Banking Transformed with Jim Marous
Are you prepared to embrace change, take risks and disrupt yourself in response to the digital disruption in banking? If not, this podcast is for you. Hosted by top 5 banking and fintech influencer, Jim Marous, Banking Transformed highlights the leadership and cultural challenges facing the banking industry. Featuring interviews with some of the top minds in business, this podcast explores how financial institutions can prepare for the future of banking.
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January 15, 2026 • 35 mins
Banking is no longer competing with the branch down the street. It is competing with every digital experience your customers have before they ever open your app. Expectations around speed, simplicity, and trust are being set by big tech, fintechs, and embedded finance, not by traditional financial institutions. And for many banks, that gap is growing.
That is why today’s conversation matters. I am joined by Phil Tomlinson, Senior ...
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January 13, 2026 • 7 mins
Nearly half of the skills banking leaders rely on today will be obsolete within five years.
In this episode of Banking Transformed, Jim Marous explores why continuous learning has become the most critical leadership skill in financial services, and why failing to adapt is the fastest path to irrelevance.
Jim shares the personal transformation that reshaped his career, explains how AI is accelerating the divide between learners an...
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January 6, 2026 • 28 mins
Banks love to claim they are high-tech and high-touch. The truth is, most are neither, and the gap between what institutions promise and what customers experience is widening fast. It is costing banks billions in lost trust, slower growth, and missed opportunities, especially as expectations accelerate across the rest of people’s financial lives.
At Fintech NerdCon in Miami, I sat down with two leaders who are actually closing tha...
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January 1, 2026 • 45 mins
What if the biggest myth in banking is that customers don’t need branches anymore?
Because every time Bank of America opens a new financial center, digital sales in that market jump by 50 percent. Physical presence isn’t competing with digital — it’s accelerating it.
Now, Bank of America is putting $750 million behind a bet the rest of the industry walked away from too soon, opening 150 new financial centers across 60 markets by ...
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December 30, 2025 • 52 mins
Every bank today is trying to appear modern. But you can’t operate a digital institution with a core system that hasn’t been updated since the iPhone was introduced.
After years of adding new features on top of outdated infrastructure, the limitations become clear: legacy cores slow innovation, hinder personalization, and make it nearly impossible to compete in an AI-driven world.
Modernization is no longer just a tech project. I...
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December 29, 2025 • 6 mins
Nearly half of U.S. households are living paycheck to paycheck, yet millions of financially capable people are denied access to affordable credit. That is not a consumer failure. It is a system failure.
I recently spoke at the Hope Global Forums in Atlanta, where the focus is on economic opportunity. I challenged the banking industry to address a blind spot. We rely on outdated credit models that look backward, not at real cash fl...
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December 23, 2025 • 46 mins
The biggest threat to consumer financial health isn’t inflation, stagnant wages, or market volatility, but the financial system itself. Not because it’s failing, but because it’s been silently optimized to benefit the most educated, the wealthiest, and the most sophisticated players.
In the new book Fixed, a harsh truth is revealed: from daily saving and borrowing to education loans, insurance, and retirement planning, personal fi...
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December 16, 2025 • 43 mins
The biggest competitive advantage in banking right now isn’t scale … it’s speed. According to PwC, GenAI is reshaping the balance of power across financial services, and the banks that move fastest will define the next era of growth.
In fact, 58% of banking leaders believe generative and agentic AI will be the single most transformative force in the industry over the next three years, and 55% already consider it their top investme...
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December 11, 2025 • 38 mins
Consumers don’t want more banking messages — they want relevance. And right now, most banks are wildly out of sync with what their communities actually need.
Consumers want communication that reflects their neighborhood, life stage, and immediate financial needs — and broad, one-size-fits-all marketing isn’t effective. Hyperlocal strategies are emerging as some of the most powerful ways to drive acquisition, strengthen relationshi...
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December 9, 2025 • 16 mins
In this video, Jim Marous broadcasts from Miami’s Wynwood Arts District — one of the most vibrant creative hubs in the world. Using the evolution of Wynwood as a backdrop, Jim explores why so many financial institutions struggle to differentiate, why creativity has become a strategic imperative, and how banks can learn from brands and artists unafraid to take bold, distinctive stands.
