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After amassing 125K listens as host of my previous banking podcast, I'm on my own and taking the game to a new level. Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, composer and performer of all the Bankadelic music ... pizza fanatic.
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More than 11,000 people attended Money 20/20 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, making 2025 another banner year for one of the leading financial services conferences in the world. Bankadelic was there from start to finish and on this episode, host Lou Carlozo recounts the hot discussion topics (from agentic AI to stablecoins), the cool swag (pickleball, anyone?) and the action on the convention floor. Lou also dishes on the surprises he came across, from a fintech that fights hunger to an unscheduled appearance by Bankadelic wiseguy Johnny Da Big, lecturing all those freaking stoonads about lowbrow high-tech, if ya know what I’m sayin’…
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode taped at the Venetian's Truth and Tonic, Lou casts with Dana Kalfas Bodine, Vice
President of Marketing at Trustpilot. Dana shares findings from the just-completed Write a Review Week, where all U.S. businesses received unlimited review invitations, and discusses the role AI plays in how businesses and consumers can make better choices.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou chats with a true leader in the biometrics field, Ajay Amlani, CEO of Aware. As the creator of aviation’s CLEAR technology, Amlani launches into a discussion of why biomentrics are more robust than ever, and bound to eventually replace passwords and standard multi-factor identification based on passwords and those often-baffling CAPCHA puzzles.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, we learn all about what it takes to create successful loyalty programs that drive customer engagement and help businesses to get a leg up on their competitors. Joining us are Beth McCoy, President of CORA Loyalty and Becky Hill, President of Points at Points At Work under CORA Loyalty.
Once again, Lou Carlozo rises from the pumpkin patch to bring you yet another Bankadelic Halloween Spooktacular. This year, we visit many different kinds of ghosts: Why is AI haunting so many financial institutions? Will the loan climate finally break through all the thunder and lightning? And if there are friendly ghosts on the horizon, what might they be? It’s a fabulous cast of FI wizards … and a quartet of goblins (not so welcome, perhaps) from the Bankadelic Voice Character Crypt.
Our special guests:
Sarah Koulogeorge, Director of Business Development, Casca
Richard Guillot, President, BAFS
Samy Kogan, Vice President of Product Management, Swivel
Caleb Stevens, Vice President - Marketing Manager of Capital Markets & Correspondent Banking, SouthState Bank
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou talks with Sai Rangachari, Chief Product Officer at Temenos, to learn more about how the Swiss banking software company is embracing the American market. Sai also shares his views on how AI is having the most influence on banking, along with trends he thinks will shape the industry in the years ahead.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou chats with John Blizzard, Founder of CD Valet, to learn more about an online destination that offers customers close to 40,000 choices, likely making it the largest such marketplace in the world. Blizzard, who’s also President and CEO of Seattle Bank, makes a compelling case for why CDs will only grow in popularity as factors from a potential AI bubble to unreleased economic data loom over Wall Street.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou chats with one of his favorite return guests, Steven J. Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc. The FI veteran shares his views on big opportunities in AI and finance, including the creation of compliance documents that meet the opposing demands for speed and rigor, and the return of blockchain as a hot topic.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, ASA Founder/CEO Landon Glenn explains how collaborative banking and embedded finance create exciting opportunities across the board. When financial institutions can offer new digital tools, customers have access to broader services, while fintechs have increased options to connect with FIs.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou meets an enlightened founder who’s making waves as a payments -merchants innovator, Houman Motaharian (left), CEO of ClarityPay. He’s joined by Tom Carter, Chief Commercial Officer, and together they reflect on topics from removing the friction for merchants eager to serve customers better to what it’s like to build an organization dedicated to three bedrock commitments: team play, making a difference and practicing the art and science of saying “yes.”
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou’s introduced to the revolutionary concept of “cognitive banking” by Udi Ziv, CEO of Personetics. In a cognitive banking world, agentic processes stand in to represent the best interests of the customer: It may be digital, but it’s a definite throwback to the days when local bankers guided and even mentored customers.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. Conference speaker Sophia Bantanidis, Head of Future of Finance at the Citi institute, walks us through two laser-sharp reports, "Real Time 24/7 Finance in an Always-On World" and "Agentic AI: Finance and the Do it for Me Economy." Sophia's observations add context and depth to two of the most discussed topics at Money 20/20.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode Lou chats with Frank Frantz, Founding Growth Executive at Chargeflow, to learn how the company is tackling an online theft merchants hate: chargebacks. Typically these fraudsters request refunds on a purchase but still keep the item they "bought." Here's how Chargeflow uses data analysis to stop the deception dead in its tracks.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Anthony Vassallo, Senior Vice President of Crypto at Silicon Valley Bank, walks us through the state of crypto in 2025, the ascendancy of stable coins--and why the bank chose not to rebrand following its well publicized collapse in 2023.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou talks with Alkami Technology founder Stephen Bohanon, who shares the story of how his company has grown since 2009 from a feisty startup to a digital banking industry leader. He also discusses the unique approach Alkami takes to create its collaborative, energized work environment that borrows from backstory of medieval alchemy.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. On this episode, Lou chats with David Ness, Candescent's Head of Fintech Partnerships, who shares his boots-on-the-ground perspective of the convention, including the intense conversations surrounding AI's tentative but necessary leap into an era of customer-first hypersonalization.
In a series of podcasts taped live at 2025’s Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, host Lou Carlozo brings you the latest from one of the premier financial services conferences in the world. One conference speaker making waves is John Patton, Founder and Executive Director of Street Charity in Atlanta. Patton shares the story of how his desire to help the homeless turned into an initiative, backed by Discover, to create prepaid $5 food cards. It’s a generous alternative that sidesteps cash, which is often used to purchase drugs and alcohol--and a brilliant use of fintech to support the greater good.
It only takes one unexpected big bill or the prologued drip-drip-drip of leaky finances to create debt of a different kind—manifested in physical stress, lack of sleep and mental health challenges. In this episode, Matt Tomko, Chief Revenue Officer at Happy Money, shares the results of a survey that sheds light on the consumer debt epidemic and the spiral of helplessness it creates. Tomko also explains how Happy Money has worked to better serve consumers in the personal loan space.
On this special episode of Bankadelic, Apiture Chief Product Officer Daniel Haisley (left) and DefenseStorm CEO Steve Soukup (right) talk about how thier businesses joined forces to elevate Apiture's mobile banking service to a new level of cyber-threat preparedness. That's all the more relevant given how AI is being accessed by fraudsters through "Deep Fakes as a Service" (DFaaS) on the Dark Web--a subject Soukup and Haisley address here.
Perhaps the most talked-about aspect of artificial intelligence in 2025 has been agentic AI—the technology that computers will use to make decisions without the need for human intervention. But are financial institutions jumping the gun to embrace fintech that’s not yet ready for prime time? On this episode, two of the founders of Tyfone — Siva Narendra (left) and Prabhakar Tadepalli — explain what it really takes to recognize opportunities to employ agentic AI, and how to understand the technology once the hype is stripped away.
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