Webinar · April 8, 2026

Post-AI Marketing for Financial Services: What’s Missing vs. What Actually Works

Post-AI Marketing for Financial Services: What’s Missing vs. What Actually Works
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A live webinar with The Financial Brand on the ten-to-ninety gap in bank marketing AI — why drafts got faster but campaigns didn’t, and where the real value lives. Jonathan Maimon (Director of Product Marketing at Persado) is joined by Lisa and Asaf to unpack the framework with real data.

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Jonathan Maimon
Jonathan Maimon
Director of Product Marketing at Persado
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0:07Good afternoon, everyone. K. Let's see. Okay. We got people coming in. Let's give it one more minute for the room to fill up. Alright.
0:46So, hi, everyone. Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are, and welcome. My name is Jonathan Mayman. I'm the director of product marketing here at Persado. I'm joined by Lisa and Asaf, who I will introduce in just a minute. Before I do that, while I have you here this afternoon, I wanted to set us up to why we're here.
1:13Because, if you're like most marketing leaders at a bank, credit union, or any other financial service or institution or anyone in marketing, actually, for that matter, you've probably, had a version of this conversation in the last six months. So if someone on your team, maybe it's your CMO, maybe a director, or even a board member would come in and say, what's our AI strategy for content?
1:42And you might say something like, well, you know, we're using it. We've got tools that's helping. And that's probably true. You you know, if if, if if you're here and you're listening and you live, in if you live in the present, you're probably using AI to some extent. You you can generate a first draft of an email or a landing page in minutes. That technology exists. It works. It's been stress tested. But here's what we keep hearing from marketing leaders across
2:11financial services, wherever they are, no matter the size, no matter the area, and and their line of business. And this is one of the reasons why we put this session together. So what we're hearing is the draft got faster. The campaigns didn't. So you can generate content in five minutes, but then it goes into brand review,
2:38then into compliance, then legal. Someone flags something, then you revise, then it goes back through review, and then production builds it, and then it QAs. And by the time it's live, you're still looking at at a four to eight week production pipeline. It is the exact same timeline you had four or five years ago before AI crashed into our lives.
3:03So the bottleneck was never the draft. The bottleneck was never the initial content generation or ideation. It's everything that comes after that. And that's the gap that most AI strategies aren't addressing, or they're still applying they're applying new tools to old problems. So today's session is about that gap, and we're we're calling a the ten to ninety rule.
3:29And we'll get into that framework in a few minutes. But the basic idea is this, that AI has solved roughly ten percent of the bank marketing problem, the execution layer, generating a draft. The other ninety percent, the behavioral intelligence, the compliance architecture, the performance knowledge, the human expertise, that's where the actual value lives, and it's exactly where most AI strategies have a hole.
3:56Now we're gonna spend the next hour or so, unpacking that ninety percent and what that looks like in practice with real data, real examples, from actual customers that we have solved this for, and a framework that you can take back to your team. And to do that, I've got maybe the two best people at Persado to unpack that and to
4:21to go kind of through their more than a decade of learning and building AI systems specifically for financial services marketing. So we have Lisa Spira, who's our VP of content intelligence at Persado. Lisa leads a team that translates behavioral data into content strategy for some of the largest financial institutions in the world. Together with her team,
4:47they've analyzed over a hundred and twenty finan a hundred and twenty thousand financial services campaigns And what they found about the gap between what sounds good and what actually converts, I think, is going to surprise some of you. So, Lisa, glad to have you. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. And what I like to say about my team is we are the language and suck subject matter expertise at Persado.
5:14We are the linguists, the writers, people with legal analysis, backgrounds who are really passionate about accurate on brand communication that's gonna drive action. So I love working with this team. And, Jonathan, I'm really excited to talk to you and Asaf about this today. Yes. So, yeah, I think, Lisa, more more than anything, will, will bring the voice and will represent,
5:42the the the the kind of un unreplaceable human expertise, when it comes to the subject of getting it right in marketing, for financial, financial institutions. And we also have, Asaf Batu, who is our Persado's cofounder and president. So Asaf has been building AI for regulated marketing since before most people were even talking about generative AI.
6:10So for more than a decade, working with the largest banks and financial institutions in the world, including eight of the ten major banks in the in the US. He's going to bring the architectural perspective today. So why bolting compliance onto AI after the fact doesn't really work, for example, as some of you may have experienced themselves, and what it looks like when you build it from the start, when you build it to the core of the creation process.
6:38Welcome, Asaf. Thank you very much. Super excited to be here. Yes. Over a decade of experience with financial services, working with eight of the top ten US banks and other banks as well as fintechs. We have learned quite a lot about what works and what doesn't, and that's the perspective we want to bring into today as AI becomes a core element of strategy for
7:06marketeers in actually the most high stake marketing function, which is marketing in regulated industries and especially financial institutions. So in that context, we want to give you a sense of what we've learned and what can work and what doesn't actually drive an impact and why. So, again, excited to be here and tell you more.
7:33I'm sure you'll guide us through questions, and then we'll answer. Probably. Yes. I'm always happy to to go in and and say everything we know, but I'll let you do that, Jonathan. That's why we get along so well. Yeah. I I I think and, obviously, thank you for for the financial brand, for for for having us on this on this platform
7:59and for getting a chance to to to have a chat with you guys. There will be we'll we'll provide some time towards the end for for questions, but also feel free to to submit them throughout the session, and we'll we'll we'll address them towards the end. And and so, yeah, just before we begin, I think there's the the the the real value of the I I believe in the conversation that we're about to have and and perspective that
8:27the perspectives that we might explore is exactly the point in time in which we are right now in our relationship with AI where AI has become so ubiquitous, it's really difficult to remember life before it, which will naturally, you know, surface the need for specialized cases and for areas where the the kind of, like, the one size fit all solutions that we all know and probably
8:54use even in our in our private lives, just don't really don't really cut it. And so how can industries, that that are so, that are so exposed to this, I guess, to the the the darker sides of this ubiquity, can really enjoy the the benefits with with minimizing the risks as well. So