Payments, Podcasts

Bento’s Farhan Ahmad: We want to make it very easy for SMBs to replace checks

  • Bento for Business gives reason and technology for SMBs to finally give up making check payments.
  • The firm's founder and CEO talks about the financial and technical challenges of servicing SMBs.
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Artificial Intelligence, Banking, Podcasts

“Amy has the what. I help with the how”: Inside Bank of America’s data and AI partnership

  • Bank of America's Michelle Boston and Amy Avery reveal how "disciplined velocity" let them scale 30+ generative AI use cases.
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How BILL is rebuilding for the Fortune 5 million and gearing up to take big swings on AI

  • BILL processes over 1% of US GDP in payments, and its next move is to use task-based automation to further deepen the value it delivers to its customers.
  • Chief Product Officer Michael Cieri, shares how the firm is weighing opportunity vs. risk and how its crafting agents for the high-trust domain it operates in.
Rabab Ahsan | July 13, 2026
Member Exclusive, Podcasts

Trust, stablecoins, and the AI margin squeeze: What McKinsey and QED’s fintech report means for banks

  • Max Flötotto, who leads McKinsey’s global retail banking practice, and Mike Packer, a partner at QED Investors, just co-authored a report mapping where fintech goes next — and they agree on almost everything in it.
  • We dig into why “a feature is no longer a fintech,” why only 1% of stablecoin volume is actual end-user payments, and why the simplest version of banking — deposits and loans — may be the part most at risk from AI agents.
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