TENTANG EPISODE INI
Our guest on this episode of Data Driven Finance is the CEO of Yodlee, Farouk Ferchichi. He's been in that role since March of 2021. Coming out of MIT he's held prior positions at USAA, Gartner, and Toyota North America. It had been quite a while since we had Farouk on Yodlee's own podcast, so we wanted to get an update on what's changed with Yodlee regarding ownership structure and flexibility, what services Yodlee is improving and doubling down on, and what new things we can expect from the company. Topics covered include:
• What Yodlee does and the often-hidden infrastructures financial organization tap into to power their own customer experiences.
• Why it's hard for each institution to build and maintain this kind of clean and reliable data collection its own.
• How financial institutions can use connected financial data.
• How such an infrastructure has remained secure and trustworthy since the late 90's.
• Balancing security and privacy with the convenience and personalization financial customers want and expect.
• How a U.S. national consumer ID would work.
• The features and tools financial organizations have found to be highly beneficial such as subscription tracking and bill management.
• How agentic AI is going to start playing a major role in customer experiences powered by financial data.
• The art of maintaining the supply to demand ratio when implementing innovation.
• How connected financial data and consumer expectations have evolved since Yodlee's founding.
• What the near future looks like in connected banking, for organizations and consumers.
• The dangers of not embracing the tools and technologies that are available.
• How the industry is approaching open banking.
• How we can go from open banking to open finance to open economy.
Helpful Links
Farouk Ferchichi on LinkedIn
Yodlee
