Heidi Pickman

Associate Director

Heidi Pickman is an associate director of the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity.

Small business lending

California Gov. Brown should sign new bill to protect small businesses

The legislation would help small-business owners better evaluate financing options by requiring updated disclosures.

By Louis Caditz-Peck

September 25

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Commercial lending

These investors are raising $1 billion to be ready when a bank fails

Nearly 15 years ago, Les Lieberman and other organizers of Porticoes Capital used a shelf charter to buy a spate of failed banks. Now they're hoping to replay the strategy.

By Catherine Leffert

34m ago
Artificial intelligence

American Express unveils its approach to generative AI

The financial services company has found that engineers report higher satisfaction and save time when using a copilot to assist with coding.

By Miriam Cross

4h ago
Payments

JPMorgan details its invisible role with Amazon — and others

The embedded banking services Amazon offers to third-party sellers come from the hidden hand of JPMorgan Chase's corporate payments arm, which markets its services to e-commerce platforms on a white-label basis.

By Kate Fitzgerald

5h ago