop: Catching cyber criminals in complicated banking networks

68

The unintended consequences of banning ChatGPT at work

69

Remote work, generative AI: Tech trends reshaping work in banks

70

What would it take to close America's racial wealth gap?

71

Should banks put a pause on their AI projects?

72

Can chatbots learn to understand human emotions?

73

Banking crisis's wakeup call to banks: Risk management needs a refresh

74

What bankers can learn from the 2023 banking crisis

75

Are big banks spreading misinformation about fintech?

76

'Fighting evil is not competitive': Banks help detect crime at Super Bowl

77

How this credit union learned to love no-code software

78

How leaders can apply Buddhist principles in the workplace

79

What the rising rate environment means for banks in 2023

80

What kinds of financial help do small businesses need to weather 2023?

81

What should crypto regulation look like?

82

Kristy Kim says buy now/pay later is like fast food

83

'Democrats lost the house. I'm less convinced that Republicans won it.'

84

What will banking look like in 2035?

85

What bankers need to know about Web3

86

Why Jill Castilla is developing a digital bank for military members

87

When will big banks pay more for deposits?

88

We've become a culture where we live in the moment': Suze Orman on savings woes

89

U.S. banks get poor marks in global animal cruelty scorecard

90

Exit interview with CBA president Richard Hunt

91

The case for sabbaticals

92

What will work in the metaverse look like?

93

Why 1 billion women are excluded from the financial system

94

Where ConnectOne Bank is investing in tech and fintech

95

What Seattle Bank learned from the collapse of the Google Plex deal

96

How one fintech founder got funded despite not being a bro: 'I had a higher bar'

97

Why Sultan Meghji quit as FDIC innovation chief

98

'This is a tremendous community and it's not getting services it needs'

99

Grasshopper Bank's challenge: Designing apps for people who make apps

100

'Small banks are disappearing': FDIC's Jelena McWilliams

101

The year crypto will become a must-have for banks

102

Where bankers fall short on serving older customers

103

Why some banks can't quit overdraft fees

104

Where fintechs will flourish in 2022

105

Countering SEC chair's claim that stablecoins are 'poker chips'

106

A futurist's predictions for banking, tech and the economy

107

How banks can walk the walk on ESG

108

Harit Talwar reflects on six years leading Marcus by Goldman Sachs

109

Where OceanFirst is spending its windfall from branch closings

110

Decentralized finance a threat to banks, but also an opportunity

111

A small bank's journey into crypto

112

University Credit Union goes for advanced degree in AI

113

Fintechs and banks on a mission

114

Regions gives its service reps and fraud fighters AI tools

115

How banks can quell the overdraft fee backlash

116

Blockchain is untapped resource for banks, MIT professor says

117

U.S. workers worse off than they appear: Gene Ludwig

118

From high school teacher to Citi's innovation head

119

Activist accuses financial firms of 'woke washing'

120

How the pandemic has changed tech rollouts at TD Bank

121

How Wyoming's new senator is spreading gospel of financial innovation

122

How Citizens Bank is keeping pace with fintechs, Big Tech

123

Pandemic forced OceanFirst employees to expand tech repertoire

124

How banks can encourage collaboration among workers stuck at home

125

Bankers can ease transition to cashless society

126

How this bank's digital brand is succeeding where others have failed

127

How cryptocurrency is changing the movement of money

128

What two U.S. Bank execs saw and liked at CES

129

Where fintech investment dollars will go in 2021

130

Have consumers become addicted to saving money?

131

How Scotiabank weeds ageism out of digital banking

132

Why Current is being contrarian on need for bank charter

133

Gene Ludwig's plan for saving the American Dream

134

How Ida Liu is bringing billionaires to Citi's private bank

135

One lender's ideas on how to save small business

136

The mistakes banks make that open the door to fraud

137

What's a blockchain bank? A Wall Street veteran building one explains.

138

How we can bridge the digital divide

139

'We're all the same size rectangle on the Zoom screen'

140

How one fintech's pandemic playbook has made it stronger

141

How KeyBank uses fintech partnerships to stay nimble

142

Leaders preview: From now to next

143

A glimpse at the role of the bank branch after the pandemic

144

A call to government to give homeowners, renters more help

145

How Patrick Sells is driving culture change at Quontic Bank

146

'More credit to more people': OCC's Brooks on tackling inequality

147

'The U.S. needs to take digital currency seriously': Dave Birch

148

'Money anxiety is not a disorder': Destigmatizing financial unease

149

The fintechs that are pitching in on coronavirus relief

150

How banks can fight scammers exploiting the coronavirus

151

Lonely, less productive: How employees really feel about working remotely

152

'I'm fed up with people saying banks are stupid'

153

Behind Wells Fargo's effort to demystify data sharing

154

'Nobody should have their credit scores dinged during this emergency'

155

From the trenches: How one bank's digital chief is guiding virus response

156

Banks' culture under scrutiny, even during coronavirus outbreak

157

What five years of AI have taught Ally Bank

158

Challenger bank sees app integration as boon for small businesses

159

Why Citizens Bank got into POS lending

160

How 'old school personal banking' helped turn Optus Bank around

161

Is the U.S. payment system fair?

