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Michael Boukadakis

It's Time for Bankers to Make a Technology Priority List, and Check It Twice

If bankers want to survive, they cannot afford to choose complacency when it comes to technological innovation. In fact, they should bet their careers on replacing outdated systems and solutions. If a...

12 Dec 2023
Digital Bank Transformation
Michael Boukadakis

FIs of All Sizes Can Harness the Transformative Power of AI with the Help of FinTech Partners

"The meteoric rise of data and performance-intensive workloads like generative AI is forcing a complete rethink of how data is stored, managed and processed,” said Nick Patience, senior research ...

26 Sep 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Michael Boukadakis

5 Ways Financial Institutions Can Ensure Adoption of a New Virtual Assistant

Americans have warmed up to virtual assistants in the wake of the pandemic, when many services had to be reimagined as digital alternatives. According to an Ipsos poll of 2,010 U.S. adults, 69 percen...

29 Jun 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Michael Boukadakis

ChatGPT Is Greasing the Wheels for Use of AI Virtual Assistants in Banking

“ChatGPT lowers the bar for people using AI,” Charles Morris, Chief Data Scientist for Financial Services at Microsoft, recently said during a Banking Transformed podcast. It's true; this AI chatbot ...

02 May 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Michael Boukadakis

Part Three: AI Security Can Make or Break a Financial Institution

“In order to fully realize the potential of AI, we have to mitigate its risks,” the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy recently tweeted. “That’s why we’re excited about @NIST’s rele...

14 Feb 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Michael Boukadakis

Part Two: AI Must Be Integrated with Next-Gen CX Technology for Elevated Self-Service

What good would buying an engine be without a car to put it in? In the context of customer service in retail banking, this would be akin to adopting artificial intelligence without having any customer...

10 Jan 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Michael Boukadakis

Part One: Data Makes the Magic Happen with AI

If the past three years have shown us anything, it’s that consumers have adapted to self-serve. More self-reliant than ever before, they’ve learned to meet their own needs with CX tools and services t...

29 Nov 2022
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Michael Boukadakis

Voice Biometrics Are Ready for Prime Time in Banking

Banks have been dealing with a balancing act between “fast and frictionless” and “secure and accurate” for many years, with consumers long pushing to move away from traditional, friction-based means o...

19 May 2021
Biometrics
Michael Boukadakis

Conversational Banking Is a Competitive Necessity in a Remote-Everything World

Conversational voice banking was already gaining prominence in the financial services industry before the pandemic hit. Then, its importance was heightened and deployment accelerated when COVID-19 sta...

10 Mar 2021
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Michael Boukadakis

Enablers or Disruptors: Where Do FinTechs Fit?

In the first half of 2020, $2 trillion in cash landed in deposit accounts of U.S. banks and credit unions, according to FDIC data. From corporate borrowing to cash-hoarding and stimulus checks, the un...

06 Oct 2020
Disruption in Retail Banking

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