Introduction Laura Briel Sullivan, a former bank Chief Marketing Officer, turned author of Sailing with Angels: A Poetic Tale of Grief and Grace, brings a unique perspective shaped by more than 25 years in financial services and a personal journey into storytelling. Her work explores how life transitions caregiving, loss, and career reinventions and how they…
Where are brands getting first-party data strategy wrong right now? Most brands think they have a data problem. They don’t. They have an activation problem. The industry is focused on signal loss and shrinking addressability, but at the same time, brands are sitting on valuable, consented data they’re not using. Many organizations already have more…
1. What inspired you to build FUTR’s AI agent platform, and how does it reflect your view of where commerce is heading? We built FUTR around a simple shift that’s already happening: commerce is moving from interaction to delegation. Today, people still have to do everything themselves. You search, compare, and transact across a bunch…
How is AI already transforming transaction monitoring in the financial sector? Monitoring financial crime is what we do at Flagright, and the biggest shift we see is that AI is moving transaction monitoring from alert generation to decisioning with evidence. Older systems were good at firing alerts out but weak at resolving them. The new model…
How is NRF redefining the role of events by becoming a platform for ecosystem-building and community? Events as a whole are an excellent way to create a larger sense of community. However, NRF specifically creates continuity across various retail partners, technology providers, and decision-makers, allowing ideas and relationships to develop past the show floor. This…
Jeff Baskin, Chief Revenue Officer Promotions are a key performance area for all retailers, and effectively implementing truly personalized offers at scale has been a goal for enterprise retailers for decades. Eagle Eye’s CRO Jeff Baskin shares his thoughts on how technology is making this goal more attainable, the legacy approaches that are holding retailers…
Introduction In regulated enterprises, security controls often look strong on paper. Policies are documented, audits are passed, and compliance dashboards report green. Yet real-world incidents continue to occur—not because controls are absent, but because they fail to operate as intended when systems change, scale, or come under stress. In this Q&A, Vishnu Gatla, an enterprise…
Learn early signs of employee financial stress and how education, flexible benefits, and coaching improve wellbeing heading into 2026.
By Dr. David Utzke, CEO and CTO at MyKey Technologies How have hidden admin keys and proprietary code bases become the single greatest threat to digital-asset integrity? These are a couple of issues related to DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology)-based digital assets cybersecurity, ongoing business concerns of the underlying company, and jurisdictional geopolitical risks of financial instability. …
1. Digital cards are gaining momentum in the U.S. credit market. What makes them so valuable for underserved borrowers? Ivan: About one third of U.S. adults fall into the subprime category, which means they’re either denied credit or approved only with high fees and low limits. Digital cards give these borrowers an alternative that’s fast,…
