Podcast appearances and mentions of finn ai

Marcos Rivera is the founder of Pricing I/O and author of "Street Pricing." He brings 25 years of pricing experience, including a three-year tenure as an operating executive at Vista Equity Partners where he worked on pricing strategies across multiple portfolio companies. He's been running Pricing.io since 2019 and is passionate about the intersection of pricing and AI. In this episode, Marcos shares his insights on the evolving landscape of pricing in the age of AI, the importance of capturing value, and how companies can differentiate themselves in a competitive market. Together, they discuss the shift from traditional pricing models to outcome-based pricing and the role of AI in enhancing pricing strategies.   Why you have to check out today's podcast: Discover how AI is changing the pricing landscape and what it means for businesses.  Explore the relationship between pricing, value, and customer outcomes. Learn about the importance of low-friction entry points in pricing strategies.   “AI forces you to walk the walk versus talk the talk.” – Marcos Rivera   Topics Covered: 02:48 – The evolution of pricing in SaaS where the system gets credit for capturing more value using AI. 05:36 – The significance of capturing value quickly and efficiently. 08:09 – Differentiation in a competitive market and the role of pricing power. 12:16 – The importance of entry points and reducing friction for customers. 14:44 – How product design and pricing design are interconnected. 17:07 – The challenges of pricing in the AI landscape. 18:59 – Marcos's approach to using AI in pricing strategies. 28:56 – Pricing advice from Marcos.   Key Takeaways: “Pricing is about capturing value, and AI opens up new opportunities for that.” – Marcos Rivera  “Entry points matter; make them as low friction as possible.” – Marcos Rivera  “Understanding how to differentiate your offering is crucial in a crowded market.” – Marcos Rivera   People and Resources Mentioned: Steven Forth: https://impactpricing.com/podcast/691-pricing-in-the-agent-economy-the-future-beyond-subscriptions-with-steven-forth/ Vista Equity Partners: https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/ Pricing.io: https://www.pricingio.com/ Finn AI: https://www.glia.com/ Zendesk: https://www.zendesk.com/ Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/ Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/ Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/en/ Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/ Slack: https://slack.com/ 99designs: https://99designs.com/ DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/en ChatGPT: https://openai.com/ Claude: https://claude.ai/ Grok: https://grok.com/ Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/   Connect with Marcos Rivera: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcoslrivera/ Website: https://www.pricingio.com/    Connect with Mark Stiving: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiving/  Email: mark@impactpricing.com  

Send us a textAI - it's the word on every lip in credit union land as most institutions scramble to find ways to usefully harness AI.And then there is Glia, the company known for contact center tools that are at work in many credit unions and now Glia has debuted a suite of AI powered contact management tools that are ready to use now.If you've been wondering when AI would get real for credit unions, know it already is real at many Glia customers.Glia unveiled its AI collection at its Interact 2024 user conference in October and on the show today is Jake Tyler, founder of Finn AI which Glia bought a few years ago and Tyler joined Glia in that transaction.Glia's approach to AI is shaped by the company's focus on contact centers in FIs.  In the show Tyler explains how that focus impacts Glia's AI development and in that vein he stressed that Glia is committed to delivering “responsible AI.”Listen up.Like what you are hearing? Find out how you can help sponsor this podcast here. Very affordable sponsorship packages are available. Email rjmcgarvey@gmail.com  And like this podcast on whatever service you use to stream it. That matters.  Find out more about CU2.0 and the digital transformation of credit unions here. It's a journey every credit union needs to take. Pronto

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Klarna's UK executive Alex Marsh has hit out at Barclays for publishing a report that he called “mind-boggling” and “irresponsible”. This research explores mounting buy-now-pay-later debt levels in the UK. Barclays joined forces with debt charity StepChange to warn that 876,000 Brits could fall into financial difficulty as a result of using BNPL. JUST IN: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is facing a new class-action suit that alleges his actions involving the meme-themed cryptocurrency Dogecoin constitute a Ponzi scheme. ALSO: Digital bank Kroo has just won its full UK banking licence ahead of plans to launch personal current accounts "in the coming months". WHAT ABOUT FUNDING ROUNDS AND INVESTMENTS? SleekFlow, an Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund-backed SaaS omnichannel social commerce platform, announced that it has raised an US$8 million Series A funding round. Tapcheck Inc., an employee financial wellness and earned wage access platform announced a $20 million Series A led by PeakSpan Capital. Blockchain-based paytech Roxe is to go public via a $3.6 billion special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal. WHAT ARE THE LATEST INSIGHTS? Thirty-nine new billion-dollar FinTech companies have emerged in the past year, making up 25% of all Unicorns

