Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.

On today's episode, Ben Kinney speaks with Tim Walsh, Banking, Analytics and Cognitive Principal at Deloitte and Chair of the Dean's Advisory Board at UNC Charlotte. Tim shares his journey from his first university hire in advanced analytics to building Deloitte's data and analytics practice in Charlotte over two decades ago. The conversation explores the dynamic state of banking today, from the surge in M&A activity among regional banks to innovation in products like stablecoins and tokenized deposits following the Genius Act. Tim also discusses Charlotte's remarkable growth as a banking talent hub and UNC Charlotte's forward-thinking approach to computing education, including its standalone College of Computing and Informatics, pioneering undergraduate data science program, and 26-year-old cybersecurity symposium that attracts national and international speakers.