Banking

30% efficiency gain for Regions developers using GenAI, the bank's tech chief finds

11 takeaways: why bank customers measure their bank against Amazon and Avis, why Regions keeps a human in every AI loop, and why clients should never…

Nov 4 • Scuttlebutt

A 24/7 market can't run on a 9-to-5 recovery plan — The SIFMA Podcast

9 arguments: Why the CrowdStrike outage made one firm's problem everyone's, how a car dealer's chatbot was talked into a $1 sale, and why a backup plan…

Nov 4 • Scuttlebutt

Mercury CEO on internal bets: "We're willing to put $4 million for a seed funding"

10 lessons: why every founder raises too much in a hot market, why headcount is "the fake game on the field," and why he waits until 30 reports to hire…

Nov 4 • Scuttlebutt

A startup could build 95% of ChatGPT for finance, says OpenAI's financial services head

10 insights: why OpenAI dropped data connectors with 40%+ error rates, how human votes on pairs of slides train taste, and why its own finance evals…

Nov 3 • Scuttlebutt

OpenAI financial services head on plugins: "95% of what we built ... a startup could do"

7 takeaways: Why OpenAI bundled financial data after finding 40%-plus error rates in outside connectors, how it trains models on taste, and why it says…

Nov 1 • Scuttlebutt

"Two and a half years ago we were lending at 16%": Arch co-founder on Bitcoin loans

12 lessons: why Arch never relends client Bitcoin, how a client can check their collateral on a block explorer, and why Schwab adding spot Bitcoin…

Nov 1 • Scuttlebutt

10 straight quarters of growth and a record $38B in flows, Citi's Head of Wealth finds

4 insights: why Citi's new savings rate is a defense against AI agents moving idle cash, why its AI adviser tool is rolling out slowly, and why private…

Oct 29 • Scuttlebutt

7 of the largest banks have onboarded to Coinbase, says Coinbase Institutional co-CEO

10 insights: why a bank CEO called his RFP a distraction, why Bitcoin treasury companies collapsed, and why Coinbase now moves tokenized JPMorgan…

Oct 29 • Scuttlebutt

Aureo CEO: Mexicans are buying Bitcoin to hedge a new authoritarian era

5 takeaways: why 90% of Mexican wealth sits in real estate instead of banks, the AI bug hunt reshaping Bitcoin's security, and how Aureo moves Bitcoin…

Oct 27 • Scuttlebutt

Fintech Insider: Acorns bought a 1.6M-user app just to shut it down

4 takeaways: why an AI chatbot might beat a human phone agent, the platform that watches every employee and AI agent, and Huntington's small-business OS…

Oct 27 • Scuttlebutt

Banks blocking AI agents protect their own friction, not their customers — Unchained

9 arguments: why "Black October" broke so little, why Bernie Sanders misread the bank fight, what a $2.5B Visa-Fireblocks deal says about 2021 prices…

Oct 25 • Scuttlebutt

$12T moves through J.P. Morgan on an average day, $17T on a record one, co-heads find

6 takeaways: why a one-click checkout counts as revenue now, and the "fortress balance sheet" line clients are told to expect

Oct 24 • Scuttlebutt

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