This podcast episode is the start of a multi-part special series on creating a Financial Roadmap. This is the intro to the series and we’ll plan to continue this conversation over the coming months, including hearing from industry experts as we move forward. Stay tuned as we walk you through how to build that financial roadmap for the future. Let’s Go!

Conversation with banking president David Weaver on the pending merger of equals between BB&T and SunTrust. 

Are you under attack from fraudsters?

Listen to the conversation with David Stone, cyber expert and director of the bank's Cyber Protection Team.

Join the conversation with the head of BB&T Ventures, the new venture capitalist arm of BB&T, and hear about their focus on innovation and bringing improvements to our clients and communities.

Take a Proactive Approach: AP Automation with Payables and Invoice Management. Rather than leading your team through the grind of your business payments month after month, a more proactive approach – perhaps based in automation – can provide a number of benefits. Listen to this episode to find out the value to you of a new approach.

FinTech Game Changers: FinTech is a mash up of the two words Financial/Technology. And at the heart of it, FinTechs are focused on solving financial problems through the use of Technology. And Fintechs are a growing space of business. According to recent pieces in the NY Times and Forbes magazine, global funding for FINTECH companies jumped from $8 billion in 2017 to $12 billion last year. FinTechs run the gamut from businesses making money transfers cheaper and companies reducing ecommerce fraud to smarter point-of-sale credit card readers that, like iPhones, allow applications to be built on top. My guest today is BC Krishna. BC is the founder and CEO of Mineral Tree, Inc., an accounts payable (AP) automation and commercial payments company serving middle-market businesses. 

Cash Processing and the Disruptors - a conversation with Treasury Consultant Laura Null

As many as a third of investors and advisors have never managed money in a rising rate environment. Many have been contemplating the challenges the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited change in interest rate policy may bring. They have worried about how it would affect their investments and what is the best course of action when dealing with a rise in rates. But now that it has happened and with expectations that the next phase of Fed policy normalization will be rather modest, compared to previous rate-tightening cycles, advisors are recommending that investors come up with a well thought out plan for the future of their portfolios. My guest today is Matt Carson. Matt is BB&T’s Deposit portfolio and rate manager. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), has his MBA with a concentration in Finance, and has spent more than 20 years’ in the Financial Services industry, with the last 10 at BB&T. 

As one of a handful of initial adopting banks, BB&T is excited about the industry’s newest payment type now being made available to our clients – Real Time Payments. Real Time Payments is a big change! RTP is the first major payment type addition since the 1970s and there are potentially huge shifts in how a business approaches their AR and AP business processes. In today’s conversation with Sue McBride, the head of the Treasury Payments and Receipts Product Solutions group, we start to peel back what Real-Time Payments can mean for a business and the implications for how they do business.