162

'We want to take the time to get it right' — Fed's Montgomery on FedNow

163

Inside BBVA's banking-as-a-service strategy

164

How robo-adviser Wealthfront is becoming more like a bank

165

BNY Mellon's early adoption of real-time payments paying dividends

166

'Getting out of the boys' ecochamber': Male allies in banking

167

How does a challenger bank earn customers' trust? Digit CEO explains

168

What embracing agile methods has done for U.S. Bank

169

What will bank jobs look like in the future? OceanFirst has an idea

170

'Immigration has become a political football': Border bankers

171

The gaping security holes plaguing real-time payments

172

'There's going to be room for both systems'

173

'We don't hear people say, I love my bank'

174

What FICO sees through its window into fraud

175

'Wall Street's ledger systems don't keep honest track of who owns what'

176

Where does Facebook's digital currency project stand after Zuckerberg testimony?

177

Morgan Stanley data chief can relate to veterans' struggles

178

I don't think we can ignore digital currency

179

Are banks losing the brand war to tech firms?

180

The trouble with banks' personal finance tools

181

Are customers getting enough control over their data?

182

Cash-flow data shows promise as predictor of credit risk

183

Why this community bank was one of the first to trust voice banking

184

How American Express uses machine learning to detect fraud

185

Are Americans ready for voice banking?

186

How CFPB, FCC rules are reshaping debt collection

187

'Millennials can see through this': How banks' marketing to Gen Y misfires

188

How banks can fend off Amazon and Google

189

'It should just work': Why banks need a single standard for data sharing

190

Karen Mills and the case for open banking

191

How banks can protect against account takeover

192

How MUFG's 'digital hybrid' bank raised $7B in deposits

193

Is facial recognition safe for financial institutions to use?

194

How Citizens Bank is rethinking mobile and online banking

195

How HSBC is spending its $17 billion tech budget

196

How Heritage Bank is rolling out its first AI chatbot

197

Checking in on Wells Fargo's digital bank pilot Greenhouse

198

What does it take to get consumers to switch banks?

199

Greed isn't good enough

200

Data privacy, AI, regulation: Small-business lending is changing fast

201

What works, what doesn't in mobile banking apps

202

How BBVA overhauled its mobile banking app

203

BofA's Bessant on responsible AI, cyberattacks and data encryption

204

'We're probably in a crisis already': Retirement in America

205

One small bank's formula for competing with the heavyweights

206

The evolution of Umpqua's pick-your-own-banker app

207

The story behind Varo Money's bank charter push

208

Where does Wells Fargo go from here?

209

The smart fridge and other tech in Wells Fargo's innovation lab

210

Why does a check take as long to clear today as it did in 1982?

211

Mick Mulvaney was 'a disaster' as CFPB chief: Raj Date

212

The tangled politics and potential future of pot banking

213

Recipe for an East Coast regional

214

The case that's challenging bitcoin's status as payment instrument

215

'Should we have banks of this size being formed?': Inside the BB&T-SunTrust deal

216

Why the U.S. needs data-sharing rules

217

Why the CFPB is watering down its payday lending rule

218

Why bankers should drop their fear of fintech regulatory sandboxes

219

'The crisis is overstated': United Income's Fellowes on retirement

220

How blockchain, smart contracts could upstage banks

221

The top cyber threats of 2019

222

One fintech's plan to free consumers from credit card debt

223

How can banks stay relevant in a digital world?

224

'There needs to be some clarity' on data sharing: Yodlee founder

225

Which tech companies pose the biggest threat to banks?

226

Is blockchain the most over-hyped technology in history?

