The Buzz

Mar 25 2025 307 ep. 15 mins 2
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Bank Automation News's podcast covers current trends and news in automation and and AI. Bank Automation News is at the forefront of tracking banking automation and AI. Automation is the next frontier of financial services technology. It transforms banking processes from customer experience to compliance, lending solutions and investment. This podcast charts that transformation.

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Citizens moves from scraping to APIs for payments

Mar 25 2025 19 mins  
Citizens Bank is advancing its digital payments strategy in 2025, with a focus on embedded finance and omnichannel capabilities. For example, Citizens is moving from screen scraping to an API-enabled environment, allowing it to use insights from its private banking segment in other segments, such as SMB, mid-market and commercial, Taira Hall, executive vice president and head of en

FairPlay launching AI fairness index tool

Feb 24 2025 17 mins  
FairPlay, a “fairness as a service” startup is launching an index tool in Q3 of this year that shows financial institutions how their underwriting affects consumers.Los Angeles-based Fairplay uses AI-powered data analytics software to help FIs assess the accuracy of their automated loan decision models and provides them with metrics to help identify potential biases, Kareem Sal

How an anti-fraud startup fights deepfake fraud

Feb 06 2025 20 mins  
Financial institutions are looking to deepfake detection solutions in their fight against the growing threat of generative AI-driven fraud. The growing deepfake detection market is expected to be a $15.7 billion industry by 2026, according to consultancy firm Deloitte. AI voice fraud detection startup Herd Security is one tech provider that banks are channeling to reduce targeted a

Banks as tech providers for SMB clients

Jan 27 2025 15 mins  
Small business owners are looking to banks to provide data, tools and analytics to help them make more informed financial decisions. “Business owners need better tools to make better financial decisions, understand their finances and where their finances are going,” fintech Monit Chief Executive and founder Steve Dow tells Bank Automation News on this episode of “The Buzz”

AI for credit portfolio management

Dec 03 2024 20 mins  
AI-driven risk management decisioning and monitoring platform EnFi is automating the credit approval process for financial institutions while maintaining compliance, freeing up employees to focus on other areas of operations. EnFi uses natural language processing and modern AI models to extract information from loan and security agreements and offer instant compliance, Chief Techno

From disaster recovery to IT resilience

Nov 12 2024 24 mins  
Financial institutions are focused on IT resilience as outages repeatedly disrupt operations such as the ones that affected Crowdstrike, Bank of America, Monzo and others this year. With outage repercussions in mind, organizations are investing in infrastructure, teams and resiliency strategies to reduce downtime and losses, software company Cockroach Labs co-founder and Chief Exec

Fintech founder Pranger touts virtues of ‘practical’ AI

Nov 08 2024 13 mins  
Fintech Appli recently launched an AI-driven financial calculator that can be embedded into a financial institution’s lending platform in minutes using just one line of code. "AI is best used when it's most practical,” founder and chief executive of the Salt Lake City startup Tim Pranger tells Bank Automation News on this episode of the “The Buzz” podcast. Appli’s solutio

Esquire Bank to launch lending platform in 2025

Sep 30 2024 26 mins  
Esquire Bank considers client needs when determining where to invest in products and innovation. The New York-based bank, which provides small businesses lending and litigation finance, is working on customized lending for its litigation platform that is expected to roll out early next year, Chief Executive Andrew Sagliocca tells Bank Automation News on this episode of “The Buzz�

JPM connects to French payments network Cartes Bancaires

Aug 20 2024 15 mins  
J.P. Morgan is joining French payments network Cartes Bancaires, Mike Lozanoff, managing director and global head of merchant services at J.P. Morgan, tells Bank Automation News on this episode of “The Buzz” podcast. The bank is tapping cloud-based Renovite to build the connection to the network, Lozanoff says. The bank acquired Renovite in 2022 and is using the cloud-based sol

Boosting insight-driven digital engagement at FIs

Aug 12 2024 17 mins  
Listen as Matt Denham discusses how fintechs can boost digital engagement on FI platforms.