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AI Coding Agents in Finance: What to Hand Over, What to Keep

2026-10-2309:02

Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! 9 out of 10 professional developers now use AI coding agents every week. This year, the best agent in a benchmark built to look like real work passed fewer than 15% of its checks. Both are true at once. A solo episode of Curiosity Code on which engineering work a financial firm should hand to an AI-driven team and which it should keep with conventional developers. My company, Productera, sells both, so I make money whichever way you decide. My an...

Who's Liable When AI Agents Make Payments? | Abril Benhumea

2026-10-1433:14

Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! An AI agent books your flight, stays inside the budget you gave it, and pays for the wrong date. Who is responsible? Abril Benhumea, fintech and payments executive and co-founder of Passport, walks through what has to happen between an agent deciding to buy and the money actually moving. In this episode, Abril explains how Passport worked as an interoperability and orchestration layer on top of a bank's own infrastructure, and how real-time payme...

Your Team Doesn't Need to Understand RAG. It Needs These 3 Things

2026-10-0908:40

Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Prudential in Singapore built an AI assistant for its insurance representatives. Six of its own experts graded the answers, and 59% failed. Four months later 99% passed. Nobody on that team had to learn how the model works. A solo episode of Curiosity Code on what people in a financial firm actually need to know about RAG and AI agents. Most need to know how to use it and where it goes wrong. The firm needs three things: an owner who decides what...

Programmable Self-Custody for Crypto | Frank Hepworth

2026-10-0626:06

Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! Frank Hepworth breaks down programmable self-custody, an onchain model where clients own their crypto accounts and a manager can trade in them but never withdraw from them. Self-custody crypto, onchain asset management, and why most crypto still sits with exchanges and custodians. 🔑 Key Topics & Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:12 What holding crypto on an exchange really costs you 4:49 Why banks entering crypto won't offer liquidity pools 6:3...

Wise Owns Its Rails. Remitly Rents Them. Who's Winning?

2026-10-0209:11

Lovely listener, share with us your thoughts! One remittance company owns its payment rails and keeps 52 cents of every $100. Another rents them, keeps about $2, and grew faster last year. So does owning the pipes decide who wins? A solo episode of Curiosity Code. I work through a question I've already answered twice on LinkedIn, in two different ways: crypto as the experiment where the rails couldn't be owned, what my guests Colin Butler and Elena Shiltseva said, Wise vs Remitly by the numb...

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