Episodes

  • Southern Bancorp’s answer to the home affordability crisis

    Southern Bancorp’s answer to the home affordability crisis
    Nov 5 2024

    The Arkansas community development financial institution has an ambitious goal of making $500 million worth of mortgages in rural, minority and low-income neighborhoods.
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    20 mins
  • ‘Job satisfaction will go up’: How generative AI is changing work

    ‘Job satisfaction will go up’: How generative AI is changing work
    Oct 22 2024

    The technology will take on routine, dull work, says Alenka Grealish, principal analyst at Celent.
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    20 mins
  • How banks’ use of generative AI has evolved over the past year

    How banks’ use of generative AI has evolved over the past year
    Oct 8 2024
    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.
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    20 mins
  • Upstart’s CEO Dave Girouard explains brighter outlook for rest of 2024

    Upstart’s CEO Dave Girouard explains brighter outlook for rest of 2024
    Sep 24 2024
    Advances in the company’s AI-based lending models have made them better at predicting risk, which has led to growth, he says.
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    23 mins
  • ‘These models will always hallucinate’: Seth Dobrin on LLMsDek

    ‘These models will always hallucinate’: Seth Dobrin on LLMsDek
    Sep 10 2024

    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.
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    18 mins
  • ‘Fraud is pervasive throughout the entire industry’: Crypto insider

    ‘Fraud is pervasive throughout the entire industry’: Crypto insider
    Aug 13 2024

    Jake Donoghue, author of the book Crypto Confidential, shares some of the worst practices he saw as a founder of a cryptocurrency company.
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    22 mins
  • Some banks are making a Faustian bargain with fintechs: Karen Petrou

    Some banks are making a Faustian bargain with fintechs: Karen Petrou
    Jul 30 2024

    Karen Petrou, the managing partner at Federal Financial Analytics and a long-time observer of banking and regulation, says banks need to do far more due diligence on potential fintech partners and exert more control over these relationships.
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    19 mins
  • What military members need from their banks

    What military members need from their banks
    Jul 16 2024
    Two veterans and executives at Armed Forces Bank – Tom McLean and Jodi Vickery – share the challenges they see their customers face and new products the bank has rolled out this year to better serve them.
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    25 mins