How Payments Firms Secure AI While Meeting Regulatory Demands - with Debjit Saha of MoneyGram
AI in Financial Services Podcast
Release Date: 01/12/2026
The Leadership Alignment Required to Turn AI Into Enterprise Value - with Guillaume Lardeux and Eva Majercsik of Genesys
AI in Financial Services Podcast
AI is breaking down the traditional separation between technology leadership and people leadership, forcing enterprises to rethink how work is structured and how employees adopt new systems. In this episode, Guillaume Lardeux, Head of Transformation and Office of the CEO at Genesys, and Eva Majercsik, Chief People Officer at Genesys, examine how AI-driven workflow redesign requires shared ownership across functions, as discussed with host Marilie Fouché. They highlight the practical shifts involved — mapping current processes, identifying friction points, rebuilding workflows...
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AI Assistants and Preparedness Among Enterprises - with Chris Caldwell of Concentrix
AI in Financial Services Podcast
Enterprises rushing agentic AI into production are running it through approval gates, batch windows, and audit systems built for human speed — and the gap is where most operational risk lives. In this episode, Chris Caldwell, President and CEO at Concentrix Corporation, examines how machine-scale transactions break processes designed for human pace and why bounded digital delegates outperform unrestricted digital twins in the enterprise. The discussion covers compliance bots that check other bots, the cost reality of poorly tuned agentic agents, and what leaders need to stop doing if they...
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The AI Driven Finance Stack for High Growth Financial Services - with Henry Ward of Carta
AI in Financial Services Podcast
A fundamental shift is emerging as AI moves core financial operations away from traditional web interfaces and into AI‑native cloud‑desktop environments, redefining how CFO teams execute and manage workflows. In this episode, Henry Ward, founder and CEO at Carta, examines how this transition changes the CFO operating model alongside host Daniel Faggella, highlighting why AI‑literate finance leaders gain leverage by orchestrating reporting, close processes, and analysis directly through agent‑driven systems. The discussion outlines how reusable AI skills, shared operational source...
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How the AI-Native Bank Stops Adding Pilots and Starts Industrializing - with Jeremy Caine of IBM
AI in Financial Services Podcast
AI programs in financial services don’t fail at the model; they fail at the seam between pilot and production, where data, integration discipline, and ownership decide whether anything reaches scale. In this episode, Jeremy Caine, Technology Strategy and Solution Leader at IBM, unpacks why banks and insurers get stuck in pilot purgatory and what an AI-native future state actually looks like in a regulated environment. The conversation covers a data product strategy that surfaces the data that matters for the use case, the industrialized software delivery lifecycle required to move AI into...
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AI‑Ready Underwriting Operations While Maintaining Decision Consistency - with Barbara Stacer of Utica National Insurance Group
AI in Financial Services Podcast
Stabilizing the operational environment around underwriting judgment is the shift that enables decisions to move into the market with greater speed, consistency, and control. In this episode, Barbara Stacer, Vice President, Head of Small Commercial Underwriting and Underwriting Operations at Utica National Insurance Group, examines how governed versioning, traceable approvals, and embedded documentation close the execution gap that slows pricing changes after they leave actuarial. She outlines the practical steps leaders can take to reduce queue time, strengthen auditability, and ensure...
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Turning Infrastructure from Bottleneck to Business Enabler for AI - With Juan Orlandini of Insight
AI in Financial Services Podcast
AI infrastructure projects are failing not because the technology underdelivers, but because organizations commit capital before establishing the business case. In this episode, Juan Orlandini, CTO at Insight, examines why enterprise AI programs stall and outlines how leaders can apply decades of established IT investment discipline to evaluate, validate, and scale AI initiatives with measurable outcomes in mind. The conversation covers organizational change management across employee adoption segments, the application of FinOps principles to AI infrastructure spending, and a minimum viable...
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How Intelligent Systems Accelerate Enterprise Decisions - with Amar Akshat of Paysafe
AI in Financial Services Podcast
Architectural decision‑making in large enterprises can break down when system knowledge is fragmented, slowing delivery and creating inconsistent outcomes across teams. In this episode, Amar Akshat, Senior Vice President of Architecture at PaySafe, examines how codified organizational memory and deterministic guardrails enable intelligent systems to accelerate development without sacrificing control. He highlights the shift toward machine‑readable decision records, intent‑driven interfaces, and standardized design patterns that help enterprises reduce drift, strengthen compliance, and...
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How AI Is Reshaping Regulated Professional Workflows - with Steve Hasker of Thomson Reuters
AI in Financial Services Podcast
Regulated industries are facing mounting pressure to adopt AI while maintaining absolute accuracy, data protection, and clear human accountability. In this episode, Steve Hasker, CEO at Thomson Reuters, joins Emerj’s Matthew DeMello to examine how these demands are reshaping expectations for model reliability, data isolation, and the future of high‑stakes regulatory work. The discussion highlights the need for transparent guardrails, expert‑trained systems, and new approaches to handling large‑scale filings without compromising oversight. Want to share your AI adoption story with...
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Defending Bank Onboarding Against Evolving Risk with Mary Ann Miller of Prove
AI in Financial Services Podcast
Modern enterprise leaders face a critical strategic challenge in balancing seamless digital onboarding with the increasing threat of sophisticated, AI-driven fraud. In this episode, Mary Ann Miller, VP of Client Experience and Fraud Advisor at Prove, unpacks why a robust "welcome mat" strategy centered on high-assurance identity verification enables the safe scaling of high-value services and drives institutional ROI. The conversation examines the implementation of endpoint bot protection to counter agentic AI attacks, the transition to intelligent data pre-fill to reduce abandonment, and the...
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From Pilots to Production in The New Era of Tokenized Finance with Tal Elyashiv of SPiCE VC
AI in Financial Services Podcast
Today’s guest is Tal Elyashiv, Co-founder and Managing Partner at SPiCE VC. Tal joins Emerj’s Nick Gertsch to explore how tokenization is moving from pilot programs into institutional-scale deployment — and what that means for settlement infrastructure, governance, and enterprise AI strategy in regulated financial systems. They discuss the real signals of production readiness, where AI is generating measurable ROI today (from compliance monitoring to customer operations), and why identity verification and human-in-the-loop controls are becoming mission-critical as AI-driven fraud...
info_outlineToday’s guest is Debjit Saha, VP of Engineering & Product for Risk & Compliance at MoneyGram. Debjit focuses on building data- and AI-driven controls for fraud, compliance, and payments decisioning. Debjit joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to explore how payments teams can modernize risk and compliance as fraud grows more sophisticated, customer tolerance for friction shrinks, and regulators demand stronger explainability. Debjit also highlights pragmatic steps leaders can take to build credibility quickly—starting with high-impact use cases, designing for auditability, and placing human oversight where it matters most. Want to share your AI adoption story with executive peers? Click emerj.com/e2 for more information and to be a potential future guest on Emerj’s flagship ‘AI in Business’ podcast! If you’re interested in unlocking our AI best practice guides, frameworks for AI ROI, and specific resources for AI consultants, visit emerj.com/p1.