227

How banks can avoid becoming zombies

228

'Commercial banks wasted a lot of money on this election'

229

'What happens when the music stops?': John Taft at Baird

230

CFPB's softer stance on payday lenders, military member scams

231

Hensarling's last stand: More reg relief and fixing the GSEs

232

Why bankers should care that two rival blockchains linked up

233

Inside Mel Watt's #MeToo moment

234

Inside Warren's latest criticism of CFPB's Mulvaney

235

Breaking Banks: Amazon's new devices; crypto shenanigans

236

'What's needed is a wholesale change in the culture'

237

Breaking Banks: Inside Apple's latest product launches

238

'It's not just about money': How banks can attract young coders

239

Breaking Banks: The UK Challengers

240

Has JPMorgan Chase started a price war?

241

Breaking Banks: Will the future AI creates be dystopian or OK?

242

Sen. Heitkamp on reg relief, compromise and her re-election battle

243

Breaking Banks: Crypto hijinks

244

How small banks are putting their tax savings to work

245

Breaking Banks: Fintechs address the over-50 set

246

Bank of the West's sustainable investment push

247

Top LendingClub exec details plan forward

248

Upheaval at the CFPB

249

Why customers give Navy Federal, USAA high marks

250

Which fintechs have been the most disruptive?

251

Breaking Banks: Regtech hits its stride

252

5 ways banks can break 'digital gridlock'

253

Breaking Banks: What role will avatars have at work?

254

Breaking Banks: Two fintechs hope to solve student debt problems

255

'I struggle with why one would want to wait' on virtual assistants

256

How banks could help women living on the financial edge

257

Breaking Banks: Speeding up the last mile

258

A realist's view about compliance merits of AI

259

Breaking Banks: When will the blockchain revolution bear fruit?

260

'Stop hiring people with banking experience'

261

'Bankers don't innovate well at all'

262

How Nandita Bakhshi is transforming Bank of the West

263

Breaking Banks: How a trade war might impact U.S. fintechs

264

How to recognize the banks that can survive the fintech threat

265

Why banks need to become open marketplaces

266

Breaking Banks: Dating advice for banks and fintech partners

267

Is it time to start worrying about consumer credit?

268

Cam Fine unleashed: On Amazon, reg relief and future of small banks

269

Watch out, Weather Channel: Mobile banking now 3rd most popular app

270

How can banks make digital more fun?

271

Why banks should care about 'ambient' computing

272

What are the ethics of AI?

273

'There really is a consequence of bad behavior': N.Y. Fed's Dudley

274

College students pay for spring break with student loans

275

Breaking Banks: SXSW takeaways; Amazon's banking bid

276

This fintech is on a mission to eliminate payday lending

277

Here's how banks can cash in on cryptocurrency

278

The right way to impose new fees

279

The bottom-line benefits of hiring people with disabilities

280

There's a business case for eliminating gender pay gaps at banks

281

Breaking Banks: One robo-advisor's approach to simplifying wealth management

282

Breaking Banks: Fintech in Africa

283

Open banking role models: Fidor, Rabobank and BBVA

284

Can voice banking help banks stay profitable?

285

'He's going to go after debt collectors'

286

Open banking in the U.S.: 'The default is to say no'

287

Initial coin offerings: 'For some, it will end badly'

288

Citi's Jane Fraser on banking after corruption crackdown in Latin America

289

Could a robot be your next branch greeter?

290

Can this robo-advisor firm become the Amazon of financial services?

291

'No one got everything they wanted in this bill'

292

Breaking Banks: Is Bitcoin a bubble or just beginning?

293

How will Mick Mulvaney change the CFPB?

294

Citigroup's changing strategy in Latin America shows progress

295

What's next for CFPB after Cordray leaves?

296

Maybe Zelle is better than we thought

297

What banks can expect from the next Fed chairman

298

What's the future of CFPB and Director Richard Cordray?

299

What the Senate did to bank customers' right to sue

300

Does fintech have a diversity problem?

301

Breaking Banks: Fintech in Asia

302

'There's a sense of unfairness about it': Fed's Bullard

303

Breaking Banks: How AI will change financial services

304

Breaking Banks: Why startups are hooked on initial coin offerings

305

How Citi 'co-creates' innovative apps with customers

306

'Culture doesn't change overnight'

307

Breaking Banks: How men can support women in fintech

308

Forget millennials: baby boomers need app innovation too

309

A community bank seizes on iPhone 8's ID power

310

'It's like nothing I've seen'

311

Breaking Banks: How tech companies are taking over payments

312

Will fintech create a small-business-loan utopia?