The future of banking just may be voice - but that will probably mean talking with a computer. Already tens of millions of Bank of America customers use its Erica and that number is growing at a brisk rate.It should be no surprise.  Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant are part of many of our lives today. We talk with machines. We like talking with machines.Question: how is a credit union to compete in this sphere.Enter Finn AI, a conversational banking company formed precisely to address these needs for credit unions and community banks.Already Finn AI has a couple credit union customers - BECU is one. And it is looking for more.That's why it has scheduled an October 6 virtual conversational banking summit, a half day devoted to giving credit union and bank execs the information they need to make decisions about AI and conversational banking.Did I mention it is free for credit union execs.Link here.If you can't make the summit, sign up anyway and you'll get a link so you can watch at a time more convenient for you.Speakers include executives from Amazon, BECU, MX, United Federal Credit Union (also a Finn AI customer), and Kirk Drake, the founder of CU 2.0 and author of a book on AI.  In this podcast, with Finn AI CEO and co-founder Jake Tyler, you will hear more about the summit but you also will here about Finn AI's tools, its pricing, and why Tyler is persuaded that conversational AI banking just is not a technology that can be ignored.  It's a candid discussion, tightly focused and to the point.Listen up.Like what you are hearing? Find out how you can help sponsor this podcast here. Very affordable sponsorship packages are available. Email rjmcgarvey@gmail.comAnd like this podcast on whatever service you use to stream it. That matters.Find out more about CU2.0 and the digital transformation of credit unions here. It's a journey every credit union needs to take. Pronto

Why Finance Leaders Should Stay Informed, Connected, and Humble In this episode, Kingsley Chan, Director of Finance at Finn Ai shares his insights on what makes a forward-thinking, strategic finance leader, and why being informed, connected, and humble and keys to success. In addition, he shares his remote work tips on how Finn Ai was able to adapt with agility to the downturn. Speakers: Kingsley Chan, Director of Finance, Finn AiKingsley Chan, CPA, CA is currently the Director of Finance at Finn AI with 14 years of work experience in a variety of company sizes and sectors. With experience in public companies to private companies, the energy sector to the technology sector, he is currently heavily involved in the Vancouver startup scene specializing in scaling companies for hyper-growth. An alumni from UBC's Sauder School of Business, he is both a mentor of CPA students and a creator looking to disrupt the information flow within the finance tech realm through Disrupt Finance, an organization he co-founded. On the side, he founded an apparel brand called The Uglies Brand, which looks to inspire self-confidence by preaching "you are safe to be who you are, we all have our inner uglies."

The coronavirus is dominating the news, and we figured it was important to cover it as it relates to AI in financial services. This week, we discuss what chatbot adoption will like look during and after the pandemic. Our guest is Nat Cartwright with Finn AI. She speaks about viable use-cases for AI in customer service and where she thinks those priorities will become more important as we start to pull out of this economic moment we see ourselves in. We also put together a report on AI priorities as they relate to coronavirus, the AI Business Continuity Action Plan, and we're giving it away free with the first month of Emerj Plus at emerj.com/ap1.

Natalie Cartwright and her team at Finn AI have a mission: to improve the financial well-being of 100M people by 2025. And they’re leveraging AI to achieve that mission.  What we talked about: How Finn AI is applying AI in the financial services industry How do virtual assistants create more value for customers? How do virtual assistants create more value for financial institutions? Check out these resources Finn AI Natalie’s LinkedIn To ensure that you never miss an episode of Payments Innovation, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, or here.    Until next time!

Today’s guest is Kenneth Conroy. Originally from Ireland, Ken moved to Vancouver in 2014 where he is now the VP of Data Science at Finn AI. Finn.ai is a full-featured conversational banking platform with their white-label chatbots and personal financial management assistants powered by AI. Banks and other financial institutions are able toput a personal banker and financial advisor in every customer’s pocket. Wherever they are, banking customers can get queries answered and complete transactions by chatting to your business the same way they chat with their friends. In the episode, Kenneth will tell you about: His background and making the move to Vancouver Finn AI’s interesting work in the financial services industry Challenges working with conversational AI The benefits that a chatbot can bring to your company Is Artificial Intelligence living up the hype? Interesting use cases on how AI will affect our everyday lives

This week on Get Connected, Mathew Ingram educates us on how WikiTribune has fared in its first year, Dave Woogman joins us from London Drugs to talk about Black Friday season, and we discuss what artificial intelligence means to the world of today and tomorrow with Finn AI's Robin Monks. We also discuss the BC government's new legislation opening the door for ride sharing services, Google Pixel phones saving transcripts of screened calls, Ford patenting a technique for burning out "new car smell" in Chinese cars, and the state of voice assistants in our voice skill of the week!

