Reinventing the wheel: the future of public transit

Blockchain and Crypto, Partner

At Meridian, Stellar makes the case that utility should drive the network

• SDF framed Meridian's opening day around a utility era for Stellar and XLM.
• Institutions announced products on the network, and the advice for banks that want to follow was to start with a customer and a regulator.

Partner, Podcasts

Why small businesses hesitate on AI in finance, and how BILL is addressing it

• Small and midsize businesses want the time and cost savings AI can offer, but hesitate to hand over their financial operations, so BILL built its new AI suite around three pillars: accuracy, control, and security.
• According to BILL’s Tara Wellington, the company’s own risk platform saw about $1.5 BILLion in potentially risky or mistaken payments last year. For her, that kind of data is what lets the risk agent flag issues at the moment they matter, helping keep operations moving smoothly.

Partner, Podcasts

Why B2B payments are a whole-journey problem ft. TreviPay

• Digital-native buyers are rewriting the rules of B2B payments, demanding consumer-grade convenience, flexible terms, and openness to stablecoins and AI, while sellers race to keep their best customers happy under tight credit conditions
• TreviPay’s Allen Bonde explains why today’s AI mostly assists rather than replaces human buyers, and what it will take for banks, networks, and fintechs to build the shared infrastructure that could change that.

Banking, Partner, Podcasts

Why Salient bet everything on auto lending and never looked back

• Salient’s CEO Ari Malik bet everything on auto lending, relocated to sit next to a single customer, and now says the company has never lost a client among the roughly half of the top 20 lenders it serves.
• Malik breaks down, how AI voice agent grew into a full compliance and loss-recovery stack, why big banks are adopting AI faster than smaller fintechs, and the company got here without a sales team.

Banking, Partner

Regions Bank chose a modern core. Here’s what that journey looks like.

• Regions Bank ($155B+ in assets) partnered with Temenos in 2023 to move from its legacy core systems to a SaaS-based modern core, aiming to boost customer responsiveness and offload infrastructure management.
• Under Chief Transformation Officer Paul Weiss, the bank is now roughly two years into what could make it one of the first major US banks to complete such a transition.