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The Buzz podcast covering current trends and intriguing topics in automation and beyond courtesy of FinAi News, the definitive source for insights and news surrounding automation in financial services.

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  1. Episode · Sep 4, 2026

    Mastercard focuses on ‘Verifiable Intent’ for agentic payments, CDO says (opens the original)

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    Nearly a year after launching Agent Pay, Mastercard is focused on developing trust to drive adoption. “The first thing is the consumer needs to know that they can trust the interaction,” Mastercard Chief Digital Officer Pablo Fourez tells FinAi News on this episode of the “FinAi Podcast.” “They need to know that if ‘I shop with this agent and something goes wrong, I am protected.’” Agent Pay, announced in April 2025, has now rolled out across Mastercard’s global operations, enabling the company'

  2. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    Robotics, AI reduce manual processes at J.P. Morgan Payments (opens the original)

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    J.P. Morgan Payments is looking to AI to remove friction from workflows — freeing up employees from repetitive and manual tasks. "The workflow surrounding the payment has traditionally been very manual," Michelle Conklin , head of receivables and public sector product and operations for J.P. Morgan Payments, tells FinAi News on this episode of the "FinAi Podcast." It's "a manually intensive process that has multiple steps throughout," from physically receiving the mail, opening envelopes, extrac

  3. Episode · Aug 6, 2026

    AI adoption among SMBs doubles YoY, according to TD survey (opens the original)

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    Small businesses are increasingly looking to AI to improve operations – and banks must be able to meet the needs of those clients. According to the 2026 TD Financial Preparedness Survey, released in April, 69% of business owners already use AI to reduce expenses, up from 39% in the 2025 survey. The survey polled 1,000 U.S. business owners with 100 or fewer employees. “That was a dramatic increase,” Chris Ward , head of small business banking at TD Bank U.S., tells FinAi News on this episode of t

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