On BIV Today... Brian Scudamore, the man behind those ubiquitous  1-800-Got-Junk? trucks seen across the Lower Mainland and North America, discusses his 30-year journey in the business world ahead of the release of his new book, WTF?! (Willing to Fail). Then, Vancouver-based fintech Finn AI is just coming off a $14-million financing round backed by Cascadian investors. Co-founder and chief operating officer Nat Cartwright talks about the next steps for the startup that’s created an AI-powered banking assistant. Tyler Orton hosts, see more at https://biv.com

Our hosts, Simon Taylor, Sam Maule and Sarah Kocianski are joined by great guests in three groups. Group one: Courtney Kelso Senior Vice President at American Express, Samant Nagpal Global Head of Amazon Business Payment Products at Amazon and Mark Heimbouch COO at Worldpay Group two: Shannon Johnson Group President of Financial Institutions at Cardlytics and Ken Lin Founder and CEO at Credit Karma. Group three: Ian Ormerod Head of New Digital Business at BBVA and Matt Loos Senior Product Manager for Global Wholesale Payments in Treasury Services at JPMorgan Chase. First up, we have group one to talk about the American Express and Amazon partnership for co-branded business cards. Amazon Business and American Express will announce the launch of the Amazon Business American Express Card, a tool designed to change the way businesses buy online on October 23. Card Members can choose between cash back or instantly qualify for an interest free payment term to help with working capital or cash flow. American Express and Amazon are thrilled to offer a solution that puts the power of big business into the hands of small business owners. Verifone and Worldpay Introduce EMV-Grade Contactless Solution at Jimmy John’s. Piloting a new EMV-grade contactless payment acceptance solution at Jimmy John’s (a fast food sandwich chain, a bit like Subway, for all our international listeners). By combining Worldpay’s ultra-fast and highly-secure processing services with Verifone’s Engage P400 device, Jimmy John’s will deliver more convenient, powerful and flexible payment options to its customers. Jimmy John’s are the guinea pig/ early adopter for this initiative - combining faster payments and with fast service and fast food. Next we have group two to talk about, Lenders share their underwriting secrets with Credit Karma. Ken broke this news story on the Avant Garde stage here at Money2020 right before our show. Credit Karma CEO Ken believes that within just a few years, computers will help optimize and execute these financial decisions for us. Will cyber risks derail consumer trust and hinder the rise of autonomous finance? Or will advanced data science enable the masses to benefit from the type of specialized financial advice and services previously only available to the super rich. Finn AI closes $11 Million Series A financing. Finn AI today announced it has completed a $11 Million Series A financing round. The new funding will be used to support the growth momentum underway at Finn AI across North America and Europe. The financing will allow Finn AI to enhance enterprise tooling and extend its core product to support additional banking and personal finance capabilities for existing customers including ATB Financial, Bank of Montreal, Banpro Grupo Promerica, Commonwealth Bank, and Fidor Bank. Finally, we have group three to talk about, JPM’s blockchain announcement. J.P. Morgan Interbank Information Networks expands to more than 75 banks. Sept 25th - announced the expansion of its Interbank Information Network (IINSM), the first live blockchain service offered by the firm. More than 75 banks have signed up to be part of IIN, the largest number of banks to join a live application of blockchain technology. IIN, launched as a pilot in 2017, minimizes friction in the global payments process, enabling payments to reach beneficiaries faster and with fewer steps. Using blockchain technology, IIN reduces the time correspondent banks currently spend responding to compliance and other data related inquiries that delay payments. BBVA launches Open Banking platform in the US. BBVA has officially launched its Banking-as-a-Service platform in the US, using APIs to let firms offer their customers financial products without having to take on fulling banking themselves. While PSD2 is driving open banking in Europe, BBVA is taking a proactive approach in the US. Operating its Open Platform in beta for six months, allowing third parties that pass security and compliance checks to access, through APIs, a range of the bank's services. And finally, A day in the (improbable) life of a banking exec. All this and so much more on today's episode of Fintech Insider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.com This week's episode was written and produced by Laura Watkins. Edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Courtney Kelso, Ian Ormerod, Ken Lin, Mark Heimbouch, Matt Loos, Samant Nagpal, and Shannon Johnson.