Finovate Podcast Talks AI, Payments, Cannabis Banking and More!

The conversation continues on the Finovate Podcast with Finovate VP and Director of Fintech Strategy, Informa Festivals, Greg Palmer!

Ahead of the release of the Finovate Podcast Best of Show interview series from FinovateSpring, catch up with episodes from earlier in the year that you might have missed.

From AI in banking and consumer finance to digital payments and the challenges facing small businesses, Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast cover the top issues in fintech today, as well as underdiscussed topics like financial literacy and the fate of cannabis banking.

Check out the latest from Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast below.

Finovate Podcast host Greg Palmer talks with Melissa Solis, CEO of Inbenta, on the evolving role of artificial intelligence in the banking and financial services industry.

Solis introduces her four-stage approach to successful AI implementation and management for banks looking to build on their existing systems. Solis also discusses the customer-facing side of AI, sharing her thoughts on best practices for virtual assistants, live agent support, and enterprise search tools.

Episode 294—Melissa Solis, Inbenta

Stacy Litke, VP of Banking Services at Green Check, and Megan Bennett, Manager of Marijuana Related Business at Wright-Patt Credit Union, talk with podcast host Greg Palmer about the challenges and opportunities involved in providing banking and financial services to businesses in the cannabis industry.

Green Check is a Florida-based provider of software solutions for financial and business services in this industry. Wright-Patt Credit Union is Ohio’s largest, member-owned credit union, and one of the 50 largest credit unions in the US.

Episode 293—Stacy Litke, Green Check, and Megan Bennett, Wright-Patt Credit Union

How are financial services companies leveraging enabling technologies like AI to empower consumers? Podcast host Greg Palmer interviews Debbie Hsu, EVP of Product at Experian, to talk about solutions such as Experian’s virtual assistant, EVA.

A consumer-based AI-powered solution that simplifies complex financial questions and provides actionable guidance, EVA is an example of the value that finance-specific AI tools—built on trusted data and domain expertise—provide compared to generic AI solutions that can generate misleading or incomplete advice.

Episode 292—Debbie Hsu, Experian

Podcast host Greg Palmer talks with Luz Urrutia, CEO of the Accion Opportunity Fund (AOF), about the current state of small businesses in the US and the challenges they face when it comes to securing access to capital.

Accion Opportunity Fund is a nationwide provider of affordable loans, educational resources, coaching, and networking for underserved small businesses. Headquartered in San Jose, California, AOF has served more than 4.5 million clients across lending and learning, and invested more than $1 billion in small businesses since inception in 1993.

Episode 291—Luz Urrutia, Accion Opportunity Fund

Robert Bueninck, CEO of Unzer, talks with podcast host Greg Palmer about the challenges facing small and medium-sized businesses in the digital payments industry.

Unzer is a German fintech, headquartered in Berlin, that offers a unified commerce suite for businesses that enables them to integrate online, in-store, and mobile paymentsƒ into a single ecosystem. In their conversation, Bueninck and Palmer discuss the unique characteristics of the German market, including the fact that cash still dominates many retail transactions.