PiTech Solutions Podcast

Banking - Regulators Leave the AI Rulebook Blank | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Banks are running artificial intelligence at enormous scale. Federal regulators have just gone out of their way to say that the newest and most powerful category of that technology sits outside their model risk rulebook. This week Mike and Laura unpack that tension and what it means for anyone accountable for governance in a regulated institution.

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FinTech - Stablecoin Rulemaking, Tokenised Deposits and the AI Governance Gap

Three stories this week, three different corners of financial technology, and underneath all of them the same theme: the plumbing of the industry is being rebuilt while the rulebook for that plumbing is still being written. For executives in regulated institutions, that combination is the whole strategic problem, and this episode works through what to do...

Health and Life Sciences - Generative AI at the FDA and Europe's New Clock | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Four developments landed in health and life sciences that every executive in a regulated industry should have on their desk this week. Mike and Laura walk through what changed, what it means operationally, and what belongs on your Monday morning agenda. The through line: AI in this sector has moved out of the pilot phase and into ...

Healthcare: Medicare Pays for AI While Regulators Limit It

American healthcare is doing two opposite things at once. Washington is funneling record dollars into AI enabled technology at the bedside, and at the same time federal and state regulators are writing rules that strip AI of the authority to decide anything about a patient. In this episode, Mike and Laura unpack what that split means for executives in regulated industries.

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Insurance - AI Governance Becomes Examinable, and Claims Delivers the Return

Insurance has crossed a line this year. The question is no longer whether AI works in a carrier environment. It is whether your organization can operate it responsibly, prove that it did, and rebuild the process around it. Mike and Laura unpack the week's most consequential developments for insurance executives and explain why the carriers separating thems...

Capital Markets: Tokenization Goes Live, Agentic AI Reaches Production, and the T+1 Clock Starts Ticking

Two clocks are running in capital markets right now. One is the innovation clock, moving faster than almost anyone predicted. The other is the readiness clock, and that is where most firms are quietly falling behind. In this episode, Mike and Laura unpack four developments reshaping the sector and explain what each one demands of...

Banking - Agentic AI Reaches Production While Stablecoins and New Model Risk Rules Reshape the Sector | PiTech Solutions Podcast

This week on the PiTech Solutions Podcast, Mike and Laura unpack the forces converging on banking in 2026, a year when artificial intelligence stopped being an experiment and became a core operating priority. From autonomous agents on the front line to a redrawn regulatory map covering AI, stablecoins, a...

FinTech - Programmable Money Goes Mainstream: Open USD, Circle's Trust Bank, and Agentic Commerce

This week Mike and Laura turn their attention to FinTech, where one of the busiest stretches of the year is redrawing the map of digital finance. From a consortium stablecoin backed by the biggest names in payments to AI agents completing real transactions on live rails, the infrastructure of money is being rebuilt in software, and exe...

Health and Life Sciences - Big AI Enters Drug Discovery as Regulators Align | PiTech Solutions Podcast

This week Mike and Laura turn to health and life sciences, a sector experiencing one of its most consequential stretches in years. Frontier AI labs are moving directly into drug discovery, AI designed drug candidates are heading into pivotal trials, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are finally moving in lockstep. Here ...

Healthcare - FDA's New AI Rules, Billion Dollar AI Savings, Ambient Documentation, and Cyber Resilience | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Healthcare has reached a genuine inflection point in twenty twenty six, and this week Mike and Laura break down the four forces reshaping the industry for C suite leaders: a regulator loosening its grip on low risk AI while raising the bar on governance, health systems banking hundreds of millions in AI ...

Insurance: AI Adoption Surges as Governance Races to Keep Pace | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Artificial intelligence is moving through the insurance sector faster than almost anyone forecast, but the guardrails are straining to keep up. In this episode, Mike and Laura unpack the widening gap between rapid AI adoption and the governance, regulation, and fraud defenses that regulated insurers depend on, and what it all means for the C s...

Capital Markets: Agentic AI, Tokenization, and the Race to Faster Settlement | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Capital markets in 2026 are in the middle of one of the most consequential technology shifts in a generation. In this episode, hosts Mike and Laura unpack how artificial intelligence, digital assets, and market-structure reform are converging into a single connected transformation, and what it means for executives in regulated in...

Capital Markets - AI in Production, Tokenized Securities, and a Shifting Regulatory Floor

Capital markets are being re plumbed in real time. In this episode, Mike and Laura unpack three forces converging on the sector in 2026 and what they mean for leaders in banking, asset management, and the broader BFSI landscape.

AI moves from pilot to production. The global market for AI in finance has pushed past fifty billion dollars. JPMorgan...

Banking - AI Goes Enterprise-Wide as Regulators Raise the Stakes | PiTech Solutions Podcast

This week, Mike and Laura take C-suite listeners inside a pivotal moment for banking: artificial intelligence has officially moved out of the innovation lab and into the daily operating machinery of the world's largest financial institutions, just as global regulators sharpen their focus on what autonomous systems mean for financial stabilit...

FinTech - AI Regulation Deadlines, Stablecoins Go Mainstream, and the Rise of Agentic AI

This week on the PiTech Solutions Podcast, Mike and Laura turn their attention to FinTech, where three powerful forces are converging at once: a wave of AI regulation coming into force, stablecoins and embedded finance going mainstream, and agentic AI moving from buzzword to budget line. For C-suite leaders in banking and financial services, 202...

Health and Life Sciences | AI Goes from Pilot to Operating Model | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Twenty twenty-six is the year AI in Health and Life Sciences stops being a strategy slide and becomes the operating model. In this episode, Mike and Laura unpack five forces redefining how new medicines are discovered, tested, and approved, and what C-suite leaders in regulated industries should be doing right now.

FDA and EMA Align on AI Prin...

Healthcare - AI Adoption, FDA Reform, and the Ransomware Crisis | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Healthcare is in the middle of a defining technology moment. Three quarters of US health systems are deploying enterprise AI, the FDA is reshaping its approval frameworks for AI enabled devices, and the ransomware threat against hospitals is at an all time high. In this episode, Mike and Laura unpack what C-suite leaders in regulated healthc...

Insurance - AI Industrialization Meets NAIC Oversight | PiTech Solutions Podcast

The insurance industry is moving past AI experimentation into AI industrialization, and the regulatory environment is moving in lockstep. In this episode, Mike and Laura unpack what C suite leaders in BFSI and regulated industries need to know right now about the operating model shift underway across carriers in twenty twenty six.

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Capital Markets — Tokenization, 24x5 Trading, and Agentic AI Reshape the Industry | PiTech Solutions Podcast

Capital markets are entering a once in a generation reset. In this week's episode, Mike and Laura unpack the three structural shifts that are rewiring how the world's markets actually function: the institutional adoption of tokenized securities, the move to near continuous twenty-three hour trading, and the regulatory ...