AI in Financial Services Podcast

Today’s guest is Craig Mackereth, Executive Vice President of Global Service Delivery at Rimini Street. Rimini Street is a publicly traded company specializing in third-party support for mission-critical systems at financial services organizations and beyond. Craig returns to the program today to discuss the best strategies for driving AI and ML investments across the financial services enterprise. Throughout the episode, Craig points to significant use cases that demonstrate the unique differences between deterministic and generative AI capabilities, the business problems they solve for financial leaders, and the infrastructure needed to ensure ROI. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Today’s guest is Manish Goyal, Operating Partner at Berkshire Partners. Berkshire Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm with substantial experience and investments in consumer products and retail, business services, communications, industrials, and healthcare sectors. Manish returns to the show today to tell us what AI is looking like from the portfolio perspective. Armed with insights from across Berkshire’s austere roster, Manish details how industries across the global economy are seeing AI adoption in productivity and efficiency, with a 20-30% code generation increase and improved customer service. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Today’s guest is Andrew Beddoes, Business Consultant at Provenir. Provenir is a software company that develops an AI-powered credit risk decisioning platform. Andrew joins us on today’s show to talk about leveraging data and generative AI to find insights into consumer behavior data surrounding collections workflows. Throughout the episode, Andrew cites use cases that exemplify how mining such data results in better consumer relationships and more reliable revenue streams. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Today’s guest is Andrew Beddoes, Business Consultant at Provenir. Provenir is a software company that develops an AI-powered credit risk decisioning platform. Andrew joins us on today’s show to talk about AI’s impact on collections workflows from the perspective of auto loans. Throughout the episode, Andrew emphasizes the importance of using data and technology to improve customer experiences and drive empathy among loan collectors. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Manish Goyal from Berkshire Partners discusses challenges in deploying AI in private equity, focusing on automating tasks and improving decision-making. Topics include AI applications, data security, retrieval augmented generation, and cross-functional efforts for successful implementation.

Today’s guest is Darren Humphries, Group Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer Partner at Acora. Acora is a UK-based, award-winning provider of managed, consultancy, and professional services in information technology and security across many industrial sectors. Darren returns to the podcast to discuss the relationship between IT and cybersecurity enterprise functions at the heart of AI’s impact in the financial services space. Later, he explains what financial leaders, in particular, should keep in mind when driving to level-up their operations when it comes to cybersecurity and other anomaly-detection based functions (AML, fraud detection). If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Today’s guest is Darren Humphries, Group Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer Partner at Acora. Acora is a UK-based, award-winning provider of managed, consultancy, and professional services in information technology and security across many industrial sectors. Darren joins us on today’s show to discuss new opportunities for financial services leaders to drive the IT and infrastructure necessary to ensure the lowest possible risk, especially when it comes to AML, fraud, and cybersecurity workflows. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Today’s guest is Jason Walker, Chief Innovation Officer at BigPanda. BigPanda is a California-based software developer whose AIOps-powered platform helps businesses improve their service support and incident management systems. Jason returns to the platform to talk about the future of IT for financial services, given the potential of new generative AI capabilities that are helping streamline data and hardware management workflows. Later, he and Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello examine what AIOps will mean for IT teams and initiatives going forward. To access Emerj’s frameworks for AI readiness, ROI, and strategy, visit Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1.

Today’s guest is Jason Walker, Chief Innovation Officer at BigPanda. BigPanda is a California-based software developer whose AIOps-powered platform helps businesses improve their service support and incident management systems. Jason joins us on this week’s podcast to discuss what financial leaders need to know to drive the IT infrastructure necessary to take advantage of new, emerging, data-heavy use cases we’re seeing in generative AI. Later, he and Senior Editor Matthew DeMello discuss GenAI tools that can help streamline IT workflows. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Delving into data governance and AI adoption in financial services, Andrew Sellers of Confluent shares insights on democratization of data and executive buy-in. Topics include interconnected data challenges, role of data governance tools in capital markets, leveraging data mesh for decision-making, and essentials of privacy, security, and quality in data governance for AI adoption.