Your money choices no longer start inside a banking app—they start with a question to an AI. We unpack how that single shift rewires the entire financial stack: banks scramble to reclaim the decision moment with governed insights, advisors fight the “swivel chair” of disconnected tools, and investors treat digital businesses like rental properties while silver surges on AI and solar demand.

We walk through the new playbook for banks: stop being a toll booth and become a trusted guide. That means using verified data, personal risk profiles, and legal accountability to outclass generic models and earn the moment of conviction. On the human side, we dig into portfolio intelligence that quietly reduces drag, flags the one action that matters, and gives advisors time to deliver the real value—timely calls, calm in volatility, and clear communication.

The asset map has expanded. Online businesses now trade through matching engines that bundle diligence and legal workflows, creating liquidity for the missing middle. At the same time, silver’s rally is a tech story, not a doomsday hedge: inelastic supply collides with soaring demand from chips and solar. Infrastructure tells its own story too—Latvia’s embrace of MIFID compliance turned regulation into a trust signal, while tokenization shed its hype and became plumbing for faster settlement and fractional access.

All of this meets a generational tide: $83.5 trillion shifting to younger investors who want education over sales. We highlight platforms that teach through micro-lessons and safe sandboxes, and small-business tools that bring back relationship banking with data-driven empathy. The throughline is simple: technology wins when it makes finance feel human and accountable. If algorithms move faster than oversight, governance and trust become the hard currency. Stream the conversation, then tell us: who earns your first question—and why? Subscribe, share, and leave a review to help others find the show.

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Tired of brittle report pipelines that buckle under volume and stall behind IT tickets? We sit down with Marko, CEO of CxReports, to unpack how modern teams automate client statements, invoices, and performance reports at massive scale without sacrificing security or brand consistency. From the first spark of buyer frustration to a confident, phased migration, we trace the path that moves organizations off legacy tools and into a streamlined, API-driven workflow.

Marko explains why automation and integrations matter more than ever, especially for finance and healthcare, where compliance is nonnegotiable. You’ll hear how CxReports functions as a pass-through engine, pulling data to generate documents and discarding it immediately, to satisfy strict data protection requirements. We also discuss real operational wins: a pension fund consolidates five fractured tools into one flow, generating 40,000 multi-page statements in an hour, automatically emailing digital recipients, and exporting a single print-ready PDF for postal delivery. The payoff is faster cycles, clear audit trails, and documents that finally look as good as they read.

We dig into the hidden costs of outsourced IT, where simple updates can take weeks and drain budgets. Reclaiming ownership inside business teams shortens feedback loops and keeps reporting responsive to market and regulatory changes. Finally, we look ahead to AI-first reporting, where natural-language prompts design templates, map data, and propose visualisations bringing true self-service to high-stakes communication. If your organisation sends thousands of PDFs a month and needs reliable, compliant delivery, this conversation will help you see what a modern reporting stack can do.

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We map how Belgium’s e‑invoicing mandate and EU initiatives like VIDA, PSD3, and PSR are changing payments, and why compliance delivered via APIs is now a competitive product. We also unpack AI’s impact on onboarding, verification of payee (VoP), and the push for lower, more sovereign fees.

Join us for a podcast with Cedric, CEO of Digiteal.

• API-based payments, e‑invoicing, QR, and open banking
• Belgium’s Peppol mandate and fast adoption
• VIDA and the road to cross-border e‑reporting
• Compliance as a service under PSD2/PSD3 passporting
• Aera acquisition and retail card-present synergies
• Fintech for good through lower transaction fees
• AI-driven onboarding with authentic sources
• Verification of pay for IBAN-to-name matching
• Expansion across Europe using a repeatable playbook
• How to start with GTeal’s docs and APIs

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