A podcast on Generative AI in Finance
The best thing you will hear on Spotify today
Perhaps a slight exaggeration in the subtitle - nothing beats the new Doves and Manic Street Preachers albums (links at the bottom as I do not want to distract you). I was very happy to be asked to take part in the Boston Quantara podcast recently and to be given the opportunity to talk about Generative AI in the financial services industry. Host Damien Spiers lets the conversation flow and asks insightful questions throughout.
Here is a more detailed description of the podcast straight from Spotify:
AI is transforming financial services, but how do businesses balance innovation with governance and ethics? In this episode of the Boston Quantara Podcast, host Damian Speirs speaks with Yiannis Antoniou, Founder and CTO of Lydatum (https://www.lydatum.com/), about the evolving role of AI in finance, the importance of data governance, and how organizations can navigate AI adoption responsibly.
Yiannis shares insights from his 25 year-career in Data, AI, Cloud and financial services technology, discussing the impact of Generative AI on banking, investment research, and risk management. He also explores the ethical challenges of AI, the importance of explainability in AI decision-making, and why companies need to implement Responsible AI principles and strong governance frameworks to avoid reputational and regulatory risks.
The podcast is embedded below - it’s a breezy 38 minutes that will hopefully be of interest. And if not, skip right to the bottom for the musical links.
Well, before you skip, perhaps I can tempt you with a Google Gemini 2.5 Pro-transcription of this podcast? It is not a proper substitute for the passion in our talking and our delightful accents, but is a good alternative if you are in a hurry. That is also embedded below - and watch out for a later post on my impressions of Google’s latest and definitely greatest model (which I will link into in due course) which did an admirable job of transcribing and timestamping this conversation.
And now for some music
After you have had a chance to luxuriate in the podcast above, do check out the following two recently-released great albums that are, believe it or not, an even more exciting listen than this podcast. Non AI-adjacent in the least, but heavily sampled during a lot of my recent Google Gemini testing work, and also indirectly used as inspiration for my podcast thoughts.