In Episode 26 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Farouk Ferchichi, President Data & Analytics at Envestnet Inc, where they discuss how Data & Analytics is fuelling digital interconnectivity to help people live a more intelligent financial life, which includes;

• Being in the first playground of Chief Data Officers
• The disruption which means organisations should be investing heavily into data & analytics more than ever
• The pressure on the financial ecosystem after SVB
• The importance of hyper-personalisation in both service and product offering
• What customers now want from their financial institution
• The challenges that FS organizations are currently facing
• The Data & Analytics solutions that help address those challenges
• The solutions to ensure that FS firms are meeting the constantly evolving needs of their customers
• How they’ve built a global open-banking connectivity layer
• The importance of being able to show the customer a 360 view of their financial situation
• The creation of an anonymised national monetary database that holds roughly $5 trillion across 15-20% of US households 
• How Data Products are being leveraged to help people understand their current financial health
• The relationship between hyper-personalization and data products
• The benefits to the customer and the FS industry
• Why large FS institutions are beyond chasing their digital competitors
• Why the operating model is integral for organisations to take advantage of this interconnectivity opportunity
• Why times of crisis provide an opportunity to simplify decision-making processes
• The combustion of financial literacy improvements with digital savviness
• The three things that all FS institutions should be considering to benefit the end consumer