American Banker Podcast

Jan 21 2025 363 ep. 27 mins 347
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Thoughtful discussions about current topics, moderated by American Banker editors.

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Where Citi Ventures is placing its fintech bets in 2025

Jan 21 2025 31 mins  
Arvind Purushotham, head of Citi Ventures, shares where he and his team see opportunities and how they vet tech startups.

Why banks keep failing at money laundering

Jan 07 2025 29 mins  
A lack of resources is one common cause of AML penalties, says consultant Aaron Ansari.

The banks that implement AI well, from titans to mavericks

Dec 17 2024 16 mins  
Some banks are “punching above their weight,” according to Dan Latimore, chief research officer at The Financial Revolutionist. Here’s how they do it.

The case for a human crime officer in every bank

Dec 03 2024 20 mins  
Ian Mitchell, founder of The Noble, an organization that works with law enforcement and with banks to fight human crime trafficking, explains some of his group’s recent work and why banks need someone dedicated to human crime.

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

Nov 19 2024 20 mins  
Elder financial exploitation has been a problem for banks for years, and it’s getting worse. Gunther offers practical suggestions for what banks should do when they suspect an older customer is a victim.

Southern Bancorp’s answer to the home affordability crisis

Nov 05 2024 19 mins  
The Arkansas community development financial institution has an ambitious goal of making $500 million worth of mortgages in rural, minority and low-income neighborhoods.

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

Oct 22 2024 20 mins  
The technology will take on routine, dull work, says Alenka Grealish, principal analyst at Celent.

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

Oct 08 2024 19 mins  
Financial institutions have dramatically increased their investment and trust in large language models since 2023. Kartik Ramakrishnan, Capgemini’s deputy CEO of Financial Services and head of banking and capital markets, shares the results of a recent report that analyzed these changes.

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

Sep 24 2024 22 mins  
Advances in the company’s AI-based lending models have made them better at predicting risk, which has led to growth, he says.

‘These models will always hallucinate’: Seth Dobrin on LLMsDek

Sep 10 2024 18 mins  
Dobrin, founder of advisory firm Qantm AI and former global chief AI officer at IBM, warns that popular generative AI models were trained on the whole of the internet and hallucinate at an unacceptable rate.