The Buzz
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 313
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Weekly Wrap examines wholesale CBDC foreign exchange transacting
In this Weekly Wrap episode of "The Buzz" podcast, the Bank Automation News editors discuss HSBC and IBM's use of distributed ledger technology to conduct commercial central bank digital currency (CB…
Citizens customers want digital banking with a hint of human interaction
Digital banking usage is up at Citizens, with 90% of consumers and 86% of businesses reporting that they use digital channels for their banking needs — a significant increase over usage during COVID-…
CEO warns banks must adapt security posture for instant payments
How automation and emerging technologies are changing lending
Weekly Wrap explores UiPath’s plans for expansion
Weekly Wrap explores lessons learned from Canadian earnings week
3 fintechs partner on distributed access to tax refunds
With some $350 billion in U.S. tax refunds given each year, three fintechs have teamed up for Tax Refund Unlock, a new service that offers consumers ongoing, incremental access to the money they woul…
Opportunities in crypto for banks, FIs
As interest and investment in cryptocurrency spikes this year, banks and financial institutions (FIs) must decide whether and how to become involved, or potentially lose revenue and customers if they…
Finastra’s head of cloud, core and digital banking talks banking strategy
Weekly Wrap discussion on how Temenos is accelerating innovation
Weekly Wrap discussion on how Temenos is accelerating innovation
Core and digital banking provider boosts developer access, highlights use cases
In this week's "Weekly Wrap" podcast, the Bank Automa…
Weekly Wrap discussion on crypto as an asset or investment
This week, the Bank Automation News team discusses what banks are doing to make it possible for customers to invest in cryptocurrency and how financial institutions can leverage blockchain beyond cry…
WorkFusion is focusing on cloud-based strategy
The automation company WorkFusion, which offers a packaged solution to financial institutions and counts the $1.7 trillion Deutsche Bank and the $4.1 billion Carter Bank & Trust among its customers, …
How analysis of cross-border payments busted a child trafficking ring
Artificial intelligence can pick up on patterns humans would ignore — patterns that can indicate crime in cross border payments, for instance.
In this week’s episode of the Buzz, Yaron Hazan, vice pr…
The latest CX trend in digital banking is on-screen voice
The latest trend in digital banking customer experience is adding on-screen voice, which allows customers to switch from chat or other self-serve experiences to speaking with a person within a mobile…
Bank overtakes Facebook in hackers’ playbook
Facebook for years may have topped cybersecurity firm Vade’s “Phishers’ Favorites,” a report of the most impersonated brands in phishing attacks, but the $2 trillion Credit Agricole bank recently edg…
Despite fintech rush, most payment options are still manual
Payments remain an essentially manual process despite the move toward automation, Steve Kramer, vice president of product at billing and payments platform PayNearMe, explains in this week’s episode o…
Temenos on cores, clouds and a virtual COO
Banks of all levels, from large global firms to credit unions and challenger banks, are expressing interest in modernizing their core, Temenos Americas President Jacqueline White tells Bank Automatio…
Banks deploy bots to ease mergers and acquisitions
Banks use robotic process automation (RPA) to merge back-end systems after acquisitions and are starting to automate more self-help for customers.
That’s in addition to the more common use case of au…
Automation Anywhere expands support for citizen developer programs
Bank Automation News sits down with the vendor’s new CIO, Sumit Johar, as well as Ken Mertzel, global head of financial services, to discuss how financial institutions can expand citizen development …
Startup seeks to leverage AI, automation to reach unbanked population
In this episode of “The Buzz,” Bank Automation News speaks to Alok Prasad, CEO of startup CashRepublic, about using automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to help communities of color take advan…