313

Where virtual reality makes sense in banking

314

Breaking Banks: How hip-hop rapper Divine went from prison to fintech entrepreneurship

315

How fintechs and banks can charge fees without losing customers

316

Dallas Fed chief Kaplan: U.S. must address workforce skills gap

317

How Ally Bank attracts millennials

318

Breaking Banks: Faster payments with fintech

319

Why banks should embrace ICOs – from a lawyer

320

'Sadly, there still is a tendency to discriminate'

321

Breaking Banks: Plug and Play fintech

322

Big-bank M&A is coming back, says KBW's Tom Michaud

323

Breaking Banks: 100 episodes of fintech

324

What an influx of capital from China could mean for U.S. CLO market

325

Breaking Banks: Customer trust and security in fintech

326

Breaking Banks: Fintech superheroes

327

How money anxiety is affecting Americans' financial decisions

328

Breaking Banks: Removing the mystery of money movement

329

Credit scores will change in July — what lenders can expect

330

Breaking Banks: Watson fixes Regtech; crazy cryptocurrency

331

An online loan in five minutes? This startup says it's possible

332

Breaking Banks: Building bridges between AI and humans

333

How to catch the 'rogues' threatening your institution

334

Breaking Banks: Bitcoin's backstory; Fintech in Charlotte

335

Why small businesses are more willing than ever to switch banks

336

Breaking Banks: AI, fintech and regtech

337

'A needle in a stack of needles': Using AI to detect money laundering

338

Breaking Banks: Small business fintech around the globe

339

Philadelphia Fed President Harker on the 'anxious optimism' of the Trump economy

340

When 'soft' data improves loan decisions, and when it doesn't

341

Irish Fintech: The EU Gateway

342

Germany's top regulator on international cooperation, blockchain, capital requirements

343

Why community bankers should care about blockchain tech

344

Breaking Banks: Fintech charter backlash; change our thinking!

345

'This is not about charity': Gates Foundation exec on financial inclusion and mobile money

346

Make retail banking great again

347

Breaking Banks: Innovate Finance Global Summit 2017

348

Why women in finance are punished more harshly for misconduct

349

Breaking Banks: Banking reimagined as a fintech hub

350

Wells Fargo's Mary Mack on driving culture change

351

Breaking Banks: Real disruption vs. 'management by bestseller'

352

Do banks have a real shot at regulatory relief?

353

Data wars, financial stress and faster payments

354

What you don't know about blockchain can hurt you

355

Breaking Banks: There's innovation, and then there's innovation theater

356

Innovations in Lending at LendIt2017

357

Breaking Banks: Blockchain developments encourage banks, frustrate purists

358

How likely are fraud victims to leave their bank?

359

Breaking Banks: Fintech and the refugee crisis

360

Should banks spell out how they invest customer deposits?

361

Breaking Banks: Mobile Money in Kenya

362

Breaking Banks: Fintech in Asia

363

What an MIT professor learned by monitoring traders' emotions

364

Breaking Banks: Digital Money Forum at CES

365

Breaking Banks: Why banks aren't quite ready for Amazon Alexa.

366

Small things make a big difference, mobile check deposit edition

367

Squaring privacy with ID checks and compliance on the blockchain

368

Breaking Banks: Self-Driving Cars at CES; Blockchain; Pot Banking

369

Breaking Banks: #InvestedinTech with Capital One

370

Breaking Banks: Election Aftermath

371

Breaking Banks: Fintech Innovation Brings Hope

372

Breaking Banks: AI Around the World

373

Breaking Banks: 'Technology Steals Jobs, That's Why It's Good'

374

Breaking Banks: What's Next for Fintech in 2017

375

Breaking Banks: Can Financial Institutions Behave Ethically?

376

'Evolution Does Not Mean Elimination'

377

Who Owns Banking Data?

378

Cleveland Fed's Mester Criticizes Leverage-Only Capital Plan: 'We Tried That'

379

What Millennials Want in the Workplace

380

Why Consumers Make Irrational Financial Decisions Sometimes

381

'Yahoo Waited Far Too Long to Share What They Knew'

382

Can AI Take the Place of a Compliance Department?

383

Can Blockchain Tech Help Human Rights Victims?

384

Will Tech Advances Hurt the Underbanked?

385

Moving Money Across Borders, Phone to Phone

386

Bankers Talk Blockchain

387

Restoring Privacy for Banks on the Blockchain

388

Why Otherwise Smart People Fall for Email Scams

389

Why Banking the Middle Class Is No Longer Profitable

390

'Capital Doesn't Matter. Confidence Is What Matters'

391

FICO on Why Its Scores Are Still Relevant

392

'If Your Bank Isn't Integrated with Siri, Your Bank Is Irrelevant'

393

'There Is No One Blockchain to Rule Them All'

394

Should the Fed Be Audited?

395

FBI vs. Apple: The Implications for Banks