Bank Nerd Corner

Kiah Haslett

Our perception of money is changing rapidly, and banks are at the center of all of it. From how we access it to how we buy to how we trust that our money will be there when we need it. Here on Bank Nerd Corner, Kiah Haslett brings on a rotating cast of expert bankers, economists, academics and more to sit down and talk about the complex dynamics shaping financial services today. Banks exist at the crossroads between risk and safety, private business and public policy and new technology and some of the oldest laws we have. If we can understand what is changing and what probably won’t, we’ll be in a better position to respond strategically. And, hopefully, we’ll understand the strange creature that is financial services a little bit better.  Subscribe to Bank Nerd Corner to get the latest episode every Thursday!

  1. 3d ago

    Fintech Takes Banking x Parlay Finance presents Agent of Record: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (Episode 1)

    Agent of Record is a 12-episode limited series podcast that explores artificial intelligence in financial services. Co-hosts Kiah Haslett (Fintech Takes Banking) and Alex McLeod (CEO of Parlay Finance) kick off the show with a level-setting conversation on the state of AI in banking and what it actually means for executives today. Alex shares a useful three-layer framework for thinking about the AI landscape and argues that bankers should ask themselves whether their institutions have the internal skills needed to build agents and applications, as well as maintain, audit and govern them. Alex doesn’t mince words: Layering technology onto a broken process makes it worse, not better.  The episode closes with a homework assignment for Kiah: Connect her email, calendar, and drive to Claude and identify one manual and repetitive task to automate.  --- This episode is brought to you by Parlay Finance.  Small business and SBA lenders lose hours chasing documents and checking eligibility before a deal ever reaches underwriting. Parlay Finance's AI-native Loan Intelligence System (LIS) cuts manual work to qualify a deal by 80% — automating intake, document processing and deal structuring upstream of the Loan Origination System (LOS) — so lenders can close more loans without sacrificing credit quality. See how at www.parlay.finance  --- Fintech Takes Banking is the weekly newsletter for bank execs who get it. Subscribe for the latest in regulation, tech, financials, operations and, yes, accounting, straight to your inbox: ⁠⁠⁠https://fintechtakes.com/banking/newsletter-subscription/⁠⁠⁠

    Fintech Takes Banking x Parlay Finance presents Agent of Record: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (Episode 1)
  2. Jun 4

    BNC Closing Credits: Always Be Closing with “Glengarry Glen Ross”

    In this latest episode of Bank Nerd Corner's Closing Credits, Kiah and Catherine welcome in Brian Love, Head of Banking and Fintech Search at Travillian Group, to discuss the 1992 film “Glengarry Glen Ross.” The film follows a group of real estate salesmen over roughly 24 hours as they compete for leads, fight to keep their jobs and resort to manipulation, deception and worse. The movie brings up situations and themes present in some corners of finance: information asymmetry between salespeople and consumers, the psychology of false urgency, and how the regulatory landscape — the CFPB, consumer protection laws, chargeback rights — speak to the world depicted by playwright and screenwriter David Mamet. How does this latest entry into the Closing Credits lineup compare --- Closing Credits is a podcast focused on recapping movies with banking, money or finance themes. As of this recording, listeners can rent “Trading Places” for themselves at various streaming services online.  --- Fintech Takes Banking is the weekly newsletter for bank execs who get it. Subscribe for the latest in regulation, tech, financials, operations and, yes, accounting, straight to your inbox: ⁠https://fintechtakes.com/banking/newsletter-subscription/⁠ --- Follow Brian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianlovesbanks/ Follow Catherine on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-leffert/⁠⁠ Follow Kiah: LinkedIn:⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaslett/⁠ Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/khaslett⁠

    BNC Closing Credits: Always Be Closing  with “Glengarry Glen Ross”
  3. May 28

    Banker’s Hours with Chesapeake Bank’s DJ Seeterlin

    In this latest episode of Bank Nerd Corner's Banker's Hours, Kiah Haslett welcomes DJ Seeterlin, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at Chesapeake Bank, a $1.7 billion community bank based in Kilmarnock, Virginia. Using Chesapeake Bankas an example, DJ walks Kiah through the process of figuring out what the different businesses across the institution share and how the bank can capitalize on that as a competitive advantage. What has emerged from that research is a thesis built around trust, complexity and human relationships — and the kinds of customers for whom those things are a genuine differentiator. Kiah and DJ also dig into why community banks struggle with intentional trade-offs, how customers are already segmenting their financial lives whether banks acknowledge it or not, and the difference between strategic choices and table stakes. DJ uses Trader Joe's as a case study in what it looks like to serve a problem set rather than a demographic, and the trade-offs needed to do it well.  Banker’s Hours is a Bank Nerd Corner feature series, exploring the personalities in banking for some real talk on important, interesting and fun topics.  Fintech Takes Banking is the weekly newsletter for bank execs who get it. Subscribe for the latest in regulation, tech, financials, operations and, yes, accounting, straight to your inbox: https://fintechtakes.com/banking/newsletter-subscription/ --- Follow DJ on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dseeterlin Follow Kiah LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaslett/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/khaslett

    Banker’s Hours with Chesapeake Bank’s DJ Seeterlin

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Our perception of money is changing rapidly, and banks are at the center of all of it. From how we access it to how we buy to how we trust that our money will be there when we need it. Here on Bank Nerd Corner, Kiah Haslett brings on a rotating cast of expert bankers, economists, academics and more to sit down and talk about the complex dynamics shaping financial services today. Banks exist at the crossroads between risk and safety, private business and public policy and new technology and some of the oldest laws we have. If we can understand what is changing and what probably won’t, we’ll be in a better position to respond strategically. And, hopefully, we’ll understand the strange creature that is financial services a little bit better.  Subscribe to Bank Nerd Corner to get the latest episode every Thursday!

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