AI in Financial Services Podcast

Yinglian Xie, CEO of DataVisor, shares great analogies and practical insights about what fails and what works when putting together a capable team for AI implementation. Learn more about how to make the business case and deploy AI: emerj.com/p1

Rob Delaney, VP at VC firm Carrick Capital Partners, shares some predictions and hopes for his portfolio companies as they navigate through the economic storm caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. What's changing about our industries? What needs to change about the way we handle data? How are strategic priorities shifting? Rob shares his valuable perspective on these and other topics in this episode. Want to learn more about how to get started deploying AI in your business? Download Emerj's free guide here: emerj.com/beg1

Today's interview is with Aki Ranin, Cofounder of Bambu, a robo-advisor platform based in Singapore. Bambu has raised millions to expand in Asian and American banking markets. Aki is also an adjunct lecturer on AI and machine learning at Singapore Management University. In this episode, he breaks down where AI fits into the world of robo-advisors and is frank about where AI isn't needed. For quick insights, download Emerj's AI in Financial Services Cheat Sheet: emerj.com/fin1

Building a scaleable and productive AI product for the enterprise is not easy. Our guest this week helps listeners think through how to go about it successfully. Suhas Uliyar, VP of Product Management for Digital Assistant AI, Mobile, and Integration at Oracle, discusses why security and scale are key to building AI products that will actually deliver value at large companies. If you're interested in building AI products for the enterprise or want to get started with AI at your company, be sure to download our Beginning With AI Guide at emerj.com/beg1.

Our guest this week has a unique perspective on how technology priorities are changing in financial services as the pandemic unfolds: Sébastien de Brouwer, Chief Policy Officer at the European Banking Federation. We speak with him about how the financial services industry is struggling during the crisis, as well as which jobs will ultimately survive and which will not. If you want to discover how some of the largest companies in financial services are investing in AI, join our new Emerj Plus membership at emerj.com/plus

At this time, many strategic initiatives are being put on pause. The initiatives that tend to still have momentum are related to either driving efficiencies or reducing risk. And when it comes to risk, few are greater than regulatory risk. This week, we interview Yinglian Xie, CEO and co-founer of DataVisor. Yinglian discusses how AI fits into the compliance landscape in financial services. If you want to explore more AI use-cases across financial services and see what the big players in the sector are doing, you can use our AI Discovery tool with Emerj Plus. Learn more at emerj.com/plus

During the pandemic, there has been more emphasis than ever on "low-hanging fruit" AI applications and use-cases. Fraud detection is one of these use-cases. There will be an uptick in financial crimes as happens during economic crises. This week, we speak with H.P. Bunaes, General Manager of Financial Services at Datarobot, which focuses on AutoML. H.P. speaks with us about how fraudulent payments often happen and can go undetected, as well as how AI could play a role in detecting them. He also discusses how to deploy AI applications for fraud detection in financial services. To learn about how we map the ROI of AI in financial services, watch our short 2-minute video on our AI Opportunity Landscape research at emerj.com/fs1.

The coronavirus is dominating the news, and we figured it was important to cover it as it relates to AI in financial services. This week, we discuss what chatbot adoption will like look during and after the pandemic. Our guest is Nat Cartwright with Finn AI. She speaks about viable use-cases for AI in customer service and where she thinks those priorities will become more important as we start to pull out of this economic moment we see ourselves in. We also put together a report on AI priorities as they relate to coronavirus, the AI Business Continuity Action Plan, and we're giving it away free with the first month of Emerj Plus at emerj.com/ap1.

One of my favorite presentations last year was one I gave at an event called PayThink in California. I came to learn that there are more events about payments than almost any other topic in financial services. This week, we interview the CEO of Deserve, Kalpesh Kapadia, about the future of payments. He discusses which aspects of how we pay for things will be different and explains how AI plays a role in payment fraud. For more on the applications of AI in financial services, be sure to download our AI in Financial Services Cheat Sheet at emerj.com/fin1.

We are changing the name of our podcast to AI in Financial Services. In this episode, Dan explains why and discusses how the show will address the coronavirus pandemic and how it affects innovation in financial services.