Banking,
Partner,
Podcasts
- 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.
Rabab Ahsan | October 13, 2026
Banking,
Partner
- 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.
Rabab Ahsan | August 03, 2026
Partner,
Podcasts,
SMB Finance
- 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
Banking,
Partner
- Small businesses must balance modern payment demands with rising fraud risks, as contactless payments grow while credit card fraud surges.
- Banking partners can help by making enterprise-grade fraud protections, like ACH controls, debit blocks, and 2FA, accessible to SMBs.
Siddharth Bellur, VP of Product Management, Bluevine | May 07, 2026
Banking,
Partner
- Modernization needs to be viewed as a strategic growth driver rather than just an IT cost.
- Will Moroney, CRO at Temenos discussed the firm’s recent trends report that shows how banks are falling behind by clinging to legacy infrastructure, and why closing the AI readiness gap is becoming the defining competitive challenge of the moment.
Rabab Ahsan | April 28, 2026