From the history of Wynwood’s transformation t...
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December 2, 2025 • 27 mins
Today on Banking Transformed, I sit down with someone who never holds back – Kevin O’Leary from Shark Tank. We recorded this conversation live at the Catalyst Strategic Summit in Austin, where Kevin and I explored one of the biggest questions facing the industry today: What is the real future of retail banking—and where do smaller financial institutions still have a competitive edge?
Kevin shares his unfiltered views on consolidat...
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November 18, 2025 • 11 mins
The secret to breakthrough innovation isn't having more resources. It's all about learning faster. SpaceX went from near-bankruptcy to reshaping a $400 billion industry by compressing learning loops from years to weeks.
This isn't just a space story. It's a blueprint for any regulated industry. If you change the speed of learning, you'll change the slope of performance.
In this video, I share four lessons and one 90-day framework...
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November 13, 2025 • 14 mins
In this episode of Banking Transformed, Jim Marous exposes why digital transformation in banking is still more myth than reality. Despite massive investment and ambitious strategies, only 7% of banks achieve their intended digital outcomes.
Drawing on insights from the 2025 Retail Banking Trends and Priorities Report sponsored by Q2, Jim explores the leadership blind spots, cultural barriers, and misplaced priorities that are unde...
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November 7, 2025 • 29 mins
Fraud is no longer just a downstream cleanup issue. It’s a direct result of cyber incidents that outpace our organizational structures. Siloed teams still overlook weak signals, coordinated attacks manage to get through, and losses grow across different channels. That’s why banking leaders need a new strategy: one that treats fraud and cybersecurity as a unified defense, sharing intelligence, standard procedures, and real-time deci...
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November 4, 2025 • 47 mins
Today, I’m excited to welcome Colton Pond and Simon Taylor, the visionary co-founders of Fintech NerdCon to the Banking Transformed podcast. Fintech NerdCon is an event with no meetings, no sales booths … just top-tier networking with fintech operators and builders. It’s what happens when a fintech passion, Comic-Con energy, and genuine community building come together.
In this conversation, we’ll explore why they believe the fint...
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October 28, 2025 • 42 mins
Today, we're exploring one of banking's most vital yet often overlooked functions: corporate banking account analysis. Though it might not seem glamorous, this is where billions of dollars in revenue are gained or lost, and where the gap between a loyal corporate client and a frustrated one is often decided.
Joining us on the Banking Transformed podcast is Dan Gill, Industry Analyst at Zafin, an AI-powered banking platform that's ...
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October 23, 2025 • 42 mins
Financial institutions are overwhelmed with customer data but lack meaningful insights. Banks and credit unions find it difficult to accurately identify their customers across scattered digital channels, monitor customer behavior from the initial contact to conversion, and demonstrate which marketing efforts truly produce results … all while complying with strict data privacy laws.
Today on the Banking Transformed podcast, we're t...
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October 22, 2025 • 43 mins
Instant payments have officially entered the mainstream — but adoption is still uneven, and questions remain. How is FedNow performing more than a year after launch? What’s driving momentum, what’s holding institutions back, and what will it take for real-time payments to finally reach critical mass?
In this episode of Banking Transformed, I’m joined by Bernadette Ksepka, Senior Vice President and Deputy Head of Product Developmen...
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October 21, 2025 • 47 mins
Against the backdrop of the iconic Bonneville Salt Flats, where speed records are broken and boundaries are pushed, Colton Pond joined me to interview three visionary banking leaders who are breaking through the traditional limitations of legacy core banking systems. This unique setting perfectly mirrors the conversation's theme: the need for financial institutions to accelerate their modernization journey and adopt a modular appro...
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October 14, 2025 • 48 mins
What if your business banking clients could ask a question, in plain English, and get an instant, intelligent answer? No spreadsheets. No manual reports. Just the client, their data, and AI working together.
It sounds like science fiction, but it's happening right now. Grasshopper Bank has become the first U.S. bank to enable customers to connect their business banking data directly to Anthropic's Claude AI assistant, and the impl...
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